Most of you dont like rap but these lyrics about the Gov. have alot of meaning behind them. What do you think?
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I'm not a hater, do like rap despite being a 52 year old white female. It's a fairly recent thing for me, having been stuck in my hippie roots with the likes of Led Zeppelin, the Stones, etc., for lo, these many years. One day I hit the wrong button on my radio while cruisin' in my Mercury (Mountaineer) at a rapid rate. Before I knew what was happening, I was thumping to TuPac, had an epiphany, and am now a convert. The lyrics you cited hit home for me, Yahoo_guy. Check out my answer to the question about "war to Mexico" and you'll see what I mean. I think more people should get over themselves, stop hating the music, and really listen to the lyrics. People who think these views don't apply to them just haven't faced reality yet. True patriots LOVE the NATION and its citizens, not the govt. One can be proud of our servicemen and women while hating the war and despising the administration. People who are unable to make that distinction are just not too bright. I like the way you think, bruddah.
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there are many who have debated this already take a look here\n\nhttp://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=378
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because rappers have a lot of money and influence.\nthe government doesnt like that threat.
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Salaam\nI had told you in your last question it’s a bad joke but for this time I translate it for you !\nI don’t know have I translated it good or not because my English is on Intermediate level yet !\n>>---------------<<\nOne caricaturist draws an ass without groove in a sexual intercourse and then the police take him to prison for 3 crimes he has committed :\n1. causing anxiety of the public minds !!!\n2. propagation of unfaithful !!\n3. Blasphemy and Desecration of the holy !!\n>>---------------<<\nYahoo answer automatically converts bad word letters to star "*"!!
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A little Mad?\nWhen was the last time a cop actually helped you?  Police issue tickets to make the government \nmoney, not to help you. Police are meter maids doing nothing productive, but make your life \nharder to live.  They call tow trucks take your car and if you can't get it out,  they re-sell it at \nauctions to car dealerships, who sell it right back to you. You accept the rules of the game of life \nbecause you feel powerless to change them.  The government controls you into working your life, \nhaving children and putting them in the same situation you are in now, and then you die.  \nYour parents did it to you, you do it to your children. \nDid you really need that cop to write a ticket and fine you for not keeping up with the laws?\nWhen you did something wrong as a child, did your parents tell you, you owe them $100?  \nOr did did you learn your lesson another way?\n \nThink the laws are easy to keep up with?  Ask your family or friends how many new laws popped \nup in the last 50 years, everyone thinks it was so nice in the past, it was, we made \nlaws to stop it.  Every spot of the earth is marked off with law signs. You know whats right and \nwrong, you don't need to pay money to the GOVT when they tell you your wrong.  \n\nWhy do they take money? The one thing you need in this world to live?  \nBecause it's the one thing in this world you need to live, your CONTROLLED.\n\nAre you MAD? Did it start with MONEY problems? Money is the root of evil things in this world.\nYour fooled into thinking if you play the game and get enough money, one day you will\nbe left alone.  Wrong, they watch you even more, cause now you have more money and \nthe GOVT wants more of it.\n\nDo you drink or do drugs to take the pain away? It's not your fault.  You want to take your anger \nout on something/anything(the govt perhaps).  PLEASE, stop re-directing the anger of the world \ntowards those you care about, put it in it's place,  get mad at the GOVT, not your family.\n\nYou work for money, 30% to GOVT. You need food, %, You need a car, %, \nYou need registration, %, You need inspection, % , You need insurance, %, You drive to fast, %,\nYou drive too anything, %, You need to park, %, You get towed, %, Bought your land, %, You \nactually have some left over, put it in a bank, % to GOVT.  Want to leave the money you actually\nsaved to give to your family so they don't have it as bad as you did when you die, 50%.  \nYou finally DIE, %. to be buried.   Even when your dead, you owe money.   Stop the CYCLE.\n\nNothing will change?  Don't you think your great, great, grampa thought the same thing when\nhe left Europe to come to a place where the GOVT didn't tell him everyday, he's a bad person.\nNo laws?  No way, just stop telling us where bad people while your making money for the GOVT.\nGood people, we know what the laws are,  WERE GOOD PEOPLE.\nBad people don't need the laws because they don't care about laws anyways!  Don't have enough \nmoney to pay for it?  Good or bad, your going to jail to think about it now.\n\nSTOP THE CYCLE OF HATE AND DEATH, don't do it to your children again!!  \nIf you need help, call 911, until then, LEAVE US ALONE TO LIVE!!   \nWho is anyone to tell you anything about your life, IT'S YOUR LIFE!\n\nRemember, this is why we REVOLTED in the first place.  Not that we didn't like \nthe world, but because we LOVE the world.  I LOVE AMERICA in it's idea, the government \nneeds to make money somewhere else and stop stressing us all out or we will stop the GOVT!!\n\nLET FREEDOM RING! --------we need to hit the bell-------DDDOOOONNNNGGGGGG!!!!!\n\nericmartin33@yahoo.com
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As far as I know, Queen never really said" Oh, Well, this song means this or this".....I think it is a great song because everyone who hears it can interpret it their own way--and maybe it will mean different things at different times.  I don't think there should be a definite explanation of the song--sometimes you should just enjoy the music!
