Thai rap artist 3Bone released his new single Thai Hood on 16th June. A state-of-the-nation song similar to Bigboat’s This Is Thailand (ที่นี่ประเทศไทย), Thai Hood’s lyrics call out illegal gambling, inequality, and corruption.
The music video features dozens of news clips, including the 2006 and 2014 coup announcements, ‘Black May’, Thaksin Shinawatra, the 2010 crackdown on protesters, the 2011 floods, water cannon being deployed against protesters in 2020, people who died on the street during the coronavirus pandemic, bodies found in the Mekong river, and the collapse of the State Audit Office building in 2025. It also includes the famous Neal Ulevich photograph taken on 6th October 1976. All of this is ironically intercut with promotional footage of traditional Thai dancers.
The music video features dozens of news clips, including the 2006 and 2014 coup announcements, ‘Black May’, Thaksin Shinawatra, the 2010 crackdown on protesters, the 2011 floods, water cannon being deployed against protesters in 2020, people who died on the street during the coronavirus pandemic, bodies found in the Mekong river, and the collapse of the State Audit Office building in 2025. It also includes the famous Neal Ulevich photograph taken on 6th October 1976. All of this is ironically intercut with promotional footage of traditional Thai dancers.
3Bone has previously rapped about contemporary politics in his single Sunflower (ดอกทานตะวัน), and about modern political history in สาดสี (‘splashing colour’). He is a member of RapCon, a collective of six rappers who produce music about social and political issues. The group was set up earlier this year, to campaign for a new constitution drafted by an elected committee. (The ‘Con’ in RapCon stands for ‘constitution’.)
