This week, hosts Dope KNife and Linqua Franqa explore Hip Hop's weaponization as propaganda in response to the recent musical clash between a team of anti-communist, Cuban-exiled emcees and their homeland government's defensive line of patriotic salseros. They then globetrot to examine other examples of rap used to further political agendas, from the jihadist rap of Deso Dogg and Salah Edin, raising eyebrows in Germany and the Netherlands, respectively, to CD Rev's state-sanctioned ode to their native Chinese soil.

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