31 release, there's a revealing line: " is most famous, however, for its controversial track 'Rosa Parks,' which climbed to No. Jackson" debuting on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart thanks to strong airplay ahead of Stankonia's Oct. 28, 2000 about OutKast's then-current single "Ms. SAMPLE- JAMES BROWN - GET ON THE GOOD FOOTīillboard - Near the end of a Billboard news piece from Oct. The song actually samples a James Brown BANGER Production-wise, the song's tempo is in double time, and is comprised of drum and bass rhythms, guitars, organs, and the Morris College Gosper Choir vocals. So, if the song helps them keep their spirits up, I don’t have a problem with that,” he added. “You have guys over there with families here, and you have to support the troops and pray for them. But once the fighting starts, everything changes." I really think Bush should have gone through the United Nations before going over there. I talk to them in the street all the time. In our case, fans know where we stand pretty much.
“We explain a song when people ask, but we can’t control how they feel about it. “We make a record and then it is up to people to take what they want from it,” said Big Boi in 2003. Where's music going to go when everybody's trapped in this same repetitious flow?" They get a beat, an MC, somebody to sing the hook, and go platinum. "Everybody's been doing music like they all have the same formula-e=mc2. “There were lots of people making music, but there was nothing real about it, we were like saying, make music that has something to say or just get out of the way.”
That everything had a short shelf life, was quickly irrelevant, and had zero impact.
Was to stress that fellow artists weren't making music that had soul. Yeah, don’t even bang unless you plan to hit something
The songs hook featured the Morris Brown College Gospel Choir.ĭon’t pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang If you gonna push it, push it." As chanted in the bridge, "B.O.B." brought about an "electric revival" in hip-hop, and the song would bolster a "Stankadelic" movement – subsequently increasing the duo's following. "We was trying to scare them by bombing the outskirts … If you're going to do anything at all, do it. was trying to beat around the bush," Andre 3000 told Rolling Stone of the inspiration behind's the song's hook.
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But that's how it was inadvertently interpreted and over time it became a pro-military, pro Iraq War anthem.Īs Andre 3000 told Rolling Stone that year, The song was more of a commentary on life in the ghetto, not war in Iraq. But in 2003 at the beginning of the Iraq War the songs acronym, "Bombs Over Bahgdad", took on an unintended meaning. Back in 2000, when the song was released, the hook was in reference to the Gulf War. Somehow when this song hit radio it didn't have much of an impact. If this song doesn't get you up out of your seat and moving, ready to run wind sprints through all the walls in your house then you better check your pulse because you're probably dead. First off, have there ever been better drums in a hip hop song? I say no.
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