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"      In the second verse of The Coup&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;The Magic Clap,&amp;quot; a handclap-happy, Polaroid-shakin&amp;#039; call to action, Boots Riley suggests he&amp;#039;s not going to wallow in his election-year blues: &amp;quot;This here the meeting for the overthrow.&amp;quot; It winds up the magic clap in question is the sound rebels and separatists make when they decide to fight back. As protest songs go, &amp;quot;The Magic Clap&amp;quot; makes &amp;quot;Blowin&amp;#039; in the Wind&amp;quot; look naively idyllic. It&amp;#039;s a radical&amp;#039;s manifesto, and make no mistake, Riley is a bona fide walk-the-walk, sleep-in-the-streets radical: In fact, part of what accounts for his six-year gap between The Coup records is his time as de facto spokesperson for the Oakland branch of Occupy, one of the movement&amp;#039;s most controversial, flag-burning, general strike-calling offshoots. But the beauty of &amp;quot;The Magic Clap&amp;quot; is that it&amp;#039;s a honey trap: It stands on its own as a singularly great hip-hop anthem. For every bit of Outkast bump, there are also hints of a bouncy funk/punk mash-up of Fishbone and early Beastie Boys. Your politics might not jibe with Riley&amp;#039;s, but you just might hum along, anyway, because right now, sonically and lyrically, nothing sounds half as urgent.  Click below for all the other songs of the week, and listen to a sampling of this week&amp;#039;s playlist from Spotify below that...       MUSIC MONDAY: Listen to More of Andy Langer&amp;#039;s Songs of the Week &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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