Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you Is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin'. Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin' For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'. Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There's a battle outside And it is ragin' It'll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin'. Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin' Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin'. The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is Rapidly fadin' And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'. -Bob Dylan The worst part is, this never actually happened. They thought it would, but it never did.
DISL Automatic(specifically "Dear America," "Killuminati," "Serve The Beast," "We in the Trap," "Revolution," "The Ambush," "The American Dream," "Battle Cry," "Freeway" "Salt Water" {my personal favorite}, "Here I Stand," "Power to the People," and his verse in a song by a rapper called Revolta is jaw-dropping. See the post below. Both of his mixtapes are available for free on his website.), Filfy, jordan page, immortal technique (cause of death, bin laden, freedom of speech)
LowKey Long Live Palestine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHYwCZEKpwk "Long Live Palestine" This is for Palestine, Ramallah, West Bank, Gaza, This is for the child that is searching for an answer, I wish I could take your tears and replace them with laughter, Long live Palestine, Long live Gaza! While we listen to tunes, made by ignorant fools, Israel blocked the UN from delivering food, They'll bring in the troops and you won't even glimpse at the news, They make money of the products that we are quick to consume, It's not simply a question of differing views, Forget emotions, this is fact, what I spit is the truth, Makes no difference if you're a Christian or if you're a Jew, They are just people living in different conditions to you, They still die when you bomb their schools, mosques and hospitals, It is not because of rockets, please god can you stop it all, I'm not related to the strangers on the TV, But I relate because those faces could have been me, Words can never ever explain the raw tragedy, It's not a war they're just murdering more rapidly, We are automatically supporting pure savagery, Imagine how you'd feel if it was your family, This is for Palestine, Ramallah, West Bank, Gaza, This is for the child that is searching for an answer, I wish I could take your tears and replace them with laughter, Long live Palestine, Long live Gaza, Palestine remains in my heart forever, We stand for peace, in times of war we shan't surrender, Remember, it didn't start in that dark December, Every coin is a bullet, if you're Mark's and Spencer, And when your sipping Coca-Cola, That's another pistol in the holster of a soulless soldier, You say you know about the Zionist lobby, But you put money in their pocket when you're buying their coffee, Talking about revolution, sitting in Starbucks, The fact is that's the type of thinking I can't trust, Let alone even start to respect, Before you talk learn the meaning of that scarf on your neck, Forget Nestle, Obama promised Israel 30 billion over the next decade, They're trigger happy and they're crazy, Think about that when you're putting Huggies nappies on your baby, This is for Palestine, Ramallah, West Bank, Gaza, This is for the child that is searching for an answer, I wish I could take your tears and replace them with laughter, Long live Palestine, Long live Gaza, This is not just a war over stolen land, Why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks? We will never really know how many people are dead, They drop bombs on little girls while they sleep in their beds, Don't get offended by facts, just try and listen, Nothing is more anti-Semitic than Zionism, So please don't bring bad vibes when you speak to me, I know there's plenty of Rabbi's that agree with me, It's your choice what you do with this message, Don't get it confused; I view this from a truly human perspective, How many more resolutions have to be violated, How many more children have to be annihilated Israel is a terror state, there terrorists that terrorise, I testify, my television televised them telling lies, This is not a war, it is systematic genocide, But whatever they try, Palestine will never die! Akala Malcom Said it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KmabI1tVnM Malcolm said it Martin said it Marley said it Ali said it Garvey said it Toussaint said it I weren't there but I'm sure Dessalines said it Malcolm said it Martin said it Marley said it Ali said it Garvey said it Lumumba said it I weren't there but I'm sure Dessalines said it [Hook] If you ain't found something to die for If you ain't found something to die for, you'll never live [Verse 1: Akala] If you ain't found something to die for you'll