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brother ali's new single "uncle sam goddamn"

 
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uberscheisse



Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:49 pm    Post subject: brother ali's new single "uncle sam goddamn" Reply with quote

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO18F4aKGzQ

i can't get enough of this guy.
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eamo



Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cool song.
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uberscheisse



Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

his record "shadows on the sun" is one of my favorite hiphop albums of all time. he's just badass, angry and takes no prisoners. he's an albino, too.
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twg



Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...

PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 7:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Reminds me of Disposable Heroes...
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AbbeFaria



Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: Gangnam

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 5:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The opening is from Nina Simone's song Mississippi Goddamn. A much better song, by the way.

Beyond that, his politics scream ignorance and he has to show race riot footage that's 40 years old because the government he's attacking so lyrically freed the slaves and ended segregation. Wasn't done quick and easy, but it was done. I'd like to see him do a song about all African nations that practice slavery to this day. And the KKK imagery is also bunk. In a report I read awhile back they have barely 5000 members nationwide. Hardly a problem.

-S-
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chipotle



Joined: 30 May 2005
Location: brooklyn

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 2:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow, it's funny to see people writing about him in Korea. I'm living in Minneapolis at the moment, where he's absolutely huge. I thought, aside from him doing sxsw and having an underground hip hop fanbase, he was just a Minnesota phenomenon.
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uberscheisse



Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.

PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

chipotle wrote:
Wow, it's funny to see people writing about him in Korea. I'm living in Minneapolis at the moment, where he's absolutely huge. I thought, aside from him doing sxsw and having an underground hip hop fanbase, he was just a Minnesota phenomenon.


i've dug him for years. rhymesayers is respected worldwide.
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hubba bubba



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 3:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Crap beat, crap lyrics, crap song.

This is about as bad as koreans b-itching about how bad japan is, maybe worse. Move on.
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uberscheisse



Joined: 02 Dec 2003
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hubba bubba wrote:
Crap beat, crap lyrics, crap song.

This is about as bad as koreans b-itching about how bad japan is, maybe worse. Move on.


incorrect. ali actually has a legit beef.
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AbbeFaria



Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: Gangnam

PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 2:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

uberscheisse wrote:
hubba bubba wrote:
Crap beat, crap lyrics, crap song.

This is about as bad as koreans b-itching about how bad japan is, maybe worse. Move on.


incorrect. ali actually has a legit beef.


Were it just a about the war, okay, maybe. But is he being segregated off to different drinking fountains and made to sit in the back of the bus? Been whipped recently? Don't think so. His song puts forth the idea that the racism of decades ago is alive and while, and that's just stupid.

But pray-tell, what is his beef?

-S-
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