So this has been.my favorite song of OTEP's since it came out in 2004, and I always thought it was a song about a child's narrative of suffering in an abusive Christian home. But now that I am revisiting the lyrics, I am seeing something totally new.
This song could be gospel of John but from the perspective of Jesus.
Jesus was NOT having a good time up to and during the crucifixion. Everyone in the known world at the time looked to him with fear, admiration or disgust and he was constantly being asked questions. He spoke in "verses, prophesies and curses". He had made an enemy of the state, and believed the world was increasingly wicked and fallen from grace, or that he was in the "mouth of madness".
The spine of atlas is the structure that allows the titan to hold the world up. Jesus challenged the state and in doing so became a celebrated resistance figure. It also made him public enemy #1.
All of this happened simply because he was doing his thing, not because of any agenda he had or strategy.
And then he gets scourged (storm of thorns)
There are some plot holes here but I think it's an interesting interpretation.
Yeah (yeah, yeah), there's a lot of fuck niggaz in the club tonight
(Fuck 'em, fuck 'em, fuck 'em) but it's gonna be 'aight (yeah, yeah, yeah)
'Cause me and my clique we don't give a fuck nigga (we don't give a fuck nigga)
Trick Daddy, Jim Johnson, Big D, Lil' Jon
Let's go, let's go
If you want it you can get it let me know (let me know)
I'm 'bout to fuck a nigga up
Let's go, let's go (let's go)
If you want it you can get it let me know (let me know)
I'm 'bout to fuck a nigga up, let's go
If you want some, come get some
'Cause where I'm from we tote big guns
And everybody know somebody that know somebody that know somethin' bout it
And I want answers now
Who, what, where, when and why?
See, a lot of dudes like to act a fool
And all get all loud but that ain't my style (what?)
Now, he who he gonna get and what he gonna do
Run up on me if he want to
Out there impressin' his homies
But he stood up in front of his momma
I mop up the flo' with him
And I kick in the door and let the .44 get him
I got fools that'll go get him
This for him, his crew and the dudes that run with him
Let's go, let's go
If you want it you can get it let me know (let me know)
I'm 'bout to fuck a nigga up
Let's go, let's go (let's go)
If you want it you can get it let me know (let me know)
I'm 'bout to fuck a nigga up, let's go
Gotta spit it for the murderers and the killers and the thugsters
That be fuckin' up the ballers and the dealers and the hustlers
Got me comin' at you bogus in the V.I.
While they bumpin' Lil' Jon, I'ma brush ya
It's the psycho nigga Twista from Chicago
Rollin' with the Miami nigga, that'll crush ya
We already been lookin' for drama
If a nigga try to get into with us then we gotta get him
Feelin' fury from my tough shit, that can't never be true and no Penicillin
I'm tellin' you Trick, I'm fit to steal him
Got me swingin' Crissy and Hennessy bottles in the club
With my thug homies goin' for ya scrilla
Don't get it twisted with that, "Overnight Celebrity"
You better be scared of me, in my city I'm a killer
Let's go, let's go
If you want it you can get it let me know (let me know)
I'm 'bout to fuck a nigga up
Let's go, let's go (let's go)
If you want it you can get it let me know (let me know)
I'm 'bout to fuck a nigga up, let's go
I ain't that rappin' type alright
And I that actin' type alright
That soft ain't in my script
I'm a playa, you, you just a square
See, once that Hennessy into me
The whole industry is my enemy
If you ain't no kin to me or friend to me
Bitch, don't pretend to be (what?)
