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Rd1: Goat Song of 06: Shadow Business vs Grammy Family

Rd1: Goat Song of 06: Shadow Business vs Grammy Family

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Water Ur Seeds said:
Seriously??? 'Shadow Business' is next level...

'It's 1.6 million people locked in jail
They the new slave labor force, trapped in Hell
They generate over a billion dollars worth of power
And only gettin' paid twenty cents an hour
They make clothes for McDonald's and for Applebee's
And working forty-hour shifts in prison factories
And while we sit around debating who the wack MC's
They have to work when arthritic pain attack the knees'

'Slavery's not illegal, that's a fucking lie
It's illegal, unless it's for conviction of a crime
The main objective is to get you in your fucking prime
And keep the prison full and not give you a fucking dime
But they the real criminal, keeping you confined
For a petty crime, but they give you two-to-nine'
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While I understand the sentiment of the song, I was locked up about 20 years ago and I had a job working in the kitchen. Honestly, having a job in the joint is waaaay better than being an ordinary prisoner. Especially if you work in the kitchen. You eat better and there's a broader variety of food to choose from, not just what they're serving for the day's meal.

For example, if they're serving pasta for lunch, you can eat what they served for breakfast, or what they served for dinner the day before instead of pasta.
 
5 Grand said:
While I understand the sentiment of the song, I was locked up about 20 years ago and I had a job working in the kitchen. Honestly, having a job in the joint is waaaay better than being an ordinary prisoner. Especially if you work in the kitchen. You eat better and there's a broader variety of food to choose from, not just what they're serving for the day's meal.

For example, if they're serving pasta for lunch, you can eat what they served for breakfast, or what they served for dinner the day before instead of pasta.
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Thats not my take on the song, my take is that the prisons being privately owned for which the private companies earn money from each individual they lock up, then once people are locked up 'in the their prime', the prisons and other companies get to use the inmates for cheap labour, not just for serving other inmates food...

The first verse on the song is about the conditions people working in Asia etc

'Yeah, it's a contemporary form of slavery, they call it slave labor
But they don't prosecute them cause it's how they make paper
When you rocking that fly shit that's made in China
By an eight year old child trying to feed his mama
He exposed to contamination and disease
And only fifty-five percent of them will get degrees
And the women have to try to placate the boss
Because of sex discrimination in the labor force
The slave master only let them speak in sign language
And they suffering from lung disease and eye damage
Fourteen hour shifts, seven days a week
Two shitty meals a day, very little sleep
Human life only worth three cents an hour
All human rights lost, no sense of power
Working for a hundred years in the grave passes
Only the improved cleverness of slave masters'
 
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