13 Songs on the Brink of Impeachment: A Recharge Playlist – Mother Jones

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Music is medicine, the poetry professor, literary scholar, and music historian Andrea Benton Rushing used to tell me. Her words ring true. As the impeachment debate unfolds, volume up:

Impeach the President, by the Honey Drippers, immortalized an uptempo funk beat so irresistible its been sampled hundreds of times since 1973: Behind the walls of the White House theres a lot of things we dont know about. Behind the walls of the White House theres a lot of things we should know aboutImpeach the president. Impeach the president. Impeach the president.

Immortal Technique, the Afro-Peruvian hip-hop musician, adapted the Honey Drippers classic: How many times I gotta state my position before yall say, This lip service, hes wishin? I been organizing. I got a thousand petitions, been up before sunrise, writing. Im on a mission.

Impeach Me Baby, by Beverly Guitar Watkins, from 2010: Ive got to impeach youThe whole world is laughing because of how you done messed up on me. Yes you did.

Dance for Impeachment, by Taarka, is a 2004 ballad built on violin, mandolin, slapped drums, and bass that eases into a crescendo of conflict and resolution.

Impeach, by Confab, is a rock riff recorded in Alabama for a 2017 album with another resonant song: Reason Will Not Save Us.

Impeachment With Honor, by Joe Grease and the Dump Dubya Band, recorded (with honor!) in 2007: What say our forefathers? If they were around, this White House would crash on down. A disgraceful Bush administration. Cheney seems to want world domination. The presidents fate and Halliburton is on the tapefolks are wonderin whos running our nationMany times I wonder about Bushie and the lies hes tellin me. With no congressional expense he wants a long Texas fence.

Impeach, by Tom Chelston in 2007: Well hello, George! The framers of our Constitution, fresh on the heels of revolution, must have seen the writing on the wall. They secured for us an open door in Article 2 Section 4 to commence a presidential overhaul. Now weve run this play a few times before. With thousands dying and Bush go lyingillegal torture, illegal spyingI-M-P-E-A-C-H.

Impeachment, by Dream Techno, is time-warp trance with effects-heavy loops glued loosely together by a pulsing beat from 2004.

Impeach by Zemog El Gallo Bueno is a 27-second interlude of post-salsa dissonance, commensurate with the headlines. Each composition is a battleground, says Abraham Gomez-Delgado.

Impeach God by Dethklok is metal apocalypse set to an animated short: Im having my Cabinet schedule a debate. The world will be our witness, judged in eyes of hate.

Bonus tracks:Lets Impeach the President, by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young (live in 2008)

Impeach, Indict, Imprison, by Pro-Pain (2007)

Impeach the Planet, by Naughty by Nature (2011)

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