Tay Zonday - Chocolate Rain (LAB OX REMIX)

since the acapella was released, you will be hearing many remixes of this song but I think this is the only one worth listening to.



http://www.youtube.com/wa...9GDGQbTOHM

Some stay dry and others feel the pain
A baby born will die before the sin
The school books say it can't be here again
The prisons make you wonder where it went

Build a tent and say the world is dry
Zoom the camera out and see the lie
Forecast to be falling yesterday
Only in the past is what they say

Raised your neighborhood insurance rates
Makes us happy living in a gate
Made me cross the street the other day
Made you turn your head the other way

History quickly crashing through your veins
Using you to fall back down again
History quickly crashing through your veins
Using you to fall back down again

Seldom mentioned on the radio
It's the fear your leaders call control
Worse than swearing, worse than calling names
Say it publicly and you're insane

No one wants to hear about it now
Wish real hard it goes away somehow
Makes the best of friends begin to fight
But did they know each other in the light?

Every February washed away
Stays behind as colors celebrate
The same crime has a higher price to pay
The judge and jury swear it's not the face

History quickly crashing through your veins
Using you to fall back down again
History quickly crashing through your veins
Using you to fall back down again

Dirty secrets of economy
Turns that body into GDP
The bell curve blames the baby's DNA
But test scores are how much the parents make

Flipping cars in France the other night
Cleans the sewers out beneath Mumbai
Cross the world and back, it's all the same
Angels cry and shake their heads in shame

Lifts the ark of paradise in sin
Which part do you think you're living in?
More than marching, more than passing law
Remake how we got to where we are

History quickly crashing through your veins
Using you to fall back down again
History quickly crashing through your veins
Using you to fall back down again

lol @ his face when he sings

mimi07 said:

ok um, when u get past that, check out how deep the song is.

lmao i'm sorry but this shit is too funny 2 me

Hmmm, since he can pull off a nice (if somewhat fake) "old blues" voice it would be really nice to hear a very old-sounding arrangement to go with it. This hints at that to certain degree, and it's definitely better than the original.

Cloudbuster said:

the dude is a joke (the pained...i need to keep this fake voice up look on his face...ughhh!!)...

but anyhoo, if the lyrics are deep he loses the impact cause of the too often repeated "chocolate rain"...that's all i hear.

sosgemini said:

Check out some of his other stuff. He certainly has a talent.

Cloudbuster said:

I sen't him a message on youtube.. and he didn't respond ...

he's too famous to talk to the small people who made him.. what he is

http://www.youtube.com/wa...0IeM&NR=1#

whatch the chocolate rain boy on Jimmy Kemmel

novabrkr said:

Yeah, it just needed a different arrangement, and not such a dry vocal.

novabrkr said:

That's not a bad idea! Check out his speaking voice during the Kimmel interview...

TotalAlisa said:

John Mayer needs to get LOST with his stupid "parody" of Chocolate Rain.

John Mayer's lyrics read like poems printed in O Magazine compared to this:

Cinnie said:

Lyrics are deep...sounds like institutional racism.

2elijah said:

Najee said:

I agree.

whats the deal on this? this is a joke right...?

Najee said:

That is ALL surface ^

Why not *listen* to it?

Cinnie said:

I'm sorry if I don't find this as profound as you think it is, but the manner in which this person is singing this song is too distracting and nerve-wracking. And yes, it's hard to *listen* to it when he's incessantly saying "Chocolate Rain" to the point you're tired of hearing it.
[Edited 8/23/07 7:55am]

Najee said:

I have to agree...the voice freaks me out. I would not have believed it was his voice if I didn't see the Jimmy Kimmel youtube video link posted here, He kind of weird out the audience with that voice..no pun intended..
[Edited 8/23/07 8:11am]

2elijah said:

dude thats NOT his real speaking voice, watch him closely - he's straining to speak

What does the lyrics of this song mean.. im just confused ..

what does "chocolate rain" mean

Moonwalkbjrain said:

Dude?? ..you mean Dudette..(I'm a female)..anyway, Jimmy asked him if it was his real voice and he said it is, now with his recent popularity on youtube, I would imagine, that by now someone who knows him would have come out and say it's not his real voice, but who knows, regardless, his voice freaks me out...
[Edited 8/23/07 18:05pm]

2elijah said:

ahh my b dudette , i was thinking that too! but maybe he's making everybody be quiet about it?? i dunno, but he looks odd when he's speaking (then again that may be his thing lol)

Even if the lyrics have some deep social meaning, the seriousness gets lost because his voice is so annoying.

