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"Cancel Culture" is a song featured on Chuckie Campbell's EP, Curious Incidents in Cancel Culture. It tackles the the act and concept of canceling, also referred to as cancel culture (a variant on the term "callout culture") often described as a form of boycott in which an individual (usually a celebrity) who has shared a questionable or controversial opinion, or has had behavior in their past that is perceived to be offensive. The song begs the question of what happens when the social and cultural standards for truth are eroded to a system that treats public life to a guilty before proven innocent mentality in order to bring justice to an already unjust world.

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Verse 1
Now put your hands high
It’s clear we do this ‘cause we love it
Whether rhyming in the street
or on tour across the country
Visco girls riding hoverboards
and hipsters by the hundreds,
know we do this for the music,
not the fame and not the money
It’s my honor as a guest
in this house of hip hop
to give back what I’ve been given
to this culture and art
While local heroes in your hometown
are rapping over vocals,
photoshopping totals
for their Spotify numbers,
every line here is a tear
I’ve been holding in for years,
love rap like Brett Kavanaugh
claims to love beer
Like Cosby loves Quaaludes,
some wounds may never heal
and some legacies should die,
despite shoes we’ll never fill
Every blog, woke, twitter, coke
rapper from the hood,
confuse the right to their opinion
for being true or understood,
and though it probably could,
and most likely it should,
just because something is popular,
doesn’t mean that it’s good, say word

Verse 2
What a time to be alive
or at least inside your bubble
Echo chambers clip language,
pills and pilsners that numb us
Like tiny russian dolls
one stacked inside the other,
each doll’s another tale
from the depths of cancel culture
Fake news on social media
got boomers building bunkers
They’re chanting build the wall
El Chapo is digging tunnels
Makes you wonder
which celebrity’s next to be confronted,
labeled predator
and outed by the sexually assaulted
Please believe victims,
listen close and stay woke
At times the worst thing we can say is
I don’t know
Beware to blame the victim,
shaming everybody else,
for we often see in others
what we deny in ourselves
Perhaps, this is my sixth...
maybe my seventh sense,
an Edgar Cayce vision
beneath the paw of the Sphinx
Like a joke by Mitch Hedberg,
it takes time to sink in,
or if we’re honest, we admit
that it’s really just common sense, say word

credits

from Curious Incidents in Cancel Culture, released July 15, 2020
All songs written and performed by Chuckie Campbell for Sunsets and Silencers Music, Buffalo, NY.

Scratches and cuts on the song "Cancel Culture" done by DJ Uncle Fester out of Toronto, ON

Produced, and mixed at True Blue Recording by Willie Breeding in Nashville, TN.

Mastering by Paul Redel in Los Angeles, CA.

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Chuckie Campbell Buffalo, New York

Chuckie Campbell is an American hip hop artist who lives in Buffalo, NY. Campbell commonly performs with a live band (drums, keys, and a full horn section), to make for a dynamic, powerful, and eclectic approach to hip hop, filled with fluid instrumentation, lush musical arrangements, and heartfelt poetic nuance. ... more

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