Which song tells the truth MORE about america? Options

[*Statistik*]

Which song do u think tells the truth more about america? I think Jadakiss's Why explains more.

[*Kathleen*]

Wow. Are there any non-rap songs that you could put up there that describe America? Those are pretty biased if you ask me. What song describes America best? Well, our national anthem, of course. Another thing, you need to make your banner smaller.

[LatinaLady]

i would say the national anthem and the one that was song themost in 9/11 insteadof the national one. not sure what its called. it wen tlike " cuz im proud to be an american, where at least i know im free..." and on and on. the other songs can go for other countries but the "official ones" are the ones made for u.s

[black_cloud10]

lol songs that describe america - The Remedy by Jason Muraz lol they always play it on the 4th of July =P Jadakiss's song has about 2 lines (tops!) in reference to america and its "why did bush knock down the towers?"

[ryfitaDF]

political rap??? since when? noooooooo..... nuh uh.

the song that describes the country best imo is Lamb of God- As The Palaces Burn

[WTFwasIthinking]

Talib Kweli's song the proud is amazing... talks about how corrupt our society and government actually is.... almost everything he says is SO TRUE...


The proud
Stand tall or don't stand at all, c'mon
Uhh, yeah
Break it down
What we do?

[Chorus]
We survive, it's more than pride
We stay alive, ready to ride

[Chorus] - repeat through intro

[Intro: Talib Kweli]
One two, one two yo
Aight.. put it down yo
June 21, 2001
Timothy McVeigh is executed
And the country breathe a sigh of relief
Goodness prevails over evil, it seems
Somehow when he's gone, we feel safer
Little do we know

[Verse One]
Today the paper say Timothy McVeigh's in hell
So everything's okay and all must be well
I remember Oklahoma when they put out the blaze
And put Islamic terrorist bombing, on the front page
It's like saying only gays get AIDS, propaganda
Like saying the problem's over when they locked that man up
Wrong! It's just the beginning, the first inning
Battle for America's soul, the devil's winning
The President is Bush, the Vice President's a Dick
So a whole lot of f**kin is what we gon' get
They don't wanna raise the babies so the election is fixed
That's why we don't be f**kin with politics
They bet on that, parents fought and got wet for that
Hosed down, bit by dogs, and got blacks into house arrest for that
It's all good except for that - we still poor
Money, power and respect is what we kill for, for real

[Chorus] - repeat through interlude

[Interlude]
August 4, 2001
A drunken police officer mows down an entire family in Brooklyn
The judge lets him go with no bail
It reminds us, of just how worthless our lives are to the justice system
I struggle, to explain the situation to my son, it's hard

[Verse Two]
Niggaz with knowledge is more dangerous than than niggaz with guns
They make the guns easy to get and try to keep niggaz dumb
Target the gangs and graffiti with the Prop 21
I already know the deal but what the fudge do I tell my son?
I want him livin right, livin good, respect the rules
He's five years old and he still thinkin cops is cool
How do I break the news that when he gets some size
He'll be percieved as a threat or see the fear in they eyes
It's in they job description to terminate the threat
So 41 shots to the body is what he can expect
The precedent is set, don't matter if he follow the law
I know I'll give my son pride and make him swallow it all (damn!)
fudge the pigs! I think the pigs killed Big and 'Pac too
If they didn't they know who did, they got to!
Who they serve and protect, nigga not you
Cops shot off of ten G's but they got glocks too
Let you protect yourself, or better yet respect yourself
Straight into the hospital is where you gotta check yourself
They be gettin tips from snitches and rival crews
Doin them favors so they workin for the drug dealers too
Just business enforcers with hate in they holsters
Shoot you in the back, won't face you like a soldier
Kurt Loder asked me what I say to a dead cop's wife
Cops kill my people everyday, that's life

[Chorus] - repeat through final interlude

[Final Interlude]
September 11, 2001
Terrorists attack the Pentagon and the World Trade Center
Kills thousand and permanently scars America's false sense of security
We see the best examples of humanity in the face of the worst
As fire fighters, police officers, rescue workers
and volunteers of all sorts, fight to save lives
The world will never be the same again

[Verse Three]
My heart go out to everybody at Ground Zero
Red, black, yellow, white and brown heroes
It's more complicated than black and white
To give your own life is the greatest sacrifice
But it's hard for me to walk down the block
Seeing rats and roaches, crack viles and 40 ounce posters
People broken down from years of oppression
Become patriots when their way of life is threatened
It's a hard conversation to have
We lost kids, moms and dads, people ready to fight for the flag
Damn, when did shit get this bad?
America kill the innocent too, the cycle of violence is sad
Damn! Welcome to the world, we here
We've been at, war for years but it's much more clear (yeah)
We got to face what lies ahead
Fight for our truth and freedom and, ride for the dead

[Chorus] - repeat to end

[sheddingtears]

Oh there was one more. What's going on? by various artists.

