Bobby Sessions - Politics

What this video is

Released July 20, 2018, 'Politics' is a track from Bobby Sessions' Def Jam debut EP 'RVLTN (Chapter 1): The Divided States of AmeriKKKa.' The song emerged during a period of heightened national reckoning over police violence against Black Americans, the Colin Kaepernick NFL anthem controversy, and the erosion of bipartisan trust in institutions. Sessions, a Dallas rapper whose cousin James Harper was shot and…

Why it matters

A landmark entry in 2018 resistance rap, 'Politics' exemplifies the wave of major-label-backed yet uncompromising political hip-hop that defined the late 2010s. Its bipartisan critique — rejecting both Democratic and Republican parties as complicit in Black oppression — distinguished Sessions from…