Akala's lengthy hip-hop poem is somber and clear-eyed in its disappointment with race-relations, global politics, and contemporary culture. And yet it retains both hopefulness and an action-plan. "The only way you can change anything," he slams, "is to look in the mirror and find no enemy."

Released in 2004 to celebrate Abba's 30 years after winning the Eurovision Song Contest with their song Waterloo. The video features a puppet version of the band (Jim Henson's Creature Shop) trying to get a record deal at a studio in Stockholm. The year was 1974.

Music video by The Real Tuesday Weld.

Elliott Brood