Week 109: Ice T
Happy Thanksgiving.
There is an Ice-T song that every year gets stuck in my head around Thanksgiving time. Not the whole song, but just a line that goes, "But I don't celebrate bullshit thanksgiving. Sit up like some fool and eat turkey? That's the day your forefathers jerked me."
This has gone from being ok, to being bearable, to now just being mostly annoying. Pretty much anytime anyone says the word 'Thanksgiving' to me, I immediately break into that line in my head. This has been the case since I first heard that song sometime in the mid-90s. So it's been over 10 years of this, probably close to 15.
I understand Ice-T's sentiment, thanksgiving is probably my least favorite holiday, I'm not into excessive eating, cooking, football, pilgrims, or most of what this holiday seems to be about these days. I do understand the central sentiment. I am grateful for many things, many many many things, but I don't need a special day to be thankful. I'm thankful every time I kiss my daughter goodnight, every time I stare into my wife's eyes, every time I hear my mother's voice, every time I can still play a guitar, or walk outside. And while I do appreciate the sentiment, in Puerto Rico where I grew up Thanksgiving is a U.S. import, much like McDonalds, or being drafted for wars declared by presidents we had no choice in electing. So the holiday has some negative associations for me.
So it's not a time where I feel comfortable just stuffing myself full of food and laying on the couch watching football all day or whatever. On this holiday, I'm humbly grateful, and I would be happy having a modest dinner with friends and family without a lot of fanfare. But this Ice-T fellow, just keeps rapping the above line in my head over and over to the point where I wish I could trade it for Britney singing 'Oops I did it again' or just about any innane Teen Disney song.
Then I innevitably start thinking about Ice-T in Law and Order: SVU and I just laugh at what the Original Gangster turned into. He now likes to lay down rhyme "because it's fun."
So thanksgiving has been me and Ice-T for many years now. I like some of the guy's music, but come on, enough is enough.
Here's the song:
I'm sorry to have done that, but there is no other way. I am hoping at least one of you listened to it and has taken this curse away from me. And if one of you has and Ice-T sits at your Thanksgiving table next year, for that, I say to you from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
There is an Ice-T song that every year gets stuck in my head around Thanksgiving time. Not the whole song, but just a line that goes, "But I don't celebrate bullshit thanksgiving. Sit up like some fool and eat turkey? That's the day your forefathers jerked me."
This has gone from being ok, to being bearable, to now just being mostly annoying. Pretty much anytime anyone says the word 'Thanksgiving' to me, I immediately break into that line in my head. This has been the case since I first heard that song sometime in the mid-90s. So it's been over 10 years of this, probably close to 15.
I understand Ice-T's sentiment, thanksgiving is probably my least favorite holiday, I'm not into excessive eating, cooking, football, pilgrims, or most of what this holiday seems to be about these days. I do understand the central sentiment. I am grateful for many things, many many many things, but I don't need a special day to be thankful. I'm thankful every time I kiss my daughter goodnight, every time I stare into my wife's eyes, every time I hear my mother's voice, every time I can still play a guitar, or walk outside. And while I do appreciate the sentiment, in Puerto Rico where I grew up Thanksgiving is a U.S. import, much like McDonalds, or being drafted for wars declared by presidents we had no choice in electing. So the holiday has some negative associations for me.
So it's not a time where I feel comfortable just stuffing myself full of food and laying on the couch watching football all day or whatever. On this holiday, I'm humbly grateful, and I would be happy having a modest dinner with friends and family without a lot of fanfare. But this Ice-T fellow, just keeps rapping the above line in my head over and over to the point where I wish I could trade it for Britney singing 'Oops I did it again' or just about any innane Teen Disney song.
Then I innevitably start thinking about Ice-T in Law and Order: SVU and I just laugh at what the Original Gangster turned into. He now likes to lay down rhyme "because it's fun."
So thanksgiving has been me and Ice-T for many years now. I like some of the guy's music, but come on, enough is enough.
Here's the song:
I'm sorry to have done that, but there is no other way. I am hoping at least one of you listened to it and has taken this curse away from me. And if one of you has and Ice-T sits at your Thanksgiving table next year, for that, I say to you from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
3 Comments:
Ahhh... Ice T....
I have had this one liner of a song stuck in my head for about a decade that goes like this... "There's a hole in my butt, that goes to my vagina." Its sung to the sound of Cyndi Lauper's song about there being a whole in the Earth that goes all the way to China.
Its evolved only in that I have created a male version, where the hole can also go to my vas deferens,
I am cursed to sing it once a day. Sometimes I just walk around singing, "There's a hole in my butt."
Hope you had good food.
interesting. the only song i ever associated with with thanksgiving was alice's restaurant. for xmas, i go around humming fuck christmas! by fear.
happy holidays!
I never heard the song you're referring to, but just like you I have the standing expression "Bullshit Thanksgiving" etched in my mind for eternity, because of Ice-T's lyrics. In the song "Momma's gotta die tonight", which was like a personal liberation to me, he refers to "that handy carving knife that we only use on special occasions, like .." and you know what follows.
It's weird, as a catchphrase, it just sticks. I have never been able to shed this annotation, since I first encountered it 15 years ago. Just like you.
No matter what Ice-T has done later in his career, his angry art of his "gangsta rap" period, stands as a monument.
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