I've been waiting for someone to bring up the song "Bombs Over Baghdad," by Outkast. That song, released in 2000, has nothing to do with war or literally dropping bombs over Baghdad. According to Outkast's Big Boi, he meant to compare the U.S.'s half-hearted bombing of Iraq in the mid-90s to music artists who half-heartedly release music they're not actually passionate about. Nonetheless, people have co-opted the song as a pro-war anthem, slightly upsetting Big Boi and Outkast, according to the L.A. Times. The paper also gives an interesting history of other songs that have been misinterpreted through the years, including Bruce Springsteen's dark Vietnam war song, "Born in the USA."
Meanwhile, police are looking for motives in the shooting of Snoop Dogg's motorcade the other night.
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