File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9906, message 273


Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:52:11 +1100
From: Lorax <atc25-AT-student.canterbury.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: scrubs...


> In a message dated 6/9/99 11:12:13 AM Central Daylight Time, higginsc-AT-tcd.ie 
> writes:
> 
> > Don't you just love all that gangsta hip-hop lark?  Admittedly, Chris's
> >  example is tame compared to all the other rascist rubbish that the "homies"
> >  in the "hood" or the "projects" usually spurt out.  Christopher, you've got
> >  to realise that all of this only sees the light of day because fat
> >  capitalist record executives want to make money.  Once you sign up to any
> >  record label, then any kind of artistic or political voice you have is
> >  muted straight away.
>   Here's a couple of facts you might not be aware of:
> 1. The two guys in ICP are white.
> 2. For 90% of their existance, they were on their own independent label known 
> as Pyschopathic Records, and are still mostly in their own hands.
> 3. they got kicked off of the major label Hollywood Records because of lyrics 
> like that.
> 4. Yes, Violent J is fat, but he's not exactly a capitalist. Here's some more 
> lyrics: "The last little piggy, his house is made of gold, he lives in a 
> mansion on his own private road. I started walking down it, the guard he told 
> me wait, I bounced off his head and did a Jackie Chan over the gate! Cause 
> this little piggy must definately fry, I'm a lop his nugget off and toss it 
> the sky. Then I watch the moon take the form of the devil, and pull it out 
> the sky, and beat it with a shovel. People in my city, they fightin for they 
> meals, he sleeps on a mattress stuffed with hundred dollar bills! Oh richie 
> is the devil, he never will admit it, so I'm a take his money sack and stuff 
> his face with it! I opened up his door, he's sleeping in his bed, I grabbed a 
> brick of gold and laid it up side his head! He begged for his life, I told 
> him its too late, and took away his dough and watch the devil suffocate!" 
> That's from a song called Piggy Pie. I've got a bunch of ICP lyrics already 
> typed up if anybody wants em. I go to meet the clowns tommorrow!
> Chris
> 
Send 'em on over.
Lorax
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