The song isn't so much about race as it is terrible, terrible branding, which is then taken as racist. Like most Mclusky songs it's black, playful humor.
The line about the riot is just about the popular reaction to a store with such a moronic name. The references to the obscure and seemingly non-existent things are there to hammer home the absolute absurdity of a kitchen decorating/renovations store with the name KKKitchens ACTUALLY existing.
In the last verse, the narrator of the song pretty much concedes that he bought his kitchen supplies there anyway ("I think you gave us everything ..."), because it was convenient, but he definitely knew it was a dumb name for a business doomed to fail.
Here's a story to illuminate ...
A man walks into a bar, he's depressed. The bartender asks what's wrong. The man says his business closed. The bartender asks what he sold. The man tells him he sold kitchen supplies. The bartender asks about the location, if he had enough potential customers, what his costs were, etc., etc. It's all in perfect order. Finally he says, "well, I just can't see why your store closed. Some things in business don't make sense" And the man says, "I know. How could KKKitchens possibly fail?"
It is an actual store. http://www.kkkitchens.com/
The song isn't so much about race as it is terrible, terrible branding, which is then taken as racist. Like most Mclusky songs it's black, playful humor.
The line about the riot is just about the popular reaction to a store with such a moronic name. The references to the obscure and seemingly non-existent things are there to hammer home the absolute absurdity of a kitchen decorating/renovations store with the name KKKitchens ACTUALLY existing.
In the last verse, the narrator of the song pretty much concedes that he bought his kitchen supplies there anyway ("I think you gave us everything ..."), because it was convenient, but he definitely knew it was a dumb name for a business doomed to fail.
Here's a story to illuminate ...
A man walks into a bar, he's depressed. The bartender asks what's wrong. The man says his business closed. The bartender asks what he sold. The man tells him he sold kitchen supplies. The bartender asks about the location, if he had enough potential customers, what his costs were, etc., etc. It's all in perfect order. Finally he says, "well, I just can't see why your store closed. Some things in business don't make sense" And the man says, "I know. How could KKKitchens possibly fail?"
@robwyattfan KKKitchens - The only choice for the true white goods supremacist ;D
@robwyattfan KKKitchens - The only choice for the true white goods supremacist ;D