"How do you grow up listening to punk and hip hop and still end up a bootlicker?"
Dunno who deserves credit for this, but a friend sent me a link to an anti-ice video on someone's insta (Ice-T performing live with updated lyrics for his song "Cop Killer"). This was also posted there, so I'll link to that page. No idea if that's who made the image or if they borrowed it from somewhere else.
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https://thehardtimes.net/music/right-wing-rage-against-the-machine-fan-wishes-we-could-go-back-to-the-america-that-existed-when-he-was-too-stupid-to-understand-the-lyrics/
How do you grow up being popular for singing a song called "Cop Killer" and end up spending your life playing a cop in the longest running copagana?
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To be fair those cops are all highly unethical and often violent, so it tracks.
So... realistic?
Not really - real ones don't actually care about justice anywhere near as much as the TV ones do.
He's the one who likes all our pretty songs, and he likes to sing along, and he likes to shoot his gun, but he knows not what it means
I always heard it as "he don't know what it means" but I double checked the lyrics and yeah it's officially "he knows not what it means". Weird. I can barely hear it that way even knowing what it should be.
Well placed. They also had a song called "Mr Mustache," which I think is self-explanatory.
The same way you hear Springsteen howling "Born in the USA" or Young screaming "Keep on Rockin' in the Free World" and think these are celebrations, not indictments.
You don't listen to the words.
Its proven time and time again the right has zero taste or ability to perceive art.
Hell, even old school country had a punk rock ethos. Listen to 16 tons fo what I mean.
yep, and the south used to be far more pro-union back during the coal miner wars, of which there's some pretty cool country songs.
Only really became aware of the actual lyrics in the past few years despite growing up know the tune. Straight from the labor wars of the time, when Pinkertons and the government murdered people for striking for safer working conditions.
woody Guthrie - tear the fascists down
Jesse Welles - masks are off
Jesse Welles also has a great song good vs ice
I don't know if I would call 16 Tons "country". Folk maybe.
The resistance is going to be in for a long, brutal, deadly slog this time around, but at least we'll still have the best tunes. They'll never take away my mp3s.
"Hehe, more like rage for the machine amiright?"
Cant stand people that say this.
"Fuck you – I'll do what you tell me."