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

Wed May 5 01:34:48 IST 2010

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

   there's a first time for everything.

   a much better song:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5FCdx7Dn0o

   -jmz

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Paul D. Miller <anansi1 at earthlink.net>wrote:

> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 4, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Joshua Zeidner < <jjzeidner at gmail.com>
> jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>   I'm writing this from the Arizona Capitol.
>
>   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?
>
>   we do remember history.  We remember it very well.
>
>   Check it:  <http://www.buffalosoldiermuseum.com/?linkid=410&webid=1000><http://www.buffalosoldiermuseum.com/?linkid=410&webid=1000>
> http://www.buffalosoldiermuseum.com/?linkid=410&webid=1000
>
>   -jmz
>
>
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Paul D. Miller < <anansi1 at earthlink.net><anansi1 at earthlink.net>
> 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."
>>
>> You can download the track from here:
>>
>>  <http://www.djspooky.com/music_download_form.html><http://www.djspooky.com/music_download_form.html>
>> 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 the past are doomed to repeat
>> it" still holds sway in our hyper amnesiac culture. I remixed D.W.
>> Griffith's infamous film Birth of a Nation  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 several projects in the past around progressive, non
>> knucklehead hip hop.
>>
>> Please feel free to download this track and pass it around. We are the
>> media. Feel free to pass it around!
>>
>> By the way, this is a mashup, and it's basically not really for sale. I
>> just took a riff from Philly Sound ( <http://www.funkadelphiarecords.com><http://www.funkadelphiarecords.com>
>> 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:
>>
>>  <http://www.djspooky.com/music_download_form.html><http://www.djspooky.com/music_download_form.html>
>> http://www.djspooky.com/music_download_form.html
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>> Check it!
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