Accidental Racist," is a duet between Brad Paisley and LL Cool J, featured on Paisley's new album "Wheelhouse." Lyrics stir Controversy

The Basic ground for Racism is embedded in Racism. This issue ignored by some and other doesn't bother about it but it is still alive in America.  The teamwork of rapper LL Cool J and country music crooner Brad Paisley, kindled the fierce surrounding in their song "Accidental Racist", which invites white and black Americans to put slavery in the past and unite.

In Internet last Monday, April 8, Paisley and LL ignited a song; Accidental Racist and they didn't expect the sparking feed back.

"I'm not really sure we're going to find any answers but it was the idea that we were asking the question," Paisley said in an exclusive interview with his duet partner that aired today on "Good Morning America".

MTV news report says that, Sunday night at the Academy of country music awards, Rapper LL Cool J told, "I needed to do something that was going to be interesting like that and shake things up, and jump out of the box," "Accident Racist" was what the music industry needed. Music is all about Art, and it is the one that connects different people and building bridges and breaking the rules, said by Cool J told CNN.

On the song, Paisleysings from the white confederate perspective on blacks and race in America, While LL Cool, uses his platform to play the role of a black man from the Hood.

While Paisley sings:

I'm just a white man comin' to you from the southland

Tryin' to understand what it's like not to be

I'm proud of where I'm from but not everything we've done

And it ain't like you and me can re-write history

Our generation didn't start this nation

We're still pickin' up the pieces, walkin' on eggshells, fightin'

over yesterday

And caught between southern pride and southern blame

LL Cool J chimes in his point of view:

Dear Mr. White Man, I wish you understood

What the world is really like when you're livin' in the hood

Just because my pants are saggin' doesn't mean I'm up to no

good

You should try to get to know me, I really wish you would

Now my chains are gold but I'm still misunderstood

I wasn't there when Sherman's March turned the south into firewood

I want you to get paid but be a slave I never could

Feel like a new fangled Django, dodgin' invisible white hoods

So when I see that white cowboy hat, I'm thinkin' it's not all good

I guess we're both guilty of judgin' the cover not the book

I'd love to buy you a beer, conversate and clear the air

But I see that red flag and I think you wish I wasn't here

Towards the end of the song the black rapper from the rugged

Streets of Queens, and the white southern Mason Dixon line lover go line for line in a conversation style flow.

I'm just a white man

(If you don't judge my do-rag)

Comin' to you from the southland

(I won't judge your red flag)

Tryin' to understand what it's like not to be

I'm proud of where I'm from

(If you don't judge my gold chains)

But not everything we've done

(I'll forget the iron chains)

It ain't like you and me can re-write history

(Can't re-write history baby)

Oh, Dixieland

(The relationship between the Mason-Dixon needs some fixin')

I hope you understand what this is all about

(Quite frankly I'm a black Yankee but I've been thinkin' about this lately)

I'm a son of the new south

(The past is the past, you feel me)

And I just want to make things right

(Let bygones be bygones)

Where all that's left is southern pride

(RIP Robert E. Lee but I've gotta thank Abraham Lincoln for freeing me, know what I mean)

Brad Paisley - Accidental Racist Lyrics

LL and Paisley seem to be pleased with the song, other music artists do not share the same emotions. The Roots drummer, Quest love even prompted fans to address lyrics; in the same way others have dissected Rick Ross's controversial date rape lyrics. 

 

 

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