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ROFL..you got em staggering.\n\nI love the different "translations". They are versions, call a spade a spade. How can a word mean fight to one person, and it mean a metaphoric fight to another. They crack me up.\n\nThe verse is pretty damn clear. This is what the terrorists feed off of.
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in a way yes, in the sense that it says theres no religion, no heaven, so join us (perhaps in commusnism), i agree on you with that, but i think is a song that was written to make us this think about what the world could be like. Thank you for that insight though, i never thought about the song in that way!
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1st of all T.I aint no king of the south he took the throne when he came big the real king/don of the south is DJ SCREW, if it wasnt for dj screw no-1 wud know bout the southern rap regions.\n2nd of all i think rap does carry a bad name because in rap the rappers are associated with violence drugs guns and killings, with myself not living in the united states i cant say what sor of impact it has on the hoods and the citys but listening to the music and feeling what the lyrics mean, shows me that the rap game is slowly getting out of hand.\njust in the past 6 weeks proof (rip) big hawk(rip) gravy ti youngt zee have all be associated with violence and two artists were murdered.\nSince pac and biggie died i thought the game would of calmed down a bit but it hadnt just think bout all the people who have died in the rap game ova the last 10 years sonce pac and biggie died\ndj screw, fat pat, big hawk,mellow, gator, steve, freaky tah, mc ant, mac dre, biggie, pac, soulja slim, proof, bugs and everybody else has fell to the violent streets that rappers glorify in there music i thinks its time now that the violence stop and everyone comes together as a whole family and make dat money
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Try look up Eminem and 50 Cent lyrics.\n\nWhat Habin8or said was completely unacceptable! I do know everyone is entitled to their own opinions but recently I have been seeing a lot of people being unfair to the rap and hip-hop genre. People are going around talking like the music is pure shit and it's not! Rap and hip-hop is just another expression of feelings and actions through music.
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Oh god, as quick as possible!\n\nBut seriously, rap grew very strong in our pop music culture (where i assign thw words "pop music" with popular music). It doeasn't mean that the majority of people like mass gansta-rap productions, with mass of jewelery on necks, naked "chicks" and guns/drugs/similar. Those things are breaking the common limits, and are staying on the top only becouse of that. Well, I don't know if many people would call that type of art "beutifull" or "catchy", but surely controversial. However, those things are slowly dying out. The first major step was the ban of the game "25 for Life" in UK, where in this game you were playing as gangsta-type person, killing everyone on your way to revenge.\n\nI hope that people will get bored of controversions, and will want to go to the normal, quite calm life, and start to appriciate things that we really need, and that should we respected.
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I think it was written to have no specific meaning, just to 'paint some pictures' with words. I think the lyrics are essentially meaningless beyond that.
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oh and blithering idiots rapping about bitches hos drugs and guns is cool?\n\nrappers who also keep their people firmly entrenched in stereotypes...
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I found this person's opinion of the meaning and I think it's very accurate:\n\n"I think this song is about an emtpy soul who see's no color but black and white. He has no emotion and isn't able to explain his feelings: 'taffy stuck, tounge tied'. A very closed, unaccepting person who doesn't open up to anyone. He is emotionally brain dead and trying to escape the complete numbness of his life. He's dead inside and covers it up with the ol' "I am Fine"."
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I'm not familiar with that song or that group, but I would not recommend listening to such a group.  The lyrics are probably meant to be offensive to Christians and offensive to God.
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He's an idiot.  He's ego is so inflated he thinks he's God, literally.  I think the guy's seriously insane.  One of his songs actually contains the lyric,  " and I know the government administered AID's."\n\nYes, I like his music... But it doesn't make me (or you) a "hater" (as stated above) if I disagree with his words and actions.
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That's absoulutely hilarious. Unfortunately, a great deal of meaning can be lost in writing, particularly when one is being factitious or sarcastic. Am I wrong to assume that this was meant to be be a joke? (It seems that no one else is interpreting it that way.) Neither of the words that you listed are diminuitive at all.\n\nThese are the lyrics from a song by Nelly - a famous rapper. It's just a joke people.