PwnusMaximus

Its crazy how rich and colorful you manage to make every bar. You can pause after every line and let your mind wonder for minutes at a time putting together the image you’re drawing. Dope as shit yo

The earth shifting, the earth speaking, earthquakes in China, Tsunamis, and Cali drifting.
I’m trying to circle the Ka'baa cry and kiss.
If you can be all you can be, then why enlist in?
Oil thieves in foreign lands without permission.

Beanie’s second verse is the hardest in this song and one of his better verses ever. You gotta put these corrections up and do it justice.

Jesus Christ is often portrayed as a white European, when in reality he should be portrayed as Arab-looking.

I agree with Jake and would like to add the concept of dignity and pride that play a role throughout Immortal’s justification insurgency. He’s basically asking us why we would expect peace from people who’ve suffered unbelievable horrors from our invasion when the average person snaps at much more frivolous things. The hypocrisy is hard hitting.

This line should be grouped with the one directly after it. In keeping with the pattern of wartorn regions referred to throughout the song, I believe that this line accounts for the Middle East. Throughout the Middle East, the United States has a history of propping up ruthless dictators for reason ranging from natural resource interests and security interests for Israel. Dictators like Saddam, Gaddafi, Ben Ali, Saleh, and Mubarak have all had close relationships with the US at one point or another. Considering that this album was released in 2008, however, I believe that this line may refer to the elections held in the Gaza strip. The elections were monitored by the UN and Jimmy Carter and were supported by the US. However, after the results showed that Hamas had won by a landslide, the entire Gaza strip suffered from sanctions, blockade, and war.

Jesus was born in Bethlehem and would most likely look like the people that inhabit that part of the world: Palestinian Arabs. He’s criticizing the Catholic church and pointing to its bigotry through its portrayal of Jesus as someone that looks like the founders of the Catholic Church (white europeans.)

These 4 lines are referring strictly to central Asia where poppy fields have long been banned by Islamist groups before the war by the western coalition. After stability was lost, and civilians were unable to earn a living in a warzone, the had to depend on the humanitarian aid. However, that wasn’t enough to survive on, so they returned to the pre-Taliban way of growing heroin poppies.

His way of life is rooted in the drug world. The crack-cocaine he cooks in his kitchen is a recipe that he was taught.

If God wills it, he’ll follow the teachings of Islam.

The term ‘sunni’ is heavily used in Philadelphia and other areas in the east coast, especially among the black community to describe orthodox Muslims. While most places refer to mainstream muslims simply as muslims, the black muslim community in the east coast is comprised of 5 percenters, followers of the nation of Islam, and also suffi muslims. Orthodox muslims have referred to themselves as sunni to differentiate themselves from the other sects that can have very different views on different beliefs.