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(blends into intro with dialogue from Spike Lee's _Do the Right Thing_)
"Twenty D Energizers."
"Twenty see Energizer?"
"D not see D."
"be Energizer?"
"D motherfucker D! Learn to speak english first alright? D!"
"How many you say?"
"Twenty motherfucker twenty."
"Honey..."
"Mother fuck you!"
[Ice Cube]
Everytime I want to go get a fuckin brew
I gotta go down to the store with the two
oriental one-penny countin motherfuckers
that make a nigga made enough to cause a little ruckus
Thinkin every brother in the world's out to take
So they watch every damn move that I make
They hope I don't pull out a gat and try to rob
they funky little store, but bitch, I got a job
("Look you little Chinese motherfucker
I ain't tryin to steal none of yo' shit, leave me alone!"
"Mother-fuck you!")
Yo yo, check it out
So don't follow me, up and down your market
Or your little chop suey ass'll be a target
of the nationwide boycott
Juice with the people, that's what the boy got
So pay respect to the black fist
or we'll burn your store, right down to a crisp
And then we'll see ya!
Cause you can't turn the ghetto - into Black Korea
"I do fuck you!"
"Twenty D Energizers."
"Twenty see Energizer?"
"D not see D."
"be Energizer?"
"D motherfucker D! Learn to speak english first alright? D!"
"How many you say?"
"Twenty motherfucker twenty."
"Honey..."
"Mother fuck you!"
[Ice Cube]
Everytime I want to go get a fuckin brew
I gotta go down to the store with the two
oriental one-penny countin motherfuckers
that make a nigga made enough to cause a little ruckus
Thinkin every brother in the world's out to take
So they watch every damn move that I make
They hope I don't pull out a gat and try to rob
they funky little store, but bitch, I got a job
("Look you little Chinese motherfucker
I ain't tryin to steal none of yo' shit, leave me alone!"
"Mother-fuck you!")
Yo yo, check it out
So don't follow me, up and down your market
Or your little chop suey ass'll be a target
of the nationwide boycott
Juice with the people, that's what the boy got
So pay respect to the black fist
or we'll burn your store, right down to a crisp
And then we'll see ya!
Cause you can't turn the ghetto - into Black Korea
"I do fuck you!"
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hey dipshit you ever heard of irony? by doin a song that highlights the racial tensions between asians and blacks he is showing how dumb this is and how they should band together as minorities
or at least thats what shadow was gettin at, no ideaa if thats what ice cube meant
"So pay respect to the black fist
or we'll burn your store, right down to a crisp
And then we'll see ya!
Cause you can't turn the ghetto - into Black Korea"
thats not just 'bringing up an issue' its a threat towards people of a certain race. Also i know NWA said a lot of stuff for shock value but when asked about it in 2006 Ice Cube responded "If there's still a problem, it's their problem." what a dick response! that only confirms that he was not only angry at the time that he wrote this album but he still thinks it is the other race's problem, meaning he has still hung on to his racism.
In the early 90s, we all know south central was a crazy place, tensions were really high. And in the midst of all that, you have these asian families, who move to america, in a 98% black inner city neighborhood. This is a clash waiting to happen..
The asian families in the inner city didnt like blacks for the most part, they were distrustful of us, we were distrustful of them. there was no attempt on either side to understand each other. there were all kind of barriers up (language, culture etc)
Black korea was a song made at the height of frustration, he was the voice for all of the people who felt like this. This song was made BEFORE the riots...
and when the riots happened, look at all the asian owned establishments that got torn down, that was unfortunate... but it affirms that black korea was a warning message of how the mistrust and miscommunication was gonna lead to something bad.
Having said that,I think Cube's energies would be better spent on taking on some serious issues today rather than that fluff he has been putting out on the screen the past few years.Its shameful that he has been politically castrated.
It seems to me, that society cannot do Political Correctness, without leaping from one extreme to the other. It seems that a lot of the time, people are scared to challenge racist comments made by people of another race, for fear of being branded a racist, themselves. It seems to me, that as I said before, Political Correctness, has never found a middle ground, years ago, intollerance of Black and Indian people (at least in Britain) was "The norm" and any critisism of white people was met with the standard response of "If you don't like it, fuck off back to your own country", today it is totally the opposite, with many white people branded as racists, based on non race related matters and racism perpetrated by Black or Indian people, not raising an eyebrow.
- Racism should not be tolerated, regrdless of the race of the person commiting it -