hamid

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[–] hamid@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I keep accidentally clicking links and opening it in my sjw account and seeing the nonsense lol

[–] hamid@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It was just the title of the youtube video, its posted by the distributor Rhino

[–] hamid@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

Unlike Hypnotize, this version is much better than Michael McDonald

[–] hamid@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

I love this song, his story is pretty wild tho, he hit his head really bad on stage then became a mega christian

[–] hamid@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

It was a good day unless you're a lemmitor who hates good music and needs to downvote everything

[–] hamid@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I listened to this entire album non stop in my college dorms when this came out lol

[–] hamid@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

I love this song but I love the Herb Alpert original even more called Rise

[–] hamid@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This needs a lot of back story:

In Jamaica batty boy is derogatory term for gay person. Rude boy means gangster. The song by Boom Bye Bye from Buju Banton has a chorus that goes "boom bye bye inna batty boy head, rude boy no promote no nasty man, dem haffi be dead" and it gets worse from there and describes hunting down gay people and killing them. The dark irony is that this song and all dancehall songs crossed over into world wide mainstream through gay clubs.

But this was a little too far for people even in the early 90s when the US government was busy passing laws like the Defense of Marriage Act and purposefully mishandling the AIDS crisis. People were like "you can't play songs about murdering gay people and calling for them to all be shot" and this caused a controversy in few countries.

Anyway Shabba Ranks was at the height of his popularity, he just won a grammy, and was positioned to be bigger than Bob Marley he had an interview on British TV where the hosts asked him about this song and he was like "Yeah, gay people should all be crucified, the bible say they living in sin" and went on to defend Buju Banton and the song and expressing violent homophobia.

He got fucking cancelled after that way before that was a term. Buju Banton was 15 when he wrote it and was pretty much repeating what other people would commonly say at the time, unfortunately this sentiment wasn't uncommon. After having a few break out hits went to jail for a long time on drug charges and has since apologized for the song, removed it from his catalog, refuses to collect royalty on it and no longer performs it.

[–] hamid@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago (5 children)

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-york-times/

Really weird it is rated "Reliable" when the New York Times wrote and reported on literal fake news weapons of mass destruction in Iraq which manufactured consent for an illegal invasion and overthrow of Iraq and killing literally MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.

On what planet is the newspaper of the establishment of the New York elite, literally wall street, "Left" I don't think they support putting all the corporate board members in prison and establishing workers co-ops and replacing the neoliberal status quo with socialism.

[–] hamid@sh.itjust.works 84 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Haha, wow you guys really need to work on your PR

There are so many good reasons to block aggregators and you picked the worst one, your bot that no one likes.

[–] hamid@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Plot twist: He lives in Arizona where the whole state does that

 

 

 

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