Memorable song lyrics

[Al B. Sure!]

Lupe was trying to be a little more advanced than just 'evil KKK **** them all'.

I'm not surprised that sympathy for the Klan would appeal to you...

It's not sympathy for the Klan. It's that Lupe went a little deeper than that. In those short four bars, he references the economic origins of racism and cleverly describes the similarity in economic power.

Come on... can't burn his cross because he can't afford the gasoline! Tell me that is not a hot line.



Lupe does stuff like this. On his latest album, he has a song, 'All Black Everything' in which he re-imagines a role reversal in history:

Fred Astaire was the first to do a backspin
The rat pack was a cool group of black men
That inspired five white guys called the Jacksons
Eminem fitted in but then again he inspired a black rapper trying to mimic him
And that's what really rose up out of Michigan, signed a white rapper by the name of 50 cent

[Thoth]

Umm... Thoth called me out. It's no protest too much when he specifically called me out. made a very obvious troll

FTFY.

:hugs:

[Tupac Shakur]

In those short four bars, he references the economic origins of racism and cleverly describes the similarity in economic power.

Yes, because the plantation owners who founded the Klan were responding to poverty.

[Riesstiu IV]

Yup, they wanted to drive the price of cotton up by buying up all cloth in the region and creating new fashion trends.

[Al B. Sure!]

In those short four bars, he references the economic origins of racism and cleverly describes the similarity in economic power.

Yes, because the plantation owners who founded the Klan were responding to poverty.

The average modern day white supremacist... would you consider him in a privileged position of power? No. Neo-Nazis and the Klan or whatever else prey upon the disenfranchised, poor, and imprisoned for membership.

[Tupac Shakur]

No, rich white people have just learned to hide their racism better these days.

[Thoth]

"Dead puppies
Dead puppies
Dead puppies aren't much fun

They don't come when you call
They don't chase squirrels at all
Dead puppies aren't much fun

My puppy died late last fall
He's still rotting in the hall
Dead puppies aren't much fun, no no no
Mom says puppy's days are through
She's going to throw him in the stew
Dead puppies aren't much fun

Dead puppies
(Dead dead dead) dead puppies
Dead puppies aren't much fun

(Come on everybody out there, sing along ok?)

(Dead dead dead) dead puppies
(Dead dead dead) dead puppies
(Dead dead dead) dead puppies aren't much fun

(One more time for rolling resca)
Dead puppies
Dead puppies"

[Al B. Sure!]

No, rich white people have just learned to hide their racism better these days.

So are they the power behind the Klan and Stormfront or whatever else?

So their membership doesn't come from the poor white trash?

[Tupac Shakur]

It’s Friday, Friday
Gotta get down on Friday
Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend, weekend
Friday, Friday
Gettin’ down on Friday
Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend

Partyin’, partyin’ (Yeah)
Partyin’, partyin’ (Yeah)
Fun, fun, fun, fun
Lookin’ forward to the weekend

[Tupac Shakur]

So are they the power behind the Klan and Stormfront or whatever else?

Of course.

So their membership doesn't come from the poor white trash?

The Klan has always had poor white trash members as well as wealthy white members. Economic status is irrelevant as a cause of white racism.

[Al B. Sure!]

Whatever, Drake. It was a good four bars.

[Al B. Sure!]

Sorry, 'Tupac'... another Lupe:

Complain about the liquor store but what you drinking liquor for?
Complain about the gloom but when’d you pick a broom up?
Just listening to Pac aint gone make it stop
A rebel in your thoughts, aint gon make it halt
If you don’t become an actor you’ll never be a factor


He goes on to say...

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence
Fear is such a weak emotion thats why I despise it
We scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth
So scared of what you think of me, I’m scared of even telling you
Sometimes I’m like the only person I feel safe to tell it to
I’m locked inside a cell in me, I know that there’s a jail in you
Consider this your bailing out, so take a breath, inhale a few
My screams is finally getting free, my thoughts is finally yelling through


Wasalu Muhammad Jaco aka Lupe Fiasco

[molly bloom]

Sometimes you're the windshield,
Sometimes you're the bug.

Sometimes it all comes together,
Sometimes you're a fool in love.

[Mark Knopfler]

I preferred Mary Chapin Carpenter's cover version, but was probably unduly influenced by driving around to it when in California in glorious sunny weather, one November...

...when I also grew to love:

I'm a town in Carolina, I'm a detour on a ride
For a phone call and a soda, I'm a blur from the driver's side
I'm the last gas for an hour if you're going twenty-five
I am Texaco and tobacco, I am dust you leave behind

I am peaches in September, and corn from a roadside stall
I'm the language of the natives, I'm a cadence and a drawl
I'm the pines behind the graveyard, and the cool beneath their shade, where the boys have left their beer cans
I am weeds between the graves.

My porches sag and lean with old black men and children
Their sleep is filled with dreams, I never can fulfill them
I am a town.

I am a church beside the highway where the ditches never drain
I'm a Baptist like my daddy, and Jesus knows my name
I am memory and stillness, I am lonely in old age; I am not your destination
I am clinging to my ways
I am a town.

I'm a town in Carolina, I am billboards in the fields
I'm an old truck up on cinder blocks, missing all my wheels
I am Pabst Blue Ribbon, American, and "Southern Serves the South"
I am tucked behind the Jaycees sign, on the rural route
I am a town
I am a town
I am a town
Southbound.

'I Am A Town', Mary Chapin Carpenter

I have only to hear this to be reminded of stunning sunsets, ghost towns in Nevada and a charming woman in the De Young Museum...

[SpencerH]

and a charming woman in the De Young Museum...

Whats wrong with this (mental) picture?

[germanos]

a fable

Rush » The Trees

There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas

The trouble with the maples
(And they're quite convinced they're right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade

There is trouble in the forest
And the creatures all have fled
As the maples scream 'Oppression!'
And the oaks just shake their heads

So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
'The oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light'
Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe and saw