Voices from the fringes: Put a price on nature

I have a back-and-forth relationship with rap and hip hop. It’s taken me a while to get into the focus on the beat, but at the moment I’m expanding my cultural literacy.

Today’s earworm, therefore, is from a member of the Cherokee nation who goes by the professional name of Litefoot (birth name: Gary Davis). Davis is an entrepreneur, activist, actor and hip hop musician. “My Land” riffs on the Woody Guthrie song and winds around the way native peoples have been portrayed in popular culture for centuries. It’s a tough thing to pull off in four minutes. And it's a tough thing to listen to for four minutes.

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