Died a Jew

my people were slaves before yours invented hip hop

lol i love that line

if nobodies figured out it's max's response to jew haters

A few of you touched on good points, but to be honest, as a Jew in the southern region of our country, this song has pretty personal meaning to me, because you know, I may not be the most devout Jewish person (I chase my milk with Ham, a reference to not keeping Kosher), and although the Jews have not been perfect in their existence(we broke our promised land), the religion that dominates this country, and has been responsible for the majority of the anti-semitic actions over time, was founded and based upon Judaism and that will never change. Cheers Max Bemis!

haha, max bemis is a jew.

I usually love all say anything songs, but the lyric calling out black people was Max punching down, and I despise it. It ruins the entire song. Punching down is never a commendable thing, and I understand that he had a dispute with a rapper, but he decided to make it a "you/your people" thing and talk to all black people. The different types of slavery were not even comparable, but to mention it, add hip hop afterwards, then half-assed be like "haha, I'm a brother too and I laugh at white people" was just poor taste. Namely, comparing slavery that came about as a means to pay debt (where you can become free after paying it off), then equating it to slavery where people were kidnapped and permanently sold as chattel on the basis of skin color is a false equivalency; so it's of poor taste to bring up, but it's also illogical in general. I thought Max was better than that, but seeing as though he still performs this song (last performance was in late 2020, I believe), I guess not. In keeping that lyric, he decided to exclude and demean his black fans. Also, he should take a hint towards how implicitly biased the lyric is, because somehow majority of these fan comments under the song were able to use his lyrics to be anti-black (an important fact being that a majority of Say Anything fans are white).

I only say all of this, because I love Max's songs and lyrics, but this song was such a miss because he decided to attack a group of already disenfranchised people, instead of just the person he had a dispute with.

(Btw, none of this has to deal with me being "soft," "pc," "Identity politics," or anything like that. I just gave a brief critique based on history, sociology, and philosophy/logic/rhetoric. Max could have done better as a human, so if you love that lyric, I implore that you do the slightest introspection as to why. You might find that you harbor stereotypes against black people, which you should work on getting rid of.)

I really don't know what this is about, but I love the line "like judas the traitor, we are both favored and deeply flawed."

It's "apologize for the murder of god"

and

"although we broke our promised land"

its pretty easy to figure out. (dumbfuck) and its true.

I personally take the whole song as a metaphor that's saying how stupid racism is.

haha, this is a great song! Max knows how to write!

"my people were slaves, before yours invented hip hop"