Modcult

It's the Roc in the Building

Remember that single ‘Beware of the Boys’ by Jay-Z that was really a crazy remix of ‘Mundian to Bach Ke’ by Panjabi MC (the one with the Nightrider theme sample that sounded like a mashup of get ur freak on and fire it up)?

First of all, according to the internet, the lyrics are:

KEEP YOR FACE DOWN AND HIDE IT WITH A SCARF
DON'T JUST GIVE YOUR LOVE TO ANYONE
CHORUS
BE CAREFUL OF THE BOYS
YOU'VE ONLY JUST GROWN UP
IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT THAT YOU'VE GOT BEAUTIFUL EYES
ONCE YOU'VE REALISED THIS YOU WILL BECOME SHY
LOOK AFTER YOUR YOUTH
THIS TIME WON'T COME AGAIN
CHORUS
AS YOU ARE GROWING UP PEOPLE ARE BECOMING AWARE OF YOUR GOOD LOOKS
EVERYONE IS LOOKING AT YOUR THIN WAIST
THERES NO ONE LIKE YOU
CHORUS
THE BOYS ARE TALKING ABOUT YOU EVERYDAY
THE STREETS ARE FULL OF STORIES ABOUT YOUR LOOKS
DON'T LET THE ATTENTION DROWN YOU.
CHORUS

Ed Sullivan would have been so pumped to have these guys on his show he would have head-butted his dog.

These, (again, according to the internet) are (some of) Jay-Z’s lyrics:

As soon as the beat drop We got the streets locked Over sees at budjabi mc and the roc I came to see the mamis in the spot On the count of three drop ur body like its hot 1 young 2 you want to 3 young hovs a snake charmer Move ur body lika snake mama Make me wanna put tha snake on ya Im on my 8th summer still hot young’s the 8th wonder All i do is get bread yea i take wonder I take one of ya chics straight from under ya arm pit The black Brad Pit I mack till 6 in the AM All day Im P-I-M-P I am simply attached to tha track like symphony Its simply good young hov infinately

I was already blown away by this tune the first time I heard it mostly because night rider rules (btw at the studio last weekend they had one of and the red led went back and forth the whole time. How KITT is that? it was like the mixer was thinking.). It all grew after I heard that Jay-Z version, and then after the first night we were in a bar in India and the orig version came on and everyone went nuts and I told the people we were hanging out with that it was a huge hit in america and about Jay-Z’s remix and how it was a huge hit here, etc…basically it was all very modcult. and a good song.

Then, I looked up Punjabi MCs in allmusic. I learned that a) it’s Panjabi mc, not Punjabi MCs. b) panjabi mcs aren’t some like Punjabi Sikhs up in the mountains who write songs about maintaining traditional virtues and stuff that then get produced by crazy bhangra-hop producers, they are one guy who’s an internationally known English (!) bhangra producer:

His releases have titles like ‘grass roots’ and ‘legalised’, and, in the words of allmusic, “his verses, which ricochet from sexed-up snake-charming stereotypes to weak antiwar whine, certainly aren’t among his most memorable”. What the hell?

So I was kind of bummed at first. Another Guthrie/Dylan/Springsteen story. Then I thought about that, and the possibility that this guy may have like done this in a calculating fashion, and written these lyrics himself, sitting there with a pen these 21st century India Born in the USA lyrics and I realized how much awesomer it is this way. if you ever see any more stories about like who actually wrote the lyrics/melody/etc. please tell me.

This is terrifying.

That’s weird to type cause you feel like it’s some futuristic slur but it’s not. Everyone knows how in some middle eastern countries they stopped using human jockeys in camel races because of the whole child slavery problem. But, did you know what the robots looked like? LIKE THIS! I was all ready to be disappointed by another misanthropomorphic robot that just does its job effectively, like maybe in this case there would just be some sort of a cowboy spur or a crop that sticks into the camel’s sides and some sort of ‘hiya!” attachement to the steering cords (bridle?), but I was pleasantly surprised to see that these robot camel jockets feature a straight-outta-88 Oakley Razorblades-type faceplate.

Angry Angles Live Set

This is for finn: Angry Angles Live on youtube.