Self-Untitled

Freddie Gibbs - Rob Me a Nigga

In this song, we find Gangsta Gibbs broke with bills piling up. Gibbs accurately describes a system that keeps him exploited, but he does not push this analysis further to advocate class struggle. Instead, he shows class disloyalty and robs a friend of his, simply because the friend has more money than him at this juncture. This is false consciousness. Instead, Gangsta Gibbs should have banded together with his victim/comrade (and the whole of the working class) and used his automatic weapons to liberate the working class. Robbing similarly exploited workers will not change the system, only the revolutionary power of the proletariat can do that.

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