Subterranean Homesick News
2009 · Dirty Laboratory DLP0011 · Denver, Colorado
- Artist
- Time
- Title
- Subterranean Homesick News
- Release
- Naked Dinner
- Year
- 2009
- Label
- Dirty Laboratory # DLP0011
- Format
- Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Denver, Colorado, USA
- Genre
- Hip Hop · Political Hip Hop
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Kent / Jackson State Songs
Obscure, relatively unknown Hip Hop artist Christopher Steele, born in Denver, Colorado, USA. The song "Subterranean Homesick News" (Dirty Laboratory Records # DLP0011) referenced the Kent State shooting - this took place on 4 May 1970, in Ohio, where members of the Ohio State Guard shot and killed four students at an anti-Vietnam War demonstration. They used this as a metaphor / example of government neglect: "instead of Kent State they kill us with silence, they kill us with neglect". One of dozens of post-war songs about the demonstration, it displays the event's lingering importance as a reference point for confrontation with government / state bodies in contemporary society and protest music.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: And when we get angry they tell us where to protest / Instead of Kent State they kill us with silence / They kill us with neglect, which is a form of violence / This is who we are we don't speak properly / We don't act polite we don't have any money / We waived our rights, we don't own property / We're exactly what you want we're a bunch of dummies
About the artist
Born 17 February 1985. Currently Denver, Colorado, USA