First Appearance: Internet
2004 Written by: Beastie Boys Performed by: Beastie Boys
Behind the Beats and Lyrics...
Samples:
"You're Gonna Get Yours" performed by Public
Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show by Public Enemy
References:
9/11 - 11 September 2001, nearly 3000 people were killed when
terrorists hijacked airliners and crashed them into the World
Trade Centers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington D.C.,
and into a Pennsylvania field
UN - the United Nations, an international organization established
immediately after World War II, founded by "peace-loving
states" to oppose future aggression
Bush - George Walker Bush (1946-) former governor of Texas,
current president of the United States of America
FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation, a division of the U.S.
Department of Justice charged with investigating all violations
of federal laws and with safeguarding national security
Internet - international computer network linking smaller
computer networks together worldwide
Socialism - a political and economic theory that advocates
a system of collective or government ownership and management
of the means of production and distribution of goods
Capitalism - an economic system based on private ownership
of the means of production, in which personal profit can be
acquired through investment of capital and employment of labor
Militarism - the tendency to regard military efficiency as
the supreme ideal of the state and to subordinate all other
interests to those of the military
Schism - a division or disunion into mutually opposed parties
Sample & Reference Breakdown:
"Get with it" sampled from "You're Gonna Get
Yours" performed by Public Enemy
"This government needs a tune up" sampled from "You're
Gonna Get Yours" performed by Public Enemy
Commentary:
Beastie Boys:
"This was a song that
we were working on a while back but never finished." - Adam
Yauch (2004)