video premiere: south african noise-rockers dookoom seek revenge on the powers that be in “the devil made me do it”

We’re starting the week off with a video premiere from South African hip-hop and noise-rock collective DOOKOOM and their track ‘The Devil Made Me Do it’. Fueled by hard rock intensity and the perspectives of black South Africans, DOOKOOM raises a finger to the establishment that too often marginalizes and entraps impoverished communities of color. The cycle of violence within the local Cape Flats neighborhood resonates throughout the single and it’s album, “NO!”. “The song is about freedom from all the pain and suffering that surrounds us. Ripping at the heart of the evils that don’t want to take responsibility. Hence “The devil made me do it,”” DOOKOOM tells AFROPUNK.

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