never live We might feed and breathe but we never did Accept those with peace and equality They don't see what we call authority Live, speak truth and kill them for We love them dead when they speak no more But they will endure, ideas are bulletproof Tooth of truth it's impossible to pull it loose We smother any mouth, they utter it Folly Fathers fear, we Mother it We're lovin they're corrupt government So we look the other way when in our name they're strugglin' We idolize 'em and we despise 'em Cos we're reminded we're the ones who are silent So, give a moment for the times we were blinded Scream at the top of your lungs like a siren [Hook] [Verse 2: Akala] Maybe the wise man has nothin' to prove But the one who has nothing has nothing to lose More things we don't need will make more thieves More laws we don't heed it's all Siamese Who leads? It don't matter, they can't make change New driver but we got no brakes Whatever the place, whatever the face The master never ever frees his slave They always knew it So they pursue it But we've been too divided to ever be guided through it Gotta stop 'em because they're rotton from the days of picking cotton To sell us a love song and we're so besotted So confused, we believe their promise But there are some that lead more honest They are not forgotten, though they shot'em So scream to the top of your lungs right from the bottom! Malcolm said it Martin said it Marley said it Ali said it Garvey said it Toussaint said it I weren't there but I'm sure Dessalines said it Malcolm said it Martin said it Marley said it Ali said it Garvey said it Lumumba said it I weren't there but I'm sure Dessalines said it [Hook] [Verse 3: Akala] People don't rebel, the rebels are the tyrants You are not God, so we are not defying No human nature, just our behavior The oppressed wanting their oppressor as their saviour Around the globe killin', made to be religion But the book said they're sinnin' And that is just the beginnin' Now spread democracy by dropping a bomb On a terrorist with no shoes or socks I reckon, history teaches us a lesson The bigger terrorist is the one with the bigger weapons They talked but we didn't listen They spoke and then went missin' We can't see all the things that imprison us Cos we don't appreciate the freedoms that they have given us I wouldn't bet it, that we ever get it Run, tell your friends that Akala said it [Hook] Malcolm said it Martin said it Marley said it Ali said it Garvey said it Toussaint said it I weren't there but I'm sure Dessalines said it Malcolm said it Martin said it Marley said it Ali said it Garvey said it Lumumba said it I weren't there but I'm sure Dessalines said it Vinnie Paz - Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARrHbfgsl8k [Verse 1: Vinnie Paz] Columbus came ashore greeted with nothing but niceness Sailing west in attempt to find gold and spices Dominated by the popes in frenzy for ices The Catholic church expelled jews and claimed it was righteous The first man to see land would get a reward And get a yearly pension for life clearly from God A young sailor saw land said, "We isn't far" Columbus lied, said he saw it the evening before They touched ground, they were greeted by the Arawak Columbus had them locked up as prisoners in an hour flat He wanted to find their source of gold and that was that And when they thought that wasn't fair then he stabbed their back When there's no more gold he took slaves instead And left a quarter million Indians in Haiti dead The men died in mines, the women died at work The children died from lack of milk and they died in the dirt They were just taking advantage of a passive people They were just being the savages of massive evil That's the church work, that's the path of massive ego That's the blood of Abraham being stabbed by the steeple In 1619 they were patiently waiting For a ship that carried slaves who was changed in the nation The white man was the cannibal praying to Satan Hatred contempt a pity of patronization That's the corner stone everything racism based in The African had a more advanced civilization Black was slave, master was white, rationalization 50 million dead, that's Western civilization At first they appeared in the North And they were helpless in the face of superior force And all of them were chained together, they really was lost Racism is a natural that's merely divorced Before the slave trade black was considered distasteful By the Oxford dictionary, I find it disgraceful It's not a natural tendency to be bitter and hateful It's the natural enemy of the critical stable Slavery grew as the plantation system grew The reason for that's kinda easily traceable Society of helpless dependence was capable Or saying, "Fuck a slave master, you're in slavery too" Seven slaves was put to death for murdering master Fear of slave revolt had them developing faster You a cataline killer, ineloquent bastard I would