Let's just say that when I found out that "We Are The Champions" by Queen was really just Freddy Mercury's homosexually charged anthem I was in shock. I sang that song all the time when I was a kid and then:
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I've paid my dues
Time after time
I've done my sentence
But committed no crime
And bad mistakes
I've made a few
I've had my share of sand kicked in my face
But I've come through
We are the champions my friends
And we'll keep on fighting till the end
We are the championsWe are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions of the world
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I also grew up listening to The Cure so I knew a ton of the songs and a song on their first album "Three Imaginary Boys" by the name of "Accuracy" was a pretty good song... Little did I know I was singing about lines of cocaine.
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We sit in the same room
Side by side
I give you the wrong lines
Feed you
Accuracy
Accuracy
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Speaking of cocaine... Eric Clapton was a pretty big hit when I was 7. I didn't even speak English at the time but hell "Cocaine" was a ROCKIN' SONG~
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She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie
COCAINE~
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Then in 1990 I was introduced to the wonderful world of gangster rap. Most rappers out there really didn't hide a lot of subliminal messages into their songs; everything was out there in the open... Big screen TVs, blunts, 40's and fucking bitches... However, Ice Cube did a lot of great songs in the early 90's and his album Death Certificate had a song I specifically liked... A LOT. Why? Because it started out with Big Bird from Sesame Street.
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Fresh out of school cause I was a high school grad
Gots to get a job cuz I was a high school dad
Wish I got paid by rappin' to the nation
But thats not likely, so here's my application
Pass it to the man at AT&T
'Cause when I was in school I got the A.E.E.
But there's no S.E. for this youngsta
I didn't have no money so now I have to hunch my back like a slave
Thats what be happenin'
But whitey says there's no room for the African
Always knew that I would boycott, JEEZ
But welcome to McDonalds can I take your order please
Gotta sell ya food that might give you cancer
'Cause my son doesn't take no for an answer
Now I pay taxes that you never give me back
What about diapers, bottles, and similac
Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack
For decent shelter and clothes on my back?
Or should I just wait for help from Bush
Or Jesse Jackson, and "Operation Push"
If you ask me the whole thing needs a douche
Messenger, what the hell, crack I'll sell in the neighborhood
To the cornerhouse bitches
Miss Parker, Little Joe or Todd Bridges
Or anybody that he know
So I got me a bird, better known as a kilo
Now everybody know I went from po' to a nigga that got dough
So now you put the feds against me
'Cause I couldn't follow the plan of the presidency
I'm never givin' love again
Cuz blacks are too fuckin' broke to be Republican
Now I remember I used to be cool
'Till I stopped fillin' out my W-2
Now senators are gettin' high
And your plan against the ghetto backfired
So now you got a pep talk
But sorry, this is our only room to walk
'Cause we don't want a drug push
But a bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush
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Great song though.
Seriously. Most of it went over my head when I was 12 but now that I know more about how fucked up things were in the early 90's with Republicans at the helm I have a FAR better appreciation for this track.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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