That utterly American ice cream truck song you thought meant "hey kids, come enjoy a cold treat on this fine sunny day!" actually has some of the most racist lyrics in the history of music. Recorded for Columbia
the early Rap-A-Lot Records roster or New Orleans’ own Bust Down: Listeners offended by lyrics that are racist, sexist, ableist and graphically detailing sexual assault should avoid at all costs. The song, written by a 17-year-old, may have helped popularize the word “bounce” itself. L...
That was actually a result of his disenchantment with the recording process – one of the happiest accidents in pop music history. 91: Del Shannon – Runaway (1961) “Runaway” almost never happened. Back in 1960, Charles Westover and keyboard player Max Crook earned a recording contract. ...
“I used to go along with my friend and just be really upset by the local skinheads that hung out there and gave the staff such a hard time—really racist, just intolerant,” she told Uncut. Listeners must have been hungry for that message, because “Hong Kong Garden” landed the ...
”But in some ways, “There Goes the Neighborhood” (from the same album) was a more blatant challenge because it was a metal song, played by Black musicians, that vocally challenged racist attitudes among metal fans. “Don’t they know rock is just for whites?” Ice-T sings mockingly,...
There actually isn't an official clean version of this because it's too much swearing to censor out Not Afraid This song has a lot of swears let's just clarify that. But this song is so positive that you can forgive it. I mean come on, the bridge be is as positive as a nursery ...
I was also thinking about [Steely Dan’s] “Babylon Sisters”: “Drive west on Sunset to the sea.” The idea that the manifest destiny of the American dream is actually to just drive your car into the ocean and kill yourself. And I was picturing a world where everything grows in rever...
The Roots even mocked him moments before Jimmy Fallon tousled whatever it is that Trump calls hair. Something at least as complicated has taken place as musicians have grappled with how to battle Trump and his kind not on his reality-TV turf, but through their own medium. As with any ...
He loves water, that thing we’re all made of and need. He draws a through-line from the inflatable pool as a three-year-old to a riverbank as a teen and a Daytona Beach experience from a Spring Break he probably never actually had: “Eighteen girls up on a stage / White t-shirts...
“All I know is, it’s a club banger,” Rob Base said of his biggest record. Actually, it’s the mother of all club bangers, a pop-rap opus that’s as absurdly fun today as it was 25 years ago. Mixing hip-hop and house music, lifting liberally fromJames Brownbackground singe...