I feel like i am 16 again. The older you get, the more you come to terms with how unfair the world is. Body Count reminds me not to lose my anger. THANK YOU!
@@odinlindeberg4624 LOL. Then how do we have so many successful black in our communities and in the world. They worked for it and didnt use racism as an excuse.
@@NotOldYetGaming And that constitutes... what portion of black households in the US, exactly? What you're doing is kinda like saying "But if global warming is a thing, why does it still snow in winter?" when Norway's already lost about half of the annual snow days we had when we started recording that back in the 80s.
I get a chuckle out of the comments bashing this song when it's obvious that they never made it past the monologue at the beginning. Ice isn't singing the praises of BLM, what he IS doing is singing about class warfare in this country. That it doesn't matter what race/gender/etc you are, if you're poor, you amount to less than nothing.
I've been saying the very same thing on comment boards for years, ever since I got a degree in Criminal Justice. The unifying factor in violent crime is poverty, not any particular skin tone, and the powers that be have no intention of putting a stop to it. For some reason, it always gets more downvotes... People don't like hearing the truth. I love the quote "You notice they only call it 'class warfare' when the poor fight back".
I learned that when your "poor no lives matter" when I became homeless due to mental illness. And I grew up in a mostly white town in Michigan. My mother was a snob who would tell everyone we were upper middle class. I have no idea what that means. When you live on the streets race isn't as important as knowing who has your back. To end this post on a positive note, stay safe, keep your true friends and family close, and live life the best you can.
Stacey, as a former (and possibly future) homeless person and impromptu traveler, I fully agree with you. There are a lot of things you get to see when you fall through the cracks and become "disenfranchised", from raw oppression to genuine generosity. In many ways, it can be a liberating perspective. I count those years as a blessing and privilege despite the hardships, but not all are (or were) as lucky as I was. You don't say whether you are still homeless, hang in there either way and thanks for commenting. Sounds like you've got a pretty good outlook and don't worry, there won't even be a middle class soon enough!
Family sounds like you're mum was up her own arse? sorry you were homeless ☹️we would have taken you in! hope you are ok now?? don't trust friends? Or family until you no?❤️ stay safe.x
Ice tea is a Hippocrite... Plays a cop on TV. And got a song cop killer🤔 he's in it for the almighty$. Act's like he gives a f#ck and really he just looking for the pay check like his buddies El Sharpton and Jessie Jackson. Race baiters to keep the $ flowing.
Ice-T, Thank you so much for this! I've been hurting, depressed , and angry. I've been all about pushing everyone away from me because of how the world has changed so drastically and so many wrongs being committed by those we are supposed to trust. I'm tired of being in isolation, being too afraid to come out because I'm afraid of what I might do. Listening to you is working and is giving me the motivation I've been needing for so long. ICE-T...THANK YOU FOR SAVING ME!
Anyone who faced the real world outside of gated yt communities and wants to change the conditions turns into a socialist.unfortunately, the state keeps us divided. Broken up into gangs with different colours. Once those gangs and people unite they can truly change Amerikkka. Remember the black panthers. Those guys didn't like gangs. For a reason.
@@maggierezac5820 Thanks :) My nickname comes from when i was a bit thinner yet already tall. Like a post :) That's what my mates used to call me jokingly in high-school.
It's a pretty hard topic in a pretty simple narrative. If all people are equal, no one is free. If people are free, there is inequality. There will always be people that are unlucky or not able to live and that's a problem we never solved and I think we can't
People don't realize that truth isn't what keeps the lights on at a 24/7 news channel. It's ad money, it's viewership, it's all about the numbers. Both sides slant things, horribly bad at times. They tug on those emotional strings, of whoever is watching. They tell you how to feel, why to feel, and who to feel it for. See that's not news, that's manipulation. That's the hook. They designed it just for this purpose. So, when right-wing viewers see that BLM is an anti-American thing, it's in large part due to agencies like Fox that have portrayed it as such. When CNN gets its viewers to be outraged over Person X or Agency Z for doing something they did not like, they paint them as these grotesque, faceless things with no values and no heart. Right now the only headline should be "Americans cry out against police brutality seeking better reform". The left-wing has them convinced every cop is bad. This simply isn't true, but the damned problem is there's enough shit cops to make a significant negative impact on the communities they serve as well as tarnish the reputation of those that work beside them because they work beside them. Good cops get hurt because of bad cops too, look at all the protests, riots, and assaults that has happened thanks to those four shit bags? I've seen cops protecting protestors, I've seen protestors protecting cops, and I've seen both cross lines and join together. But they don't want to show you that, they want that two-pole divide. So does the right. This applies politically too (as in political office). The right-wing is the same. They want you to see all these protests as anti-American. They want you to see kneeling, a sign of respect in all forms, as a disrespectful and disgusting act. They want you to paint everyone protesting now based on the handful doing things wrong. They want to dilute the message and to deflate it using whataboutisms and excusism. But tell me, how the hell is protest unAmerican? That's our #1 and most sacred right, to speak up and to have freedom of thought. And we all have equal rights, cause if we don't? Then they're no longer rights, they are only privileges. Two faces of the same defunct coin. They use the same bait and hook tactics, they just use different bait to get you there. Once they get you emotionally invested in a subject, they know they can push their agenda on you, because they know they already have your emotional support thanks to the hook and underhanded way of telling current events.
@@Justin_Ebright Welcome to Orwell's 1984! And yes, you don't have equal rights in America - first it was on black, then on migrants and always more rights have the rich!
A poor and disenfranchised white guy from a mixed raced family myself so I have to agree with you. The rich, jocks, "republicans", "democrats", and racist people of this world have spat upon my family and I for decades. The Police were no better.
My family grew up poor, and my dad was racist. My older (wiser) brother told him: "Don't you understand that you're essentially black? The system doesn't care about you. You're fighting the same fight." Not essentially true, but very poignant for a high schooler focused on human and workers rights. That said, BLM.
Kkkkkk Vou falar em português, quem sabe alguns de vocês tenha alguma capacidade intelectual para entender. Seus imbecis, tudo que vocês disseram não passam de invenções dos fascistas esquerdistas, isso de que todo branco é um racista é a coisa mais idiota que já ouvi falar, se alguém acredita nisso é porque passou por uma lavagem cerebral tão intensa que se tornou incapaz de ter referência sobre fatos verdadeiros ou falso e pior, nem sabe exatamente sobre o que está dizendo papagaiando idiotices que outros lhes ensinaram em escolas e universidades ou mídia e classe artística.
We say that Black Lives Matter. Would you believe they never really have? No one ever really gave a fuck...just read your bullshit history books. But honestly it ain't just black. It's yellow, it's brown, it's red. It's anyone who ain't got cash. Poor whites that they call trash. They can't fuck with us once we realize we're all on the same side. They can't split us up and let em prosper off the divide. Don't fall for the bait and switch. Racism is real but not it. They fuck with whoever can't fight back but now we got to change all that. The people they have had enough. Right now it's them against us. This shit is ugly to the core. When it comes to the poor No Lives Matter. America has always been a place that's judged my skin. And racism is real as fuck, ain't no way to play that off. And in the eyes of the law black skin has always stood for poor. This is BASIC SHIT! They know who they're fucking with. They can't fuck with us once we realize we're all on the same side. They can't split us up and let em prosper off the divide. This shit is deeper than racism.
I mean I think the riffs are tame to what I like, but the message is what the fuck this song is. No Lives Matter. I normally listen to Unmerciful, Torn the fuck Apart, Pantera, Slayer, and some Suicidal Tendencies, and this sounds too basic for riffs. I want an all vocals mix of this because it's worth it.
B4D-WOLF I can understand, it ain't no Lamb of God or Slayer, but Body Count has a way with simplistic riffs to me. Yeah, they're basic, but still sounds so good to me.
@@smith97320 yeahhh the very same lineage that existed probably in jesus' time is going to give up their power so easily, i can see this happening sure
@@MrFRNTIK More white women have abortions than black women . Your comment makes no sense because how can you a bunch of of single moms and they're having a bunch of abortions. Stop listening to that rught wing lie
You know this song popped in my head earlier. I grew up poor. I've been homeless. Been to prison. I've lived in the hood. Some of my best friends were black folk and other races. Its still that way today. I have more black friends than anything. . And yes when it comes to us poor folk. Us working poor. We all gotta stick together. They don't give a shit about us.gotta look out for each other.
