2:33
single, 2025
Written by Earth to Eve
Over an industrial-lite beat comes a tight, furious rap about contemporary America that eschews metaphor in favor of names and images. The opening bars, calling out a "bitch in a toupee," juxtaposing anti-immigration rhetoric with Melania as a "mail-order bride," abuelitas and graduation ceremonies with masked ICE agents constituting a "foreign armed invasion," land hard because they're specific. It's protest rap that understands clarity is sharper than cleverness. While the rhetoric is furious and unleavened, the song is brief; it says its piece and gets out. The beat stays skeletal, almost deliberately underpowered, letting the words sit front and center like evidence laid out on a table. There's no radio hook begging for radio or ironic detachment. If you want it more musical, or more abstract, this isn't that. But if you want a snapshot of 2025 that doesn't blink or hedge, Earth To Eve nails it.
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