Flashback:
It had been less than 24 hours. A healthcare CEO, one of the top ghouls for capitalism, had just gotten blasted on primetime in NYC. All the surveillance in the world couldn’t prevent homeboy from getting slimed out in Manhattan. No one knew the name of the assassin, but we all knew he was a hero.
Less than 24 hours had passed and HOUDINI? We already had a DJ mix ready to go. Already sampled the news clip. Put that CEO on a motherfucking tee shirt. Deny. Defend. Depose.—the words carved into the bullet shells became the title for the mix. You can listen to that mix here.
Why drill music? Because we dropping bodies, that’s why. Because for too long, it’s been the poor killing the poor over the scraps the rich leave us, and for once, it was the working class getting one on the rich. Instead of fighting each other, we killed one of them. And that’s big facts. And that’s the moral of the story.
They want us killing each other in the streets. They want us fighting each other for a sliver of dignity. They do not want us taking the fight to the master, the exploiter, the capitalist.
The streets spoke, and a healthcare CEO got his. Simple as.
Here's some key Erik Houdini quotes from the coverage to sit with.
"People aren't just ambivalent—they're celebrating. They see this for what it is: someone striking back. And that terrifies the system. Do you really think they want the poor—people who've been killing each other for scraps in the streets—to start looking at this and thinking, damn, that motherfucker got a lot of clout? Everybody loves this guy. The last thing they want is for this to inspire others."
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