Yeah the elit..es got everyone divided on color rather than class, instead of aiming at the 1% they aim at "Whyte" ppl instead, when ppl are busy fighting over color it doesn't affect their bottom line or power one bit
@@nonono9194 Racism is one aspect, but not the only aspect. Racism is real, but that's not the only thing - there's also a class issue, one's skin color is just easier to assume class and that's how racist policies come to be.
@@thekarret2066 the only codified and enforced racist policies' favour black ppl massively and disadvantage Asians the most, I agree they need to be abolished but they're not nearly as big an issue as the gigantic wealth gap which is the ONLY thing people should be focusing on as it's by farrrrrrrrrrrrrrr the most important issue and everyone's lives will improve massively when they're not living paycheck to paycheck as serfs
@@nonono9194 Tell that to the cities that still say poc can't live in them, the effects of redlining that are still disproportionately negatively impacting poc, the fact that as recently as 2016, an attempted policy change towards voting was suggested that a judge determined targeted poc "with almost surgical precision", poc serving harsher sentences for comparable crimes that white people commit, etc. You aren't listening to the song at all. "America's always been / a place that's judged by skin." Class struggles are also massively important, don't get me wrong... but affirmative action aren't the only policies that affect POC, and aside from AA, they're most likely to negatively impact POC.
Funny how Ice T says when Blacks kill blacks no one cares, THEN says if people say ALL lives matter they miss the point, WTF my only question is WHY is it when Blacks kill Blacks they don't protest that? or actually DO something about it
You're not wrong, but the message has been the same since the beginning. That's the sad part of this. This is not a new civil rights movement, this is the same civil rights movement that was fought in the past. It's always been us against them, but their goal was to make it us versus us, and they succeeded for a long time
@@Patrick-tg4dq I wouldn't say that. The current movement has become so bastardized with the bullshit woke crowd that their aims can't even be made clear because they're trying to protest against too many things. Dr. King would definitely not approve of this movement. The only points that have validity is a demilitarization and re-education of police. Other than that civil rights as a whole is a moot point. All are given equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome and that's the way it should be.
Ice T has also been ahead of his time. A true Jack of all trades never afraid to push the boundaries of creativity I've always felt that he has not been given his true respect.
Brandon Irizarry especially when he spoke out against Black Lives Matter supporting KKK Margaret Sanger Planned Parenthood. Not. Waste of his intelligence when he just follows Soros approved script here.
@@Sam-Lawry looks like you're addicted to youtube politics. you might wan't to step away for a while. You're so wrapped up in being "enlightened", you can't see that you are being used, like a tool.
@@jb34ch1 not really..I just try to check this strange era,were facts and acts doesnt counts,we juge only by labeled opinion. It's a dystopia..now they already are to 2+2=5...it's Orwellian. All medias pushes this doxa agenda,the left is dead long time ago,libetarians,critical thinking are now on the opposite way. For us,it's strange,I remember when fox and republicains were the bad guys,cnn was propagand too about p.n.a.c wars irak..syria..lybia..ukrain (statfor speech/discours statfor friedmann cfr...also 'wag the dogs' with deniro..about colored revolutions),wikileaks and declassified/leaked documents can explain more than me these geopolitic ideology. Antifa seems anti..against fascism..so if you are against them...you are a fascist...same with blm...all lives matter is racist..like maths..History..biology..milk..ok sign..free speech..white people. Censure..cancel culture..are everywere..old movies are banned..everything should be explicitly labelled good side 'progressism' or bad side 'conservatism' (like just a nuclear family is bad now..a lot of "journalists" says.). The last supper..a great movie about these people who are the 'progres',just Pavlovian dogs who fights everything doxa labelled as 'racist conservatist'.. Nobody talks about JP Morgan..goldman sachs..debt..free speech..the 1/100..gafam face book..amazon..open society..google..who oppenly push an agenda...and some accept it..billionaires who push a marxist mask to avoid reals stuff and focus on racial..genders..sexs..stuffs.. It's not new..back then Bernays used it with 'suffragettes' and feminism ego. Reality is like a Asch experiment,we need people who refuse dogma. Sooo...yes..I like politic..but it's not my focus... Timcast,brian logan,blaire white,laura cheen,akkad...are a good way,better than nsbc..cnn..nytimes... I prefer old arcade games...funny cheesy movies...now Hogan's heroes..Onion movies...Demolition man..4 lions..are dangerous now.
@@Sam-Lawry Here is a link on that 2+2=5 movement: thefederalistpapers.org/us/math-isnt-woke-enough-far-left-academics-argue-225?spotim_referrer=recirculation
As it has been said before, racism is an issue, but it's only a smaller part of the bigger issue. Basically the line "When it comes to the poor: No lives matter". Should give it away, if you are able to think a little bit. Which means it doesn't matter whether you are: White, Black, Hispanic, or Asian if you are poor. YOU HAVE NO CHANCE! And being a non-white person just adds to this issue as it being stated in "Racism is real, but not IT!".
I've sent this song to a guy saying "All lives matter" in response to a "Black lives matter" from Twitter, and then decided I should listen to it again.
technology productions 2017 it probably made all of your brain leak through your ears cause this shit is straight out of the sewers! #stupidlivesdontmatter
It was finally time, somebody with GUTS to say-sing this openly, no beauty or fancy melodies involved. Yes, this is the absolute truth... no lives matter, not yours, not mine, not anyone's, regardless color or origin...
I have the most amazing RESPECT for ICE-T and Body Count. First time I hear them I was like WTF is this but I gave it a chance because it was Ice-T and that's all it took now I listen every now and then and I'm a 57 year old man.
It's got nothing to do with poverty. Don't believe that those who claim to want to change the system care any more about the poor or anyone's lives than the people in charge. If they did they would have scrapped the minimum wage, ended tariffs, and generally freed up the economy. Instead we hear about how racist the police are, with no evidence whatsoever. Yes I said no evidence, prove me wrong.
Your mom.. Although... has first hand experience. "If" you level up, you do not forget where you come from or what you have experienced. Even with his millions, he is still bringing awareness to socioeconomic implications, factors and barriers of being a person of color in our society.
I am wasting pearls before swine here, but: th-cam.com/video/RrWIlGJnFwg/w-d-xo.html If you watch it and get something out of it, that's cool. If you are a bot, I just told a very long YOUR MOM IS DUMB joke and *somebody* will laugh, because someone will *always* laugh at a "your mom" joke because if you tell it right, that joke is "ALWAYS FUNNY" -- a very rare category. But. You have to tell it right. You cannot just barge into a room and tell the punch line, you looking nothing like the other folks in the room, for instance. You got to lead folks along. Like I'm trying to lead along a bot, or a stranger, or a fellow traveler who enjoys
I respect Ice T a lot, but after seeing this video and hearing this song, I respect him even more. He's not caught up in the bullshit distractions that everyone else is stuck in, he's getting to the real point of the issue. Ice T fucking gets it. And the song is dope as fuck, too.
Yeah, the whole album is great, but this song in particular hit me pretty good. It's bang on. Poor white people get harassed by cops and given over the top sentences for misdemeanour offences in courts every day, it's not just a "ghetto" issue. More people of every race put together are in the majority when it comes to not having money. The upper and elite classes look down on us ALL most of the time, and think they're money means safety. Well, if the poor of every race ever did decide to band together and cause some shit, they would not be safe for long.
That's why the media is always reporting on cops killing black people, but almost never report shit when a cop kills a white person. They want us to think it's about race so we can keep fighting each other while the rich and powerful horde even more riches and power.
They don't want him speaking the truth but he's gonna do it regardless, and what he says about poor white people getting fucked with/killed by these bitch police is point positive. When Hill Harper wrote the book, "Letters to an Incarcerated Brother" he referred to the alleged justice system as the new Jim Crow; problem is old Jim has me targeted in his scopes as well since I'm a poor white male. Yes, we are in this together but it transcends above race, it's social inequality to the point where cops kill with impunity=without punishment. This is the fuckin year 2017 and this shit isn't only the same...it's worse.
