If you don’t know what a Socratic dialectic is, it’s safe to assume Dizraeli and Baba Brinkman do.
In 2013, one year after terrorist attacks on the London Olympics claim hundreds of lives, England has devolved into an abject police state. Dizraeli, leader apparent of the unofficial revolution is finally arrested and faces life in prison. In exchange for not invoking his right to read the 310 page list of charges against him, he is granted one final interview.
Is protest freedom or indulgence? Is the role of the state to keep the kings as kings, or to impose the rule of law on those that would hurt us? And are we better to take direct action against the system, or change it from within? Or neither?
Dizraeli and Baba break this down for us through reasoning and argument as brilliant and well crafted as their verse. Consciously addressing the role of hip hop as educator or pop commodification, this show decisively proves it as the former in not only its lyrical dissection of the very mentality of dissent, but in its clear call to arms for any who feel the weight of our modern empire and seek a path against it.
Revolution, evolution, or devolution. The roles or radical and pragmatist are destroyed, validated, and destroyed again in true Socratic devil’s advocacy. Wherever your political allegiances lie, if you’re looking for insight into the mindset of subversion; it is here.
5/5 
Daniel Connell
