Boots Riley: Tell Homeland Security - We Are The Bomb

Boots Riley, is an American poet, rapper, songwriter, producer, screenwriter, humorist, political organizer, community activist, lecturer, and public speaker—best known as the lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club. He lives in Oakland, California. Adam Mansbach is the author of the instant New York Times bestsellers Go the Fuck to Sleep and You Have to Fucking Eat. His latest novel, Rage is Back, was named a Best Book of 2013 by NPR and the San Francisco Chronicle and is currently being adapted for television; his previous novels include the California Book Award–winning The End of the Jews and the cult classic Angry Black White Boy. Mansbach is the recipient of a Reed Award, a Webby Award, and a Gold Pollie from the American Association of Political Consultants for his 2012 campaign video “Wake The Fuck Up,” starring Samuel L. Jackson. He was the 2009–11 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University, a 2012 Sundance Screenwriting Lab Fellow, and a 2013 Berkeley Repertory Theater Writing Fellow, and will be the 2015 Artist in Residence at Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Believer, Salon.com, and on National Public Radio’s "All Things Considered." He is currently writing an original screenplay about a young Barack Obama for director Vikram Gandhi. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Introduction

Lyrics, with select back stories, by Album

1. Kill My Landlord (1993)

1.Dig It!
2.Not Yet Free
3.Fuck a Perm
4.The Coup
5.I Know You
6.I Ain’t the Nigga
7.Last Blunt
8.Funk
9.Pam’s Song
10.Fo ‘Da Money
11.Foul Play
12.Kill My Landlord

2. Genocide and Juice (1994)

1. Intro (G-Nut Talks Shit from the Gut)
2.Fat Cats, Bigga Fish
3.Pimps (Free Stylin' at the Fortune 500 Club)
4.Takin' These
5.Hip 2 tha Skeme
6.Gunsmoke
7.This One's a Girl
8.The Name Game
9.360 Degrees
10.Hard Concrete
11.Santa Rita Weekend
12.Repo Man
13.Interrogation
14.Outro

3. Steal This Album (1998)

1.The Shipment
2.Me And Jesus The Pimp In A '79 Granada Last Night
3.20,000 Gun Salute
4.Busterismology
5.Cars & Shoes
6.U.C.P.A.S.
7.Pizza Man (Skit)
8.The Repo Man Sings For You
9.Underdogs
10.Sneakin' In
11.Do My Thang (Skit)
12.Piss On Your Grave
13.Fixation

4. Party Music (2001)

1.Everythang
2.5 Million Ways to Kill a C.E.O.
3.Wear Clean Draws
4.Ghetto Manifesto
5.Get Up
6.Tight
7.Ride the Fence
8.Nowalaters
9.Pork and Beef
10.Heven Tonite
11.Thought About It 2
12.Lazymuthafucka
13. Ride the Fence

5. Pick a Bigger Weapon (2006)

1.Bullets And Love
2.We Are The Ones
3.Laugh/Love/Fuck
4.My Favorite Mutiny
5.I Just Wanna Lay Around All Day In Bed With You
6.Head (Of State)
7.Shoyoass
8.Yes Em To Death
9.Ass- Breath Killers
10.Get That Monkey Off Your Back
11.Mindfuck
12.Two Enthusiastic Thumbs Down
13.I Love Boosters!
14.Tiffany Hall
15.Babyletshaveababybeforebushdosomethingcrazy
16.Captain Sterlings Littel Problem
17.The Stand

6. Street Sweeper Social Club (2009)

1.Fight! Smash! Win!
2.100 Little Curses
3.The Oath
4.The Squeeze
5.Clap for the Killers
6.Somewhere in the World It’s Midnight
7.Shock You Again
8.Good Morning Mrs. Smith
9.Megablast
10.Promenade
11.Nobody Moves

7. The Ghetto Blaster EP (2010)

1.Ghetto Blaster
2.Everything
3.Paper Planes
4.The New Fuck You
5.Scars
6.Mama Said Knock You Out
7.Promenade

8. As of yet unreleased album