Nas attacks Fox news with the most important song in Modern History!

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   DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

   If you missed it, you missed history.
   
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw_m4sTJtoc
   
   PLEASE DON'T TURN AWAY BECAUSE OF YOUR HANGUPS
   OVER NOT LIKING HIP-HOP MUSIC.
   
   
   This is the most IMPORTANT SONG in the last 10 YEARS in any genre!!!!!
   
   
   NAS - SLY FOX - Lyrics
   
   The sly Fox, cyclops
   
   We locked in an idiot box
   
   The video slots broadcast
   
   The Waco Dividian plots
   
   They own YouTube, MySpace
   
   When this ignorant shit going to stop?
   
   They monopolizing news
   
   Your views
   
   And the channel you choose
   
   Propaganda, visual cancer
   
   The eye in the sky, number 5 on the dial
   
   Secret agenda, frequency antenna
   
   Dr. Mindbender
   
   Remote control soul
   
   Controller
   
   Your brain holder
   
   Slave culture, game's over
   
   What's a fox characteristic?
   
   Slick shit, sensin', misinformation
   
   Pimp the station, over-stimulation
   
   Reception, deception
   
   Comcast digital Satan
   
   The Fox has a bushy tail
   
   And Bush tells lies and foxtrots
   
   So, I don't know what's real (what's real)
   
   
   [ Chorus ]
   
   Watch what you're watching
   
   Fox keeps feeding us toxins
   
   Stop sleeping
   
   Start thinking outside of the box
   
   And unplugg from the Matrix doctrine
   
   But watch what you say,
   
   Big Brother is watching
   
   
   Watch what you're watching
   
   Fox keeps feeding us toxins
   
   Stop sleeping
   
   Start thinking outside of the box
   
   And unplugged from the Matrix doctrine
   
   But watch what you say, Fox Five is watching
   
   
   [ Nas ]
   
   The Fear Factir that got you all riled up
   
   O'Reilly? Oh really? No rally
   
   needed, I'll tie you up
   
   Network for child predators, setting them up
   
   MySpace, pimps, hoes and sluts
   
   
   
   Y'all exploit rap culture,
   
   then y'all flip on us
   
   And you own the Post, and y'all shit on us
   
   What is their net worth?
   
   They're going to try to censor my next verse
   
   Throw them off the roof neck first
   
   While I'm clicking my cursor
   
   Reading blogs about pressure
   
   they put on Universal
   
   It gets worse
   
   While I'm clicking my mouse
   
   While they kickin my house
   
   They figured us out
   
   Why a ni**a go south?
   
   It's either he caught a body
   
   Don't sleep, they're watching
   
   I watch CBS, and I see BS
   
   Trying to track us down with GPS
   
   Make a ni**a want to invest in PBS
   
   
   [ Chorus ]
   
   
   [ Nas ]
   
   They say I'm all about murder
   
   murder and kill kill
   
   But what about Grindhouse and Kill Bill?
   
   What about Cheney and Halliburton?
   
   The back door deals on oil fields?
   
   How is Nas the most violent person?
   
   Y'all wouldn't know talent if it hit you
   
   Bringing up my criminal
   
   possession charges with a pistol
   
   I use Viacom as my firearm
   
   Then let the lyrics split you,
   
   who do you rely upon?
   
   Then shoot shells at Leviathon
   
   I'm dealing with the higher form
   
   ***k if you care how I write a poem
   
   Only fox that I loved was the red one
   
   Only black man that Fox love is
   
   in jail or a dead one
   
   Red rum, political bedlam
   
   Don't let the hype into
   
   your eyes and ear drum
   
   Murdoch own fox
   
   Not A-Team with Baracus
   
   And he hates Barack cuz he
   
   march with the marches
   
   
   [ Deep voice outro ]
   
   I pledge allegiance to the
   
   fair and balanced truth
   
   Not the biased truth
   
   Not the liar's truth
   
   But the highest truth
   
   
   I will not be deceived
   
   Nor will I believe in the propaganda
   
   I will not fall for the okie-doke
   
   I am tuned in...
   
