Blige joins anti-Bush song remake

Benassflick · Aug 11, 2004

Rap and R&B stars Mary J Blige, Missy Elliot and Eve are recording a song to encourage voters away from President Bush in the run-up to the US election.
The trio are re-recording the 1960s hit Wake Up Everybody, which was used during the 1976 election to mobilise black voters to back Jimmy Carter.

Mr NJ Sports · Aug 11, 2004

here are the lyrics

yo what up we be hating bush
so when you go to tha boof give da lever a push
da one on da left dat says john kerry
he be makin ketchup wit tomato berries

ChuckSims · Aug 11, 2004

If the blacks would only vote. That would be Bush's worst nightmare.

UncleMoneybags · Aug 11, 2004

Chuck Sims,

Blacks voting isn't enough. They have to remove the chad completely from the ballot as well.

DarrylParsons · Aug 11, 2004

I wonder if Led Zeppelin were liberal!?

If so, I'd be very depressed

xpanda · Aug 11, 2004

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Mr NJ Sports:
here are the lyrics

yo what up we be hating bush
so when you go to tha boof give da lever a push
da one on da left dat says john kerry
he be makin ketchup wit tomato berries <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I really hope you're just trying to be a jackass, becuase those are some bad lyrics, even by hip-hop standards.

Missy Elliot, for the record, should shut her trap. She was on that show 'Cribs' or whatever it's called a little while ago; her lifestyle includes adorning a new pair of jeans with $10,000 worth of jewels and then turfing them when she's done. Weekly. She doesn't like to give them to charity because then hers wouldn't seem original. I don't particuarly have an issue with rich people (all the power to them) but come on! Self-serving hypocrite.

I would like to know where the proceeds will go from this track. Or, why we don't see these same names making albums for the individual causes that land under 'liberal' umbrella.

This is all Reagan's fault.

PatPatriot · Aug 11, 2004

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR> I wonder if Led Zeppelin were liberal!?

If so, I'd be very depressed <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

DP...Don't worry the mighty Zep is smart enough not to let the levee break.

X...(Missy Elliot, for the record, should shut her trap)

Welcome to liberal land where up is down and down is up.Where the purpose to Bash bush is founded on the "hipness" of it.

Phaedrus · Aug 11, 2004

posted by Darryl Parsons:

One of the only politically-themed Zep songs I can think of off the top of my head is "That's the Way," which is more social commentary than political. Anti-pollution, anti-racism, couple of other disparate antis all rolled into one. Pretty song, one which is btw almost impossible to play on the guitar despite its simple-sounding tune.

Learning to play Jimmy Page riffs is enough to put anyone on heroin. I suspect that's why Page got so badly addicted to heroin in the 70's, all that time trying to learn to play like Jimmy Page and all.

Phaedrus

Mr NJ Sports · Aug 11, 2004

xpanda,

those lyrics were bad? really ?

Marco · Aug 12, 2004

I gotta admit, NJ....I'm a liberal, against Bush, but not really enthused about Kerry either...actually more or less equally cynical about both parties....

....but those lyrics made me laugh....

xpanda · Aug 12, 2004

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Patriot:

X...(Missy Elliot, for the record, should shut her trap)

Welcome to liberal land where up is down and down is up.Where the purpose to Bash bush is founded on the "hipness" of it. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

You get sooooo close and then Poof! you get hit with the Idiot Stick.