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ACID RANT is a Toronto based cultural movement focused on fostering a community of critical-thinking, creative youth that want to disrupt the system and create a better world. We do that through creating and curating counter-culture.

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Acid Rant

a day ago
7 min

Huey P. Newton on Our Internalized Prejudice

Criticism is difficult, yet necessary. It's one of those reality checks, especially if it's true, that can actually make you a better human

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Acid Rant

2 days ago
11 min

Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Ted Kaczynski: How To Fix The World (Practical Resources)

Divide and conquer has been used to keep people dependent on existing systems and industries.

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Acid Rant

Jun 25
8 min

Kanye West, Viktor Frankl, Toronto and Society's Stifling of Contemporary Artists

Our world puts limits on our levels of self belief and awareness. We live in a world that produces low self esteem and then caters to it by

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Acid Rant

Jun 24
11 min

Sartre, Nietzsche, Solzhenitsyn, J Cole and Noname: Why Authenticity Matters

Their favourite influencer heard the term from their favourite rapper which has barely done any readings themselves. J Cole is a conscious r

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Acid Rant

Jun 16
9 min

Plato, Albert Camus and Donald Glover: How To Handle Endless Suffering

Glover said that he thinks of reality as a program and his talent as hacking the code. He said “When people become depressed and kill themse

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Acid Rant

Jun 14
8 min

Dave Chappelle's 8:46, Art and Justified Insanity

Dave Chappelle told jokes in this special but they were far and few in between. He talked about Candace Owens and other conservative spokesp

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Acid Rant

Jun 8
12 min

Youth, Change and Hip Hop, What's The Next Step of The Revolution?

We have to outline exactly what it is that we would consider change. We have to make sure that the change isn’t just pacification.

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Acid Rant

Jun 3
7 min

George Floyd Riots, Jeffrey Epstein, Coronavirus and The Revolution

For centuries this system has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine

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Acid Rant

May 26
12 min

Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Doja Cat, and Commercialization of Art

Dave Chappelle is pimping the game, quite literally everyone else is getting pimped by the game. Let me preface this by saying that I love K

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Acid Rant

May 23
7 min

Bill Burr, Kendrick Lamar, Logic and Why Some Rappers Are Viewed As Corny

but those people unanimously agree Logic is corny. King of the old heads Joe Budden has trashed Logic for the better part of the last 3 year

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Acid Rant

May 22
6 min

Urbanization and Internet, Boomers, Sharing Codes and Our Generations Individual Legacy

Information is what has propelled us through life up to this point, so why not help the people after us conveniently find the codes and avo

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Acid Rant

May 19
9 min

Covid-19, Leonardo Da Vinci and The Role of Art during Revolution

Elements of this are a condemnation of the rich and promoting 'the mechanic's pride in the moral consciousness of his labour as opposed to

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Acid Rant

May 18
5 min

The Joe Budden Podcast is a Chris Rock Special, Twice A Week

The Joe Budden Podcast today is what Chris Rock was to the culture in the 90s. Chris Rock got on stage for a cultural moment every time he c

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Acid Rant

May 10
11 min

Jay Z, 50 Cent, 6ix9ine, Jordan Peterson and The Philosophy of Power

Hip Hop is a great microcosm of this Game Of Thrones type of power game that is capitalism. After the rise of Gangster Rap with rappers like

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Acid Rant

Apr 29
14 min

Covid-19, Rights and Morality: Do We Want Things To Go Back To Normal?

But we should also keep an eye on politicians and corporations with vested interests in stripping us of our rights, freedoms and integrity.

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Acid Rant

Apr 17
9 min

The War Against Masculinity: Dave Chappelle, The Kardashians and Jay Z

Corporate media’s agenda is to sell advertisements rather than quality media to inform and entertain the public. And a lot of times you have

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Acid Rant

Apr 14
10 min

Capitalism vs Art: Atlantas Teddy Perkins and Michael Jackson,Is Suffering The Only way To be Great?

Teddy said he was grateful for his father and always maintained the belief that his father was a great father and he believed that “great th

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Acid Rant

Mar 23
10 min

Why Covid-19 will bring the New Renaissance: The Surrealists, Earl Sweatshirt and World Changing Art

Every dope cultural movement started with the belief that the individual can alchemize the world around him and change it for the better wit

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Acid Rant

Feb 12
8 min

Donald Trump, Kanye West and Corporate Media: We're All Pretty Stupid and That's Okay!

he perfect example of this is when Kanye West showed his support for Donald Trump. Now instead of asking why he had those beliefs and

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Acid Rant

Feb 3
5 min

Kendrick Lamars 'Control' The Grammys and Competition In Art

There’s a clear marker on who the best basketball player is or who the fastest runners are. Those things can be timed and viewed pragmatical

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