   
   [ Nas ]
   
   Watch because they're watching
   
   Watch what you're watching
   
   
   Better watch because they're watching
   
   Watch what you're watching
   
   
   M-m-media, misleading you
   
   Watch what you're watching

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      SparklingJewelposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      I get the message and believe it too...but what it means to me and what it means to you may be two different things. Like, define highest truth !?
      People can't take rap seriously despite some right on things some rappers may have to say because of other things other rappers say that are soooooo bad for heart and soul. Like any genre of anything, they get lumped together by association, despite any differences there may be between them.
      
      Its like the 60s and 70s, there were good hippie aspects and there were bad hippie aspects. OR like politicians,  or lawyers, or judges, or priests, or etc...good and bad...but they all can get lumped together by association.
      
      Media...all sides, all bad shortcomings...except Charles Krauthammer, I like my turtle man!
      I don't think much of the opinions of entertainers...everyone has some good point or two, but never all their life aspects. We never get to see the percentages of goodness, only badness and because people buy it, either with their money, soul or mind, they are lending that degree of their individual power to that person (entertainer, politician, etc...) and that person abuses the power and we all allow manipulation, or not.
      
      Are you manipulated by this rapper"s song?  How do you know your definition of his words is the same as his definition? do you see every detail of his life and know for a fact that you now what he is about...NOT. Unless of course you know him personally and spend 24/7 with him.
      
      We must choose carefully who we side with, or even listen to, because we need to be responsible for our own actions, thoughts, words and deeds, and not be deceived by association.

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   Mishaposted 15 years ago

   LOL
   Why don't you guys just quit watching TV altogether? It's so uncoooooooool at the times of the Internet

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      DJ Funktualposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Well, Misha, Mr. narrowminded, WE already have, but our fellow citizens/sheep in this country still believe this sad crap.

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         Mishaposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         So you are a missionary, right?

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   Sprinkler Manposted 15 years ago

   I totally agree with you DJ, that is a kick a** song.
   
   Rock on!!!

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   William F. Torpeyposted 15 years ago

   I just want to make it clear that Bing Crosby is not responsible "for white Christmas every time it snows" as Colbert says (with his tongue in his cheek.)

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   DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

   Again, self-interest. 
   
   Is that all you heard, Mr. Torpey?   
   
   What about the song?  and who it's aimed at?

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   knolyourselfposted 15 years ago

   Mr. Torpey you sure are a die-hard. But I have to agree with you. The Bing Crosby era was probably the height of American aesthetics culminating aroung 1960, when the corporations took over.

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   William F. Torpeyposted 15 years ago

   I heard the message, DJ, and I generally agree with the sentiment. But I can't consider rap "singing," or even "music." To me it's a totally different art form, not one that interests me a great deal. I have a record album that deals with politics that I like a lot better. It's called "Sing Along With Millard Fillmore." In case you're wondering, it contains presidential campaign songs from George Washington to Dwight Eisenhower.

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   Mishaposted 15 years ago

   LOL Jewel,
   I think it's just an age thing. I can't stand rap, too - but I love rock - and my parents don't
   That's about new generation, let them have it, there is nothing wrong with it I am sure

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      SparklingJewelposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Hi Misha!   How's it going? I can't stand rock or rap, jazz or hip-hop, funk or junk, disco or etc...
      
      I guess I am a real bore, but to me music is for the soul relaxation, meditation, upliftment and praise of God within and without...not for jagged rhythms and beats that assault the heart, mind  soul and environment from a  healthy course and attunement.
      
      But that is what music is about for me, not politics...I don't want to combined the two.

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   DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

   You don't like music, period.  You don't even know what it is.   
   
   Typically shallow POV you got there SJ.  Your comments about rap music is soooooooo irrelevant, i don't know where to start.
   
   God and music are the ones that don't mix jack.   Rock-n-Roll and Hip-Hop are expressions of rebellion. 
   
   Music IS politics.   
   
   Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Bruce, Joni, John Mellencamp, Public Enemy, etc.
   
