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Big Boi from Outkast criticises Bush, says he's not competent enough to be President
Outkast is right now at the peak of their career. Their latest double LP, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, has been certified 6X platinum and the first single "Hey Ya!" holds the number one spot on The Billboard Hot 100 for the third week in a row while the second single "The Way You Move" landed on the second position on the charts this week. Right now, they're in the position to make themselves heard, and they will.
The duo recently sat down with AllHipHop.com for an interview. The second half of the duo Big Boi was questioned what motivated him to record the song "War" found on Speakerboxx/The Love Below.
"It actually stemmed from the election of 2000 and we were in between records at the time," Big Boi told AllHipHop.com. "The way the election went down, it was like a whole blanket of conspiracy that's thrown over things and then something else happened. So what I was doing really was letting out a little frustration from watchin the BBC and NWI and things like that, checking out what's going on in the world."
"Say for instance the election, it was a controversy," he continued. "George Bush's brother down in Florida, however that went, it was up in the air, then all of a sudden 9/11 happened, right? Okay, throw a blanket over the election, fuck it, we ain't got the election no more. 9/11 happened, we've gotta go get these people 'cause they're trying to kill us. Okay, so not only do we go look for Osama bin Laden, who we still have not found to this day. Where is he? We're like okay, bin Laden done did it but we gonna come over here and fuck with you."
"So they go to Iraq. Why you goin to Iraq for? They didn't bomb the buildings. 'Well, they've got weapons of mass destruction so we need to go over there before they come over here and kill us and our kids and all the beautiful Americans.' Okay, we go to Iraq. We go to war, throw a blanket over the World Trade Center, now we're in Iraq looking for weapons of mass destruction. And we conquered em, and you the know the battle is "so-called" over, but you know we've got 10 to 15 soldiers dying a day. That's what they tell us. We don't know the real number you know."
"We go to Iraq, conquer, but there are no weapons of mass destruction, you know what I'm sayin?" he continued. "Throw a blanket over that, now what's gonna happen now? It's gonna be some shit. That's why you see the terror alert is elevated now and I really feel something is about to go down and then they're gonna throw a blanket over that shit. It's really about getting somebody competent and responsible to run this country, man. That's what it's about."
Source: allhiphop.com
The duo recently sat down with AllHipHop.com for an interview. The second half of the duo Big Boi was questioned what motivated him to record the song "War" found on Speakerboxx/The Love Below.
"It actually stemmed from the election of 2000 and we were in between records at the time," Big Boi told AllHipHop.com. "The way the election went down, it was like a whole blanket of conspiracy that's thrown over things and then something else happened. So what I was doing really was letting out a little frustration from watchin the BBC and NWI and things like that, checking out what's going on in the world."
"Say for instance the election, it was a controversy," he continued. "George Bush's brother down in Florida, however that went, it was up in the air, then all of a sudden 9/11 happened, right? Okay, throw a blanket over the election, fuck it, we ain't got the election no more. 9/11 happened, we've gotta go get these people 'cause they're trying to kill us. Okay, so not only do we go look for Osama bin Laden, who we still have not found to this day. Where is he? We're like okay, bin Laden done did it but we gonna come over here and fuck with you."
"So they go to Iraq. Why you goin to Iraq for? They didn't bomb the buildings. 'Well, they've got weapons of mass destruction so we need to go over there before they come over here and kill us and our kids and all the beautiful Americans.' Okay, we go to Iraq. We go to war, throw a blanket over the World Trade Center, now we're in Iraq looking for weapons of mass destruction. And we conquered em, and you the know the battle is "so-called" over, but you know we've got 10 to 15 soldiers dying a day. That's what they tell us. We don't know the real number you know."
"We go to Iraq, conquer, but there are no weapons of mass destruction, you know what I'm sayin?" he continued. "Throw a blanket over that, now what's gonna happen now? It's gonna be some shit. That's why you see the terror alert is elevated now and I really feel something is about to go down and then they're gonna throw a blanket over that shit. It's really about getting somebody competent and responsible to run this country, man. That's what it's about."
Source: allhiphop.com