Artist	Song
4 Non Blondes	Dear Mr President
Spearhead	Crime to be Broke in America
Ani DiFranco	'Tis of Thee
Mos Def	Mathematics
KRS-One	Sound of da Police
The Streets	The Irony Of It All
Disposable Heroes of Hiphopcrisy	Television, the Drug of the Nation
Pierce Woodward	Terrorism Makes Good TV
John McCutcheon	Ashcroft's Army
Non-Prophets	Hey Bobby
Saul Williams	September 12th
Billy Bragg	Price of Oil
Mike Doughty	Move On
Chumbawamba	Jacob's Ladder
Michael Franti	Bomb the World, Armageddon
Smile Empty Soul	This Is War
Wilco	War on War
Sonic Jihad	What Would You Do

Comment:

Me: Agreed, 5 Burroughs is great...just what you'd expect from the grown up Beasties.
Friend: That was the day...how did we go from Tribe, the Beasties, NWA, and Public Enemy to Gangsta Rap, anyway?
Me: Seems like Gangsta Rap is to Mos Def as the Girl Craze is to Ani DiFranco. There's still good music with a socially conscious message out there, it's just harder to find. Now how and why that became uncool I have NO idea...
Friend: Huh. If you say so. It's pretty hard to find that in any genre these days.
Me: I love a challenge :)

The charge: to make a mix from the past decade(ish) of music with a sociopolitical conscience.

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