Anger!
Downset
1994
Written by: Downset
Performed by: Downset
Anger! Hostility towards the opposition!
187 L.A. trademark,
don't come to the killing fields if you ain't got no fucking
heart,
Cuz WILLIE, IRA and DARYL will get you - got you -
fucked up and dead will be the way you walk.
Damn right, I
hate L.A. swine with a passion GEE cuz my pops was killed by
the fucking L.A.P.D.
Yes they killed my daddy! Yup they killed
my daddy!
And if I don't blast 'em back , you know they gonna
fucking kill me, do me like they did NATASHA,
back turned from a gat hollow tip to the dome they got ya.
April 29, L.A. swine
not guilty, fools down for the payback on Florence and Normandy
Anger!
Coming straight from the L.A. concrete, true blue
motherfucker about for generations deep.
But who's the real motherfucker though, and what does that fake know about motherfucking South Central?
Fool!
What you know about a set or a sign , you fake motherfucker?
Never ever seen a nine.
But if I catch you slippin' punk, I'm gonna fade ya cuzz set ain't down
with that getto perpetrator.
Anger!
April 29, Florence to Normandy!
Jack for my human rights and ya catch a PUU PUU!
First couple of times through this song literally sounds like your
average Rap-Rock ghetto anger music. And you think, this is the kind of
band that has managed to write one song, that just seems to work.
However, having listened to it a few more times I realised that the song actually had
meaning. Based on the story (whether true or not I do not know), of his family and friends getting caught up in the L.A Riots on April 29 at "Florence and Normandy", and the subsequent investigations (sic) by the police. The lyric "back turned from a gat hollow tip to the
dome they got ya", refers to the first casualty on that day was a boy who was shot in the back of the head by the police
Also a fine point about this little tune, is his little
snipe at
Rage Against the Machine's "home boy" attitude. Especially paying attention to the lyrics in
Settle for Nothing. Amused me no end.