At Brooklyn Bowl, Talib Kweli Helps Fans Wake Up To Post-Trump America

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Talib Kweli, wearing a Colin Kaepernick jersey and bounding around the stage of a packed, cavernous Brooklyn Bowl, is a hell of a passionate guy and smart.

“Our parents sing like John Lennon, ‘imagine all the people watch.’ We rock like Paul McCartney from now until the last beatle drop,” he rapped.

“This morning, I woke up. Feeling brand new and I jumped up. Feeling my highs, and my lows. In my soul, and my goals.”

The 41-year-old Brooklynite then launched into a calmly sarcastic delivery about what he thinks of the new president who demonized nearly every group of people and promised them retribution.

Mass Firings On Broadway Lead Diner Singers To Unionize, Push Back

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A group of servers who serenade patrons at Time Square’s Ellen Stardust have now, formed a union with — wait for it — the Wobblies (a nickname for the Industrial Workers of the World).

After they unionized earlier this year as Stardust Family United, the owner, Ken Strum, said, Dream on — and wrecked the lives of over 30 staffers by firing them. Now they are picketing outside the venue weekly while singing old union and railroad songs. The waitstaff, consisting of aspiring Broadway actors, decided to organize when new policies prohibited them from easily switching shifts to attend auditions.

“We want to be clear that all of our terminations have been for valid reasons,” said Mr. Strum. “They have been perfectly appropriate under federal and labor laws.”

Prophets Promise To ‘Make America Rage Again’

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The anti-heroes of rock and rap, Prophets of Rage, are set to roll into a supersized arena near you. Comprised of members of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill, their nationwide “Make America Rage Again” tour touches directly on the complex topic of politics and how it is used to push people around.

Some writers have derided this super group as simplistic in their message, but the musicians are clearly serious: they were banned at the last minute by correction officers from playing inside the California Rehabilitation Center for 800 prisoners. Meanwhile, they’ve designated a portion of their un-cost-prohibitive ticket sales to provide rehabilitation for the homeless.

And speaking of politics, the band recently played live for free in Cleveland, Ohio, to call out the Republican National Convention, and yet their whole anti-politics shtick isn’t just anti-GOP. Cypress Hill’s B-Real has called for voters to write in Prophets of Rage for president come November.

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