Just two weeks before, the Dow Jones suffered its worst drop since the 2008 financial crisis. The Dow plummeted nearly 513 points to erase the index’s gains made since January, after political brinkmanship in Washington led Standard and Poor’s to downgrade the United States' credit rating for the first time in history.

On The Roots’s 2004 “Don’t Say Nuthin,” Black Thought offered a mumbled and meaningless hook, presumably critiquing the lyrical meaninglessness to which Questlove refers.

The only distinguishable lyrics are “just give it here, and don’t say nuthin',” which one assumes to be a record executive (or perhaps the listener?) demanding meaningless music. Evidence that it’s the record industry making the demand is corroborated by the hook’s only other discernible line: “…cut the check.”

Dr. Cornel West describes the paradoxical phenomenon, linking it to other black musical art forms:
http://youtu.be/9srjQNH6n00?t=1m27s

The Exxon Valdez released 11 million gallons of oil (or much, much more) into the pristine Prince William Sound in Alaska, making it, at the time, the worst oil spill in United States history.

Living Colour was an all-black rock band whose 1988 album Vivid sold 2 million copies on the strength of its hit single “Cult of Personality.”

A song like “Hiiipower,” for instance, recalls black leaders from 1960s, such as Black Panthers Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. The video for the song visually links the civil rights movement with contemporary democratic struggles, such as the Arab Spring, as well as the women’s suffrage movement, Cesar Chavez’s immigrant farm-labor movement and others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep0hay4Qw54

Einstein, too, felt this way. The great thinker was a socialist who wrote in his 1949 essay “Why Socialism?”:

[The individual] depends so much upon society—in his physical, intellectual, and emotional existence—that it is impossible to think of him, or to understand him, outside the framework of society. It is “society” which provides man with food, clothing, a home, the tools of work, language, the forms of thought, and most of the content of thought; his life is made possible through the labor and the accomplishments of the many millions past and present who are all hidden behind the small word “society.”

And Einstein’s worries were similar to those of Questlove and his concern about the destruction of the social contract. Einstein writes in “Why Socialism,”

The individual has become more conscious than ever of his dependence upon society. But he does not experience this dependence as a positive asset, as an organic tie, as a protective force, but rather as a threat to his natural rights, or even to his economic existence. Moreover, his position in society is such that the egotistical drives of his make-up are constantly being accentuated, while his social drives, which are by nature weaker, progressively deteriorate.

Except for Quest’s ever-present pick, the two share similar dos.

Please Questlove, Don’t Hurt ‘em

Quest refers to late 80s pop rapper MC Hammer.

Hip-hop architecture might also work off The Blueprint too, amirite? You’d probably need some Drill artists and some Screw producers as well.