Rappers need new themes

The election of the first black US president faces rappers with a dilemma, writes NRC Handelsblad: "Now that Obama has the election victory in his pocket his hip-hop fans are exuberant. But they are celebrating too soon. 'Their' victory after years of fighting for the rights of African-Americans presents them with a peculiar conundrum. They have their first black president, but the same man represents the establishment against which rappers have been battling for years. They will have to search for a new institution and new social issues to make the target of their protests. For the time being they'll have to relegate the theme of the social disadvantages of their fellow black citizens to the closet."

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