I was in prison and asked a guard why they allowed us to "optionally segregate" .... politics state races dont mix and laws have been passed to try and stop the practice yet it persists... his answer was strikingly honest... "if youre busy fighting each other you wont come together against us"
I believe all lives matter, yet if I say it(and I do), even if I stand against police brutality and corruption(and I do), just because I say what I believe(and I do), *I'm* demonized by others who call me racist, when *they* focus on race. I focus on the human race, and last I checked, blacks are as human as whites. Because I think of humanity as a whole, *they* are the ones causing division, by treating people who honestly believe all lives matter, as the enemy. If I say all lives matter, and someone gets mad, tells me to go to hell, drops F-bombs on me, and tries assaulting me, who was standing with them against police brutality and corruption, I think, if I was still alive and mobile, I'd leave. Why stand with someone who would treat you like the enemy if you simply said, and believed, all lives matter?
@@wildside316 I agree with you. I thought this whole thing was supposed to be about police brutality. I am a white man, but I too have been thrown to the ground by cops, had one sit on my neck with his knee while 4 others held me down and handcuffed me. I wasn't resisting. Didn't do anything to provoke that kind of response, just another cop having a bad day and decided to take it out on me. Then he tried to break my arm and burn my face with the hood of his car. This shit don't happen to just black people, but for some reason people only want to focus on the racial aspect of it and if you say anything other than that then you must be racist. When it seemed like the people wanted to rise up against police brutality and corruption I was all for it. Now I just keep quiet. Seems like it doesn't take much to say the "wrong" thing these days so maybe it's easier to not say anything
wildside316 imagine someone’s house is on fire. they need help to put out the fire, right? so imagine a neighbor to this person whose house is on fire comes up to the firefighters trying to help and goes, “well what about my house? doesn’t my house matter?” yes, of course, however your neighbor’s house is on fire and needs the utmost attention right now. black people are targeted and murdered (more per capita than white people) by police because of their skin color. they are perceived as a threat, because of their skin color. and then their murderers get to keep their jobs and go on like they never murdered someone unjustly. police brutality happens to every race, however, to ignore the fact that black people are treated as if they don’t matter by police because they are black is willfully ignorant. it is about race. racist cops have made it about race. time and time again a white boy can shoot up a church, or a school, and be arrested peacefully, but when a black person commits a traffic infraction they could end up dead.
Patrick McDaniel that’s fucked up that that happened to you. it shouldn’t have happened, shouldn’t have been allowed to. BLM fights against police brutality towards everyone. we’re fighting for you too. BLM is against police brutality and corruption. it doesn’t just happen to black people, we’re not saying that. we’re saying black people are disproportionately affected and targeted by cops. and we’re saying not to ignore that.
Love how the song rejects a false universalism and connects the particular struggle of black Americans to the truly universal oppression of the poor. Like, I've just read a philosophy book which argued for something like this. Amazing.
In ALL the intense rhetoric on the news and social media, this is the realist shit I've heard someone say. And this was release over three years ago. WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.
There's still two sides to this. You're either propping up a system which gives privilege to the few and oppresses many, or you're on the side of the people. Doesn't matter why, your personal reasons, circumstances or anything. You support people, or you support the system.
I grew up in Houston ghettos as a white kid. Ill admit I had a measurable amount of racism built in me, as did most all people in the ghettos. When I first hear BLM, I too thought, fuck that. All lives matter, but it wasnt due to racism, it was due to me not being heard, and not mattering. I felt I had suffered just as much as my neighbor. I felt I had suffered just as badly from our corrupted governing and police. It took a lot of listening, learning, and keeping my opinions to myself before my brain opened up and realized the situation, and how my opinion wasnt right and needed change. I think recent news has helped me learn a lot. I hope other hard heads could learn the same. I also hope our corrupt shit legal system gets fixed next. Its not just cops beating people, its the judges/lawyers too.
I grew up in Third Ward, I’m half white and half Mexican. Now I don’t know how old you are, but from what I hear the Tre is all gentrified. Back then people threw rocks at are car while we just driving home.i was 7 years old and didn’t understand that they thought were white landlords coming to harass them. Now that blew my mind! We were always driving an old POS car, and they were our neighbors. The first time I saw a “All Lives Matter” sign here in New Orleans, 40 years later, I thought, “well yeah that makes sense.” It was my husband, a white boy who grew up in River Oaks, was on the social registry, (yeah I didn’t that was a real thing either,) who explained to me why that was an offensive and downright racist comment. I am still friends with the people I grew up with in the Tre, and it took a gentrified white boy to spell it out to me.
@@torigodbey1164 nice. Ya Tre here to. As well as second and sixth. I dealt with rocks, and more. I'm sure you know. It was impossible to cross 280 on foot from the east. Times are wierd. I'm glad things are smoothing out, although the gentrification sucks. I miss affordable housing.
Ultimately, it's about caring enough for yourself, your family, your friends, your community, and all others, that you work to make life better for all. We don't all have to think alike about everything, but we would all do better to at least THINK about everything. Only then can we act to make a positive difference.
Kickass message, kickass song. Perhaps music is the only way to get people to see the lack of class conscious citizens in this country. The elites are aware, they always have been.
Really whites and blacks are the same People it doesn't matter if you white or black it matters what's on the inside not what's on the inside your heart is what matters not your skin color think about it
The coolest thing i ever saw was Ice-T flipping off protestors in Beverly hills in his Rolls Royce convertible when time warner dropped him. Keeping it 100 from the start!
"You're diluting the issue" is the point. I was one of those people who said "all lives matter" until somebody explained to me this point. Its not that nobody else matters its about making the point that a specific group should be recognized; then i got it.
Damn dude...reading you comment gives me hope that more people can have their minds changed about stuff like that. Thx comrade for understanding! Even if you don't support that certain movement, I will still respect you for at least understanding. Much love, man.
i second the motion. one of the very very few bands i bother to check on nowadays. even if the music is kinda generic i guess (pleasant and catchy nonetheless) i always prefer getting the right message from the right person instead of having anselmo/flynn/taylor and all those roaches spreading shit on tasty bread.
I truly learned more from reading then listenjng to the lyrics of this song about the differences and significance of these slogans than I did in all other research combined. Well done and we'll stated. Thank you for this ♥️
I can understand that,I hate that first two strings and when I play on them it is usually in form of guitar riff just to get warmer and harder sound :)
@Angus Beef You didn't listen to the song. The disease is extreme wealth inequality affecting everyone in this country. A symptom of it is police brutality against black people because they are seen as easy targets. People saying "black lives matter" are talking about this specific symptom of organized poverty, but they wanna help your past self just as much as poor black people as that is the key to all of this. No one worth listening to is saying you can't have it bad being white.
And thats why many of us with time have become marxist yeah i know that experience when you start seeing the truth about the world and with time you will be were i am now i am pretty sure of it , bleesing pal and keep it going in the good direction
Zarion 11 The people the first comment is referring to are those that have a derogatory emotional reaction unmitigated by thought. I don’t separate the monologue, it represents the speakers perspective. I recommend you take a moment to review the lyrics of the song, it’s a discussion of “class warfare”. A problem in humanity since history has been recorded.
@Zarion 11 you're misinterpreting the lyrics. Did you not hear him clearly say "it's anyone who ain't got cash, poor whites who they call trash" at the beginning?
@Zarion 11 "IceT is trying not to be racist, but in my opinion he is racist. " Your opinion is objectively wrong. "He is a bit stuck in the early 90's. Times have changed a bit." This sentence literally means nothing because nothing in this video relates to what you're saying. "He is racist for mentioning that you can only say black lives matter. That is racist as hell." He didn't say that. "White's are poor too. That is not a black privilege." Yeah, he says that. "It honestly aint just black, its brown it's yellow it's red. It's anyone who aint got cash, poor whites that they call 'trash.'" I can't tell if you're purposely ignoring the lyrics and only hearing what you want to hear or what.
This is a rocking to the point song, I have to admit I was a all lives matter Sayer BUT after carefully listening to the lyrics my mind has been changed. From one poor ass white man, THANK YOU ...
For just being a random youtube comment, it makes me surprisingly happy. I'm glad you listened, and I hope you know that as a poor white dude, you are in a unique position to actually change things. How? By telling your friends, family, co workers, and community what you now know whenever you hear them say "all lives matter". Change comes from within communities, not from outside, and right now *you* are that insider who can help change this country for the better. For all of us.
