HIt or Miss – Accidental Racist
WHENEVER the genres country music and hip hop meet, despite being polar opposites musically, it doesn’t always end in a bad result. Nelly and Tim McGraw’s Over and Over proved this and a few others.
Unfortunately, however, Brad Paisely and LL Cool J’s Accidentally Racist is a terrible mash-up of the genres due to poor subject matter and misguided lyrics.
Accidentally Racist is Brad Paisely’s attempt at saying that Southern Confederate American Culture suffers from being labelled as wholeheartedly racist against black Americans.
Paisely, for example, would try to dismiss the notion that the Confederate flag solely symbolises hatred towards blacks — which is a tough sell — as history shows that the Confederates fought the Union in the American Civil War over slavery being abolished and not expanded into more states.
The track turns even more for the worse when hip hop legend LL Cool J raps that he will forgive the past participants of slavery, if current white Americans would stop stereotyping black Americans for wearing “baggy jeans and gold chains”.
We wish that we were making these lyrics up, but these ill-advised thoughts and more were said by LL Cool J in the song.
Accidental Racist could have been a good song if it was released during the 1960s when the USA was enforcing desegregation in their Southern states, but there is no place for such lyrics in 2013 when their nation is headed by Barack Hussein Obama.
Does racism still exist? Yes, but it doesn’t have to be addressed in such a terrible antiquated manner? No. Accidental Racist is one of the worst songs of all time in our opinion.