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Rock Star

Published on these records

Chim Chim's Bad Ass Revenge

(1996)

(1999)

Performance Statistics

Performed	First played	Last played
64 times	30 Oct 1994 @ Slims - San Francisco (CA-US)	13 May 2017 @ Echoplex - Los Angeles (CA-US)

Date Sort descending	Venue
Mar 30th 2017	Bell's Eccentric Café - Kalamazoo (MI)
Apr 1st 2017	Bottom Lounge - Chicago (IL)
Apr 2nd 2017	Duck Room at Blueberry Hill - St Louis (MO)
May 13th 2017	Echoplex - Los Angeles (CA)

Found on these live recordings

27 live recording(s)

	Date	Venue	Source
	Jan 24th 1997	Volcano - Kitchener (ON)	Audience
	Feb 26th 1997	Fox Theater - Boulder (CO)	Audience
	Aug 2nd 1997	Tramps - New York (NY)	Soundboard
	Aug 6th 1997	Club Bene - Morgan (NJ)	Audience
	Aug 7th 1997	The Ketch - Beach Haven (NJ)	Audience
	Sep 7th 1997	1st Avenue Cabaret - Fargo (ND)	Audience
	Sep 22nd 1997	Fox Theater - Boulder (CO)	Audience
	Nov 21st 1997	Galaxy Theater - Santa Ana (CA)	Audience
	Feb 23rd 1998	Fox Theater - Boulder (CO)	Audience
	Mar 5th 1998	Crystal Ballroom - Portland (OR)	Soundboard

Found in these videos

Tagged in 1 videos

Found in 2 full show videos

Lyrics

When I was a kid
I would go to the show
and see the rock star
I'd play my records
and look at the album cover
at the rock star
Sometimes I'd check out the R&B
But the polka, salsa classical scene just was not me.
I wanted to be like Bootsy
Dr. Funkenstein
or Jimi the rock star
Color meant nothing to me
Everything was equal
as far as I could see.
Ignorant to the racist music industry,
music industry, music industry

Music industry...white rock star
Everywhere I look...white rock star
Read it in the paper...white rock star
Watch it on TV...white rock star

Only just a little...black rock star
Only for a token...black rock star
Sing no controversy...black rock star
Sometimes for the flavor of Japanese
No communication but it's overseas.

Unaware of how propaganda works
I soon became a victim,
a trick at work
With my black brotha's playin'
rock & roll signed
and ho'in for a major label
selling my soul as a rock star.

Do the rock star ohh
Do the rock star yeah
Break a window,
smash a TV
We're some hot mother fucka's
It's no doubt about
We do the rock star Ohh
do the rock star, yeah

Get real drunk, fuck, fuck, fuck
Kick in the radio,
smash up a chair
Do the rock star, wooh
Do the rock star, yeah
Wreck your hotel room
Catch a Lear jet
Stay in debt,
manic depressed
Sweat & jerk to the best
Smoke a cig,
fuck, fuck, fuck,
Lie fry
loosin' your mind like a rock star
Loose it!

I got supposed fortune & fame
with existential potential
Of runnin' the game,
but it the greedy of the whitey
at the top of my frame
that's blurrin' my art piece,
makin' it weak see
makin' it watered down
Dilutin' my funky sound
But it's all you need to be
in this weak society
Powder puffy rock star dumb
Keepin' people stupid and dumb

Do the rock star ooh
Do the rock star hey
Shoot up some heroin
Snort some cocaine
Smash your guitar
Wreck a jet plane
With a short gun
to your brain
For the price of fame
like Kurt Cobain
Doin' the rock star main

Color meant nothing to me
But now I just can't escape
From the rains that drive me
ape of their white fear
through the television
in my eyes in my ears
Racism! Separation! Media!
So I guess you can say
I'm an angry brotha
Can't play my music
'cause of barrier of color
Deep in debt
with a seven record set
Videos and funky shows
but no one knows
The major pain and misery
of bein' radical
Speakin' of what you feel
in a world that's sad and dull
But the rock star got the money
and the fuck fuck right action lights
and plane flights Drugs and press
but in reality it's a lot less
when you're the rock star oooh.