I love this song. It's intent is so clear and unbiased, the delivery is perfect, and the argument is presented supported with logic and reason... I take it to be an honest message. It's refreshing
When I was 13 in the early 90s I´ve been listening to Body Count and Cop-Killer, knowing that it´s something political but forbidden. I have always seen Ice-T as a person with his heart and brain at the right place. But for 30 years I have not been much interested in Body Count. I prefer epic Scandinavian Metal, Dark Metal and Progressive Rock / Metal. Now I have realized, that Body Count has become much harder through the years. This song has made me a fan! This song is epic! It´s message is as sad as important! This song becomes my hymn and should be for all good people! Now, that europe turns more and more to nationalisms, lobbyism and capitalism we need this song to be played everywhere as loud as PHUC!
Being a hardcore metal fan I always thought of rap metal as a joke cuz the impression I have of it is of shit like Limp Bizkit but holy goddamn this is heavy as fuck and very well written. Like the grooves are tight as fuck and the subject matter is extremely important and relevant. Honestly im really impressed by this. 19/10 for sure
Now THIS is the bodycount I remember. Going in hard.
Richard Smith because he will do anything for a buck. but then pretend to be a gangster.
fuck outta here pig. did cop killer hurt your feelings shill? fuck the police, kill cops!
dennisrl630 dude was a dope dealing thug and decided to make gangstar ra for his boys lol he is the father of gangster rap.
Respect your veterans
Lordoftheflyfilms what lol?
Ice has my favorite vocal delivery of all time. It's not rapping, it's not screaming, it's like shouting his flow. Its just.. perfect.
Great Comment. I totally agree word for word
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If Tom Ayara of Slayer rapped, he mught sound like Ice T
I wonder if MC Ride of Death Grips has influence from T
@@gmanisawsome1 i think so bro!
@@TarunMusicTv 100% they did a song together in 92.
"when it comes to the poor, no lives matter" - so true!
@Angus Beef yes. Losers don't matter
@@rihansa199 No losers.. means.. no winners...
Then why don't left wing populists want to unite with right wing populists
@@TopGHippie right wing populiists are nazis or fascist dictator wannabes
@@allgames8774 go listen to tom mcdonald to lives matter lol
I feel like i am 16 again. The older you get, the more you come to terms with how unfair the world is. Body Count reminds me not to lose my anger. THANK YOU!
Just to be clear, Ice isn't singing that Race has NOTHING to do with it, he's saying it goes BEYOND that.
Yes he's saying it goes beyond race and it's strictly and economic warfare
@@powertothepeople3820 And that black Americans have been stuck at the bottom from the very beginning with no way to move on up.
@@odinlindeberg4624 LOL. Then how do we have so many successful black in our communities and in the world. They worked for it and didnt use racism as an excuse.
@@NotOldYetGaming And that constitutes... what portion of black households in the US, exactly? What you're doing is kinda like saying "But if global warming is a thing, why does it still snow in winter?" when Norway's already lost about half of the annual snow days we had when we started recording that back in the 80s.
@@powertothepeople3820 Strictly? Hardly.
I get a chuckle out of the comments bashing this song when it's obvious that they never made it past the monologue at the beginning.
Ice isn't singing the praises of BLM, what he IS doing is singing about class warfare in this country. That it doesn't matter what race/gender/etc you are, if you're poor, you amount to less than nothing.
They fuck whoever can't fight back
Exactly lol... If you're poor you don't have the money to fight back and get a fair trial
Even in the song: "Don't fall for the bait and switch; Racism is real, but not it"
Acknowledge it exists, but it's not the main issue
I've been saying the very same thing on comment boards for years, ever since I got a degree in Criminal Justice. The unifying factor in violent crime is poverty, not any particular skin tone, and the powers that be have no intention of putting a stop to it. For some reason, it always gets more downvotes... People don't like hearing the truth.
I love the quote "You notice they only call it 'class warfare' when the poor fight back".
Indeed.
I learned that when your "poor no lives matter" when I became homeless due to mental illness. And I grew up in a mostly white town in Michigan. My mother was a snob who would tell everyone we were upper middle class. I have no idea what that means. When you live on the streets race isn't as important as knowing who has your back. To end this post on a positive note, stay safe, keep your true friends and family close, and live life the best you can.
Stacey, as a former (and possibly future) homeless person and impromptu traveler, I fully agree with you. There are a lot of things you get to see when you fall through the cracks and become "disenfranchised", from raw oppression to genuine generosity. In many ways, it can be a liberating perspective. I count those years as a blessing and privilege despite the hardships, but not all are (or were) as lucky as I was. You don't say whether you are still homeless, hang in there either way and thanks for commenting. Sounds like you've got a pretty good outlook and don't worry, there won't even be a middle class soon enough!
Family sounds like you're mum was up her own arse? sorry you were homeless ☹️we would have taken you in! hope you are ok now?? don't trust friends? Or family until you no?❤️ stay safe.x
Hope things are going well for you now Stacey. Take care.
Truer words were never spoken, no lives matter to some
Being a person with sever mental illness myself i understand. I hope you are no longer homeless. Much love.
Given where we are as a nation right now, this song is needed more than ever!
Exactly !
THIS BAND IS SO UNDERRATED!
NichtgutalsOarfish .. Ikr
It always has been since 1990. All of his music is great
thats because they spit the truth, the media is afraid of that
Ice tea is a Hippocrite... Plays a cop on TV. And got a song cop killer🤔 he's in it for the almighty$. Act's like he gives a f#ck and really he just looking for the pay check like his buddies El Sharpton and Jessie Jackson. Race baiters to keep the $ flowing.
@@chadgartner5695 He's a cop specialist obviously.
This song couldn't be more relevant right now
i hope bc does a song entitled "i can't breathe".
yup. no sheet !
Why because of rona?
Daneil 202 no you twat because of the george situation😭
This song is always relevant. Unfortunately.
Ice-T been saying this for years..
Black community has been saying this for at least a century.
and so has Immortal Technique th-cam.com/video/yaBE-Oq4y2A/w-d-xo.html
So have I ,its a class war ,
elite vs everybody
Yep but you also haven't been paying attention for years
@@UpNyoCheeks I guess because you are white this makes you an expert???
Ice-T, Thank you so much for this! I've been hurting, depressed , and angry. I've been all about pushing everyone away from me because of how the world has changed so drastically and so many wrongs being committed by those we are supposed to trust. I'm tired of being in isolation, being too afraid to come out because I'm afraid of what I might do. Listening to you is working and is giving me the motivation I've been needing for so long. ICE-T...THANK YOU FOR SAVING ME!
That drummer is a badass
Ill Will \m/
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Too bad the drum you ear is made by a computer lol
All the BC drummers is the best : Beat Master V ( R.i.p ), OT, and of course Ill Will 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
The working class needs to unite no matter what color our skin is.
"Ellites" must be destroyed (they've gone too far).
Did you ever hear about tragedy of darth stalin the merciful?
@Nukultus It's not a story the capitalists would tell you.
Anyone who faced the real world outside of gated yt communities and wants to change the conditions turns into a socialist.unfortunately, the state keeps us divided. Broken up into gangs with different colours. Once those gangs and people unite they can truly change Amerikkka. Remember the black panthers. Those guys didn't like gangs. For a reason.
@Dc Krow You ever see the Star Wars prequel trilogy?
"When it comes to the poor - no lives matter". That's the class struggle in a nutshell.
@Postie, great name btw, Malone? Anyway, I am an old af white woman whose been yelling those words at the TV machine for the past 10 days!! Stay safe!
@@maggierezac5820 Thanks :) My nickname comes from when i was a bit thinner yet already tall. Like a post :) That's what my mates used to call me jokingly in high-school.
Yup. It's class warfare.
It's a pretty hard topic in a pretty simple narrative. If all people are equal, no one is free. If people are free, there is inequality. There will always be people that are unlucky or not able to live and that's a problem we never solved and I think we can't
I think it's considered racist now to say any lives matter other then black lives, be careful!!! lol
this aged like fine wine
"Prosper off the Divide" that ladies and gentlemen sums up the entire media circus you are witnessing
People don't realize that truth isn't what keeps the lights on at a 24/7 news channel. It's ad money, it's viewership, it's all about the numbers. Both sides slant things, horribly bad at times. They tug on those emotional strings, of whoever is watching. They tell you how to feel, why to feel, and who to feel it for. See that's not news, that's manipulation. That's the hook. They designed it just for this purpose. So, when right-wing viewers see that BLM is an anti-American thing, it's in large part due to agencies like Fox that have portrayed it as such. When CNN gets its viewers to be outraged over Person X or Agency Z for doing something they did not like, they paint them as these grotesque, faceless things with no values and no heart. Right now the only headline should be "Americans cry out against police brutality seeking better reform".
