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Anglo For Your Ear: The Clash’s “Guns of Brixton”
The Clash song most likely to be bumping in someone’s car stereo in Compton. This track opens with the lyric, “When they kick out your front door/How you gonna come?/With your hands on your head/Or on the trigger of your gun?” If that’s not hip-hop, I don’t know what is.
Someone on YouTube made a snazzy little video for it, dedicated to the trade-y hunkiness that is former Clash bassist Paul Simonon.