{"id":42613,"date":"2017-08-23T18:21:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T17:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/the-angolan-regime-kills-and-nobody-speaks-rapper-ikonoklasta-calls-to-vote-in-a-virulent-track\/"},"modified":"2020-05-04T23:33:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T22:33:31","slug":"the-angolan-regime-kills-and-nobody-speaks-rapper-ikonoklastas-call-to-vote-in-a-virulent-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/the-angolan-regime-kills-and-nobody-speaks-rapper-ikonoklastas-call-to-vote-in-a-virulent-track\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Angolan regime kills and nobody speaks!&#8221; Rapper Ikonoklasta calls to vote in a virulent track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8407 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/t%C3%A9l%C3%A9chargement.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1014\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/t%C3%A9l%C3%A9chargement.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/t%C3%A9l%C3%A9chargement-759x570.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/t%C3%A9l%C3%A9chargement-1010x758.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/t%C3%A9l%C3%A9chargement-661x496.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/t%C3%A9l%C3%A9chargement-465x349.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/t%C3%A9l%C3%A9chargement-375x281.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"watch-title-container\"><span class=\"watch-title\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Ikonoklasta - Se Bond4 Sozinh4\"><b class=\"b5\">At the occasion\u00a0of the Angolan general\u00a0elections, the Luaty Beir\u00e3o&#8217;s militant song\u00a0<\/b><\/span><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Ikonoklasta - Se Bond4 Sozinh4\">\u00ab Se Bond4 Sozinh4 \u00bb<\/span><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Ikonoklasta - Se Bond4 Sozinh4\"><b class=\"b5\">\u00a0(She&#8217;s killing herself alone) aims to\u00a0spark a debate and ends\u00a0with the authoritarian regime in place for now 38 years.<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Luaty Beir\u00e3o aka <strong>Ikonoklasta<\/strong> is a Luso-Angolan musician and rapper who has mainly voiced the Angolan people&#8217;s complaints and the State and government&#8217;s corruption since 1994. Persona non grata in his own country, he spent 8 months in jail last year with 16 other Angolan friends for having gathered to read a revolutionary manifesto. The initial sentences were between 2 and 8 years of prison, and the charges were eventually dropped 2 years later. Here goes the rapper&#8217;s own electoral manifesto: words that he put to music so they can spread wider and further and deeper in the (lethargic?) Angolan society. It&#8217;s a clear call to vote against the current running political party &#8211; MPLA &#8211; that has hold the power for the last 38 years via the figure of authoritarian and corrupted leader <strong>Jos\u00e9 Eduardo dos Santos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>INTRO<\/strong><br \/>\n1500 reasons not to vote for MPLA, they don&#8217;t even fit all in this sound. Don&#8217;t be masochists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>VERSE EXTRACT<\/strong><br \/>\nGo stand in line<br \/>\nand dip your finger in the ink<br \/>\nand feel that you&#8217;re taking part<br \/>\nin this so-called democracy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>CHORUS<\/strong><br \/>\nMy friend, choose another way to kill you<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re killing myself by voting for MPLA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xP44Upi0yd4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Luaty Beir\u00e3o \u00a0explains : <em>\u00ab My name is Ikonoklasta, my music is militant, my cause is Angola, my commitment only exists towards my conscience. I am not here to (un)please anyone, though I know both will happen. The main thing is to spread, leave a trace, spark a debate, provoke reactions, create spaces of citizenship, and move forward!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Here is my electoral manifesto. If you ever have the time, the mind or the patience, you can do your own(s), though I doubt you&#8217;d do it.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The audio is crap. I&#8217;ve recorded this with a phone, but I make it available here for who is audacious enough and wants to listen to that thing: https:\/\/goo.gl\/UBQwe6<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">I hope there will be less masochists in 2017. \u00bb<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>LYRICS<\/strong><br \/>\nOne million homes<br \/>\nThat only existed<br \/>\nIn vague promises<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t have meat? Then eat tuna<br \/>\nThe starving roads<br \/>\nEat our motorbikes<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a lot of trouble<br \/>\nBut there was only one Mussum [famous Black Afro-Brazilian humorist].<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They gave you<br \/>\nState-controlled buildings<br \/>\nNow you have<br \/>\nState-demolished buildings.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ve made your life a hell for 5 years<br \/>\nNow they bring you anaesthetic:<br \/>\nTrucks full of beers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Water for everyone&#8221;?<br \/>\n(For the) inhabitants of the Cidade Alta only.<br \/>\nA guy died in the Kunene [region of the Kunene river]?<br \/>\nYeah my friend, drought kills.<br \/>\nAnd the solution for the zuna [the poor suburbs]?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s punches,<br \/>\nExtortion of money<br \/>\nAnd arbitrary detention in prison.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But now everything seems promising<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ve opened jobs for the electoral campaign<br \/>\nOccupation: ass-licker<br \/>\nIf you run they still catch you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(\u2026)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This regime kills<br \/>\nAnd nobody speaks<br \/>\nBut when it touches you<br \/>\nThey want Angola united<br \/>\nA solitary life<br \/>\nA sedentary life<br \/>\nThis is what those people left to us<br \/>\n40 hands full of nothing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>My friend, choose another way to kill you<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>You&#8217;re killing myself by voting for MPLA.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Go stand in line<br \/>\nand dip your finger in the ink<br \/>\nand feel that you&#8217;re taking part<br \/>\nin this so-called democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the occasion\u00a0of the Angolan general\u00a0elections, the Luaty Beir\u00e3o&#8217;s militant song\u00a0\u00ab Se Bond4 Sozinh4 \u00bb\u00a0(She&#8217;s killing herself alone) aims to\u00a0spark a debate and ends\u00a0with the authoritarian regime in place for now 38 years. 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