West Coast Anti-War Song: STOP MOVEMENT

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West Coast Anti-War Song: STOP MOVEMENT

STOP OPPRESSIVE POLITICS ANTI-WAR SONG

by Davey D

 

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Next up we have the STOP MOVEMENT [stop Oppressive Politics]. Its a

new anti-war song/ project that aptly connects the war in the hood and

wars around the world including the recent one in Iraq. It's a

mesmerizing head nodding song that features searing lyrics from an

all-star posse of West Coast rhyme sayers including; Everlast, Tray

Dee of the Eastsidaz, Defari, J-Ro, RBX, Soopafly, Light of the

Bushbabies, Daz, Bad Ass, Rakka of Dilated Peoples, WC and Mac

Minister.

 

Fredwreck explained that STOP was 2 months in the making and that came

about because many of the artists and many of the people he hangs out

with in Southern Cali were feeling frustrated to what he described as

the media's blind cheerleading for George Bush and his policies. 'We

were sitting back and watching the news and seeing how things were

unfolding and decided that we wanted to make a statement' Fredwreck

said.

 

He continued by pointing out many of his folks were seeing

inconsistencies in the reasons being given by George Bush to go to

war. "First, he was saying there were weapons of mass destruction,

then he said Osama was hooked with Saddam, now he's saying we have to

'liberate' the poor Iraqi people.... George Bush don't care about no

Iraqi people. He's over there trying to liberate their oil for the US

corporations". Fred wreck continued 'There are all sorts of country's

around the planet that have oppressive regimes that are far worse then

Iraq and we're not liberating them".

 

Fredwreck's points are underscored by the opening chorus in the STOP

Movement song that goes:

 

There's no where to hide-no where to run

The sins of the father fall on the son

The bigger the problem, the bigger the gun

U don't wanna know what your government's done

The Taliban was down with US

Saddam Hussein was down with US

South Africa [Apartheid regime] was down with US

and you wanna know why the whole world don't trust.

 

What follows are some incredible rhymes that raise all sorts of issues

like President Bush trying to deal with his dad's-Bush sr's old

grudges, How come we can find money to rebuild Iraq but can't find

money to rebuild the streets in the hood? and the On going war via

police brutality that takes place in the hood. It's definitely a song

worth listening to...

 

Fredwreck explained that while the song has an all-star cast there

were many more including Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Xzibit and B-Real who

wanted to be on but because of tour schedules and other logistics it

didn't work out. Fred added that everyone on the song has a

particular viewpoint on the war and the policies around it and

everyone came from the heart. It's not a song that they will be

selling or even trying to radio to play. "We wanted to make a

statement. We didn't want to make a song that was 3 minutes long for

the radio. What everyone says is important and we didn't want to

leave anything out. [The song is 6 minutes long].

 

Fred concluded by noting that the song can be downloaded from his

website http://www.fredwreck.com There you will find a clean version

to download for those radio stations that do want to play it. You

also find an instrumental. Fred noted that he felt it was important

that other emcees and rappers bust their own raps and viewpoints to

this important topic.

 

As to whether or not radio stations will play this song or shun it

despite the all-star line up, Fred noted that many of these stations

have no problem playing us when we rap about smoking, drinking and

street stuff, why not play us when we make a positive statement? He

will be taking the song to Power 106 and KKBT 100.3 the Beat later on

today.. So we'll see what happens..

 

In anycase we tip our hats to all those who came through and

represented on the STOP Movement project.

 

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