burn the white man while smelling the ashes From time to time white man was part of the resistance White indentured servants wanted no part of the system King Philip's War showed that if people would listen That they can maybe break the complex chain of oppression Tyranny is tyranny, but that's a concession But the women they was treated like * * possessions Black women had to work cause they was abused That's the white justification of Aryan blues The next move was to dominate the Mexicans James Polk dominated them like they was next of kin He sent Colonel Cross to lie to them and let them in 11 days later his skull was crushed, so message sent Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his taxes Denounced the Mexican War and got locked in shackles The twentieth century opened, anger reemerged The reality of ordinary life was being heard Anarchists and feminists came from factory work Communism, socialism seemed to be re-birthed "War is the health of the state" is what Bourne said And if you was born around that time you was born dead The Espionage Act had people confused Cause it was double talk and they didn't know how it'd be used Supposedly it was an act against buying The boys knew that that was bullshit and they was lying Charles Schenck was arrested in Philadelphia For printing and distributing leaflets cause they was helping ya He was indicted, tried and then found guilty And spent six months in jail, don't that sound silly? Had his freedom taken away by his own nation But there's a lesson, do not submit to intimidation The act still exists today and the shit is real Supposedly Kennedy tried to have that shit appealed Eugene Debs did ten years for no purpose He obstructed the recruiting and enlistment service The post office started taking mail privileges Of magazines who printed anti-war sentiments A Socialist named Fairchild had it right He said that "they can shoot me, but they can't make me fight" They sentenced him to a year in jail and that was reckless 65,000 men, conscientious objectors They were sent to army bases to work there They were treated sadistically and were hurt there They were strangled with the hemp rope til they collapsed And officers punched they stomach and they lower back A garden hose was placed on they face with a nozzle About six inches from them so they couldn't swallow The war ended in nineteen hundred and eighteen (1918) The government was just trying to wipe the slate clean Hemingway wrote Farewell to Arms Dalton Trumbo wrote Johnny Got His Gun The war was over but they didn't learn they lesson Twin tactics of control, reform and repression The patriotic fervor of war had been invoked That's why the country that you live in is a fucking joke <div> </div> Dead Prez - Police State https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c_UdWo4Zek You have the emergence in human society of this thing that's called the State. What is the State? The State is this organized bureaucracy: it is the police department. It is the Army, the Navy. It is the prison system, the courts, and what have you. This is the State; it is a repressive organization. But the state and gee well, you know, you've got to have the police because if there were no police, look at what you'd be doing to yourselves -- you'd be killing each other if there were no police! But the reality is the police become necessary in human society only at that juncture in human society where it is split between those who have and those who ain't got [Verse 1: Dead Prez] I throw a Molotov cocktail at the precinct You know how we think: Organize the hood under I Ching banners Red, Black, and Green instead of gang bandanas FBI spying on us through the radio antennas And them hidden cameras in the streetlight watching society With no respect for the people's right to privacy I'll take a slug for the cause like Huey P While all you fake niggas try to copy Master P I want to be free to live, able to have what I need to live Bring the power back to the street where the people live I'm sick of working for crumbs and filling up the prisons Dying over money and relying on religion For help. We do for self like ants in a colony Organize the wealth into a socialist economy A way of life based off the common need And all my comrades are ready, we're just spreading the seed [Hook] The average Black male Live a third of his life in a jail cell Cause the world is controlled by the white male And the people don't never get justice And the women don't never get respected And the problems don't never get solved And the jobs don' never pay enough So the rent always be late Can you relate? We living in a police state [Verse 2: Dead Prez] No more bondage, no more political monsters No more secret space launchers Government departments started it in the projects Material objects, thousands up in the closets Could've been invested in a future for my comrades Battle contacts, primitive