Rap Against Dictatorship takes aim at monarchy in new track shot at protest

Countercultural music icons Rap Against Dictatorship upped their ante today with a new single demanding reform of the monarchy.

“The song name is Reform and it’s for reforming the system, the government, monarchy system – everything,” rapper Protozua said last night in the studio of Thailand’s famed anti-establishment hip-hop troupe. “We say what people want, because we are the people too.”

The music video, which dropped just before noon Friday, spares no subtlety in taking on an institution that was, until very recently, unassailable in public. 

“You feast on our taxes so we ceased to be mute 

No we ain’t gonna grovel, here’s our three finger salute 

This voice rings a bell from This Fucking Country

That bastard shot our brothers, ain’t that a felony.”

The collaborative effort features lyrics by Liberate P, Zo9, Jacoboi, Numba9, SBSB,…