The left-wing has them convinced every cop is bad. This simply isn't true, but the damned problem is there's enough shit cops to make a significant negative impact on the communities they serve as well as tarnish the reputation of those that work beside them because they work beside them. Good cops get hurt because of bad cops too, look at all the protests, riots, and assaults that has happened thanks to those four shit bags? I've seen cops protecting protestors, I've seen protestors protecting cops, and I've seen both cross lines and join together. But they don't want to show you that, they want that two-pole divide. So does the right. This applies politically too (as in political office).
The right-wing is the same. They want you to see all these protests as anti-American. They want you to see kneeling, a sign of respect in all forms, as a disrespectful and disgusting act. They want you to paint everyone protesting now based on the handful doing things wrong. They want to dilute the message and to deflate it using whataboutisms and excusism. But tell me, how the hell is protest unAmerican? That's our #1 and most sacred right, to speak up and to have freedom of thought. And we all have equal rights, cause if we don't? Then they're no longer rights, they are only privileges.
Two faces of the same defunct coin. They use the same bait and hook tactics, they just use different bait to get you there. Once they get you emotionally invested in a subject, they know they can push their agenda on you, because they know they already have your emotional support thanks to the hook and underhanded way of telling current events.
There's no war but the class war, and the media needs to make it a race war 'cause they know they'll lose the class war
Divide et Impera
All Lives Matter Bro
@@Justin_Ebright Welcome to Orwell's 1984!
And yes, you don't have equal rights in America - first it was on black, then on migrants and always more rights have the rich!
If we don't stand together, the day will come when we all fall together.
There's modern day Ben Franklin! His point: "Gentlemen, we must hang together. Or I assure you, we will all hang separately."
Amen, bro...
As a poor & disenfranchised White guy, I fully support your message...
Everyone’s gotta stand together
Theres only two types of people in this country
The Haves
And
The Have- nots
We are one! Have - nots to the fronr!
A poor and disenfranchised white guy from a mixed raced family myself so I have to agree with you. The rich, jocks, "republicans", "democrats", and racist people of this world have spat upon my family and I for decades. The Police were no better.
My family grew up poor, and my dad was racist. My older (wiser) brother told him: "Don't you understand that you're essentially black? The system doesn't care about you. You're fighting the same fight." Not essentially true, but very poignant for a high schooler focused on human and workers rights.
That said, BLM.
Kkkkkk Vou falar em português, quem sabe alguns de vocês tenha alguma capacidade intelectual para entender.
Seus imbecis, tudo que vocês disseram não passam de invenções dos fascistas esquerdistas, isso de que todo branco é um racista é a coisa mais idiota que já ouvi falar, se alguém acredita nisso é porque passou por uma lavagem cerebral tão intensa que se tornou incapaz de ter referência sobre fatos verdadeiros ou falso e pior, nem sabe exatamente sobre o que está dizendo papagaiando idiotices que outros lhes ensinaram em escolas e universidades ou mídia e classe artística.
Even in 2021, Body Count still kicks ass! Thanks for sharing your wisdom.
somebody put this man in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame already!
no, the rock hall is a joke, it's filled with artists that don't have anything to do with rock and roll
That place is a piss stain.
How about the white house?
Fuck the RnRHOF .
He got his Star though, that's real enough for me 😈
I like what they're doing. They're voicing truth in a powerful way.
Not really.
MrHejke
....oh?
would you mind telling us your opinion?
Just look below at stats I provided.
MrHejke Waiting on those stats.
You're so stupid you can't look below the comment list?
The chorus gives me goosebumps, such a good song 💪
brilliant song and very true. Been rocking with Body Count since 1992
Powerful shit. Those riffs are delicious.
We say that Black Lives Matter. Would you believe they never really have? No one ever really gave a fuck...just read your bullshit history books. But honestly it ain't just black. It's yellow, it's brown, it's red.
It's anyone who ain't got cash. Poor whites that they call trash. They can't fuck with us once we realize we're all on the same side. They can't split us up and let em prosper off the divide. Don't fall for the bait and switch. Racism is real but not it. They fuck with whoever can't fight back but now we got to change all that. The people they have had enough. Right now it's them against us. This shit is ugly to the core. When it comes to the poor No Lives Matter. America has always been a place that's judged my skin. And racism is real as fuck, ain't no way to play that off. And in the eyes of the law black skin has always stood for poor. This is BASIC SHIT! They know who they're fucking with. They can't fuck with us once we realize we're all on the same side. They can't split us up and let em prosper off the divide. This shit is deeper than racism.
I mean I think the riffs are tame to what I like, but the message is what the fuck this song is. No Lives Matter. I normally listen to Unmerciful, Torn the fuck Apart, Pantera, Slayer, and some Suicidal Tendencies, and this sounds too basic for riffs. I want an all vocals mix of this because it's worth it.
B4D-WOLF I can understand, it ain't no Lamb of God or Slayer, but Body Count has a way with simplistic riffs to me. Yeah, they're basic, but still sounds so good to me.
There's nothin wrong with keepin it simple. Body Count aint out to prove they're guitar heroes.
They got groove.heavy mother fucking groove.
I bought their first album when I was 22. I’m now 50 and these guys have just gotten better
People, the one message we really need to get across in this world no matter where you live is: POOR LIVES MATTER!!
we're dealing with old royalty, hundreds of years old wealth.. as long as this ruling class exists there will never be peace
@@Agaetis181 You're a fool to believe there will never be a ruling class or a new ruling class will be better.
@@smith97320 yeahhh the very same lineage that existed probably in jesus' time is going to give up their power so easily, i can see this happening sure
The world will never change but all lives matter
I was scrolling through the comments and literally thought the same thing moments before finding this one.
I’m a White brother been poor most my life Always loved Ice T and body count, and all the messages and Ice-T’s music! you hit it right on the head!
"This shit is deeper than racism"
Maybe one day people will wake up and realize that...one day.
Love ya T.
we can only hope brother!
Fact
Corny af
"Don't fall for the bait n switch
Racism's real but it ain't it"
Real shit from Ice T
Planned Parenthood "isn't racism" because Soro's "Black Lives Matter" in name only says so even it's founder Margaret Sanger called Black human weeds.
JM Linnen The explanation "We Coming" th-cam.com/video/Q5FRl218J-w/w-d-xo.html
@@kevyster Abortions affect white people the most not black people
@@MrFRNTIK More white women have abortions than black women . Your comment makes no sense because how can you a bunch of of single moms and they're having a bunch of abortions. Stop listening to that rught wing lie
@@kevyster
Wut?
You know this song popped in my head earlier. I grew up poor. I've been homeless. Been to prison. I've lived in the hood. Some of my best friends were black folk and other races. Its still that way today. I have more black friends than anything. . And yes when it comes to us poor folk. Us working poor. We all gotta stick together. They don't give a shit about us.gotta look out for each other.
Class consciousness is important. Lord knows the rich already are well-educated in that shit.
Yeah the elit..es got everyone divided on color rather than class, instead of aiming at the 1% they aim at "Whyte" ppl instead, when ppl are busy fighting over color it doesn't affect their bottom line or power one bit
@@nonono9194 Racism is one aspect, but not the only aspect. Racism is real, but that's not the only thing - there's also a class issue, one's skin color is just easier to assume class and that's how racist policies come to be.
@@thekarret2066 the only codified and enforced racist policies' favour black ppl massively and disadvantage Asians the most, I agree they need to be abolished but they're not nearly as big an issue as the gigantic wealth gap which is the ONLY thing people should be focusing on as it's by farrrrrrrrrrrrrrr the most important issue and everyone's lives will improve massively when they're not living paycheck to paycheck as serfs
@@nonono9194 Tell that to the cities that still say poc can't live in them, the effects of redlining that are still disproportionately negatively impacting poc, the fact that as recently as 2016, an attempted policy change towards voting was suggested that a judge determined targeted poc "with almost surgical precision", poc serving harsher sentences for comparable crimes that white people commit, etc. You aren't listening to the song at all. "America's always been / a place that's judged by skin."
Class struggles are also massively important, don't get me wrong... but affirmative action aren't the only policies that affect POC, and aside from AA, they're most likely to negatively impact POC.
It’s never been about black and white. It’s about rich and poor. And has been for a long time.
I tell this to everyone that will listen. I may not like pubz, but THEY'RE NOT MY ENEMIES. They didn't do this.
