Asklemmy

Keep in mind that music lost a lot of its cultural cache since your benchmark decade of the 90's. Mass culture isn't really the same as it was then. I remember Weird Al talking about doing a lot fewer parody songs just because fewer people recognize any given song.

Yeah there's still music out there, but if you don't know it that's not really your fault.

Most punk like Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys, Anti Flag, Black Flag, The Clash, Dropkick Murphys has been very political from the start.

I know they are older now but Dead Prez, Foo Fighters, Rise Against and System of a Down are still active. Then there is the much older Roger Waters who has been very political throughout his career. And let's not forget the legendary Los Tigres Del Norte.

But coming back to younger artists

• Killer Mike
• Kendrik Lamar
• Childish Gambino
• Anderson.Paak
• Bambu
• Andrew Jackson Jihad
• Feminazgul
• Lowkey (British rapper)

Off topic, why would you put Limp Bizkit with the classics?

“With the instant availability of information, and content so easily obtainable, is the culture now a product that's disposable?“

This quote goes back to 2007. 18 years later it’s not even a question anymore, music and the culture around it has become disposable.

There’s always going to be great bands and artists who have something to say! I’ve heard some of my favourite bands just in the last 10 years. But society is never going to look at music the same, it’s just something people tap on their screen and give a quick listen, or worse; just watching some idiotic lip sync to a 20 second excerpt of it on tik tok.

one of those is not like the others

Bob Vylan?

They don't exist, at least not in Western mainstream music. Record labels have learned from those artists and will now drop anyone who doesn't toe the capitalist/imperialist line. Like the singers being cancelled for supporting BLM or Palestine.

And it's very specifically just for leftist messages. Kanye straight up calls himself a Nazi and sold shirts with swastikas on it and didn't get canceled for antisemitism, but tons of pro-Palestine artists did. If an artist straight up calls themselves a socialist like Tupac did it would be career suicide.

As someone in Gen Z, I have never heard a mainstream song released in my lifetime that actually attacks capitalism beyond useless lip service or calls for any kind of anticapitalist action by the general public. They definitely exist but only by indie artists who will either never get signed onto a label or will be forced to capitulate to the capitalist propaganda machine if they do.

Jesse Welles

Ren

I'm too old to say what anything this generation is, but look up "fucked up" by Macklemore. Came out at the start of the year and it's the most rage against the machine esque thing I've heard in years. Got me riled up.

Edit: I see you literally called him out in the post, so this is old news to you I'm sure. I'll leave it for others to find!

Kneecap

Expand your tastes, cousin. There's a lot of anti-war and angry music getting made right now.

Kneecap have been getting massive publicity because of their pro-palestine/anti-genocide stance. I haven't listened to much to their latest stuff, but I should re-explore them.

Bob Vylan.

With the rapid rise in accessible media tuned to everyone's personal preference there's not really a single artist that is capturing attention across the board, but that doesn't mean there's not protest bangers from several artists:

• Dropkick Murphys
• Grandson
• Durry
• Otep

Architechts, motionless in white, rise against

Limp Bizkit does not deserve to be anywhere near this list. They are a piss stain on the seat of the limo Kurt Kobain's brother rented for Prom.

Kendrick Lamar.

RTJ

Dropkick Murphys are killing it right now. Their last 3 albums are all great.

I also really dig Jeff Rosenstock.

Elder Millennial and gen x. Rage and nirvana are my jams.

Just because the music you listed isn't new, doesn't mean it can't serve the same purpose as it did for previous generations.