Ten observations about the Brad Paisley – LL Cool J song “Accidental Racist.”
1) Easily the strangest buddy pairing since Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock graced our movie screens with the aptly-titled "Bad Company."
2) Paisley sings that ‘it’s not like you and me can rewrite history’ then he and LL proceed to do just that.
3) It sounds like a discarded SNL skit from the ‘80s starring Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat. Accent on the word ‘discarded.’
4) The ‘If you don’t judge my gold chains/I’ll forget the iron chains’ couplet. Maybe you will, LL, but I assure you no one will forget you saying these lines and let ‘bygones be bygones.’
5) If this song had come out six months ago, I guarantee you it would have made the “Django Unchained” soundtrack only Tarantino would have played it for laughs.
6) Exactly what school did these two learn their history from? The School Of Rock
7) ‘R.I.P. Robert E. Lee’? Really? Or should I say Real E. Lee?
8) Who would have thought the Nelly/Tim McGraw duet would remain the “What’s Going On” of country/rap collaborations?
9) Beware of any song that begins with a revelation about race at a Starbucks.
10) The song ends with the following lines: ‘It’s real. It’s real. It’s truth.’ Reality? It’s not. It’s not. It lies.
