Bin Laden (song)

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"Bin Laden"
Mos Def and DJ Green Lantern
ReleasedAugust 9 2005
Recorded2004
GenreHip-hop
Length3:56
LabelBabygrande Records, Viper Records
Songwriter(s)Felipe Andres Coronel
Producer(s)DJ Green Lantern

"Bin Laden" is a

Mos Def and DJ Green Lantern.[2][3][4][5]

The song appeared on mixtapes since November 2004,

Towers
/Them cowards fucked with the wrong building, they meant to hit ours" from "Patiently Waiting".

Music and lyrics

The song, whose lyrics argue that

towers", sampled from the song "Why?" by Jadakiss. The song first appeared on mixtapes on 9 October 2004.[7]

Immortal Technique raps: "

Muslim religion, even though bin Laden was a CIA tactician, they gave him billions of dollars, and they funded his purpose, Fahrenheit 9/11, that's just scratchin' the surface." In another line, Immortal Technique raps: "And of course Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons. We sold him that shit, after Ronald Reagan
's election."

Immortal Technique explained his views on 9/11 in a 2008 interview:[8]

I said on [Revolutionary] Volume 2, that I didn't think Bush was responsible for 9/11, I just figured that the government is lying about their relationships with the people involved in it. I'm not trying to come off like a conspiracy theorist, that's fine, but you can't marginalize the facts. I believe wasn't all but two of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, and we invade Afghanistan and Iraq. Now we use the premise that the Taliban is harboring bin Laden but we pull out tens of thousands of troops when we have him cornered. There's a lot of things that are conspiracy theories that are actually true, they happen. I'm not just sitting here and saying outlandish things. There's definitely things the government doesn't want us to know, not for our protection, but for their protection.

Samples

References

  1. ^ "ASCAP Repertory entry for this song". ASCAP. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
  2. ^ Walker, Verbal (10 May 2005). "Immortal Technique takes on Bush". Hip-Hop DX. Retrieved 17 January 2010.
  3. ^ "9/11 And Music Photos - Mos Def". CBS News. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
  4. ISBN 978-1-4443-5815-5
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  5. ISBN 978-0-313-35506-6
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  6. ^ "Rappers Claim "Bush Knocked Down the Towers" on "Bin Laden" Song : LA IMC".
  7. ^ "Mixtape Archive - October 2004". jahboite.co.uk.
  8. ^ "Immortal Technique Interview - June 6, 2008 - Underground Hip Hop dot com". Undergroundhiphop.com. 2008-06-06. Archived from the original on June 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-19.

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