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"Public Enemy"
She Watch Channel Zero?!
автор:
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.