   If you have no tolerance for rap music as an art-form than You probably have no tolerance for the youth or blacks either. 
   
   Just God right?    eesh.

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      SparklingJewelposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      I did not attack you DJ.  I am sorry if you think I attacked you personally.  Why are you afronted by what little you know about my life, I am a genuine soul that lives her own life and feels like keeping her music and politics separate...are you heaping intolerance on me?
      
      Why are you attacking me and my feeling and beliefs? Am I not entitled to my feelings and opinions and my beliefs? You are yours, why not me, mine?

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    DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

    First of all, I thought i was talking to YET ANOTHER GUY who hates music and can't even take one black person seriously because as you say, " others have done something to their soul blah blah.  You are entitled to feel what ever you want.
    
    But what in the hell is the point of saying something ignorant about music when you admittedly don't know anything about it?
    
    Definiton of ignorant: uninformed.  I'm not calling you ignorant BUT why in the hell would you judge something you don't understand.   
    
    then you ask me if I was manipulated by his song.
    
    Don't ***in talk down to me okay? 
    
    Just because I don't let my preacher do my thinking for me...
    
    Your reaction was offensive in my opinion. 
    Your judging people you don't know anything about.   Rappers
    Now I'm judging you.  How does it feel?

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       SparklingJewelposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       But why would you judge me by saying I don't understand...I understand what i understand about what i understand...and you are doing the same. That was my only point, how much do you really understand about what you think you understand concerning what someone else understands? You are just as ignorant about what I understand as you say I am about what you understand. How do we, or anybody, really , completely, know what another person is talking about? Seriously...
       
       Your judging me doesn't bother me because i am ok with where i am at, for I know that I will change in some way shape or form tomorrow...knowing more, learning more, by having interactions with others and staying able to be true to myself, knowing that i don't know everything...it makes life easier thinking this way
       
       I don't have a preacher thinking for me either, I am my own spiritual guide.
       
       What do you mean about talking down to you?

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    Mishaposted 15 years ago

    LOL Jamie,
    I think you overreact
    
    Good night guys! Behave

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    DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

    Sorry to have put so much energy into this.  You seem nice enough.
    
    It's just...
    
    You are not making much sense to me.  i understand your concept but how can you say you're learning more each day when you are so close-minded about music?
    
    You said you didn't like music and what got under my skin was then you proceeded to say
    
    "  I can't stand rock or rap, jazz or hip-hop, funk or junk, disco or etc... guess I am a real bore, but to me music is for the soul relaxation, meditation, upliftment and praise of God within and without...not for jagged rhythms and beats that assault the heart, mind  soul and environment from a  healthy course and attunement.
    
    See how exclusionary and one-sided that is?  I'm a DJ.  Am I a heathen?
    
    I can't stand ~  the first three words that lead one to think WHYso intolerant?
    Why can't you stand it?   WHY OH WHY would a beat assault the heart, mind and soul?
    
    That's rediculous.  if you don't know anything about music how do YOU know what it does to the three IMAGINARY things.  heart, mind, soul,  they are so abstract. 
    
    How can you judge and discard something and condemn it as unsacred? 
    Hip-Hop and Fox News and jagged subjects. 
    You are soft and fuzzy.  Stay out of it.  I mean that in as nice a way as I can.   
    
    
    See my avatar.   I got TRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE AMERICAN WAY behind me.   

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       SparklingJewelposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Hi DJ,
       
       I have been a musician for 40 years. I have listened to every genre there is, but have not followed the genres as you have. I have studied the flow of chi through the meridians in Oriental medicine and have studied and practiced many aspects of a spiritual path for over 25 years. With my training and study, I believe from my own experiences what i believe. Certain beats and rhythms "can" disrupt the harmonious flow of chi, the life giving energy that animates every one's body, mind and soul and the natural world. Yes, it is abstract to some, but not to everyone. But I try my best to view it as scientifically as I can, and not condemn it.
       
       We all are where we are in what we do and believe in life. You are very adept at what you do. I have read some of your hubs and can appreciate what service you believe you are providing for others, just as I do.
       
