Music Review
George Bush Doesnt Care About Black People (from the C.I.G.A.C. Mixtape) The Legendary K.O.
k-otix.com
2005
Rating:
Kanye West may have made the most controversial public condemnation of the president of the year, but he didn't have the sack to make a song about it. Enter underground rappers The Legendary K.O. Sampling West's telethon proclamation and "Gold Digger," the rap duo's summation of the devastation ravaged by Katrina and its racial implications at first elicits uneasy chuckles because of West's happy beats and lyrics like "Five damn days, five long days / And at the end of the fifth he walkin' in like, Heeeyyy!'", but the acute examination of just how poorly the hurricane relief was handled eventually induces tears of rage. The revised chorus of "Gold Digger" to "George Bush ain't a gold digger / But he ain't fuckin' with no broke niggers / Come down George, come on, come down" is just the tip of the iceberg. The verse, "Niggas starving and they dying of thirst / Bet he had to go check on those refineries first / Making a killing on the price of gas / He would've been up in Connecticut twice as fast," devastates not only in its political acuity, but in the simple elegance of the rhyme scheme. It's the most finely concentrated bolt of lyrical rage this year.
Posted Wednesday, December 21, 2005
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