Before rich and poor was good and evil.
Metal being used for what it's good for, bringing attention to issues that matter with passion.
Fuck I love metal.
You guys gave me shivers, kudos.
Damn right.
Absolutely right.
Metal? Where did you heard metal?
Yeah good stuff, burn down a few more Nike stores you degenerate
@Spill the Blood of Christ - The chorus is brilliant
This song rings even truer now then ever before.
Funny how Ice T says when Blacks kill blacks no one cares, THEN says if people say ALL lives matter they miss the point, WTF
my only question is WHY is it when Blacks kill Blacks they don't protest that? or actually DO something about it
Exactly darkshark24.
This song is now.
You're not wrong, but the message has been the same since the beginning. That's the sad part of this. This is not a new civil rights movement, this is the same civil rights movement that was fought in the past. It's always been us against them, but their goal was to make it us versus us, and they succeeded for a long time
@@Patrick-tg4dq I wouldn't say that. The current movement has become so bastardized with the bullshit woke crowd that their aims can't even be made clear because they're trying to protest against too many things.
Dr. King would definitely not approve of this movement. The only points that have validity is a demilitarization and re-education of police. Other than that civil rights as a whole is a moot point. All are given equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome and that's the way it should be.
This album is even better than "Manslaughter".
Ice T has also been ahead of his time. A true Jack of all trades never afraid to push the boundaries of creativity I've always felt that he has not been given his true respect.
Brandon Irizarry especially when he spoke out against Black Lives Matter supporting KKK Margaret Sanger Planned Parenthood. Not. Waste of his intelligence when he just follows Soros approved script here.
@@kevyster
Says the profile with a flag of white supremacy...
@@kevyster You're barely coherent. Either trolling or just not right in the head.
A “New Jack Hustler” of all trades!
Oh he's got the respect.. his bank account I'm sure will prove that
When the beginning monologue is more sensible than anything you hear on TV, radio and podcasts.
2020 and this is finally hitting the surface of society.
Not really...blm is just a Orwellian tool.
th-cam.com/video/3EGzOTrzPts/w-d-xo.html
@@Sam-Lawry when somebody makes a comment about the realness of a situation in this country YOU feel you gotta make it about BLM.
@@Sam-Lawry looks like you're addicted to youtube politics. you might wan't to step away for a while. You're so wrapped up in being "enlightened", you can't see that you are being used, like a tool.
@@jb34ch1 not really..I just try to check this strange era,were facts and acts doesnt counts,we juge only by labeled opinion.
It's a dystopia..now they already are to 2+2=5...it's Orwellian.
All medias pushes this doxa agenda,the left is dead long time ago,libetarians,critical thinking are now on the opposite way.
For us,it's strange,I remember when fox and republicains were the bad guys,cnn was propagand too about p.n.a.c wars irak..syria..lybia..ukrain (statfor speech/discours statfor friedmann cfr...also 'wag the dogs' with deniro..about colored revolutions),wikileaks and declassified/leaked documents can explain more than me these geopolitic ideology.
Antifa seems anti..against fascism..so if you are against them...you are a fascist...same with blm...all lives matter is racist..like maths..History..biology..milk..ok sign..free speech..white people.
Censure..cancel culture..are everywere..old movies are banned..everything should be explicitly labelled good side 'progressism' or bad side 'conservatism' (like just a nuclear family is bad now..a lot of "journalists" says.).
The last supper..a great movie about these people who are the 'progres',just Pavlovian dogs who fights everything doxa labelled as 'racist conservatist'..
Nobody talks about JP Morgan..goldman sachs..debt..free speech..the 1/100..gafam face book..amazon..open society..google..who oppenly push an agenda...and some accept it..billionaires who push a marxist mask to avoid reals stuff and focus on racial..genders..sexs..stuffs..
It's not new..back then Bernays used it with 'suffragettes' and feminism ego.
Reality is like a Asch experiment,we need people who refuse dogma.
Sooo...yes..I like politic..but it's not my focus...
Timcast,brian logan,blaire white,laura cheen,akkad...are a good way,better than nsbc..cnn..nytimes...
I prefer old arcade games...funny cheesy movies...now Hogan's heroes..Onion movies...Demolition man..4 lions..are dangerous now.
@@Sam-Lawry Here is a link on that 2+2=5 movement: thefederalistpapers.org/us/math-isnt-woke-enough-far-left-academics-argue-225?spotim_referrer=recirculation
It's 2022 and this feels like it needs to be the global world anthem.
Will we realise the message?
Lots of people think this is about racism specifically but I think the intent was its about class and poverty.
Anthony-James Rousseau the song itself mentioned Racism a couple of times..
Lalson Naulak But what he's saying is that people who are poor are targeted more regardless of race
Lalson Naulak Yes, he says "Racism is real, but not it", meaning that racism is still an issue, but it's only a smaller part of the bigger issue.
As it has been said before, racism is an issue, but it's only a smaller part of the bigger issue. Basically the line "When it comes to the poor: No lives matter". Should give it away, if you are able to think a little bit. Which means it doesn't matter whether you are: White, Black, Hispanic, or Asian if you are poor. YOU HAVE NO CHANCE!
And being a non-white person just adds to this issue as it being stated in "Racism is real, but not IT!".
nope
Who’s watching this today? Sadly still relevant
I've sent this song to a guy saying "All lives matter" in response to a "Black lives matter" from Twitter, and then decided I should listen to it again.
@@kalty same
Yeah, basically.. no matter what you think is going on.. the reptilian elite have kept winning.
Me. 61 years old all the way down in Australia.
More appropriate than ever.
this proves ice t should keep making music
technology productions 2017 true
technology productions 2017 it probably made all of your brain leak through your ears cause this shit is straight out of the sewers! #stupidlivesdontmatter
man7as how? For ice t being 59 years old he's pretty good
man7as what the fuck you got bitch?
Ggcggyh chjjigc
It was finally time, somebody with GUTS to say-sing this openly, no beauty or fancy melodies involved. Yes, this is the absolute truth... no lives matter, not yours, not mine, not anyone's, regardless color or origin...
we indeed live in a society
@@mrfantasy255 I agree but it is rotten and there is no respect to Life
I have the most amazing RESPECT for ICE-T and Body Count. First time I hear them I was like WTF is this but I gave it a chance because it was Ice-T and that's all it took now I listen every now and then and I'm a 57 year old man.
This, me, today ❤️
Hell yea, i bet you get good weed.
This shit hits so hard. Its so raw and real. When it comes to the poor... NO LIVES MATTER
lol
It's got nothing to do with poverty. Don't believe that those who claim to want to change the system care any more about the poor or anyone's lives than the people in charge. If they did they would have scrapped the minimum wage, ended tariffs, and generally freed up the economy. Instead we hear about how racist the police are, with no evidence whatsoever. Yes I said no evidence, prove me wrong.
Sung by a millionaire 🙄
Your mom..
Although... has first hand experience. "If" you level up, you do not forget where you come from or what you have experienced. Even with his millions, he is still bringing awareness to socioeconomic implications, factors and barriers of being a person of color in our society.
I am wasting pearls before swine here, but: th-cam.com/video/RrWIlGJnFwg/w-d-xo.html
If you watch it and get something out of it, that's cool. If you are a bot, I just told a very long YOUR MOM IS DUMB joke and *somebody* will laugh, because someone will *always* laugh at a "your mom" joke because if you tell it right, that joke is "ALWAYS FUNNY" -- a very rare category. But. You have to tell it right. You cannot just barge into a room and tell the punch line, you looking nothing like the other folks in the room, for instance. You got to lead folks along. Like I'm trying to lead along a bot, or a stranger, or a fellow traveler who enjoys
I respect Ice T a lot, but after seeing this video and hearing this song, I respect him even more.
He's not caught up in the bullshit distractions that everyone else is stuck in, he's getting to the real point of the issue.
Ice T fucking gets it.
And the song is dope as fuck, too.
Kyle Clements you should listen to the album this off bloodlust . It's so fuckin good
Yeah, the whole album is great, but this song in particular hit me pretty good. It's bang on. Poor white people get harassed by cops and given over the top sentences for misdemeanour offences in courts every day, it's not just a "ghetto" issue. More people of every race put together are in the majority when it comes to not having money. The upper and elite classes look down on us ALL most of the time, and think they're money means safety. Well, if the poor of every race ever did decide to band together and cause some shit, they would not be safe for long.