       And for the record I never called you a heathen, or said what you or anyone else is doing with music is not sacred, you said those things, never once did I imply that. I am sorry that you must have had someone else say that it is so and made you assume I meant the same. People, my own family, think I am evil, because of what I study and believe, so i know how that feels.
       
       Geez, we can't all be the same and believe everything everyone else does. For me it is possible to believe what i believe and not condemn another for what they believe, I may not agree with it or believe it, but hey, that's what makes the world go round. Can't we all just get along and find some common ground.

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    DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

    I believe we have some common ground.
    
    But you didn't answer why you CAN'T STAND any of these art-forms?  Why? 
    You say it hurts the soul.  That's not condemnation? 
    
    What kind of musician would say that? 
    
    What did this have to do with Nas and Fox news again?
    
    Sorry if I lumped you together with the OTHER zealots around here that won't shut up about God for three seconds.  They bug the snot out of me and I don't handle it as gracefully as Mark does.  LOL!
    
    I think they even get on God's nerves.   G'night and Peace .

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       SparklingJewelposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Why does my definition of a musician have to be the same as yours? I know many musicians who would say the same as I do.
       
       Can't stand means, that it does disrupt my chi flow when i am not in the
       right place of heart, or am tired from a hard day at work. It is purely an energy thing most of the time, meaning that just the energy itself of the sound of the music affects my energy field. And so I choose to not let my energy field be affected by it, so I stay away from it as much as possible. Most people are stuck in reacting to certain music emotionally because it affects them physically, but they just don't recognize it as that. It can hurt my soul, because it affects me physically and my physical being is connected to my soul. that is just where I am at. Others are where they are.
       
       I am talking about it physically affecting me because I recognize it as such from my studies and experience. I like most classical music genres and some folk and traditional songs, as well as church stuff and a few of the  popular genre tunes. I just happen to be studying in the areas of music that I feel the most connected with and have an affinity to for my training as a music therapist and other wholistic healing modalities.
       
       Good nite to you too,

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          DJ Funktualposted 15 years agoin reply to this

          Okay, fair enough.

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             SparklingJewelposted 15 years agoin reply to this

             Good Morning DJ Did you get any sleep? I went to bed at 2:30 CST, have you been awake since before 3 hours ago according to your post?

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                DJ Funktualposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                no.  I had to drive my wife to the hospital at 7am.  (She's a cardiac nurse) so I was just checking in.    I just woke up again at 1pm EST.  Thanks for your insights.  It was interesting.

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    patnamohanposted 15 years ago

    what!

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       SparklingJewelposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Your avatar picture of that child makes me laugh

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    Marian Swiftposted 15 years ago

    Rap's not my usual cup of tea ... but that rap sure is!   I saw that bit, and wow.
    
    Thanks for catching the lyrics, DJ.  They need to be posted on a lot of walls.

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    DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

    Hell yeah Marian.

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    hot dorkageposted 15 years ago

    Well that is pretty spot on poetry.  That is the kind of hip hop I can get into, as long as I don't think of it as "music."   To me hip hop is street poetry, It's all about the words and the rhythm of them.   The beat is just a rigid frame to hang it on just as the 12 bar blues is a rigid music pattern kind of like a raga.    Just as in all art, the quality of hip hop can vary from down right stupid (all the four letter words and not really expressing much) all the way to brilliant.  I'd invite Nas to a poetry reading any time and be wildly enthusiastic.   Those words are pretty accessible to mainstream culture unlike some.     I already get so mad if Fox news is ever on my TV that I just flip to a different channel.

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       DJ Funktualposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       I love the moniker and the great insight into music vs. poetry.  Proud to be a new fan of yours.

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          pgrundyposted 15 years agoin reply to this

          I saw Nas on The Colbert Report. It was pretty good. Colbert can't stand Fox News or Bill O'Reilly, so it was a good place for the song. It's so disgusting what Fox does. I think the petition  Nas took up was great and I hope he keeps on with it. Fox blows.

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    DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

    Well said.

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