THE DOPE POET SOCIETY

 JUSTUS LEAGUE RECORDS    DISCOGRAPHY

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Review:

Up to their old tricks, The Dope Poet Society takes aim at another political figure.  Just like the now classic, and ever relevant, 'F--k Mike Harris', the new song, 'Bushit', superbly analysis, critiques and kicks ass.  Not the first anti-Bush hip-hop song, the chorus is composed of cuts from selected Bush critiques of the past.  Of course, Ice Cube, Sister Souljah, and Paris (who released the controversial, 'Bushkilla', in which he assassinates the President), were referring to George Bush senior, but as DJ Spinister puts it, "Who can tell the difference anyway."  The thunderous track, produced by Kayess, of Index Solutions, sounds like Jay-z/Memphis Bleak's, 'it's Alright', crossed with the furry and complexity of a bomb squad song.  D's lyrics and delivery are as sharp as ever.  At the cutting edge of both style and content, this MC continues to prove himself as a vigilant force of conscious hip hop.  If ever an educator was a danger to the established power structure, this is what they sounded like.

Dave Seal,
Feedbak Magazine
 
 
 
 
 
 

Lyrics:

Bushit (Bushmaster)
(Words-D. Sajnani, Production -Kayess, Cuts/Scratches -DJ Spinister)

The Bush Master took back the throne
The K-K-King of Babylon

So what'cha lookin' for, is it bush or gore?
The crooked war between these two is see through.  So
What we need to do is take it back a bit
Ever since back when I've always been an advocate
Of castin' your ballot in, but now and then I fret,
thinkin' 'bout what Malcolm X said...
I'd rather have a straight up devil in power,
than cast any of our votes for wolfs in sheep's clothes.
That's a paraphrase, but in these very days the
Dilemma remains, dealin' with devilish candidates.
Elections are charades and we hate the game,
but you can't place the blame if you don't fight for change
It'll stay the same.  So even though it's not fair,
You should vote but don't stop there.
The lesser of two evils is still evil however, evil is
bad, therefore the lesser is better, get it together.  That's
what I used to believe in but I can't see no difference between' em
George Devil and Al Demon!

Chorus: George Bush is a terrorist (cut from Sister Souljah)

How in the fuck could anyone of us be dumb enough
To vote for bush, look jokin'? What are you smokin'?
He used to be the vice-president, then he became
president, now his son's the president?
Look man, just change the name Amerikkka to
Bush land, or maybe Bush Klux Klan.
You wanna vote for junior dessert storm?  Or you
wanna hope for more and vote for Gore?  But really,
what kinda hope is that wack laim,
tiring uninspiring campaign.  Shit's a
damn shame, plus how could we conscientiously
vote for the spouse of one of hip hop's enemies?
You don't recall the silly war? The bitch is called
Tipper Gore, tried to ban lyrical literature.
With Bush as president, good heavens it's devilish,
But Gore's a puppet too, so what the fuck you gonna do?

(Chorus)

So now in the aftermath, you have to laugh
What type of crap is that? The vote was almost split
half and half, reflectin' the saddest fact
the average man or woman couldn't tell the difference
between the crook and the crooked during the campaign
'cuz each man said the exact same thing.
Just like I said on Block'a'shot,
they're probably often golfing at the same country club.
But even so we know that the real through back
is Gore got most of the progressive votes.
So he lose and these groups get screwed,
Women, people of colour, poor people etcetera
And it's a matter'a non-proportional
winner take all mockery of democracy.
As y'all can see the popular majority
goes with Al but dude is the one who losses
due to this electoral college
proof U.S. elections are garbage
now of course you have the courts bounce
back and forth to re-count the votes
to see how it goes but then down the road
it'll reinforce what you already know
it don't make no difference to us
from the bottom up, the whole shit's corrupt

For my old school heads that's checkin' it
I nominate my DJ for president
 

Gore got more votes, yet Bush wins due to electoral college nonsense, heres the states...

Presidential Candidate     Party             Popular Vote         % Popular Vote     Electoral Vote         % Electoral Vote
George W. Bush             Republican    50,456,167            47.88%                 271                         50.40%
Albert Gore                    Democrat      50,996,064            48.39%                 267                         49.60%
Ralph Nader                   Green              2,864,810             2.72%                      0                           0.00%
Patrick Buchanan            Reform               448,750             0.43%                      0                          0.00%
Harry Browne                 Libertarian          386,024             0.37%                     0                           0.00%
Other                              Other                 232,357              0.22%                     0                           0.00%

Bush can't stand criticism on the Internet. His campaign quietly -- and probably illegally -- bought up over 200 anti-Bush domain names including "bushsucks.com", "bushbites.com", and "bushblows.com" over a year ago. (Illegally because he had refused to register as a candidate, as part of his effort to make it look like people were begging him to run, so spending money for his campaign was not allowed.) If you type in any of these URLs, you end up at Bush's official web site. His campaign refuses to say whether this means that they admit that he bites, blows and sucks. (Maybe he used to be a White House intern?)

The above info is from gwbush.com and/or other sites.