Yeah, I'm strictly for the thugs
I'm part of the streets and straight out the hood
Got moments ghetto
And I don't even needs the gats for you weasly cats
I'm straight out the county of Dade
3-0-5, nigga M-I-A
Never gone south of the border
America's most wanted, you gon' get slaughtered
Let's go, let's go
If you want it you can get it let me know (let me know)
I'm 'bout to fuck a nigga up
Let's go, let's go (let's go)
If you want it you can get it let me know (let me know)
I'm 'bout to fuck a nigga up
Let's go, let's go
If you want it you can get it let me know (let me know)
I'm 'bout to fuck a nigga up
Let's go, let's go (let's go)
If you want it you can get it let me know (let me know)
I'm 'bout to fuck a nigga up, let's go
The A.K. go chop, chop, chop, chop
The S.K. go fire, fire, fire, fire
The A.K. go chop, chop, chop, chop
The S.K. go fire, fire, fire, fire
(Fuck 'em, fuck 'em, fuck 'em) but it's gonna be 'aight (yeah, yeah, yeah)
'Cause me and my clique we don't give a fuck nigga (we don't give a fuck nigga)
Trick Daddy, Jim Johnson, Big D, Lil' Jon
Let's go, let's go
If you want it you can get it let me know (let me know)
I'm 'bout to fuck a nigga up
Let's go, let's go (let's go)
If you want it you can get it let me know (let me know)
I'm 'bout to fuck a nigga up, let's go
If you want some, come get some
'Cause where I'm from we tote big guns
And everybody know somebody that know somebody that know somethin' bout it
And I want answers now
Who, what, where, when and why?
See, a lot of dudes like to act a fool
And all get all loud but that ain't my style (what?)
Now, he who he gonna get and what he gonna do
Run up on me if he want to
Out there impressin' his homies
But he stood up in front of his momma
I mop up the flo' with him
And I kick in the door and let the .44 get him
I got fools that'll go get him
This for him, his crew and the dudes that run with him
Let's go, let's go
If you want it you can get it let me know (let me know)
I'm 'bout to fuck a nigga up
Let's go, let's go (let's go)
If you want it you can get it let me know (let me know)
I'm 'bout to fuck a nigga up, let's go
Gotta spit it for the murderers and the killers and the thugsters
That be fuckin' up the ballers and the dealers and the hustlers
Got me comin' at you bogus in the V.I.
While they bumpin' Lil' Jon, I'ma brush ya
It's the psycho nigga Twista from Chicago
Rollin' with the Miami nigga, that'll crush ya
We already been lookin' for drama
If a nigga try to get into with us then we gotta get him
Feelin' fury from my tough shit, that can't never be true and no Penicillin
I'm tellin' you Trick, I'm fit to steal him
Got me swingin' Crissy and Hennessy bottles in the club
With my thug homies goin' for ya scrilla
Don't get it twisted with that, "Overnight Celebrity"
You better be scared of me, in my city I'm a killer
Let's go, let's go
If you want it you can get it let me know (let me know)
I'm 'bout to fuck a nigga up
Let's go, let's go (let's go)
If you want it you can get it let me know (let me know)
I'm 'bout to fuck a nigga up, let's go
I ain't that rappin' type alright
And I that actin' type alright
That soft ain't in my script
I'm a playa, you, you just a square
See, once that Hennessy into me
The whole industry is my enemy
If you ain't no kin to me or friend to me
Bitch, don't pretend to be (what?)
Yeah, I'm strictly for the thugs
I'm part of the streets and straight out the hood
Got moments ghetto
And I don't even needs the gats for you weasly cats
I'm straight out the county of Dade
3-0-5, nigga M-I-A
Never gone south of the border
America's most wanted, you gon' get slaughtered
Let's go, let's go
If you want it you can get it let me know (let me know)
I'm 'bout to fuck a nigga up
Let's go, let's go (let's go)
If you want it you can get it let me know (let me know)
I'm 'bout to fuck a nigga up
Let's go, let's go
If you want it you can get it let me know (let me know)
I'm 'bout to fuck a nigga up
Let's go, let's go (let's go)
If you want it you can get it let me know (let me know)
I'm 'bout to fuck a nigga up, let's go
The A.K. go chop, chop, chop, chop
The S.K. go fire, fire, fire, fire
The A.K. go chop, chop, chop, chop
The S.K. go fire, fire, fire, fire
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No one said it better than Shadow of Oblivion, I love the original version, it's amazing.
But this song has heaps of fucking bass, sounds sick with subs. It's catchy as hell, and the chorus seriously gets me pumped everytime I hear it, the rap beat mixed with the original is just sick.
Both are good songs.