The music thread!

[Oswego]

This is the test I give guys with children, a wife, a mother or a grandmother:

Please take the lyrics and read them out loud to anyone of them. If they do not really understand the meaning of the words, explain them in every detail. If you still feel good and proud, continue to listen to that music. Otherwise, think about what you are feeding your mind. I know it may be a tough test but our minds are a precious gift that is easily swayed without our knowledge. When I first started to make a conscious effort to be a better gatekeeper to my grey matter was when I (and a theater full of paying customers) bursted out in laughter when Samuel Jackson shot the guy in the back seat in the movie, Pulp Fiction.

So, let's start...

[Intro]
Run, run, run, run, run
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay

[Verse 1: El-P]
Oh dear, what the fuck have we here?
These motherfuckers all thorn no rose
Egads what a bad dream better not sleep
Take a No-Doz, do some blow
Oh shit what the hell have we done?
It's alive and it's hungry as fuck
Better hide all the snacks and the dough
But it is out of my control, you are shit out of luck
I don't wanna be unfair but the pair
We got beat that weak shit you got (true god)
Blew up the spot with that new bop
Crew drops, do up ya squad without nuance
I don't wanna sound unkind but the
Sounds I make are the sounds of the hounds that are howling
Under your bed I'm here growling
Same time under the blanket you're cowering

[Verse 2: Killer Mike]
Cowering like cowards cowering in
Concrete showers in Rikers Island
Victims, we the wolves that's wilding
We often smilin' at sights of violence
Acting brave and courageous
Ain't advantageous for health and safety
So when we say "run the jewels"
Just run 'em baby, please don't delay me
And that goes for a guy or lady
The fam, goddamn we fuckin' crazy
I'll pull this pistol
Put it on your poodle or your fuckin' baby
She clutched the pearls, said "What in the world!"
And "I won't give up shit!"
I put the pistol on that poodle
And I shot that bitch


[Hook]
Run the jewels, jewels, jewels, jewels, jewels, jewels
Run the jewels, jewels, jewels, jewels, jewels, jewels

[Verse 3: El-P]
Ay, ay, and the crowd chants "Get that paper!"
And the mob says "kill that witch!"
This city get mad to the max
Better wave bye-de bye to the high scrapes kids
Get a tin foil hat for the raining
Hot water from the roof to the basement
I'mma smoke 'til the planet erases
Build a white flag out of zig-zags, wave it

[Verse 4: Killer Mike]
Often I'm smoking, coughing
Sip lean on a bean like Boston
My young bitch here fine like
Pam Grier when she made that movie Coffy
But when my wife's in town
Ay, Jackie Brown just stay up off me
Cause if they don't somebody get shot
And they gon' buy a coffin

[Verse 5: El-P]
With the pull of a pin a grenade
Get a crowd to they feet and a soul to its options
I'm a fool for the win I been made
To be loud while these other cats drowning in softness
In a urn or the dirt get tossed in
With a grin or a smirk get accosted
I'm a sin on the verse like a kid in a hearse
Or a nun in a cum shot (stop it)

[Verse 6: Killer Mike]
Big beast in a cage with a heart
Full of rage, it seems I can't behave
You could try till you die, oh well
You failed, it seems the world can't be saved
These streets is full with the wolves
That starve for the week so they after the weak
In a land full of lambs I am
And I'll be damned if I don't show my teeth

[Hook]
Run the jewels, jewels, jewels, jewels, jewels, jewels
Run the jewels, jewels, jewels, jewels, jewels, jewels

[Outro]
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay
The goblins were awakened

Pure lyrical poetry to my eyes and ears

 

[Oswego]

"No other fictional form — musical, literary or cinematic — is used [as evidence] in the courts, a concerning double standard that research suggests is rooted, at least in part, in stereotypes about the people of color primarily associated with rap music, as well as the misconception that hip-hop and the artists behind it are dangerous."

– Michael Render, aka Killer Mike

 

[Silverback]

 

[Silverback]

Fuck she is hot!!

 

[balakay]

Just bought tickets for Cody Jinks, Kris Kristofferson, and Scott Copeland in August!

 

[tex]

I got tickets today for Garth Brooks in OKC in July

 

[balakay]

I got tickets today for Garth Brooks in OKC in July

I was going to take Taylor to see Garth in Lafayette, LA July 1st but she got a new job and won't be able to get off that day. We were both pretty bummed out.

 

[tex]

I was going to take Taylor to see Garth in Lafayette, LA July 1st but she got a new job and won't be able to get off that day. We were both pretty bummed out.

If we end up not being able to go i will sell these tickets.

 

[balakay]

If we end up not being able to go i will sell these tickets.

Let me know if you do. I may be interested in them depending what her new work schedule is.

 

[balakay]

 

[Mitt78]

I saw Zane play in a friends living room a few years ago. He aint bad but he is no Max.

 

[balakay]

Just bought tickets for Cody Jinks, Kris Kristofferson, and Scott Copeland in August!

Anyone want to buy these? My best friend decided to get married so I'm not gonna be able to make this. Have two tickets in section 203 at Verizon Theater. PM me.

 

[alangrin]

 

[Silverback]

Music is shit... but it made me laugh.

 

[Anathollo]

Heard this song on the Punisher series.

 

[Silverback]

Thanks.. just bought the album. I dig it.

 

[Mauzer]

Thanks.. just bought the album. I dig it.

This made me laugh, I use to have a shit ton of CD’s, then almost 60gigs of music (iPod)but because of Spotify I haven’t bought a CD in years, the only music I’ve purchased and downloaded was Drew’s album, and when I “buy an album” it’s something on vinyl (no I’m not a hipster). Crazy how music has changed in the last 10 or so years

 

[Taco Loco]

This made me laugh, I use to have a shit ton of CD’s, then almost 60gigs of music (iPod)but because of Spotify I haven’t bought a CD in years, the only music I’ve purchased and downloaded was Drew’s album, and when I “buy an album” it’s something on vinyl (no I’m not a hipster). Crazy how music has changed in the last 10 or so years

Same here, except I bought a couple CDs from Texas artist, Davin James, that man can play the hell out of a guitar

 

[Silverback]

I buy them in digital format... still call it an album. I'm all for supporting an artist I like.

 

[Mitt78]

The only times I buy music is when I’m at private concerts. I have an impossible to find CD from Max Stalling that I got autographed and a Zane Williams CD I got when he played at a friends house.