Et andet sted på nettet så jeg denne plade omtalt med overskriften "angry young
man". Enten forstår jeg ikke hip-hop (Det gør jeg ikke) eller også er dette en
mand med mange agressioner! Hvad mener han med "we gonna take over ya blocks"
?. Jeg måtte tage fat i en kollega for at finde forklaringen udi det hiphopske.
Han forklarede at det er selvfølgelig en trussel, men kun på det musikalske plan....
Måske skulle de hip-hop'ere lytte til lidt Pink-Floyd-peace-love-and-understanding.
Jeg synes nu alligevel at dette nummer er sjovt, fordi der kommer en forklaring
med på hvorfor Hr. Jean har lavet den her coverversion
Hvad er så foklaringen ?
Øh, ja prøv selv at tolke den. Han er vist vokset op med Pink Floyd derhjemme
(Hvordan kan det så gå så galt at han laver Hip Hop som voksen ?) og det har vist
noget med den amerikanske drøm at gøre...
Herunder er teksterne som jeg har fundet dem et sted på nettet.
Kunstner : Wyclef Jean
Sang: Wish You Where Here
Album: The Ecleftic eller på single
Lets go
So so you think you can tell
heaven from hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
from a cold steel rail
A smile from a veil
do you think you can tell
Did they get you to trade
your heros for ghosts
Hot ashes for trees
Hot air for a cool breeze
Cold comfort for change
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
for a lead role in the cage
Whether you listenin to hip hip-hop
or you tuning to rock
refugees on your box
we gonna take over ya blocks
lets go
How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're jus two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year
Runnin over the same old ground
What have we found the same old fears
Wish you were here
Whether you listenin to rock
or pumpin the hip hip hop
refugees on your box
Critics don't mistake this for just any cover tune
I'ma take y'all to the dark side of the moon
Kickin in my moms room this song was just a thought
A young refugee labeled, jus come with a passport
Dad used to tell me about the American dream
My dream was waking up the projects
a young teen listening to hip hop
my brother tune me into rock
put me up on Pink Floyd and banned from the British blocks
Whether you pumpin the hip hip hop
or you tuning to rock
refugees on your box
we gonna take over the blocks
from n.j to bk to the U.K.
