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songs of healing are bad for you?
anybody else hear this song yet?!? i lost all respect i had for LL. i can't upload the video at this juncture but here are some lyrics:
"To the man that waited on me at the Starbucks down on Main, I hope you understand
When I put on that t-shirt, the only thing I meant to say is I’m a Skynyrd fan."
"I’m just a white man comin’ to you from the south land tryin’ to understand what it’s like not to be.
I’m proud of where I’m from but not everything we’ve done. It ain’t like you and me can rewrite history.
Our generation didn’t start this nation. We’re still pickin’ up the pieces, walkin’ on eggs s, fightin’ over yesterday.
Caught between southern pride and southern blame."
LL coon J's verse:
“If you don’t judge my do-rag/I won’t judge your red flag.” and “If you don’t judge my gold chains/I’ll forget the iron chains.”
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Is ‘Accidental Racist’ Accidentally Racist? Brad Paisley and LL Cool J’s Track Makes Waves
By Melissa Locker
April 09, 20130
Here's Brad Paisley's Horrible New Song "Accidental Racist" The Hairpin
Accidental Racists and More: A Field Guide to the Racists of America The Atlantic
To the man that waited on me at the Starbucks down on Main, I hope you understand
When I put on that t-shirt, the only thing I meant to say is I’m a Skynyrd fan.
That’s how country singer Brad Paisley begins his new song “Accidental Racist,” an earnest tune Paisley ostensibly wrote as a means of helping to heal the nation’s continuing racial tensions. But with lyrics that appear to gloss over the South’s painful legacy of racism and slavery — although they’re probably sung with the best of intentions — the track is raising plenty of eyebrows. “Accidental Racist” appears on Paisley’s ninth studio album Wheelhouse, which debuts today; the video appears to have been pulled from the Internet, however. You can read the lyrics here.
Paisley maintains that his heart is in the right place. “This isn’t a stunt. This isn’t something that I just came up with just to be sort of shocking or anything like that,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “I knew it would be, but I’m sort of doing it in spite of that, really.”
The chorus of “Accidental Racist” reads:
I’m just a white man comin’ to you from the south land tryin’ to understand what it’s like not to be.
I’m proud of where I’m from but not everything we’ve done. It ain’t like you and me can rewrite history.
Our generation didn’t start this nation. We’re still pickin’ up the pieces, walkin’ on eggs s, fightin’ over yesterday.
Caught between southern pride and southern blame.
The song features a guest appearance by LL Cool J, shown in the video wearing a New York Yankees cap, whose verses includes the lyrics, “If you don’t judge my do-rag/I won’t judge your red flag.” and “If you don’t judge my gold chains/I’ll forget the iron chains.”
“This is a very sensitive subject, and we’re trying to have the discussion in a way that it can help,” Paisley told Entertainment Weekly. “I just think art has a responsibility to lead the way, and I don’t know the answers, but I feel like asking the question is the first step, and we’re asking the question in a big way. How do I show my Southern pride? What is offensive to you?”
Unfortunately for Paisley, the Internet’s answer to that second question appears to be, “this song.”
The Huffington Post said “Accidental Racist” ”will probably make you cringe.” The Atlantic Wire opined that ”There is no way Paisley was actually unaware that wearing the Confederate flag is a symbol of racism. He just does not believe it should be.” Commenters at Rap Genius, a website devoted to transcribing and interpreting rap lyrics, have done a fairly hilarious job annotating Paisley and LL’s lyrics. And Gawker, meanwhile, simply called the track a “horrible song.”
Paisley, for his part, is sticking to his guns. “I wouldn’t change a thing,” he tweeted.
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/04/09/...#ixzz2Q02UxQPe
songs of healing are bad for you?
Not fake ass healing by fake ass people who just want to garner attention. They both knew what they were getting into when they wrote this stupid ass song. I for one am not offended by it, I just think its horribly stupid song.
