You'd expect hardcore politics and a lot of anger from a hip hop performer named "Ayatollah," but the tunes are more Thievery Corporation than Dead Prez, more of a call to awareness rather than revolution.
Maybe that's the point, appropriating the term so it becomes less powerful, kind of how "queer" is no longer "strange" but "gay." If so there's still quite a ways to go.
But, hey, a journey of a thousand miles and all that, no?
Ayatollah
"Listen"
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