black steel

• drayton, ridenhour, sadler ve shocklee (yoksa bi yerlerden tanidik mi bunlar) hamlesi, maxinquaye dolaylarindan martina ile asina sevilen bir türküdür..
• sozleri asagidaki gibidir:
  
  i got a letter from the government
  the other day
  i opened and read it
  it said they were suckers
  they wanted me for the army or whatever
  picture me given' a damn -- i said never
  here is a land that never gave a damn
  about a brother like me and myself
  because they never did
  i wasn't wit' it, but just that very minute...
  it occured to me
  the suckers had authority
  cold sweatin' as i dwell in my cell
  how long has it been?
  they got me sittin' in the state pen
  i gotta get out -- but that thought was thought before
  i contemplated a plan on the cell floor
  i'm not a fugitive on the run
  but a brother like me begun -- to be another one
  public enemy servin' time -- they drew the line y'all
  to criticize me some crime -- never the less
  they could not understand that i'm a black man
  and i could never be a veteran
  on the strength, the situation's unreal
  i got a raw deal, now i'm lookin for the steel
  
  (tricky: many switch in, switch on, switch off (x5))
  nevertheless they cannot understand
  that i'm a black man, and i could never be a veteran.
  on the strength of situations, i'm real.
  i got a raw deal, so i'm lookin' for the steel
  lookin for the steel.
• ford streetka reklamında kullanılmış, yarmış atmış tricky coveri. günlerdir mıkmıkmık diye sağda solda söyletiyor kendisini, dayak yiyeceğiz o olacak.
• aslinda sozlerinden de anlasilacagi gibi, 1987 cikisli o muhtesem it takes a nation of millions to hold us back albumunden bir public enemy parcasidir. o albumdeki adi black steel in the hour of chaos.. tricky ve martina, sarkiyi public enemy halinden bile daha urkutucu kilmayi becermisler. tricky'nin "switch on, switch off"lari ozellikle basarili..
• (bkz: blue steel)
• tricky nin pek guzel yorumladigi parca.
• tricky'nin maxinquaye albümündeki üçüncü parçası.
  
  costanza abla sanki anaokulundan beri sigara içmişcesine balgamlı bir sesle şarkıyı eda eder.
• (bkz: orijinalinden iyi olan cover'lar)
  
  tarihin en uçuk trip hop albümünün^* mihenk taşlarından. 5 dakika 39 saniyelik müzikal orgazm.