Express Yourself: A Lyrical Critique of Reformers
Want to have a little lyrical fun? Express Yourself popped up on my ITunes playlist the other day. For those of you not familiar with Express Yourself, it is the song by the Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band. It played in the background in the film Mr. and Mrs. Smith when they had the vigorous disagreement that trashed the house. The next song that played on ITunes was Fight The Power. I then wondered if there are other bloggers in the universe that also listen to Public Enemy before they blog?
My high school years began in the late 1990s, probably the golden era of Hip Hop. In those days, mainstream Hip Hop was arguably more political than it is today. NWA, a controversial Hip Hop group (Notably two members Dr. Dre-Beats headphones-and Ice Cube-lots of family oriented films-are now millionaires, maybe billionaires) sampled Express Yourself in a Hip Hop song of the same title.
For this post, I have borrowed liberally from NWA’s original lyrics and added my own artist expression to create a new lyrical critique of reformers and ode to old school Hip Hop. Play the NWA YouTube instrumental (below) while