weapons out in combat Many never come back, pretty niggas be running with gats Rather get shot in they back than fire back We tired of that, corporations hiring Blacks Denying the facts exploiting us all over the map That's why I write the shit I write in my raps It's documented, I'm in it, every day of the week I live in it Breathing it, it's more than just fucking believing it I'm holding M1's, rolling up my sleeves an' shit It's Cee-lo for push-ups now Many headed for one conclusion Niggas ain't ready for revolution [Hook] [Interlude: Chairman Omali Yeshitela] (That's right, that developed?) me: brought me here and worked me like an Animal. Built the political economy off my stolen labor. Made them rich Made me poor [Hook] [Outro: Chairman Omali Yeshitela] Why is it that Black people and everybody like us live in the kind of Poverty and misery that we live in? Everywhere I look around me are nothing But poverty and misery, on the one hand. And yet, what I'm seeing is that Everywhere there's wealth and riches in the world it's in the white Community somewhere, whether it's in Europe or whether it's right cross the Street from where I was born
I love America ...I Just hate our Politicians! This song provides a great insight in another mind perception. LowKey - Obama Nation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4OI0GUCI_A [Intro:] This track is not an attack upon the American people It is an attack upon the system within which they live Since 1945 the united states has attempted to Overthrow more than 50 foreign governments In the process the us has caused the end of life For several million people, and condemned many millions More to a live of agony and despair [Verse 1:] The strength of your dreamin Prevents you from reason The American dream Only makes sense if you're sleepin It's just a cruel fantasy Their politics took my voice away But their music gave it back to me The land where their [? ] Or consumed by consumption Killing themselves to shovel down food and abundance I guess a rapper from Britain is a rare voice America is capitalism on steroids Natives kept in casinos and reservations Displaced slaves never given reparations Take everything from Native Americans And wonder why I call it the racist experiment Afraid of your melanin The same as it's ever been That ain't gonna change With the race of the president I see imperialism under your skin tone You could call it Christopher Columbus syndrome [Chorus: x2] Is it Obamas nation or an abomination? Is it Obamas nation or an abomination? Is it Obamas nation or an abomination? Doesn't make any difference when they bomb your nation O! Say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming Whose broad stripes and bright stars through perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming [Verse 2:] The worlds entertainer The worlds devastator From Venezuela To Mesopotamia Your cameras lie Cause they have to hide the savage crimes Committed on leaders that happen To try and nationalize Eating competitions while the worlds been starvin Beat up communism with the help of bin-laden Where would your war of terror be without that man Every day you create more Nidal Hassans Kill a man from the military, you're a weirdo But kill a wog from the Middle East you're a hero Your country is causing screams that are never reaching ear holes America inflicted a million ground zeros Follow the dollar and swallow your humanity Soldiers committing savagery you never even have to see Those mad at me, writing in emails angrily I'm not anti-America, America is anti-me [Chorus: x2] Is it Obamas nation or an abomination? Is it Obamas nation or an abomination? Is it Obamas nation or an abomination? Doesn't make any difference when they bomb your nation And the rocket's red glare, The bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night That our flag was still there, O! Does that star spangled banner yet wave O'er land of the free and the home of the brave [Verse 3:] I don't care if him and Cheney are long lost relations What matters more is the policies I lost my patience Stop debating bringing race into conversation Occupation and cooperation equals profit makin It's over - people wake up from the dream now Nobel peace prize, jay z on speed dial It's the substance within, not the colour of your skin Are you the puppeteer or the puppet on the string So many believe that they was instantly gonna change There was still Dennis Ross, Brzezinski And Robert Gates What happened to Chas freeman (APAC), What happened to Tristan Anderson it's a machine that Keeps that man breathing I have the heart to say what all the other rappers aren't Words like Iraq, Palestine - Afghanistan The wars on, and you morons were all wrong I call Obama a bomber Cause those are your bombs
No, but I like that song very much. My summer of love happened in the 90s, just two of us, lots of likker and some intangible semiotics.