Soundroutes is not just a musical project: it is a common ground where voices that the system tries to silence meet, influence each other and grow stronger. Today we present Hip Hop for Social Justice – Best Of, a collection of nine tracks born from months of workshops, exchanges, travels and alliances between artists from Italy, Greece, Belgium, Mexico and Spain. This album is not intended to entertain: it aims to disrupt the status quo, open up fractures and call for action.
This compilation is the result of real, unfiltered encounters between people who experience first-hand the effects of inequality, the climate crisis, institutional racism and the precariousness fuelled by an extractive economy that devours territories, communities and NON-HUMAN ANIMALS. The creative process was marked by conflict, solidarity, care, anger and a desire for transformation. What emerges is a sound that transcends boundaries, both geographical and those imposed by cultural industries that too often commodify struggles without experiencing them.
Each track is a political microcosm: there are rhythms that tell of escape from violence, metrics that speak of denied dignity in working-class neighbourhoods, bars that denounce those who continue to speculate on our lives while the planet burns. But there is also the building of community: an idea of a future that does not delegate to anyone, that is practised together.
Soundroutes thus becomes a space for self-education, mutualism and artistic liberation. Hip hop returns to its rebellious roots, refusing to bow to an ultra-profitable market that wants to reduce everything to harmless entertainment. Here, music is a tool for self-determination, political education and rupture.
It is a collective gesture that affirms that art is not neutral and that we do not accept a present constructed for the use and consumption of elites who devastate territories and communities.
Listening to this album means entering a sonic revolution: voices that do not ask for space, they take it. Voices that challenge the dominant cultural model and open up more just, more inclusive, more radical imaginaries.
Listen to Soundroutes – Hip Hop for Social Justice now and take it to the streets. Share it, amplify it, use it as a political tool. Because when culture is alive, it never remains silent.
The revolution is already playing. It’s up to us to turn up the volume.
