The Best Dumbest Song Ever
Heard this at my friend's niece's quinceanera.
I don't know how but it makes me think of people who are grossly overweight trying to hold their balance on their tiptoes.
I've never had a song motivates me so much to get really really stupid.
Good effin' times.
TERREMOTO!
TERREMOTO!
For Oscar Grant
If you don't know what the Oscar Grant case is here's my article exploring all the moves made from the beginning to the end.
But quick synopsis is that a cop shot and killed an unarmed black man, Oscar Grant, on new year's day 2009 at a Bay Area Transit station (BART station). As the cop had him restrained and on the floor, he said that he was trying to put Oscar Grant in handcuffs, he maintained that Oscar Grant was resisting.
Against Grant's apparent resistance, he said that that he was reaching for his TASER gun, a yellowish device that was placed on his left belt but instead pulled out his black, heavy handgun located on his right.
The result of the "mistake" was the fatal shooting known as the BART Shooting, the Oscar Grant shooting.
Personally, it seems as if law enforcement's (and the public as well) is too trigger-happy when they see people of color. "Trigger-happy" meaning the automatic response is to use some kind of "technology", a "device" be it a gun, a social service worker, some kind of "intervention" that doesn't include directly handling, "touching" "them."
I wonder, would this cop have made the same mistake if Oscar Grant was some white middle-class college kid?
Video here:
Why am I bringing up the case of Oscar Grant now?
After being apprehended for 6 months, Johannes Mehserle, the cop, is set to be released sometime tomorrow in LA County at 441 Bauchet St., Los
Angeles, CA 90012., June 13 between 12 AM or 8:30 PM, at a time when there is little fanfare.
I think if a case with so many witnesses of law enforcement misbehavior could only manage to put a negligent officer in for what amounted to less than a year, what does that mean for people of color (hell, the general public) who usually do not have the benefit of a camera or camera phones?
Native Guns - Handcuffs (Remix)
But quick synopsis is that a cop shot and killed an unarmed black man, Oscar Grant, on new year's day 2009 at a Bay Area Transit station (BART station). As the cop had him restrained and on the floor, he said that he was trying to put Oscar Grant in handcuffs, he maintained that Oscar Grant was resisting.
Against Grant's apparent resistance, he said that that he was reaching for his TASER gun, a yellowish device that was placed on his left belt but instead pulled out his black, heavy handgun located on his right.
The result of the "mistake" was the fatal shooting known as the BART Shooting, the Oscar Grant shooting.
Personally, it seems as if law enforcement's (and the public as well) is too trigger-happy when they see people of color. "Trigger-happy" meaning the automatic response is to use some kind of "technology", a "device" be it a gun, a social service worker, some kind of "intervention" that doesn't include directly handling, "touching" "them."
I wonder, would this cop have made the same mistake if Oscar Grant was some white middle-class college kid?
Video here:
Why am I bringing up the case of Oscar Grant now?
After being apprehended for 6 months, Johannes Mehserle, the cop, is set to be released sometime tomorrow in LA County at 441 Bauchet St., Los
Angeles, CA 90012., June 13 between 12 AM or 8:30 PM, at a time when there is little fanfare.
I think if a case with so many witnesses of law enforcement misbehavior could only manage to put a negligent officer in for what amounted to less than a year, what does that mean for people of color (hell, the general public) who usually do not have the benefit of a camera or camera phones?
Native Guns - Handcuffs (Remix)
Can you get much higher?
Kanye's album is what I call the do-work album with just this and the Monster song. "Do-work" meaning I think of all the hard work that is laid down for me to pick up on in my "road to redemption."
Kanye's song Dark Fantasy is the embodiment of fire-on-the-shoulder, strike-gold for the team kinda music.
At first I only liked the song because of this line at 2:28...
"fresh air,
rollin' down the window
too many urkels on your team,
that's why yo wins lowww!!!
Of course making reference to Steve Urkel and the protagonist Winslow family from the popular 90s TV show Family Matters, a show that Savatri said she watched "religiously."
But there's more to the song than just that witty reference.
Once the beat drops at 1:07, the work of redemption, ass-kicking packaged into it's distinctive repetitive, yet elegant keyboard sound, you know its
mother.
effin'.
ON!
I probably sounded like a douchebag doing that pause for effect in my writing, but this blog's sort of dedicated to feelings and you can't logically argue against feelings.
Why? Probably because it's the beginning of a song with some dramatic drops.
Dramatic drops like...the moment he slides from the 2nd a-capella chorus at 2:02 to the fury of...
"Look like a fat booty Celine Dion
sex is on fire I'm the king of Leon
-a Lewis
beyond the truest
hey teacha teacha
tell me how do you re-spond to students
and re-fresh the page
and re-start the memory,
re-spark the soul
and re-build the energy,
we stop the ignorance,
we kill the enemy..."
It's like a Manny Pacquiao flurry. It's like an instance where the middle of a song is actually a climax and not just filler in between a strong start or strong ending.
I'm not sure why he brings up teachers and students, but at least he questions how we can we figure out ways --- better to put that on the mind that diamonds, women, partying, and alcohol.
Kanye's song Dark Fantasy is the embodiment of fire-on-the-shoulder, strike-gold for the team kinda music.
At first I only liked the song because of this line at 2:28...
"fresh air,
rollin' down the window
too many urkels on your team,
that's why yo wins lowww!!!
Of course making reference to Steve Urkel and the protagonist Winslow family from the popular 90s TV show Family Matters, a show that Savatri said she watched "religiously."
But there's more to the song than just that witty reference.
Once the beat drops at 1:07, the work of redemption, ass-kicking packaged into it's distinctive repetitive, yet elegant keyboard sound, you know its
mother.
effin'.
ON!
I probably sounded like a douchebag doing that pause for effect in my writing, but this blog's sort of dedicated to feelings and you can't logically argue against feelings.
Why? Probably because it's the beginning of a song with some dramatic drops.
Dramatic drops like...the moment he slides from the 2nd a-capella chorus at 2:02 to the fury of...
"Look like a fat booty Celine Dion
sex is on fire I'm the king of Leon
-a Lewis
beyond the truest
hey teacha teacha
tell me how do you re-spond to students
and re-fresh the page
and re-start the memory,
re-spark the soul
and re-build the energy,
we stop the ignorance,
we kill the enemy..."
It's like a Manny Pacquiao flurry. It's like an instance where the middle of a song is actually a climax and not just filler in between a strong start or strong ending.
I'm not sure why he brings up teachers and students, but at least he questions how we can we figure out ways --- better to put that on the mind that diamonds, women, partying, and alcohol.
Two Savages Dancing in a Jungle
From Ong Bak 3 of the legendary Ong Bak series.
Music starts at about 48 seconds...the slam of the Taiko-ish drum...bam!
Music starts at about 48 seconds...the slam of the Taiko-ish drum...bam!
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