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Badass accompanies a little girl, taking a stroll through the neighborhood with her as they meet a group of men on the sidewalk who start dancing to the song. After dropping off the girl with her mother, [11] [13] Badass gives an outdoor performance with a band that is shut down by police, [11] [12] and joins others inside a church. [13]
A. Harmony of Exclaim! said, "Courageous and passionate, Badass is a well-timed soundtrack to social and political struggle. While the album specifically chronicles the horrors of being a young black man in America, Joey articulates his angst in a way that easily resonates with anyone stumbling under the weight of oppression". [19]
The song is broken into two sections; the first being "a badass, heavy, prog song", as Kowalewicz describes it, followed by a softer section that incorporate a horns section alongside the band. Part I was primarily written by D'Sa, which evoked feelings of "riding through a desert on horseback" from the rest of the band.
The song finds Joey Badass rapping in a boastful and threatening manner over a "minimal backdrop of faded beats", [2] as well as delivering "clever similes and metaphors", double entedres and ad-libs, [3] [4] [5] about how he "won't stop until he reaches 'Christ conscious'".
After the USS Cole bombing in October 2000, the song was played on the ship's PA system upon leaving the port of Yemen after the national anthem and other patriotic songs were played. [4] A version of the song was used as the entrance theme for WWF (now WWE) wrestler The Undertaker in 2000 for his "American Badass" persona. [5]
It's about being a badass and still being a good person. I feel like there is a lot of miscommunication when it comes to rock 'n roll. You don't have to have that "fuck you" attitude. It shouldn't be like that. Rock 'n roll is about embracing everybody and having fun. The more the merrier and the better the party is going to be!
The song was released by RCA Records on January 22, 2013, [2] [3] as the first single from his debut major label extended play Almost Home (2013). Furthermore, it appears as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of his debut studio album My Own Lane (2014).
The Big Badass is the second solo studio album by the American rapper and record producer Ant Banks. [2] It was released on May 10, 1994 through Dangerous Music/Jive Records. [3]