Finally, a Congressional Hip-Hop Task Force

Finally, a Congressional Hip-Hop Task Force

Congressional Democrats have launched a Hip-Hop Task Force.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) said in his announcement, “I owe a lot of who I am to the lessons they taught me on and through their music.”

With few other pressing issues, Democrats led by Squad member Jamaal Bowman have established the “Congressional Hip Hop Task Force” to use hip hop to deal with racial inequality. pic.twitter.com/Y5WcFU5Wwm

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 14, 2024

From BE:

Considering hip-hop’s history of addressing and raising awareness on conditions that impact Black and brown communities, Bowman thinks introducing the task force is only right following the art form’s 50th anniversary last year.

“Hip hop has always been about ending poverty in America, about fully funding our public schools. It’s always been about justice reform and police reform,” Bowman explained. “It’s always been about affordable housing and dealing with the issue of threats of violence.”

The official task force follows an initiative launched last September. Fat Joe, Rick Ross, and Busta Rhymes partnered with Power to the Patients to film a public service announcement urging legislators to create a more honest, affordable, and equitable healthcare system.

“At this moment in particular, when you consider the Black Lives Matter movement to the Ceasefire movement and the fight that continues for freedom, justice, and equality —now it’s time to build political power at a level that’s never been done before,” he said.

If a Hip-Hop task force doesn’t cure our national ills, nothing will…

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