We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Rush Hour '98

from I've Been Thinking​.​.​. by AllOne

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Limited edition run of 100 (Unless you guys rapidly convince me otherwise! You read that right....CASSETTE!!! Pressed through NYC's own Cryptic Carousel.

    The tapes will come with download cards and you'll still get to download the album to all of your favorite devices, but this album just felt musically and aesthetically like it belonged on something odd and nostalgic and a little old school. Plus, let's be honest you don't primarily really use your CD's beyond a download anyway and I needed something quirky and physically enticing! This is my first cassette release and it will be a limited run so pick them up now, only 100 available!!

    Includes unlimited streaming of I've Been Thinking... via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 14 days
    edition of 25 
    Purchasable with gift card

      $10 USD or more 

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 16 AllOne releases available on Bandcamp and save 10%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Emotionauts, The Clock, Halcyon Wonders, Whole > Sum Parts, My Answer (prod. by Tantu Beats), Dusty Dossiers EP, The Following Story... (A Midnight Pursuit), Stone Soup For The Soul, and 8 more. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      $54.90 USD or more (10% OFF)

     

about

A non-fiction account of learning to watch my mouth. The power of words. Loss of innocence. Reflecting on how the most brief moments might echo to influence a person's development and course of life. The problem of race issues. White Privilege.

lyrics

It’s 1998 and I’m ten,
I'm crunching mouthfuls of m&ms,
Twizzlers and some Zours with my friends
watching Rush Hour in the Cineplex,
we were in stitches giggling
Pretty much from the title right up until the end.
A couple scenes had stuck with me,
including the snippet when Jackie Chan
had said some word beginning with an N
And then the dude in the clip got super pissed
and they had the fight doing cool moves with the pool sticks
At that we at that we had a laugh
Returned to school sincerely happy to have some
Gags to share during and after lunch foolish,
Class clowns just acting dumb trying to be cool kids,
Recess that Monday at Jericho elementary was treated like a talent show,
We ran up to every kid on the field
Reenacting classic knee slapping quotes,
Especially the one with the “N” word, hadn’t known
what it meant sure but we laughed like dopes.
Got outta recess and the teach’ was in a bad mood
hollered my name "Where's Bruce?"I was grabbed rudely by the collar, enraged,  she dragged me to the doorwayand who’s that classmate standing ashamed in the hallway..
But one of rare few black students,
Tears cascading down his cheeks,
I asked why she had been so mean
when forming this sad group and why we had to meet!?she scowled incredulous
Asking if I had said some crass expletive
I’d like to say “sorry” for,
Ingenuous,
I asked if they could clarify or
Help me understand the crime that I was called outside for
(Meanwhile he just sobbed and cried more)
He repeated the story of the Rush Hour line of course
(The one with the N mystery)
I didn’t get it so I said this and
I timidly admitted I'd mimicked indiscriminately,
and no one else exhibited misery,
that's when they explained the significance to me.
Oh...I felt like a troglodyte,
Honest, I apologized which moderately mollified his melancholy solemn eyes,
walked inside locked my eyes on the hard tile floor shock derived with sickened wonderhow my soft and bright tongue could turn on me
and could do so much hurt with one word.
And with the bane of ignorance
I tainted that little kid,
Our exchange gave him
His first racist experience
And I wonder decades later
How it resonates across the years he’s lived.  

credits

from I've Been Thinking​.​.​., released May 3, 2016
Lyrics written and performed by Bruce "AllOne" Pandolfo
Instrumental by Wise 1 Beats

license

tags

about

AllOne

Left-field rapper, slam poet, singer/songwriter, and author Bruce Pandolfo from Long Island.
Creating to connect. Obsessively exploring and creating art as healing and growing.

contact / help

Contact AllOne

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

AllOne recommends:

If you like AllOne, you may also like: