Death Toll
2019 · Doomshop · California
- Artist
- Yung Dmize
- Title
- Death Toll
- Release
- Death Toll
- Year
- 2019
- Label
- Doomshop
- Format
- Digital · EP
- Language
- English
- Country
- California, USA
- Genre
- Hip Hop · Memphis Rap
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
"Death Toll". Memphis Hip Hop
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs
Memphis Rap collaboration, featuring the song "Death Toll" (Doomshop Records) which used Vietnam as a metaphor for violence, noting "lyrical bullets guerrilla rap game Vietcong". It referenced chemical weapon Napalm B - a jellied gasoline mixture, with polystyrene, benzene, and gasoline. Declared a war-crime since 1980, the US government extensively used this weapon during the Vietnam conflict, dropping 388,000 tons on Indochina between 1963 and 1973123: "drowning you in napalm". It also referenced the My Lai Massacre - the mass murder of between 300-500 civilians in the South Vietnamese area known as "Pinkville", containing the hamlets, known as My Lai 4 and My Khe 4, and throughout the area of Song My, by US forces on 16 March 1968: "fuckin with war crimes, massacre your people like the village of My Lai".Sources1Napalm: An American Biography (Robert M. Neer, 2013)↩2Times Higher Education: Napalm an american biography by robert m neer↩3Napalm, An American Biography (book website)↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Deadly verses this that deadly Mothafuckin song / Spraying lyrical bullets guerrilla rap game Vietcong / Drowning you in napalm, fuckin with war crimes / Massacre your people like the village of My Lai / Spit up on your grave then I throw up a peace sign / Giving these Mothafuckas widespread panic that's me time / And in the meantime, increasing the murder rate / Bucking Foos down like the U.S. in '68
Notes
Title track (1) of the 4-track EP Death Toll by Yung Dmize & DJ Akoza (Doomshop, 14 April 2019; DJ Akoza producer). [From Rate Your Music]
About the artist
Memphis Rap collaboration, featuring the song "Death Toll" ( Doomshop Records ) which used Vietnam as a metaphor for violence, noting "lyrical bullets guerrilla rap game Vietcong". It referenced chemical weapon Napalm B - a jellied gasoline mixture, with polystyrene, benzene, and gasoline. Declared a war-crime since 1980, the US government extensively used this weapon during the Vietnam conflict.
Themes
VC · Napalm · Genocide · My Lai Analogy · My Lai · Civilian Casualties · Guerrilla Warfare
In collections
My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs · Rap / Hip Hop Songs · Vietnam as Comparison