[imafreakinazn]

black eyed peas. that's like the only song of theirs that has a good point

[*stephinika*]

none of the above. american idiot - green day. very good song go d/l it now!

[sporadic]

Franco-Unamerican by NOFX

Better.

[freeflow]

the blackeyed peas song

[NATIONAL BONER D...]

Has anyone ever seen the video for "Year of the Rat" by Badly Drawn Boy?

[JlIaTMK]

hmmm id say jadakiss more.... but in my opinion.... he gives mroe of a standpoint of his and the "black community".... to tell u the truth.... i think its crap that the country's dividing into communities of race and color.

[jnukes]

Has anyone ever seen the video for "Year of the Rat" by Badly Drawn Boy?

yes.. how peaceful...when he hugs them.... heh

i voted for jadakiss cause most of tha stuff he says is true.. black eyed peas is just asking where is the love. jadakiss raps about what happens in america.


[Jadakiss]
Aha
It's dat real
Yo, why is Jadakiss as hard as it gets
Why is the industry designed to keep the artist in dept
And why them dudes ain't ridin' if there part of your set
And why they never get it poppin' but they party to death
Yea, and why they gon give you life for a murder
Turn around only give you eight months for a burner, it's goin down
Why they sellin' niggaz CD's for under a dime
If it's all love daddy why you come wit your nine
Why my niggaz ain't get that cake
Why is a brother up North better than Jordan
That ain't get that break
Why you ain't stackin' instead of tryin' to be fly
Why is rattin' at an all time high
Why are you even alive
Why they kill Tupac n' Chris
Why at the bar you ain't take straight shots instead of poppin Crist'
Why them bullets have to hit that door
Why did Kobe have to hit that raw
Why he kiss that whore
Why

[Chorus: Anthony Hamilton]
All that I been givin'
Is this thing that I've been living
They got me in the system
Why they gotta do me like that
Try'd to make it my way
But got sent up on the highway
Why, oh why
Why they do me like that

[Jadakiss]
Why would niggaz push pounds and powder
Why did bush knock down the towers
Why you around them cowards
Why Aaliyah have to take that flight
Why my nigga D ain't pull out his Ferrari
Why he take that bike
Why they gotta open your package and read your mail
Why they stop lettin' niggaz get degreez in jail

Why you gotta do eighty-five percent of your time
And why do niggaz lie in eighty-five percent of they rhymes
Why a nigga always want what he can't have
Why I can't come through in the pecan Jag
Why did crack have to hit so hard
Even though it's almost over
Why niggaz can't get no jobs
Why they come up wit the witness protection
Why they let the terminator win the election
Come on, pay attention
Why sell in the stores what you can sell in the streets
Why I say the hottest **** but we sellin' the least

[Chorus]

[Jadakiss]
Uh, yea, yo
Why Halle have to let a white man pop her to get a Oscar
Why Denzel have to be crooked before he took it
Why they didn't make the CL6 wit a clutch
And if you don't smoke why the hell you reachin' for my dutch
Why rap, cause I need air time
Why be on the curb wit a "while I" I need a bare sign
Why all the young niggaz is dyin'
Cause they moms at work, they pops is gone, they livin' wit iron
Why they ain't give us a cure for aids
Why my diesel have fiends in the spot on the floor for days
Why you screamin' like it's slug, it's only the hawk
Why my buzz in L.A. ain't like it is in New York
Why you forcin' you to be hard
Why ain't you a thug by choice
Why the whole world love my voice
Why try to tell 'em that it's the flow son
And you know why they made the new twenties
Cause I got all my old ones
That's why

[Chorus]

[Angelos]

jadakiss-why (lol i wish i had all the old ones but i got alot lol)

[lucky_clover]

this is rly hard to choose from, i like the 'why' song and 'where is the love' song. lol.

[FireCrossedAngel]

Both ^_^ And lol Jadakiss makes me laugh my effin a$$ off when he says why did bush knock down the towers. hahaha I hate that a$$wipe Bush!!!

