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| @therealsaigon Let veteran MC Saigon tell it and Hip-Hop was
never intended to be politically correct. A statement backed by
history: Hip-Hop was born from struggle and oppression. Its
music’s purpose: rebellion; be oratory opposition to the
conditions that oppress African-Americans and Latinos. Saigon
feels that the Bronx-born culture, now in its mid-thirties, has
strayed from its essence, so offers a realignment of priorities
with his latest album The Greatest Story Never Told 2: Bread and
Circuses.  The album title’s extension borrows from the Latin-
rooted phrase panem et circenses, which notes the attainment of
public approval and popularity by way of superficial
distraction. The Brooklyn-born, Spring Valley, New York raised
rapper feels these diversions pose an even greater threat to rap
listeners because in an American economy that has even less to
give to its disenfranchis