A new music video by Isaac Mutant/Dookoom is doing the rounds. While the artist insists he doesn’t want to encourage violence, the content seems to tell a different story.
From CityPress:
There are irate farm workers, pitchforks and tyres, and the word ‘poes’ is used every few seconds, but brazen new hip-hop metal outfit Dookoom wants to spark conversation, not violence. Grethe Koen asks the band tough questions
It is one of those videos that – for better or worse – raises goose bumps on your arms when you watch it. Larney Jou Poes by Cape Town band Dookoom – roughly translated, the name is a reference to “a cursed person” – is a reflection on the land issue and a stark indictment of the plight of farm workers in South Africa.
The video, shot in black and white, opens with a hen pecking at scraps on an idyllic farm.
Then Isaac Mutant, Cape Flats underground hip-hop legend and Dookoom frontman, spits into the camera: “Farmer Abrahams had many farms/ And many farms had Farmer Abrahams/ I work one of them and so would you/ So let’s go burn ’em down.”
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What do you think? Is this type of video dangerous?
