Dead Prez and Divine, "Malcolm, Garvey, Huey"

Here’s a cool thing for revolutionary minded rappers to do: take the beat to a club hit that celebrates not much more than material success and excess and the easy sex it can provide (which, you know, that’s okay — there’s room for everything in this great big world) and turn it into an instructional recommended reading list for overthrowing the capitalist power system.

Here’s the original version, Lloyd Banks and Juelz Santana’s “Beamer, Benz or Bentley.”

Also, if you’ve never listened to Dead Prez’ biggest hit, “Hip Hop,” which is ten years old now, you should. It’s totally excellent.