POP LIFE

The Inhabitant’s Anthem: Our Life is a Smuggle

This is Hoba Hoba Spirit:

This is their big hit, “Trabando.” The lead singer of the Hoba Hoba Spirit, Reda Allali, translated the “Trabando” for Pop Life:

Our life is a smuggle

We steal the electricity, the water

Our “windows” is illegal, 

Everthing is false, every one is crazy

The wolrd is a supermarket

I am a product and a customer

With a dirham, i can get a starving man

With millions, it’s zidane

We are lost in this party

No one invited us

We are here, watching our backs

Waiting for a hit

YES, we pirate everything

Because we enrage to be put in a cage

Condamned to eat your overestimated products

Our passivity has limits 

Your greed does not

Mr Bill Gates is so rich he could offers his products ti a whole continent

And the phamacy industry could offer “generics” to africa

Our life is smuggle…

We have heard the player’s anthem; this is the anthem of the inhabitant, the subject of the post-neoliberal order.  The inhabitant is not a citizen but a hustler. In the future, there will be no workers just hustlers—people who put this and that together to make a living. The informal market is going to grow and grow. Indeed, the neoliberal ideal of a self-thriving, self-generating, emergent market may become a reality, but the direction of the pressure behind this emergence will not be from the top down (the neoliberal approach for the past 30 years) but from the bottom up. “Our life is a smuggle.”