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Thailand Rap Group Pens Soundtrack to Pro-Democracy Protests

Zsombor Peter

   KUALA LUMPUR - Thailand's most famous -- some would say infamous -- rap
   group is back with a vengeance.

   Rap Against Dictatorship shot to fame in 2018 with its debut track,
   "What My Country's Got," a politically charged invective skewering the
   country's then-military junta. The video has garnered 94 million views
   on YouTube.

   The musical group launched its latest track, "Reform," on YouTube a few
   weeks ago amid new anti-government protests roiling the capital,
   Bangkok. Its video has already attracted more than 7 million views.

   While taking on the same broad themes of state oppression, impunity and
   hypocrisy, the new song, like the protests themselves, takes aim at not
   just the government but the country's once untouchable monarchy.

   Message

   Thailand's youth have been taking to the capital's streets by the
   thousands almost daily since July to demand the resignation of 2014
   coup leader-turned-Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha and a new
   constitution stripped of the privileges it gifts the military.

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