Didn't read but I'm sure whatever it is, it's blown out of proportion because this country is sensitive as and needs to continue living in the past.
only sensitive clowns are the black folks who are so proud of the word they continue hurling it like some proud word to describe another black man...i just dont get it
maybe they knew it would garner attention and that is the point.
Look, I hate country and will very likely never hear this song, but you have trill calling LL a racial epiphet because, why? he isn't angry enough?
time to get over it, tbh
They were talking about this on CNN and they showed a few excerpts of the song. Stupid ing song and the lyrics are among the worse you'll ever hear.
I can see where people would get offended by it.
Something about being white and from the south and that he's sorry for the things he's put the other guy through. Then LL Cool J's part is about how he's so misunderstood and how he would like a chance.
Hood, saggy pants, doo-rag and gold chains were also mentioned in the aforementioned song.
Pretty blatant stuff.
so are people just offended that it is a crappy song, or is it the message? Because there are a ton of crappy songs and people would be walking around offended their entire life.
sorry but LL is a coon for this song, especially the lyric about him forgetting about slavery if massa paisely will stop judging him for wearing his du rag...lol wtf?!?
Was he relevant, anyway?
its a very ignorant word and most blacks who grew up around the civil rights era do not use the word. its the new generation who've turned a painful word and flipped it into every day slang. latinos and wiggers even call each other , its a term of endearment to some. a black person calling another black person or even a non black " " isn't the same as a non black calling a black "nigg-er".
I think Trill was is angry about LL's lyics in the song, “If you don’t judge my do-rag/I won’t judge your red flag.” and “If you don’t judge my gold chains/I’ll forget the iron chains.” I mean what does that even mean?
Alright I just heard the song. is amazingly stupid.
relevant as a hip hop pioneer, actor and businessman or relevant as in, do people really wonder wdh LL is doing these days? if its the latter, no. but for LL to do a song like this is dissapointing. he just put a stain on his legacy.
basicallyThey were talking about this on CNN and they showed a few excerpts of the song. Stupid ing song and the lyrics are among the worse you'll ever hear.
I can see where people would get offended by it.
Something about being white and from the south and that he's sorry for the things he's put the other guy through. Then LL Cool J's part is about how he's so misunderstood and how he would like a chance.
Hood, saggy pants, doo-rag and gold chains were also mentioned in the aforementioned song.
Pretty blatant stuff.
it's country "music"; it's not supposed to mean anything. I put country and rap/hip hop on the same level of gotry.I think Trill was is angry about LL's lyics in the song, “If you don’t judge my do-rag/I won’t judge your red flag.” and “If you don’t judge my gold chains/I’ll forget the iron chains.” I mean what does that even mean?
It basically means don't judge a book by its cover, it seems.I think Trill was is angry about LL's lyics in the song, “If you don’t judge my do-rag/I won’t judge your red flag.” and “If you don’t judge my gold chains/I’ll forget the iron chains.” I mean what does that even mean?
The more I read about it the more it looks like a very ty song. Once again though, there are a ton of those out there.
what kind of music do you listen to?
Or judge a man by the content of his character. But your right its stupid.
Everyone in the audience is getting a copy. I bet they trashed that as soon as they were handed the thing.
LOL LL Cool J still sucks; most overrated rapper ever. LOL this got calling himself the GOAT.
tbh sometimes I feel deep down that it's wrong....but in the meantime I'm kinda just going with the flow...I reckon someday soon I will stop using the word...but you too can use the word under one condition...
your black employee under performing and yet comes to you for a raise...you can say all day as long as you rap that ...
The white man is a tight man
How yo black ass gonna play a cracka
when your work performance wack as
you s gonna learn
I ain't got ing money to burn
So get the up out my office Jigga
You pussy in the booty ass
^ Totally acceptable
Sounds like LL is a houseI think Trill was is angry about LL's lyics in the song, “If you don’t judge my do-rag/I won’t judge your red flag.” and “If you don’t judge my gold chains/I’ll forget the iron chains.” I mean what does that even mean?
LL and paisely 30 years from now
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