William X Nietzche's new release, "Fight No Moor," is a manifesto, a stand with people who have been forced to pay for every empire lie that Black and Brown people didn't create. Nietzsche pieces together the pieces that no one else in mainstream media dares touch over a beat that makes you feel like you're in a dream.
The lines "My life is not expendable / why fight for war criminals" and "A citizen's a slave but a national is different though" were as if I wrote them myself. They say something that's been weighing on them for a long time, but isn't said very often, so explicitly in songs.
William X Nietzche not only speaks to unfairness but also forces you to confront it by assembling examples from the past and present. For example, Hunter's cocaine privilege beside those whose lives were destroyed by crack sentencing, Ukraine and Russia on the world stage, and systemic silences that shelter the powerful. It's an overwhelming amount of information to take in, but the hypnotic beat pushes you through, like a protest chant you can't shake. "Fight No Moor" is a teaching moment and a field trip.
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