Moonwalkbjrain said:

He reminds me of a cartoon character with those glasses, who goes in a closet and changes into a super hero.."Super Chocolate"... (ok, now I know I really have way too much time on my hands.. )

2elijah said:

lmao - its like urkel goin in2 that machine and instead of comin out as stephon he comes out wierder than b4!

UncleGrandpa said:

Exactly, sounds like he's talking about institutional racism and some other social issues. Just my guess, but I'll type in bold next to some of the lines in those lyrics what I get from it. This dude is not as silly as he looks, it's all about reading between the lines..this guy is clever despite his strange voice.


Raised your neighborhood insurance rates
Makes us happy living in a gate
(those 2 lines -- referencing charging higher interest rates to minorities --real estate agencies and banks have been known to "redline" particular neighborhoods--a system that has been used towards minorities purchasing homes in certain areas and banks charging higher interest rates to minorities, when they apply for financing or a loan- they also try to sell them homes in certain areas only as well--like trying to keep them in one designated area(like a "gate" around particular neighborhoods trying to bar them(minorities) from purchasing homes in more upstanding neighborhoods).

Made me cross the street the other day (from entering non-black or upscale neighborhood?)
Made you turn your head the other way (Ignoring prejudice act against another--like turn the other cheek pretending racism is non-existent)


History quickly crashing through your veins (Past/present racism against Blacks)
Using you to fall back down again - ([b]Putting blame on Blacks for society's problems[/b]

( These 4 lines below - could this be about Religion/[b]Racism?Slavery/Fear of Black Empowerment or Upward mobility?)[/b] (spells racism)
Seldom mentioned on the radio
It's the fear your leaders call control (Slavery/Racism<--control)
Worse than swearing, worse than calling names
Say it publicly and you're insane (Admitting racism still exist)

(These 4 lines - "Racism?" )
No one wants to hear about it now
Wish real hard it goes away somehow(<--definitely about denying racism)
Makes the best of friends begin to fight
But did they know each other in the light?

The school books say it can't be here again (Is he referring to slavery/racism?)

The prisons make you wonder where it went (Education-government building more prisons than schools<--now that's a fact Large population of Black males in prison system - some say it's the new slavery system in America)...basically it never ended...like a system of cattle branding...and folks that ain't no lie..welcome to the "United?" States of America...

Every February washed away (Black History month?)
Stays behind as colors celebrate

The same crime has a higher price to pay ( Reminds me of the "Crack vs Cocaine" situation in America, i.e., - a black person caught with crack/cocaine gets a harsher sentence than a white guy caught with same amount of cocaine This is an issue that has been argued many times regarding sentencing guidelines set under State Dept of Corrections-probation&parole units in some states like Florida. Guidelines updated when legislature goes in session (this is done in Florida and probably most states in US) Or basically means same crime committed by 2 persons- one black-one white, but the black person gets harsher sentence for same crime committed--again, due to sentencing guidelines.The judge and jury swear it's not the face (black community feels length of longer sentence is because of race - judge/jury denies it)

The bell curve blames the baby's DNA (Harvard professors Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray wrote "The Bell Curve" claiming white's/asians smarter than blacks due to genetic factors (dna) ( which is bullsh** the author forgot that the birthplace of the human race is in Africa so what does that tell you about the authors of that book? )

But test scores are how much the parents make (economics--rich vs poor - affluent vs non-affluent)

So far, not able to decipher the other lines of the song right now, and what I typed next to those lyrics is just my personal analysis of what I think some of those lyrics may mean. This song is definitely about "institutional racism" and others may have different views on each verse in the song, but this is just what I am getting from it, some may disagree, but what's not to see that it's not about institutional racism?
[Edited 8/24/07 8:04am]

Thank you 2elijah for spelling most of that out.