RantCrush Top 5: May 2, 2017

President Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon co-wrote a hip-hop musical about the LA riots back in the 90’s. This is not fake news–NowThis obtained a copy of the manuscript and had a group of actors read it out loud. The play is called “The Thing I Am” and was never turned into a movie. You can probably figure out why. The play’s language mixes Shakespeare and street slang and the characters have names like Stink Eye and Baby Gangsta. It actually seems to be a hip-hop adaptation of the Shakespeare play “Coriolanus.” The whole reading is 20 minutes long and some of the lines include, “He’s a lamb that barks like a pit-bull,” and, “B*tch please. It becomes a man. Breasts nursing look no lovelier than when a forehead spits forth blood.”

A table read of the final scene of Steve Bannon’s Shakespearean hip-hop musical set during the LA Riots. This really exists. pic.twitter.com/Q5NSJ1eF77

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) May 1, 2017

Emma Von Zeipel

Emma Von Zeipel is a staff writer at Law Street Media. She is originally from one of the islands of Stockholm, Sweden. After working for Democratic Voice of Burma in Thailand, she ended up in New York City. She has a BA in journalism from Stockholm University and is passionate about human rights, good books, horses, and European chocolate. Contact Emma at EVonZeipel@LawStreetMedia.com.