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"Public Enemy"
She Watch Channel Zero?!
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Public Enemy
жанры: hip-hop, rap, 80s
альбомы: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, 25th Anniversary Collection
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You're blind, baby You're blind from the facts on who you are 'Cause you're watchin' that garbageThe woman makes the men all pause And if you got a woman She might make you forget yours There's a 5 letter word To describe her character But her brains being washed by an actor And every real man that tries to approach Come the closer he comes He gets dissed like a roachI don't think I can handle She goes channel to channel Cold lookin' for that hero She watch channel zeroShe watch, she watch She watch, she watch She watch, she watch She watch, she watchYo baby, you got to cut that garbage off Yo! I want to watch the game Hey yo, lemme tell you a little som'in: I'm 'a take all your soaps An' then I'm gonna hang 'em on a rope You know what I'm sayin'? 'Cause that garbage your watchin' don't make no sense Hey yo, lemme tell you a little som'in baby I'm 'a take your set an' I'm 'a throw it Out the window G'sTwo, seven, five, four, eight She watched she said All added up to zero And nothing in her head She turns and turns And she hopes the soaps Are for real, she learns That it ain't true, nope But she won't survive And rather die in a lie Falls a fool, for some dude, on a tubeI don't think I can handle She goes channel to channel Cold lookin' for that hero She watch channel zeroShe watch, she watch She watch, she watch She watch, she watch She watch, she watchYo baby, you think I'm jokin'? Do it look like I'm jokin'? I ain't jokin', word up, baby Yo, cut that garbage off now Yo, I got the Tyson fight on, you know what I'm sayin'? Yo, so you can't be comin' in here stackin' {aid} like that You know what I'm sayin'? Yo, we gettin' ready to watch the Super Bowl We got a black quarterback so step backTrouble vision for a sister 'Cause I know she don't know, I quote Her brains retrained By a 24 inch remote Revolution a solution For all of our children But her children Don't mean as much as the show, I mean Watch her worship the screen, and fiend For a TV ad And it just makes me madI don't think I can handle She goes channel to channel Cold lookin' for that hero She watch channel zeroShe watch, she watch She watch, she watch She watch, she watch She watch, she watchYo baby, can't you that's nonsense you watchin'? Look, don't nobody look like that Nobody even live that, you know what I'm sayin'? You watchin' garbage, not'in' but garbage Straight up garbage Yo, why don't you just back up from the TV Read a book or som'in Read about yourself Learn your culture, you know what I'm sayin'?
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (в пер. с англ. Чтобы сдержать нас, потребуется многомиллионная нация) — второй студийный альбом американской рэп-группы Public Enemy, выпущенный 14 апреля 1988 года на Def Jam Recordings. Пластинка заняла 42 место в американском чарте Billboard 200 и восьмое — в британском хит-параде. К августу 1989 года её тираж превысил один миллион экземпляров, и она получила сертификат платинового диска от Американской ассоциации звукозаписывающих компаний.
Запись проходила в трёх нью-йоркских студиях: Chung King Studios, Greene Street Recording и Sabella Studios. Участники обратили внимание на восторженный приём своих живых выступлений и решили записать альбом в более быстром темпе по сравнению с предыдущим Yo! Bum Rush the Show. Альбом был весьма положительно принят музыкальными критиками и появился в списке «лучших альбомов» многих изданий. Музыкальные авторы рассматривают It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back как один из самых значительных альбомов 1980-х годов и один из величайших альбомов в жанре хип-хоп всех времён. Работу высоко оценили за технические приёмы, а также социально и политически окрашенные тексты основного эм-си группы Chuck D. В 2003 году диск занял 48-е место в списке «500 величайших альбомов всех времён» по версии журнала Rolling Stone; это наивысшая позиция в данном рейтинге для альбома в жанре хип-хоп.