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Zearle is a pioneering and visible representative of politicised hip hop music. He is an underground musician, spoken word poet, community activist, and writer. He is most well known for producing, supporting, and distributing political hip hop from 1990 through to the present, promoting a socialist ideology. Hip hop music (also referred to as rap or rap music) is a style of popular music.

Zearle announced himself on the scene with a short mix tape in the early 1990s, as a member of the group known as Red Dagger, which was one of the first Marxist hip hop groups. However, this group was short lived and lasted less then a year. In interviews, Zearle has stated that ideological differences were behind the group’s demise. Zearle then became a solo artist.

Zearle continued as a solo artist, and his single “Destiny’s Child” was a seven-minute manifesto for a self defined ‘revolutionary youth movement’. The single mixed the slang of the period with heavy socialist discourse and rhetoric. Zearle had several other underground hits in the mid 1990s, each formed around a particular concept. “ManChild” tells the tale of black activists George Jackson and Jonathan Jackson (George Jackson (September 23, 1941 to August 21, 1971) was a Black American militant who became a member of the Black Panther Party while in prison, where he spent the last 12 years of his life. …
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