[Counting]

Black Eyed Peas, tops.

[xquizit]

Both ^_^ And lol Jadakiss makes me laugh my effin a$$ off when he says why did bush knock down the towers. hahaha  I hate that a$$wipe Bush!!! 

I hate that line.

[parallel]

I voted both.
But. There's a better song that really tells the truth about America.
The song "Amerika" by Rammstein. Oh yes.

[short_stop08]

I think Jadakiss's Why tells more. I like that song.

[slipper]

eminem > white america.

that's my pessimistic talking..

bep.

[Rayj]

Wow, thats a hard choice, so i think they are both representing america the same amount.

[Mr. Slowjamz]

i picked none ...cuz i really dont care ....there are better song out there that describe america ...and soo far this isnt .

[xchrystizzle]

eminem > white america.

that's my pessimistic talking..

bep.

yea eminem 8) mosh or white america.
but then that talib kweli one is good

but yea. those are kinda dissing america. its slowly crumbling as china rises to power

[eyeyeyo]

i voted: where is the love. :p

[JacksonLovejazz]

None

[rx_azngirl]

where is the love?-bep

[KERP1UNK]

Black Eyed Peas I guess, plus, I have never heard of any of the other songs on the list.

[glit_gal]

Oh there was one more. What's going on? by various artists.

yeah this is the one i was thinking of too.

[Mr. Slowjamz]

BOOM ! -System of a Down

BOOM! I?ve been walking through your streets,
Where all your money?s earning,
Where all your building?s crying,
And clueless neckties working,
Revolving fake lawn houses,
Housing all your fears,
Desensitized by TV,
Overbearing advertising,
God of consumerism,
And all your crooked pictures,
Looking good, mirrorism,
Filtering information,
For the public eye,
Designed for profiteering,
Your neighbor, what a guy. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM,
Every time you drop the bomb,
You kill the god your child has born.
BOOM, BOOM,BOOM, BOOM Modern globalization,
Coupled with condemnations,
Unnecessary death,
Matador corporations,
Puppeting your frustrations,
With the blinded flag,
Manufacturing consent
Is the name of the game,
The bottom line is money,
Nobody gives a f**k f***.
4000 hungry children die per hour,
from starvation,
while billions spent on bombs,
create death showers. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM,
Every time you drop the bomb,
You kill the god your child has born.
BOOM, BOOM,BOOM, BOOM
BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM Why,why,why,why must we kill,kill,kill,kill, our own,own,own,own kind?? BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM,
Every time you drop the bomb,
You kill the god your child has born.
BOOM, BOOM,BOOM, BOOM
BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM
Every time you drop the bomb

[*danielle_x3*]

BEP. where's the love. :D

[Rachel]

...Why is this back

[technicolour]

none of the above. american idiot - green day. very good song go d/l it now! 

Green Day Green Day

Either American Idiot or Holiday

American Idiot:

Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along in the age of paranoia.


Holiday:

Seek out to the president gasbag
Bombs away is your punishment
Pulverize the Eiffel tower
And criticize the government
Bang bang goes the broken glass man
Kill all the fags that don't agree
Triumph by fires, sinning buyers

[baakla]

good charlotte- we believe

its not about american, but it deals with the issues we have now.

[OhXiet_ItzDonnA]

I think I like the song Black Eye Peas better. Some people dont got shyt for eachother because of some racism or whatever. Horrible.

[sandy_lumpy_shor...]

jadakiss's song why is like a song that flatters himself "why does everyone love my voice" wth?!! defentily BEP's song

[*Funkadelic.Kiss*]

bep - where is the love.
is a good song. lyrics are really thoughtful

[blucheri]

i was gonna say the music video for Emin3m's song MOSH.

[shortiiex]

what about Mosh? the video explains it well too
well...it didn't come out yet when this topic was posted

[ParanoidAndroid]

I wish you had the choice "other" cuz there were many songs from the oldies that insult and reveal a lot about the government. I don't listen to Bob Marely but he does tell a lot as i have heard from someone. I am not the most patriotic person in the world so please excuse my indecency. Ever since Bush did the war my dislike grew to hate.

[*xcaitlinx*]

What song describes America best? Well, our national anthem, of course.

are you kidding? guess what our national anthem's message is? ----WAR. unless you want our country to be represented as a war nation, then no it really doesn't describe America best.

"O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there."

