Protest music has always been an essential form of political expression in the US.
It’s a protest song through and through.Ī Tribe Called Quest isn’t the only band making protest music right now, nor is it the first. As the song goes on, it calls out specific social problems in the US - discrimination, unequal pay, deportation. “We don't believe you, ’cause we the people / Are still here in the rear, ayo, we don't need you,” Q-Tip raps on A Tribe Called Quests’s 2016 track “We The People,” an opening verse aimed straight at a flawed America.