Even more than I love this song, I love the fact that this song was even MADE. People rap about politics, but seldom about historical stories. You can tell it's very personal (I mean, he's got quotes from family members!) and it tells an important story. (One which I've always been very interested in). It can definitely apply to modern politics just because of its truth; it doesn't have to come out and say it or force anything.
The only thing I'm a little iffy about is the bit: "and supposedly/Some men went out for the army /signed on/And ended up flying to Japan with a bomb" He does say "supposedly," but the pilots of neither the Enola Gay nor the plane that flew over Nagasaki were Japanese. (I think the US purposely kept the Japanese-American regiment-- because all of them were divided up by race back then, sigh-- in the European theater).
Even more than I love this song, I love the fact that this song was even MADE. People rap about politics, but seldom about historical stories. You can tell it's very personal (I mean, he's got quotes from family members!) and it tells an important story. (One which I've always been very interested in). It can definitely apply to modern politics just because of its truth; it doesn't have to come out and say it or force anything.
The only thing I'm a little iffy about is the bit: "and supposedly/Some men went out for the army /signed on/And ended up flying to Japan with a bomb" He does say "supposedly," but the pilots of neither the Enola Gay nor the plane that flew over Nagasaki were Japanese. (I think the US purposely kept the Japanese-American regiment-- because all of them were divided up by race back then, sigh-- in the European theater).
Regardless, though, this is an amazing song.