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c/boycottus · by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 241d

"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.

https://www.instagram.com/decolonizeaudio/p/DT1vXB7kax7/

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19 Comments

Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online · 51 pts · 241d

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/

“It wasn’t like this when I was young, but now everyone is woke. People are claiming that a song like ‘Take the Power Back’ has some sort of political message. What message?! Is it recorded backward or something? Because I don’t hear it,” said fan Trent Linden, who claims the band needs to go back to their apolitical message they espoused when he was a teenager. “Or in ‘Killing in the Name,’ when they said ‘Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me,’ that was just about telling your mom you don’t want to clean your room. That’s why we all related to that song back then. Now everything has to be political. What’s next? Collaborating with someone like Michael Moore?”

wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works · 50 pts · 241d (4 replies)

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?

Maeve@kbin.earth · 29 pts · 241d

💲

frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 10 pts · 240d (2 replies)

To be fair those cops are all highly unethical and often violent, so it tracks.

otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 240d (1 reply)

So... realistic?

SanctimoniousApe@piefed.social · 7 pts · 240d

Not really - real ones don't actually care about justice anywhere near as much as the TV ones do.

tordenflesk@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 240d (2 replies)

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

hobovision@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 240d

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.

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 240d

Well placed. They also had a song called "Mr Mustache," which I think is self-explanatory.

ZDL@lazysoci.al · 15 pts · 240d (1 reply)

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.

bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 240d

Its proven time and time again the right has zero taste or ability to perceive art.

Protoknuckles@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 240d (4 replies)

Hell, even old school country had a punk rock ethos. Listen to 16 tons fo what I mean.

ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · 14 pts · 240d

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.

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 240d

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.

wieson@feddit.org · 4 pts · 240d

woody Guthrie - tear the fascists down

Jesse Welles - masks are off

Jesse Welles also has a great song good vs ice

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 240d

I don't know if I would call 16 Tons "country". Folk maybe.

cecilkorik@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 240d

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.

bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 240d (1 reply)

"Hehe, more like rage for the machine amiright?"

Cant stand people that say this.

tomenzgg@midwest.social · 3 pts · 239d

"Fuck you – I'll do what you tell me."