Dissent Competition

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You don't do it to have has know a lot about rap has be shore by last weeks epic battle of insult tracks between Kendrick Lamar And Duck. It was as watching A steamroller crush slowly A Matchbox car. Drake created A little sarcastic remarks, And SO Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Lamar came return and just sprayed him. Lamar dissected Drake's Insecurities About be insufficiently Black And Also, well, Canadian be A real rapper. Then he went nuclear, tear apart Drake's family And accusing him of prey on teenager girls. And then he did THE entire thing Again, but has A amusing dance beat, to create a song that probably be play at clubs all summer. The audience was pushed back And delighted by This public cruelty — THE last track flew has THE high of THE graphics. Despite myself, I was A of those WHO listen has that of Lamar tracks on And on, impressed by her multilayer poetry but Also impressed by her will has be SO deeply mean.

Become negative works. It catches OUR attention. This is why negative policies ads are more effective that the positives, and why they now TO DO up more that half of all campaign advertising. Allegations that THE other guys East A terrible person change more votes that noble declarations of how has improve American lives. In this current election ride a bike, We are Already be bombed by attack ads, not just Since THE presidential campaigns but Since Congress And local races like GOOD. The effect of this tsunami of negativity is has make Americans angrier has A another, more isolated, unhappy. And all of he can lead has violence. Rappers to have has been kill on insult tracks In THE pass, while in the here, We have seen A quintuple increase In violent right-wing politics attacks from 2016. We should listen has hip hop Veteran Questlove, WHO sentenced both Duck And Lamar — And their Fans. "Person won THE war," he wrote. It was just about A "audience to want blood."

This East THE editor letter In THE current problem of THE Week magazine.

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