[*mipadi*]

None. It's clearly best described by The Guess Who's American Woman.

[WHOngos144]

Mosh or White America

[*StanleyThePanda*]

Oldddddd topic...

Hmm I dont really know, neither of the ones you listed though

[EddieV]

Green Day - Holiday

[NoSex]

Screw all to Green Day. I remember when they talked about smoking weed, being lazy, and hating your girlfriend. What the hell is their deal?

Anyways, The Dead Kennedys // Stars and Stripes of Corruption

Finally got to Washington in the middle of the night
I couldn't wait
I headed straight for the Capitol Mall
My heart began to pound
Yahoo! It really exists
The American International Pictures logo

I looked up at that Capitol Building
Couldn't help but wonder why
I felt like saying "Hello, old friend"

Walked up the hill to touch it
Then I unzipped my pants
And pissed on it when nobody was looking

Like a great eternal Klansman
With his two flashing red eyes
Turn around he's always watching
The Washington monument pricks the sky
With flags like pubic hair ringed 'round the bottom

The symbols of our heritage
Lit up proudly in the night
Somehow fits to see the homeless people
Passed out on the lawn

So this is where it happens
The power games and bribes
All lobbying for a piece of ass

Of the stars and stripes of corruption
Makes me feel so ashamed
To be an American
When we're too stuck up to learn from our mistakes
Trying to start another Viet Nam
Whilke fiddling while Rome burns at home
The Boss says, "You're laid off. Blame the Japanese"
"America's back," alright
At the game it plays the worst
Strip mining the world like a slave plantation

No wonder others hate us
And the Hitlers we handpick
To bleed their people dry
For our evil empire

The drug we're fed
To make us like it
Is God and country with a band

People we know who should know better
Howl, "America riles. Let's go to war!"
Business scams are what's worth dying for

Are the Soviets our worst enemy?
We're destroying ourselves instead
Who cares about our civil rights
As long as I get paid?

The blind Me-Generation
Doesn't care if life's a lie

so easily used, so proud to enforce

The stars and stripes of corruption
Let's bring it all down!
Tell me who's the real patriots
The Archie Bunker slobs waving flags?
Or the people with the guts to work
For some real change
Rednecks and bombs don't make us strong
We loot the world, yet we can't even feed ourselves
Our real test of strength is caring
Not the toys of war we sell the world
Just carry on, thankful to be farmed like worms
Old glory for a blanket
As you suck on your thumbs

Real freedom scares you
'Cos it means responsibility

So you chicken out and threaten me

Saying, "Love it or leave it"
I'll get beat up if I criticize it
You say you'll fight to the death
To save your worthless flag

If you want a banana republic that bad
Why don't you go move to one
But what can just one of us do?
Against all that money and power
Trying to crush us into roaches?

We don't destroy society in a day
Until we change ourselves first
From the inside out

We can start by not lying so much
And treating other people like dirt
It's easy not to base our lives
On how much we can scam

And you know
It feels good to lift that monkey off our backs

I'm thankful I live in a place
Where I can say the things I do
Without being taken out and shot
So I'm on guard against the goons
Trying to take my rights away
We've got to rise above the need for cops and laws

Let kids learn communication
Instead of schools pushing competition
How about more art and theater instead of sports?

People will always do drugs
Let's legalize them
Crime drops when the mob can't price them
Budget's in the red?
Let's tax religion

No one will do it for us
We'll just have to fix ourselves
Honesty ain't all that hard
Just put Rambo back inside your pants
Causing trouble for the system is much more fun

Thank you for the toilet paper
But your flag is meaningless to me
Look around, we're all people
Who needs countries anyway?

Our land, I love it too
I think I love it more than you
I care enough to fight

The stars and stripes of corruption
Let's bring it all down!
If we don't try
If we just lie
If we can't find
A way to do it better than this
Who will?

[vash1530]

i hate this topic but ill ost a song anyways. this one was back in the days and personally i dont like it but it gives a good example of the times

Bruce Springsteen- Born in the USA

[illriginal]

non of those f****ts... listen to Immortal Technique, RZA, Cilvaringz, Jedi Minds Tricks, Binary Star, Dead Prez... shit the list goes on... the two other f*gs on your poll are nothin but uncle tom bitches.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Never heard any of those songs.

[Be-Faithful]

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=4HwrTDO8enQ

[shoryuken]

meee vvoottee..

[Gryffindor-Girl]

"Black Eyed Peas-Where Is The Love" definitely!