Bombs Over Baghdad (B.O.B.)

Album: Stankonia (2000)
Charted: 61
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  • [Dre]
    1, 2.. 1, 2, 3; yeah!
    In-slum-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, soakin 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, Ano Domini, anything goes, be whatchu wanna be
    Long as you know consequences are given for livin - the fence is
    too high to jump in 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 nigga wanna stay on tour for days
    Get back home, things are wrong
    Well not really, it was bad all along
    before you left adds up to a ball of power
    Thoughts at a thousands miles per hour
    Hello, ghetto, let your brain breathe
    Believe there's always mo', OWWWW!

    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 boi 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 nigga deep
    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 diamond out of dusty coals
    Record number four, but we on a roll
    Hold up, slow up, stop, +Control+
    like Janet, planets, Stankonia's on ya
    Movin like Floyd comin' 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 ATL boi you better not hide
    cause the Dungeon Family gon' 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
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Comments: 7

  • Freebobafett from SeattleThis song has no consistent theme. It's a boasting track that also delves into Andre and Big Boi's home lives which they don't seem completely happy with. I don't get how the chorus (don't pull your gun out if you're not gonna pull the trigger and don't pull the trigger without hitting something) relates to any of it. All that being said, it's one of my favorite tracks of all time.
  • Oobatz from Minneapolis, MnG from Potomac, George is correct, but didn't clarify enough, as evident by your confusion.

    You are correct, the US invaded Iraq in 1990 in Operation Desert Storm, but when this song came out in 2000, the US had left.
    George is correct as well, as this song came out 3 years before Operation Iraqi Freedom.

    This song has NOTHING to do about either Gulf War.
  • G from Potomac, MdGeorge? Are you aware that the US invaded Iraq in 1990?
  • Rayne from Orcutt, CaJohn - The song you're thinking of is a Skratch N Sniff Remix. It's called "Know your public enemy over baghdad", and can be found on Skratch N Sniff's Imeem account. It's not available for download however.
  • John from Cape Coral , FlI heard the one featuring rage against the machine and it was awesome but now i cant find it anywhere on the internet. Does anyone know where to find it?
  • James from WhangareiI've heard a collaboration with this and Rage Against The Machine. It's a really good song.
  • George from Galveston, TxDespite popular belief, the song is not about the Iraqi War (given that the song was released three whole years before the war started).
    The song's real meaning is how people in the music industry only go halfway with things and never finish them, and the group used the Gulf War as an analogy to express that theme.

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