[Reader-list] PT 2 - Re: Public Enemy vs Arizona: Sonic Immigration

[Paul D. Miller]

By the way, this is the first time Ive been called a racist and or  
someone who betrays my country.

To the Sarai list - please excuse this strange exchange.

But anyway, here's the lyrics to the song and a quick glance at the  
discussion board will show that many people from all walks of life are  
discussing this:

By The Time I Get To Arizona Lyrics
Artist: Public Enemy
Album: Apocalypse 91 - Dj Spooky remix 2010
I'm countin' down to the day deservin'
Fittin' for a king
I'm waitin' for the time when I can
Get to Arizona
'Cause my money's spent on
The goddamn rent
Neither party is mine not the
Jackass or the elephant
20.000 nig niggy nigas in the corner
Of the cell block but they come
 From California
Population none in the desert and sun
Wit' a gun cracker
Runnin' things under his thumb
Starin' hard at the postcards
Isn't it odd and unique?
Seein' people smile wild in the heat
120 degree
'Cause I wanna be free
What's a smilin' fact
When the whole state's racist
Why want a holiday F--k it 'cause I wanna
So what if I celebrate it standin' on a corner
I ain't drinkin' no 40
I B thinkin' time wit' a nine
Until we get some land
Call me the trigger man
Looki lookin' for the governor
Huh he ain't lovin' ya
But here to trouble ya
He's rubbin' ya wrong
Get the point come along

An he can get to the joint
I urinated on the state
While I was kickin' this song
Yeah, he appear to be fair
The cracker over there
He try to keep it yesteryear
The good ol' days
The same ol' ways
That kept us dyin'
Yes, you me myself and I'ndeed
What he need is a nosebleed
Read between the lines
Then you see the lie
Politically planned
But understand that's all she wrote
When we see the real side
That hide behind the vote
They can't understand why he the man
I'm singin' 'bout a king
They don't like it
When I decide to mike it
Wait I'm waitin' for the date
For the man who demands respect
'Cause he was great c'mon
I'm on the one mission
To get a politician
To honor or he's a gonna
By the time I get to Arizona

I got 25 days to do it
If a wall in the sky
Just watch me go thru it
'Cause I gotta do what I gotta do
PE number one
Gets the job done
When it's done and over
Was because I drove'er
Thru all the static
Not stick but automatic
That's the way it is
He gotta get his
Talin' MLK
Gonna find a way
Make the state pay
Lookin' for the day
Hard as it seems
This ain't no damn dream
Gotta know what I mean
It's team against team
Catch the light beam
So I pray
I pray everyday
I do and praise jah the maker
Lookin' for culture
I got but not here
 From jah maker
Pushin' and shakin' the structure
Bringin' down the babylon
Hearin' the sucker
That make it hard for the brown
The hard Boulova
I need now
More than ever now
Who's sittin' on my freedah'
Opressor people beater
Piece of the pick
We picked a piece
Of land that we deservin' now
Reparation a piece of the nation
And damn he got the nerve
Another niga they say and classify
We want too much
My peep plus the whole nine is mine
Don't think I even double dutch
Here's a brother my attitude hit 'em
Hang 'em high
Blowin' up the 90s started tickin' 86
When the blind get a mind
Better start and earn while we sing it
Now
There will be the day we know those down and who will go

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On May 4, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:

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>   I'm writing this from the Arizona Capitol.
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>   Paul, we don't want your racist politics here.  Al Sharpton has  
> nothing in common with the illegal aliens.  You are not only a  
> traitor to your country but a traitor to your own people.  How can  
> you turn against a country that has given you so much?
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>   we do remember history.  We remember it very well.
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>   Check it:  http://www.buffalosoldiermuseum.com/? 
> linkid=410&webid=1000
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>   -jmz
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> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Paul D. Miller  
> <anansi1 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hey people - I just finished a studio session with Chuck D from  
> Public Enemy. In the wake of Republican Governor Jan Brewer's  
> appalling anti-immigrant law, me and Chuck D were rappin' and we  
> decided to put together an update of his classic track "By The Time  
> I get To Arizona."
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> You can download the track from here:
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> http://www.djspooky.com/music_download_form.html
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> Anyone who knows about hip hop from the early 90's remembers John  
> McCain's unwillingness to endorse creating a local version of Martin  
> Luther King's birthday. The update here is a 21st century look in  
> the rear view mirror. The cliché that "those who don't learn from th 
> e past are doomed to repeat it" still holds sway in our hyper amnesi 
> ac culture. I remixed D.W. Griffith's infamous film Birth of a Natio 
> n  with a bit of Public Enemy in mind, and later on, they named an e 
> .p. with the same name as my project. Me and Chuck D have done sever 
> al projects in the past around progressive, non knucklehead hip hop.
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> Please feel free to download this track and pass it around. We are  
> the media. Feel free to pass it around!
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> By the way, this is a mashup, and it's basically not really for  
> sale. I just took a riff from Philly Sound (www.funkadelphiarecords.com 
> ), and flipped it. The result, is what you hear here. It's free, and  
> open. No $!!
> You can download a better resolution version of the track here:
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> http://www.djspooky.com/music_download_form.html
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> Check it!
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> Paul
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