You mean "y ahorita", which either means "in a minute" or "right now" depending on context (it means "right now" or "right about now" in this)

I think it depends on an interpretation of "so I take her to the can", which I think can be more reasonably interpreted as taking her to the bathroom to have sex with her.

Touche. It's pretty bad.

I fucking salute this comment.

But black people looting their own neighborhoods is totally morally unambiguous and makes complete ethical sense.

I wouldn't say they're needlessly venerated- if anything, they're incorrectly lumped in with the rest of the trash from that era. They were much better than the acts they're often associated with.

I think listing Sublime with Red Hot Chili Peppers sequentially pretty well illustrates the issue you're describing.

Thank you.

Wrong Way and Date Rape take pretty unmistakable stands against male sexual entitlement. The narrator in Wrong Way is clearly a character, not Nowell himself, and his hypocritical attempts to "save" the underaged prostitute he nonetheless sleeps with is judged pretty harshly. Date Rape is a story in which the…

Agreed that Caress Me Down is the apex of Nowell's trashiness- but goddamn it if he doesn't EMBRACE it. There's almost a campiness to it in those songs, nowhere more evident than Caress Me Down. Translate the Spanish verse. It's kind of amazing. Sublime and Nowell don't get enough credit for self awareness. This was a…

Also making fun of someone for ODing on heroin in San Francisco. Because how cliche , right?

A Boss DJ ain't nothing but a man… https://www.youtube.com/wat…

And there will be for quite some time. What most people (certainly Jonah Ray) don't understand about Sublime is that they're a regional band who never should have gained a national following. Sublime is as endemic to Long Beach and coastal Orange County as Bon Jovi is to New Jersey. Listening to Sublime in Michigan…

Excellent point, though I still cringe at the lumping in of Sublime with the likes of 311, Limp Bizkit, Crazytown, Sugar Ray, Jack Johnson, and all similarly poseurish garbage. Looking purely at the fanbase, it's a reasonable mistake to make- it's a lot of the same burnout douchebags raising up their dudebro heroes…

I get the sense that you don't AGREE with the notion that Brad Nowell was an underappreciated genius, but I'll let that slide.

People sing about fucked up things all the time. It's a little pearl-clutchy to draw the line here, when the song is clearly taking a moral stand against both the sexual exploitation of the girl as well as the ethically garbled, misguided good intentions of the song's narrator. It's actually a pretty goddamned…

I agree that Date Rape is troublesome, but it's important to remember that it was one of their earlier songs and hit the radio as a novelty tune. Bradley went on record as saying that he hated the song. Nowell's evolution as a writer between Date Rape and a song like Wrong Way is interesting to see- he becomes much…

^ Exactly.

a. Obviously they were criminals. Anybody rioting and looting is technically a criminal, regardless of "trans-racial consciousness".
b. I'd remind you of the same thing. You're the one who "feels" that Nowell was "whitewashing" the King riots. I'm stating the fact that he was there, rioting, in his neighborhood, and…

Can I also just add that they chose the smuggest and most dickish looking picture of this person imaginable to use on the headline? LOOK at that asshole!