Posted at October 9, 2006, 11:49 pm:
It's a confusing, multi-faceted song - let's examine the beginning.
"Police think they can see me lean
I'm tint so it ain't easy to be seen
When you see me ride by they can see the glean
And my shine on the deck and the TV screen
Ride with a new chick, she like hold up
Next to the playstation controller is a full clip and my pistola"
"But we packin somethin that we have and um will have a nigga locked up in the maximum"
we see here that Cham clearly is ridin' dirty; he explicitly states that he is in fact in possession of illegal objects and in the first few lines, shows that the police have reasonable suspicion that he is in fact ridin' dirty and are obliged to stop him. We also see in later verses that Krayzie Bone admits to ridin' dirty as well; however, is he in the same vehicle as Cham? I assume not, because both of them claim to be driving. We'll leave him out of the picture for now.
However, as the song proceeds:
"A nigga upset for sure
cause they think they know
that they catchin me with plenty of the drink and dro
So they get behind me tryin to check my tags
look at my rearview and they smilin
Thinkin they'll catch me on the wrong well keep tryin
Cause they denyin is racial profiling
Houston, Texas you can check my tags
Pull me over try to check my slab
Glove compartment gotta get my cash
Cause the crooked cops try to come up fast
And been a baller that I am I talk to them
giving a damn bout not feeling my attitude
When they realize I ain't even ridin dirty bet you'll be leavin with an even madder mood"
so after all this, was Cham just playing a role in the first verse? Was he, in fact, not ridin' dirty, and is this whole song just a comment on the corrupt and racist state of police officers and the threat they pose to young black men who are innocent of a crime? Or was Cham really ridin' dirty, with the cops just as crooked? What message is really being brought to the table here? Discuss.
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Replies:Right on, Cham.
um if you're just going to perpetuate negative stereotypes and not dis...
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Right, fine.
Why would Cham be representing the cops though, and claiming that raci...
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You have proved Chamillionaire is the working man's Bruce Springsteen.
I lol'd at that.
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This is just typical worthless rap with no value at all
lol, is that because you don't like this song? or don't like rap in ge...
Police think they can see me lean
I'm tint so it ain't easy to be seen...
that's what I'm sure you meant
It doesn't matter and it's not funny.
they (Cham and Krayzie) have something in their respective cars that w...
Well what if Krayzie is only in the song to represent another side of ...
'out of necessity' may be true, but the law is the law, and not only d...
throughout this stanza Cham regales a story, possibly autobiographical...
They see me rollin'
They hatin
i think the underlying message here...
Hahah gangsta rap.
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we see now that Cham is indeed a 'self-professed criminal'.
neither I have of you.
hush
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Some of you guys might be reading into it a little too much.
I was thinking of putting it like that, but I think I already know the...
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