That's why the media is always reporting on cops killing black people, but almost never report shit when a cop kills a white person. They want us to think it's about race so we can keep fighting each other while the rich and powerful horde even more riches and power.
Absolutely.
They don't want him speaking the truth but he's gonna do it regardless, and what he says about poor white people getting fucked with/killed by these bitch police is point positive. When Hill Harper wrote the book, "Letters to an Incarcerated Brother" he referred to the alleged justice system as the new Jim Crow; problem is old Jim has me targeted in his scopes as well since I'm a poor white male. Yes, we are in this together but it transcends above race, it's social inequality to the point where cops kill with impunity=without punishment. This is the fuckin year 2017 and this shit isn't only the same...it's worse.
"All I want to say is that they don't really care about us" - Micheal Jackson
Ice gets it. It’s about money not race
Always was. Always will be.
Like the old saying money talks bullshit walks.
Word
Miki Mouse this to easy bro. He got there by hard work. Try it too.
Its always been about money and always will be about money!
I was in prison and asked a guard why they allowed us to "optionally segregate" .... politics state races dont mix and laws have been passed to try and stop the practice yet it persists... his answer was strikingly honest... "if youre busy fighting each other you wont come together against us"
I believe all lives matter, yet if I say it(and I do), even if I stand against police brutality and corruption(and I do), just because I say what I believe(and I do), *I'm* demonized by others who call me racist, when *they* focus on race. I focus on the human race, and last I checked, blacks are as human as whites. Because I think of humanity as a whole, *they* are the ones causing division, by treating people who honestly believe all lives matter, as the enemy. If I say all lives matter, and someone gets mad, tells me to go to hell, drops F-bombs on me, and tries assaulting me, who was standing with them against police brutality and corruption, I think, if I was still alive and mobile, I'd leave.
Why stand with someone who would treat you like the enemy if you simply said, and believed, all lives matter?
@@wildside316 I agree with you. I thought this whole thing was supposed to be about police brutality. I am a white man, but I too have been thrown to the ground by cops, had one sit on my neck with his knee while 4 others held me down and handcuffed me. I wasn't resisting. Didn't do anything to provoke that kind of response, just another cop having a bad day and decided to take it out on me. Then he tried to break my arm and burn my face with the hood of his car. This shit don't happen to just black people, but for some reason people only want to focus on the racial aspect of it and if you say anything other than that then you must be racist. When it seemed like the people wanted to rise up against police brutality and corruption I was all for it. Now I just keep quiet. Seems like it doesn't take much to say the "wrong" thing these days so maybe it's easier to not say anything
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wildside316 imagine someone’s house is on fire. they need help to put out the fire, right? so imagine a neighbor to this person whose house is on fire comes up to the firefighters trying to help and goes, “well what about my house? doesn’t my house matter?” yes, of course, however your neighbor’s house is on fire and needs the utmost attention right now. black people are targeted and murdered (more per capita than white people) by police because of their skin color. they are perceived as a threat, because of their skin color. and then their murderers get to keep their jobs and go on like they never murdered someone unjustly.
police brutality happens to every race, however, to ignore the fact that black people are treated as if they don’t matter by police because they are black is willfully ignorant. it is about race. racist cops have made it about race.
time and time again a white boy can shoot up a church, or a school, and be arrested peacefully, but when a black person commits a traffic infraction they could end up dead.
Patrick McDaniel that’s fucked up that that happened to you. it shouldn’t have happened, shouldn’t have been allowed to. BLM fights against police brutality towards everyone. we’re fighting for you too. BLM is against police brutality and corruption. it doesn’t just happen to black people, we’re not saying that. we’re saying black people are disproportionately affected and targeted by cops. and we’re saying not to ignore that.
Love how the song rejects a false universalism and connects the particular struggle of black Americans to the truly universal oppression of the poor. Like, I've just read a philosophy book which argued for something like this. Amazing.
Yes! I also loved how he calls out the bait and switch. They have us fighting over the crumbs.
Read Marx
"An injury to one, is an injury to all." -IWW
And you've missed the point
Sebastian Biller OK, you bunch of racists.
Body Count may be the greatest and most misunderstood metal band ever
Ice T a great of the modern music history both in rap an rock styles.
In ALL the intense rhetoric on the news and social media, this is the realist shit I've heard someone say. And this was release over three years ago.
WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.
STAND TOGETHER / NOT DIVIDED🙏🇺🇸
Indeed brother, indeed!
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There's still two sides to this.
You're either propping up a system which gives privilege to the few and oppresses many, or you're on the side of the people.
Doesn't matter why, your personal reasons, circumstances or anything. You support people, or you support the system.
It is what I have been trying to explain people, in these protests times, but I got bashed for it, maybe they will listen to Body count instead!!
Ice T you are the man. Respects from Turkey.
Jesus Christ it's like half the comments didn't even listen to the message of the song
Really, this is one of the best songs that I heard in this year (2017). The music and the message. Holy shit! It's awesome!
I grew up in Houston ghettos as a white kid. Ill admit I had a measurable amount of racism built in me, as did most all people in the ghettos.
When I first hear BLM, I too thought, fuck that. All lives matter, but it wasnt due to racism, it was due to me not being heard, and not mattering. I felt I had suffered just as much as my neighbor. I felt I had suffered just as badly from our corrupted governing and police.
It took a lot of listening, learning, and keeping my opinions to myself before my brain opened up and realized the situation, and how my opinion wasnt right and needed change. I think recent news has helped me learn a lot. I hope other hard heads could learn the same.
I also hope our corrupt shit legal system gets fixed next. Its not just cops beating people, its the judges/lawyers too.
I grew up in Third Ward, I’m half white and half Mexican. Now I don’t know how old you are, but from what I hear the Tre is all gentrified. Back then people threw rocks at are car while we just driving home.i was 7 years old and didn’t understand that they thought were white landlords coming to harass them. Now that blew my mind! We were always driving an old POS car, and they were our neighbors.
The first time I saw a “All Lives Matter” sign here in New Orleans, 40 years later, I thought, “well yeah that makes sense.” It was my husband, a white boy who grew up in River Oaks, was on the social registry, (yeah I didn’t that was a real thing either,) who explained to me why that was an offensive and downright racist comment. I am still friends with the people I grew up with in the Tre, and it took a gentrified white boy to spell it out to me.
Love ya comrade
@@torigodbey1164 nice. Ya Tre here to. As well as second and sixth. I dealt with rocks, and more. I'm sure you know. It was impossible to cross 280 on foot from the east.
Times are wierd. I'm glad things are smoothing out, although the gentrification sucks. I miss affordable housing.
If you think government corruption and police are bad in America, look at China!
Glad you were able to change your frame of mind. That takes a lot of guts to be willing to challenge your own beliefs, and I commend you for that.
I've loved Body Count since the early '90's. I'm glad to see Ice-T still doing his thing.
Ultimately, it's about caring enough for yourself, your family, your friends, your community, and all others, that you work to make life better for all. We don't all have to think alike about everything, but we would all do better to at least THINK about everything. Only then can we act to make a positive difference.
Kickass message, kickass song. Perhaps music is the only way to get people to see the lack of class conscious citizens in this country. The elites are aware, they always have been.
Amen bro
👌😀
Tell that to RATM.
This song should've won the Grammy for the best Rock/Heavy Metal performance.
This song needs to be broadcasted all over media!!! Let’s gooo!!!
Definitely hear that rage against the machine influence
Rap-Metal done correctly
Clyde Church This is Crossover Thrash, not rap metal.
kakashisensei9258 Gangsta Metal my dude
Mad Dogg goes Nu Metal!
if everybody is black in the band....is this black metal?
I'd say this is Hardcore
Wow, powerful!!! BC is still going strong!
Are they really? This song is shit.
Really whites and blacks are the same People it doesn't matter if you white or black it matters what's on the inside not what's on the inside your heart is what matters not your skin color think about it
Justin Sidious they speak the truth. if you don't realize that what they are saying is true, then you're part of the problem.
Jack Ashton Blacks account for under 30%. Check the FBI stats.
+Justin Sidious I like how you automatically assumed
ice T no more, he has evovled, into liquid nitrogen T, bruh this so cool i had to put a coat on
Lmao
More like solid nitrogen. ;-)
@@berndb7674 More like Solidus Nitrogen
That is dope......!
