"Mosh" is a protest song by Eminem released on October 26, 2004 as a digital single, just prior to the 2004 presidential election.
The video for the song is available for free on the Internet and encouraged voters to vote George W. Bush out of office. The song was excerpted from Eminem's album, Encore, not yet released at the time the video was made available to the public. G-Unit rapper Lloyd Banks also appears in the video.
This song is ranked 58th on About.com's "100 Greatest Rap Songs"
magine it pouring, it's raining down on us,
Mosh pits outside the oval office
Someone's trying to tell us something, maybe this is God just saying
we're responsible for this monster, this coward, that we have empowered
This is Bin Laden, look at his head nodding,
How could we allow something like this, Without pumping our fist
Now this is our, final hour
Let me be the voice, and your strength, and your choice
Let me simplify the rhyme, just to amplify the noise
Try to amplify the times it, and multiply it by six
Teen million people are equal of this high pitch
Maybe we can reach Al Quaida through my speech
Let the President answer on high anarchy
Strap him with AK-47, let him go
Fight his own war, let him impress daddy that way
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our soil
No more psychological warfare to trick us to think that we ain't loyal
If we don't serve our own country we're patronizing a hero
Look in his eyes, it's all lies, the stars and stripes
They've been swiped, washed out and wiped,
And Replaced with his own face, mosh now or die
If I get sniped tonight you'll know why, because I told you to fight
[chorus]
So come along, follow me as I lead through the darkness
As I provide just enough spark, that we need to proceed
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength,
Come with me, and I won't stear you wrong
Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
Till the light, at the end, of the tunnel, we gonna fight,
We gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march through the swamp
We gonna mosh through the marsh, take us right through the doors
Guiding questions:
How does this song present the war? Pro-war or anti-war and how do you know?
What language of the song stands out to you, catches your attention, etc?
Is this song in support of or critical of the stated foreign policy?
How does the song answer one of the driving questions?
Do you agree with the message of the song or not? Why
This song is anti-war. I know this song is anti-war because the tone of the song makes it feel like it is a song used to help people rebel against war and the choices the president has made during the war to take certain actions that the artist(Eminem) doesn't agree with. It is an angered kind of frustrated at what Americas doing tone.
These are the main lines that stood out to me the most
"This is Bin Laden, look at his head nodding,
How could we allow something like this, Without pumping our fist
Now this is our, final hour"
"multiply it by six Teen million people are equal of this high pitch
Maybe we can reach Al Quaida through my speech
Let the President answer on high anarchy
Strap him with AK-47, let him go
Fight his own war, let him impress daddy that way
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our soil
No more psychological warfare to trick us to think that we ain't loyal
If we don't serve our own country we're patronizing a hero
Look in his eyes, it's all lies, the stars and stripes
They've been swiped, washed out and wiped,
And Replaced with his own face, mosh now or die
If I get sniped tonight you'll know why, because I told you to fight"
The most powerful line in this to me is "Let the President answer on high anarchy
Strap him with AK-47, let him go. Fight his own war, let him impress daddy that way".
Eminem is saying this because the president sends a lot of people that truly don’t know what there fighting for and making decisions depending on what HE thinks is beneficial to the USA in the war but perhaps not what Eminem believes is necessarily needed.
Another important line said in his song was
"No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our soil"
Which i completely agree with, even though we did have good reasons to go to war with Iraq i feel like after a certain amount of time in Iraq its very true that the US should have focused more on our own problems than how much attention Iraq was getting. Also when hes talking about how a lot of the war is also for oil and that there shouldn't be American lives dying for oil. I agree with Eminem slightly because he talks about how President Bush should go fight and this connects slightly because if the President thinks a country or something has potential to threat US in a severe way we will fight against it.
The video for the song is available for free on the Internet and encouraged voters to vote George W. Bush out of office. The song was excerpted from Eminem's album, Encore, not yet released at the time the video was made available to the public. G-Unit rapper Lloyd Banks also appears in the video.
This song is ranked 58th on About.com's "100 Greatest Rap Songs"
magine it pouring, it's raining down on us,
Mosh pits outside the oval office
Someone's trying to tell us something, maybe this is God just saying
we're responsible for this monster, this coward, that we have empowered
This is Bin Laden, look at his head nodding,
How could we allow something like this, Without pumping our fist
Now this is our, final hour
Let me be the voice, and your strength, and your choice
Let me simplify the rhyme, just to amplify the noise
Try to amplify the times it, and multiply it by six
Teen million people are equal of this high pitch
Maybe we can reach Al Quaida through my speech
Let the President answer on high anarchy
Strap him with AK-47, let him go
Fight his own war, let him impress daddy that way
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our soil
No more psychological warfare to trick us to think that we ain't loyal
If we don't serve our own country we're patronizing a hero
Look in his eyes, it's all lies, the stars and stripes
They've been swiped, washed out and wiped,
And Replaced with his own face, mosh now or die
If I get sniped tonight you'll know why, because I told you to fight
[chorus]
So come along, follow me as I lead through the darkness
As I provide just enough spark, that we need to proceed
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength,
Come with me, and I won't stear you wrong
Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
Till the light, at the end, of the tunnel, we gonna fight,
We gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march through the swamp
We gonna mosh through the marsh, take us right through the doors
Guiding questions:
How does this song present the war? Pro-war or anti-war and how do you know?
What language of the song stands out to you, catches your attention, etc?
Is this song in support of or critical of the stated foreign policy?
How does the song answer one of the driving questions?
Do you agree with the message of the song or not? Why
This song is anti-war. I know this song is anti-war because the tone of the song makes it feel like it is a song used to help people rebel against war and the choices the president has made during the war to take certain actions that the artist(Eminem) doesn't agree with. It is an angered kind of frustrated at what Americas doing tone.
These are the main lines that stood out to me the most
"This is Bin Laden, look at his head nodding,
How could we allow something like this, Without pumping our fist
Now this is our, final hour"
"multiply it by six Teen million people are equal of this high pitch
Maybe we can reach Al Quaida through my speech
Let the President answer on high anarchy
Strap him with AK-47, let him go
Fight his own war, let him impress daddy that way
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our soil
No more psychological warfare to trick us to think that we ain't loyal
If we don't serve our own country we're patronizing a hero
Look in his eyes, it's all lies, the stars and stripes
They've been swiped, washed out and wiped,
And Replaced with his own face, mosh now or die
If I get sniped tonight you'll know why, because I told you to fight"
The most powerful line in this to me is "Let the President answer on high anarchy
Strap him with AK-47, let him go. Fight his own war, let him impress daddy that way".
Eminem is saying this because the president sends a lot of people that truly don’t know what there fighting for and making decisions depending on what HE thinks is beneficial to the USA in the war but perhaps not what Eminem believes is necessarily needed.
Another important line said in his song was
"No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our soil"
Which i completely agree with, even though we did have good reasons to go to war with Iraq i feel like after a certain amount of time in Iraq its very true that the US should have focused more on our own problems than how much attention Iraq was getting. Also when hes talking about how a lot of the war is also for oil and that there shouldn't be American lives dying for oil. I agree with Eminem slightly because he talks about how President Bush should go fight and this connects slightly because if the President thinks a country or something has potential to threat US in a severe way we will fight against it.