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| Blue Scholars – Fire For The People Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"no flag waving celebrating your (?)
you call it thanksgiving, we call it thankstaking "
Should be:
No Flag Waving/Celebrating your Invasion/You call it Thanksgiving, we call it Things Taken"
referencing US colonization and genocide of the NDN peoples. |
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| Blue Scholars – Opening Salvo Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"My big brother Free(?) brought the word from the East,"
Reference to the homey Freedom, an activist and youth teacher in Seattle. |
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| Blue Scholars – Burnt Offering Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The struggle of growing, the spiritual seeking, untying the knots of colonized beliefs, connecting back with indigenous spirituality, using music, writing, arts to escape the mental conditioning, reconnecting with the feminine. |
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| Blue Scholars – Sagaba (Remix) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Like a lot of other Blue Scholars cuts, there's layered meanings here. Aside from the obvious holler, it's about the relations between men and women in community- the complexities of living in this country, of post colonization, the rifts and the common grounds.
Geo also said it's about him giving up smoking :P |
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| Res – Ice King Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This is about dating a drug dealer. ("Everything that you gave me comes from the destitute and the torn") The mix of praise & abuse is pretty much the same thing you see- it's a game of manipulation that despite the good parts, can only be bad for you in the long run. |
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| Mystic – The Life Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song perfectly captured the issues of people of color- trying to keep your hope, identity, and soul in the face of a society that crushes you slowly. |
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| OutKast – Spottieottiedopaliscious Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is pure irony on the point of the party mentality, and where that short sightedness leaves you. No matter how much you try to party away the problems, people are still getting hurt, consequences still kick in. |
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| OutKast – B.O.B. Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The last part is "AFRO-music electric revival"... (sung by the church choir, no less...)
Also- they're not psychic- the US first got involved with Iraq in the Iraq invasion of Kuwait in the early 90s. This isn't ancient history people... |
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