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
The coolest thing i ever saw was Ice-T flipping off protestors in Beverly hills in his Rolls Royce convertible when time warner dropped him. Keeping it 100 from the start!
RIP Mr. Floyd. We need to be in solidarity and put a stop to these murders.
RIP Mr. Floyd. Let's get looted all Apple and Calvin Klein shops, he he he.....
Jan Kowalski don’t choke when licking that boot
www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/301657/RCMP-concerned-by-arrest
@@lyleknight9012 What does looting private businesses have to do with the government? Your statement makes no logical sense.
yeah rip some random meth-head jogger
I can't believe that I never listened to Body Count before. Even during my ealry rap/nu metal phase growing up this band slipped under my radar.
Glad you found them. 🤘
They were more thrashy before
"You're diluting the issue" is the point. I was one of those people who said "all lives matter" until somebody explained to me this point. Its not that nobody else matters its about making the point that a specific group should be recognized; then i got it.
Actual stats and facts would support that you were actually right to begin with. Saying BLM is selective victim-playing for unearned sympathy.
Damn dude...reading you comment gives me hope that more people can have their minds changed about stuff like that. Thx comrade for understanding! Even if you don't support that certain movement, I will still respect you for at least understanding. Much love, man.
Great to see you understood it :)
This has to be the best Body Count song.
This is more relevant NOW than ever...
It's 2020, we need to blast this from the rooves
I haven't seen Ice-T doing anything but playing a cop in quite some time. This is refreshing.
Never forget that he is a cop killer.
@FreedomAreComing CHAZ is cringe af
J
A man of many faces.
Most honest band on the face of the earth for all time. BC.
i second the motion. one of the very very few bands i bother to check on nowadays. even if the music is kinda generic i guess (pleasant and catchy nonetheless) i always prefer getting the right message from the right person instead of having anselmo/flynn/taylor and all those roaches spreading shit on tasty bread.
Check out King810 they're just as real if not more so. just holy fuck I've been on a splurge of both of these bands
If you like honesty...
RATM, Immortal Technique, Akala, Stöj Snak, System Paralysis.
Tom Hockney I think Immortal technique has a new album this year
mend555 he fucking better!!
Ice-T for president!
I truly learned more from reading then listenjng to the lyrics of this song about the differences and significance of these slogans than I did in all other research combined. Well done and we'll stated. Thank you for this ♥️
Body Count's bass player's so tough that he even don't need 4-string bass
The only color anyone cares about is green.
Nah, the green weenie strikes hard on the green skins
Truer words have never been said
Preach
Yep. Like
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Spot on!!! No doubt
I'm a 57yo white guy and I don't care what color skin you have, you have my support and I'll stand by you, behind you, in front of you, whatever!
I'm a 58 year old white guy, who has noted and now smirks at your self-comforting virtue-signaling.
hold up. is that a 3 string Bass? Wtf
J.J. Hernandez yes.
I saw that, too, and thought, "Hey, that's pretty fucking rad!"
J.J. Hernandez he's so good he only needs 3 :v
KYPCK has a one string bass.
I can understand that,I hate that first two strings and when I play on them it is usually in form of guitar riff just to get warmer and harder sound :)
Juicy guitar tone.
This class conscious shit is the good shit
We are divided now more than ever...we need each other.🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
This is arguably the most thought provoking song ever recorded by Body Count
@Angus Beef it does that in the usa, there are others like yourself who have knowledge of african americans which is often ignored in history
@Angus Beef You didn't listen to the song. The disease is extreme wealth inequality affecting everyone in this country. A symptom of it is police brutality against black people because they are seen as easy targets. People saying "black lives matter" are talking about this specific symptom of organized poverty, but they wanna help your past self just as much as poor black people as that is the key to all of this. No one worth listening to is saying you can't have it bad being white.
The only color that matters is GREEN.
GREEN IS NOT A CREATIVE COLOR
I only care about RED.
Yellow we are all Simpson characters 😊
@@iLlegal_iBex Your entire profile picture except Squidward's shirt is green.
@@wifie9321 T-shirt have a green touch
Ice t has been the voice of wisdom and reason since before mtv still played music. No bullshit. Endless respect for this great man for his brilliance.
We all bleed red
The great prophet Ice-T is once again vindicated regarding his eloquent and poignant wisdom.
LMAO! Prophet! LOL! LOL! BLM IS THE ABBREVIATION FOR BoweL Movement!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As nihilistic as the song title sounds, this song and most of Body Count's work has been very brutally eye opening for me.
And thats why many of us with time have become marxist yeah i know that experience when you start seeing the truth about the world and with time you will be were i am now i am pretty sure of it , bleesing pal and keep it going in the good direction
@matt holston legit too
Whoever's triggered by this didn't stay long enough to hear the lyrics.
Kris DogDesigner TRUTH! They’re too ignorant to understand.
Zarion 11 The people the first comment is referring to are those that have a derogatory emotional reaction unmitigated by thought. I don’t separate the monologue, it represents the speakers perspective. I recommend you take a moment to review the lyrics of the song, it’s a discussion of “class warfare”. A problem in humanity since history has been recorded.
@Zarion 11 you're misinterpreting the lyrics. Did you not hear him clearly say "it's anyone who ain't got cash, poor whites who they call trash" at the beginning?
Zarion you are the only one that gets it so far... Most are a bit delusional.
@Zarion 11 "IceT is trying not to be racist, but in my opinion he is racist. " Your opinion is objectively wrong.
"He is a bit stuck in the early 90's. Times have changed a bit." This sentence literally means nothing because nothing in this video relates to what you're saying.
"He is racist for mentioning that you can only say black lives matter. That is racist as hell." He didn't say that.
"White's are poor too. That is not a black privilege." Yeah, he says that. "It honestly aint just black, its brown it's yellow it's red. It's anyone who aint got cash, poor whites that they call 'trash.'"
I can't tell if you're purposely ignoring the lyrics and only hearing what you want to hear or what.
I'm a white aussie and I fuckin love this song, should be all with one no matter what race or colour 🤘🤘✊✊
This is a rocking to the point song, I have to admit I was a all lives matter Sayer BUT after carefully listening to the lyrics my mind has been changed.
From one poor ass white man, THANK YOU ...
Welcome brother
This is one of the best comments on the internet.
It's about everything and everyone!!
It warms my heart to see someone gain some class consciousness. Wake up and smell the ashes, brother. We've got some chains to break.
For just being a random youtube comment, it makes me surprisingly happy. I'm glad you listened, and I hope you know that as a poor white dude, you are in a unique position to actually change things.
How?
By telling your friends, family, co workers, and community what you now know whenever you hear them say "all lives matter". Change comes from within communities, not from outside, and right now *you* are that insider who can help change this country for the better.
For all of us.
I love this song. It's intent is so clear and unbiased, the delivery is perfect, and the argument is presented supported with logic and reason... I take it to be an honest message. It's refreshing
I'll be honest, one I saw Ice-T the last thing I expected was a heavy guitar line.
This is seriously one hell of a song
Right! It’s raw!
Obviously you’ve never heard of Body Count I had his tape back in the late 80s
When I was 13 in the early 90s I´ve been listening to Body Count and Cop-Killer, knowing that it´s something political but forbidden.
I have always seen Ice-T as a person with his heart and brain at the right place. But for 30 years I have not been much interested in Body Count.
I prefer epic Scandinavian Metal, Dark Metal and Progressive Rock / Metal. Now I have realized, that Body Count has become much harder through the years.
This song has made me a fan! This song is epic! It´s message is as sad as important!
This song becomes my hymn and should be for all good people!
Now, that europe turns more and more to nationalisms, lobbyism and capitalism we need this song to be played everywhere as loud as PHUC!
one of body counts best tunes
That's one of the most intense ad powerful thing i've ever listened to.
you dumb
@@evanprest6224 no u
Being a hardcore metal fan I always thought of rap metal as a joke cuz the impression I have of it is of shit like Limp Bizkit but holy goddamn this is heavy as fuck and very well written. Like the grooves are tight as fuck and the subject matter is extremely important and relevant. Honestly im really impressed by this. 19/10 for sure
You should check out the soundtrack for Judgement Night(1993)
Oh shiz..Judgement Night !! Good choice..Biohazard and Onyx kill it!
This isn't really rap metal though. He's not really rapping. It's straight up metal.
This is 10x worse than Limp.
@@SerErryk You are 10x worse than Limp. At least Limp was funny.
2022 and still coming back to listen