It takes a direct shot at Obama with the line “Swear to God on my mama, never supported Obama”. “Revolution Has Come” by political hip hoppers Rebel Diaz was written in response to the 2012 presidential election. Just as a note, since there as been so many protest tunes written about him, I’ll be posting a separate list about Donald Trump.Ĭompared to other presidents there has been relatively few protest songs against President Barack Obama. It contains a diverse group of genres including folk, soul, punk & rap. The following is a small sampling of ten protest songs about the president. Only a year later the album was out of print and The Almanac singers recorded a pro-war, pro-Roosevelt album, Dear Mr. The album not only was anti-war, but it also contained strong anti-Roosevelt (then president Franklin Roosevelt) sentiments. For example, back in 1941, folk collective, The Almanac Singers (which included Pete Seeger & Woody Guthrie) became targets of the CIA for their album Songs For John Doe. Because of the leftist leanings of many musical artists, Republican presidents are more of a target, but Democratic presidents have not been immune to these lyrical attacks either.Īt times musicians have courted controversy and have even got themselves into legal hot water for their musical protests. In the rich history of the American protest movement, The President of the United States has long been a target of the protest song.
The project was Tupac’s most positively reviewed album and has been called the magnum opus of his career.Credit: Pete Souza, Obama-Biden Transition Project In the year after its release, the album received the Soul Train Music Award for Best Rap Album. Along with being #1 in the US, the album also ranked #23 in Germany and #20 in Sweden. Debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, the album has been certified double platinum selling over 3.5 million copies in the United States alone. The realism of this album brought a ridiculous amount of commercial success.
Much less high energy than the tracks from his previous album Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z…, this album showed genuine reflection on his life and career path as an artist along with shining light on some of his personal struggles with paranoia and self-loathing. The subject matter and tone of this project were a lot more serious and introspective than anything he had previously released. This album was nothing like the music that gave him his “thug life” gangster image and street credentials.
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