Taliban in pop

Chris Rock on Toby Keith:

You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers. That shit is gangsta. I mean, it's not for me, singing about dropping bombs on towel-head people, but boy, that guy's pretty angry.

I hope you're going to refer to the 'Towlie-ban' joke in South Park. They introduced a character for two episodes purely to make that lame joke, I think.

in a proibidao funk carioca song, part of the refrain is "I am Osama"

Didn't one of So Solid Crew use the nickname Taliban Hammer Man for a while?

Also - check Ceramic Hobs' pre-9/11 "Islam Uber Alles", Bin Laden's namechecked on that too

They are name-checked in The Right Brothers' evergreen Bush Was Right:

Freedom in Afghanistan, say goodbye Taliban,
free elections in Iraq, Saddam Hussein's locked-up [...]

Guybrush said:

They are name-checked in The Right Brothers' evergreen Bush Was Right:

Freedom in Afghanistan, say goodbye Taliban,
free elections in Iraq, Saddam Hussein's locked-up [...]

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That's fucking hilarious.

junior reid - man a no taliban
vybz kartel & kardinal offishall - kartel & kardinal - "mi badda dan di Taliban"

a big recycler of lyrics, vybz kartel has also used it as an 'i'm bad like the taliban' thing in a couple of other tunes as well, and i'm sure i heard a phrase along the lines of 'you don't have to cover your face like taliban girls' in some dancehall tune at some point

Slightly off-topic, but The Right Brothers just keep on delivering the goods. This time a grateful Iraq woman tells it like it is:

The Right Brothers - Somewhere in Baghdad

...and a foster addresses his shilly-shally mother (this one is pretty good, actually):

The Right Brothers - I Want to Live

Mama, I wanna live
Mama, I wanna breathe
Just give me the chance
To be all I can be

Guybrush said:

...and a foster addresses his shilly-shally mother (this one is pretty good, actually):

The Right Brothers - I Want to Live

Mama, I wanna live
Mama, I wanna breathe
Just give me the chance
To be all I can be

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This is stupid, they keep showing pictures aver the course of the video of foetuses that are about 4 months into development, nobody would suggest aborting a child that late.

Scratchy (Roll Deep) has the bar "like Taliban Trim I'm blowing up"

Logos said:

Scratchy (Roll Deep) has the bar "like Taliban Trim I'm blowing up"

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I think there's another MC actually called "Taliban Trim".

swears said:

I think there's another MC actually called "Taliban Trim".

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lol yes I know - thats Trim.

But my point was that is one of Scratchy's lines, and its also a suicide bomber pop cultural reference isn't it.

there was a reggae track a few years back over sting's englishman in new york that went ' ain't no taliban, just a righteous rastaman, i'm a rastaman in new york ' or summing .

yeah it's called 'rastaman in new york' I think. Good tune.

A lot of people are now using Taliban or Tally as a way to refer to AK47 type assault rifles.

joe. said:

Right Brothers

'France - WRONG'

didnt know about those guys- just TOO much. summat scary.
'somewhere in baghdad'?! writen on behalf of an anonymous iraqi woman!
the most vague song ever -

'her husbands been missing snce 2001/
cos hed spoken out about something saddam had done'

thanks a lot for all these
the dancehall stuff about taliban(s) is crazy -ive heard the word pop up a lot.

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the ballad of Lt. "mylai massacre" calley

http://www.mrpophistory.com/audio/LtCalley.mp3

Breeze on the Alligator Riddim Aim High 3, his first verse is all Taliban references etc

THREE 6 MAFIA LYRICS

"Bin Laden"

[Juicy J talking]
Mane check this shit out we was up in Chicago right
With my nigga big hamp, you know what I' saying?
The nigga pass me a blunt
Like smoke this shit nigga this some bin laden weed
Y'all don't know nothing bout this shit down south
What the fuck is bin laden weed its three different
Kinds of weed all grown together that shit some straight killer
Them Chicago niggaz named that shit bin laden mane some straight fie

[chorus 4x's]
Who got that hydro
Who got that light green
Who got that Bobby brown
Who got that laden weed

[DJ Paul]
I swear sometimes I got to get high to hang around my hoe
Sometimes I feel like I got to get high to hang round niggaz I know
I sped it up on weed I slowed it down on snow
Cause I seen somany niggaz fall off that blow
One day they got it all and aint got shit to show
So I came to my natures I had to cut that hoe
So know I'm feeling happy I'm on that binny bin laden
And niggaz is acting like they don't know what the fuck just happened
My vision getting blurry I'm about to fall asleep
Or am I dying I need to eat cause this some poutin weed
My life start flashing like holograms like right in front
Of my own face I never felt this way on one blunt
I see my son gaining life and my dad losing his
And old girlfriends and niggaz I shouldn't hung with
The picture starting to fade its getting hard to breath
I'm blacking out with no post up under my shirt and sleeve

[Chorus 4x's]

[Juicy J]
Well since I'm on bin laden let me tell you a story
Bout these three pussy rappers who couldn't do nothing for me
Gave a whole lot of cheese said I fucked him his shit
Smoked a whole lot of weed so he seem to forget
Who bought trunks and you cars gave you bitches and hoes
Who told you ass to take a bath when you thought you was raw
Mane I tell you he a killer when we talk on the phone
When you see him face to face he'll leave you alone
That's why I'm smoking on this fucking bin laden
All my niggaz in the hood they got it
Take one little puff you a addict
Take a gun to the head means tragic
Boy I tell you like this we can smoke it anywhere
In front of police station with a six pack of beer
Seven a.m. in the morning just watching people stare
Let 'em point them damn fingers say they wild over there

[Chorus 4x's]

[Lord Infamous]
Ey ey its glowing like its indigo I smell it through the bag
I'm floating like a magic carpet straight from bagdad
From my brains from my blood from my lungs from the dutches
Cant just let this reefer just escape from my a conscious
Cause its the substance I'm loving I'm buzzing
Smoking like a narven huffing and puffing
Came from the Indonesia, Colombian or kaliman
Or its by the welfare straight from the taliban

[Crunchy black]
Do you remember me from smoking good weed
Break it down roll it up give it the indo need
Do you remember me from no sticks no seeds
Or you remember me from putting you on this laden weed
Get yo funds together and come go and see
I'm gone take you on the strip where bin laden be
This one blunt action you'll have to smoke and see
Have you choking, falling out with your family

[Chorus 4x's]