An Outkast song?

Question

Can anybody tell me what "Bombs Over Bagdad" is supposed to be about?
Also, what album was it on and what year was it released?

Answer 1

its probable about the chaos in this world of war poverty and materialsim in comparison with us.

"B.O.B." (an acronym for Bombs Over Baghdad) is a 2000 single by OutKast for the LaFace/Arista Records label. The first single from their album Stankonia, "B.O.B." is high-tempo and jungle-influenced, with a BPM rate of 155. The song is also noted for its use of a choir (the Morris Brown College Gospel Choir) in the chorus.

Despite popular belief, the song is not about the 2003 invasion of Iraq (an impossibility given that the song was released three whole years before the war started). The song actually references the 1998 bombing of Baghdad by the United States under the Clinton Administration, which were interpreted to be more show than substantive.

The frantic nature and the genre-bending "shock" of the song lead many radio outlets in the United States to limit its airplay.[1] Unlike the follow-up single "Ms. Jackson," which peaked at #1, "B.O.B." only reached #69 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. [2]

The inspiration for the song came when André 3000 was in a London hotel room and overheard a news report about "bombs over Baghdad."[3]

The song has been reportedly been used as a rally song for the 2003 invasion. André 3000 did not seem pleased that the song was being used as a war rally, however noted that it might be a "good thing" if it improves soldier morale. [4] Big Boi, meanwhile, has voiced his opposition to the 2003 invasion but noted he cannot control how the public interprets his work. [5]

Despite its mixed reviews among critics a




: OutKast
Album: Stankonia
Title: Bombs Over Bahgdad

[Dre]

1, 2.. 1, 2, 3; yeah!

Inter-national, underground

Thunder pounds when I stomp the ground (Woo!)

Like a million elephants with silverback orangutans

You can't stop a train

Who want some? Don't come un-pre-pared

I'll be there, but when I leave there

Better be a household name

Weather man tellin' us it ain't gon' rain

So now we sittin' in a drop-top, soaken' wet

In a silk suit, tryin' not to sweat

Hits somersaults without the net

But this'll be the year that we won't forget

One-Nine-Nine-Nine, and brutha anything goes, be whatchu wanna be

Long as you know consequences, to give and for livin' defenses

Too hot, I'm jumpin' jail

Too low to dig, I might just touch hell

HOT! Get a life, now they gon' sell

Then I might catch you a spell, look at what came in the mail

A scale and some Arm and Hammer, so grow grid and some baby máma

Black Cadillac and a pack of pampers, stack of question with no answers

Cure for cancer, cure for AIDS

Make a ***** wanna stay onto it for days

Get back home, things are wrong

We're not really able to spend all alone

before he left, (?), to a ball of power

Thousands of thousands miles per hour

Hello, ghetto, let your brain breath,

believe there's always more

Ahhhhh!


Chorus: 2X

[Dre] Don't pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang

{Choir} Bombs over Baghdad!

[Dre] Yeah! Ha ha yeah!

Don't even bang unless you plan to hit something

{Choir} Bombs over Baghdad!

{Dre} Yeah! Uhh-huh


[Big Boi]

Uno, dos, tres, it's on

Did you ever think a pimp rock a microphone?

Like that there boy and will still stay street

Big things happen every time we meet

Like a track team, crack fiend, dyin to geek

Outkast bumpin' up and down the street

Slam back, Cadillac, 'bout five ***** deep


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Seventy-five emcee's freestylin' to the beat

Cause we get krunk, stay drunk, at the club

Should have bought an ounce, but you caught the dub

Should have held back, but you throwed the punch

'Spose to meet your girl but you packed a lunch

No D to-the U to-the G for you

Got a son on the way by the name of Bamboo

Got a little baby girl four year, Jordan

Never turn my back on my kids for them

Should have hit it (hit it) quit it (quit it) rag (rag) top (top)

Before you read up, get a laptop

Make a business for yourself, boy, set some goals

Make a fair dime out of dusty coal

Record number four, but we on a roll

Hold up, slow up, stop, control

Like Janet, planets, Stankonia is only

A movin' like floor commin' straight to Florida

Lock all your windows then block the quarters

Pullin' off on bell 'cause a whippins in order

Like a three piece fist, 'fore I cut your daughter

Yo quiero Taco Bell, then I hit the border

Penny pap rappers tryin' to get the five

I'm a microphone fiend tryin' to stay alive

When you come to A-town well you better not hide

cause the Dungeon Family gonna ride

Hah!


Chorus: 2X

[Dre] Don't pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang

{Choir} Bombs over Baghdad!

[Dre] Yeah! Ha ha yeah!

Don't even bang unless you plan to hit something

{Choir} Bombs over Baghdad!

{Dre} Yeah! Uhh-huh


{Choir}

Bombs over Baghdad! Yeah

Bombs over Baghdad! Yeah

Bombs over Baghdad! Yeah

Bombs over Baghdad! Yeah


[Dre]

B-I-G, B-O-I

An-An-Andre

To the T-O-P


[Dre and Big Boi]: 15X

Bob your head. Rag top.


(1, 2.. 1, 2, 3, 4) (Gimme some)


{Choir}: 23X

Bible music. Electric revival.

Answer 2

Album- Stankonia, released in 2000

Answer 3

I don't know what B.O.B is about, but the album was Stankonia and was released in 2001

Answer 4

that's a prety old song it might be refering to the first desert storm but i seriously doubt it.