"Bombs Over Baghdad" - the outcast song..

[Monks Aflame]

This song was played by a redneck in a big truck when I was on the streets protesting one day. With piqued curiousity I looked up the lyrics and found that I was empty-handed. Am I just blunt or can no one else find any relevance to Iraq at all?

[Dre]
1, 2.. 1, 2, 3; yeah!
Inter-national, underground
Thunder pounds when I stomp the ground (Woo!)
Like a million elephants with silverback orangutans
You can't stop a train
Who want some? Don't come un-pre-pared
I'll be there, but when I leave there
Better be a household name
Weather man tellin' us it ain't gon' rain
So now we sittin' in a drop-top, soakin wet
In a silk suit, tryin' not to sweat
Hits somersaults without the net
But this'll be the year that we won't forget
One-Nine-Nine-Nine, and brutha anything goes, be whatchu wanna be
Long as you know consequences, to give and for livin' defenses
Too hot, I'm jumpin' jail
Too low to dig, I might just touch hell
HOT! Get a life, now they gon' sell
Then I might catch you a spell, look at what came in the mail
A scale and some Arm and Hammer, so grow grid and some baby mñma
Black Cadillac and a pack of pampers
Stack of question with no answers
Cure for cancer, cure for AIDS
Make a nigga wanna stay on tour for days
Get back home, things are wrong
We're not really able to spend all alone
before he left, (?), to a ball of power
Thousands of thousands miles per hour
Hello, ghetto, let your brain breathe,
believe there's always more, ahhhhh!

[Chorus: 2X]
[Dre] Don't pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang
[Choir] Bombs over Baghdad!
[Dre] Yeah! Ha ha yeah!
Don't even bang unless you plan to hit something
[Choir] Bombs over Baghdad!
[Dre] Yeah! Uhh-huh

[Big Boi]
Uno, dos, tres, it's on
Did you ever think a pimp rock a microphone?
Like that there boi and will still stay street
Big things happen every time we meet
Like a track team, crack fiend, dyin to geek
Outkast bumpin' up and down the street
Slam back, Cadillac, 'bout five nigga deep
Seventy-five emcee's freestylin' to the beat
Cause we get krunk, stay drunk, at the club
Should have bought an ounce, but you caught the dub
Should have held back, but you throwed the punch
'Spose to meet your girl but you packed a lunch
No D to-the U to-the G for you
Got a son on the way by the name of Bamboo
Got a little baby girl four year, Jordan
Never turn my back on my kids for them
Should have hit it (hit it) quit it (quit it) rag (rag) top (top)
Before you read up, get a laptop
Make a business for yourself, boy, set some goals
Make a fair diamond out of dusty coals
Record number four, but we on a roll
Hold up, slow up, stop, control
Like Janet, planets, Stankonia is only
A movin' like floor commin' straight to Florida
Lock all your windows then block the quarters
Pullin' off on bell 'cause a whippins in order
Like a three piece fist, 'fore I cut your daughter
Yo quiero Taco Bell, then I hit the border
Penny pap rappers tryin' to get the five
I'm a microphone fiend tryin' to stay alive
When you come to ATL boi you better not hide
cause the Dungeon Family gon' ride, hah!

[Chorus: 2X]
[Dre] Don't pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang
[Choir] Bombs over Baghdad!
[Dre] Yeah! Ha ha yeah!
Don't even bang unless you plan to hit something
[Choir] Bombs over Baghdad!
[Dre] Yeah! Uhh-huh

[Choir]
Bombs over Baghdad! Yeah
Bombs over Baghdad! Yeah
Bombs over Baghdad! Yeah
Bombs over Baghdad! Yeah

[Dre]
B-I-G, B-O-I
An-An-Andre
To the T-O-P

[Dre and Big Boi: 15X]
Bob your head. Rag top.

(1, 2.. 1, 2, 3, 4) (Gimme some)

[Choir: 23X]
Bible music. Electric revival.

[Dirty Jersey]

i dont know about the relevence of the lyrics but its a damn good dance track. if someone plays that at a party or club it turns into a scene from girls gone wild. fucking incredible.

[Dhul Fiqar]

#Moderation Mode

Canikickit will be furious to miss this chance to move threads around and such, but this belongs on his turf ;)

--- G.

Moved here (http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/topic.pl?forum=16&topic=894)

[firehead]

that song rules... god bless zack de la rocha

[Ze]

The title is supposed to be some kind of metaphor for hype and propaganda that pop rappers use to sell their records and the 'smart bombs' propaganda which the US did during the first Gulf War.

[canikickit]

god bless zack de la rocha

was that just an obscure reference, or did he actually have something to do with the song? i doubt he did.

[Dhul Fiqar]

The version I got is from Kazaa and he is credited on it. Not sure if it's a mistake....


--- G.

