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Pop Smoke’s “Dior” Is a Radical Addition to the Protest Music Canon

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As cities around the country participated in protests and rallies this weekend, a somewhat unusual song kept spilling out of the windows of cars that honked by in solidarity—the modern New York classic “Dior,” by the late Pop Smoke.

From Seattle to the rapper’s home borough of Brooklyn, video clips also showed masses of people rapping along to the 2019 shopping spree anthem.

In one, filmed right in front of the Trump International Hotel in Manhattan, chants of “George Floyd” seamlessly slip into ecstatic shouts of the song’s invincible hook: “Christian Dior, Dior/I’m up in all the stores.” For generations, Black protest songs have had revolution in sight.

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