[Zombie]

actually i got both versions...
one is outkast alone,
the second is outkast with RATM ... i don't remember Zack singing in it though, it's just their guitars and stuff...

[canikickit]

I never knew that they worked together.

Doesn't it piss you off when you download an incorrectly labelled song? Like Lee Perry has a tune called Kung Fu Fighting - I downloaded it and it was the crappy disco-po-thing version. Or Big Youth has a song called Hit the Road Jack - I downloaded it and it turned out to be a bullshit pop version (not even the original, which was quite good).

[Lardlad95]

Quote: from Ze on 4:53 am on Mar. 28, 2003
The title is supposed to be some kind of metaphor for hype and propaganda that pop rappers use to sell their records and the 'smart bombs' propaganda which the US did during the first Gulf War.



First off it wasn't used to sell records The album it was on came out about 3 years ago

Second Outkast is far from being pop

[Dhul Fiqar]

Quote: from canikickit on 1:20 pm on Mar. 28, 2003

Doesn't it piss you off when you download an incorrectly labelled song? Like Lee Perry has a tune called Kung Fu Fighting - I downloaded it and it was the crappy disco-po-thing version. Or Big Youth has a song called Hit the Road Jack - I downloaded it and it turned out to be a bullshit pop version (not even the original, which was quite good).


Tell me about it! It happens more with movies and software (like all the time, damnit), but sometimes the misunderstandings you see in the mp3 titles are worse.

Like if there's a classical piece it'll be labelled "Mozart", basically because it's classical (I saw 'Karmina Burana' labelled as his once). Then there's people who mark all reggae Bob Marley and etc. etc.

Reminds me of a time a friend of mine was in a shop waiting in line and on the radio there was this song by Adam Sandler, "Piece of Shit Car" which is a reggae spoof comedy type song.

This 14 year old kid in the line is really getting into it and then says to all his cool friends: "Ja mon, I fuckin' love Bob Marley, THE KING baby!!"

I don't know whether to scream or throw up. Doing both at the same time would be such an awesome assault on the senses that I'd advise anyone to step back. I reserve it as a last resort.


--- G.

[Dirty Jersey]

i think some people just want to be assholes though. i downloaded the new bruce willis movie tears of the sun like a month before it came out in theaters. when it was almost done downloading i called my best friend over cause he wanted to see it too. when we opened the file it turned out to be fantasia. i was ready to kill. and i dont see any possible connection between the two so someone was trying to be a dick.

[Zombie]

about movies, theres a piece of program called AviPreview (http://www.avipreview.com/index.htm), with that you can watch any movie you're downloading (divx or mpeg but not quicktime) so if you got 5mb or so done you can preview the downloaded part of the movie and judge if its good/real/fake and you can continue to download or not. simple!
as for mp3s, well kazaa has a builtin previewer use it mate! ;)
Zombie

[Zombie]

Quote: from Dirty Jersey on 9:02 am on Mar. 28, 2003
i think some people just want to be assholes though. i downloaded the new bruce willis movie tears of the sun like a month before it came out in theaters. when it was almost done downloading i called my best friend over cause he wanted to see it too. when we opened the file it turned out to be fantasia. i was ready to kill. and i dont see any possible connection between the two so someone was trying to be a dick.

never download a movie that isn't sure to be out on DVD or VHS - DVD rips are the best quality u can download, and are your safest bet at downloading something real - otherwise you're gonna get bogus shit like that thing u downloaded or something of real crappy quality.
I'd definitely recommend avipreview for large movies, so you will be sure of what you are downloading at an early stage. saves you time&bandwidth as well as frustration.
Zombie


(Edited by Zombie at 9:16 am on Mar. 28, 2003)

[firehead]

Quote: from canikickit on 11:07 pm on Mar. 27, 2003

god bless zack de la rocha

was that just an obscure reference, or did he actually have something to do with the song? i doubt he did.


he signs it... enough for me

[Dirty Jersey]

thanks zombie i wish i had known. im going to get that asap.

[Lefty]

I was downloading skate videos, and it had one labeled "Rodney Mullen doing crazy shit" and it turned out to be 2 videos smushed together...
1. a fat kid trying to ollie over a lunch box and falling and breaking his leg
2. rhinos fucking for 17 MINUTES STRAIGHT!


Needless to say, my friends and i were halfway pissed, halfway laughing.

[Dhul Fiqar]

Could you give me a link to the rhino bit? :biggrin:

[Purple]

its a fucking good song. used to be my favorite song till i got tired of it...

[Umoja]

Rhinos are nothing... now midgets on the other hand....

[Ze]

First off it wasn't used to sell records The album it was on came out about 3 years ago

Second Outkast is far from being pop

Holy lousy reading comprehension, Batman!

Read my post again, Lardlad. This time, slowly.


De la Rocha produced the track btw.

(Edited by Ze at 10:13 am on April 4, 2003)