All Homeboys are Dickheads (song)

"All Homeboys are Dickheads" is a song by TISM from the album Machiavelli and the Four Seasons, released 4th May 1995 by genre b.goode. It was released as a promotional single via TISM's Junk Mail List in 1996. The single featured two remixes of the song by Josh Abrahams, the original album version, and a live recording of "What Nationality is Les Murray?". 
The song's lyrics refer to the homeboy fashion then popular among white suburban teenagers; it also refers to the 1880 novel The Brothers Karamazov by the well-known Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It features two recurring samples from the 1968 Johnny Otis song "Country Girl".
==Versions== 
===Album version=== 
The original version of the song begins with a metronome and slow vocals, then cuts to guitars and the word "Wide" (sampled from the Johnny Otis song "Country Girl"), before cutting to the metronome again then to the guitars again before a short basssolo and then the metronome again. It then plays "Great big country" samples and then cuts to guitars until it fades out. 
===Live versions=== 
Live versions of the song are performed very closely to the studio recording, except that at the end, it repeats the guitar section, then ends with a short drum beat then a cymbal. 
===Remixes=== 
The 1996 promotional single features two remixes of "All Homeboys are Dickheads", both by Josh Abrahams. The remixes are similarly arranged to the album version, except for there being "Tell me why" samples at the beginning and the choruses containing slower guitars and samples. 
==Lyrics==
:I know his dad's abusive
:And his mum prefers the daughter
:I know he's got an Attention
:Deficiency Disorder
:He's culturally excluded
:And genetically inbred
:But the reason he's a homeboy
:Is because he's a dickhead
:Tell me why, tell me why
:Tell me why he's a homeboy
:Tell me why, tell me why
:Why?This and the later "Great big country" samples are taken from the Johnny Otis song "Country Girl", released in 1968.
:Why?
:Why?
:Why?
:We all support empowerment
:And positive discrimination
:When your class, your race, your age, your face
:Determines your social station
:A baseball cap and a love of rap
:Might need sympathy, but still
:Positively a homeboy could be
:A dickhead, pure and simple
:Tell me why, tell me why
:Tell me why he's a homeboy
:Tell me why, tell me why
:In The Brothers Karamazov
:Here's what Dostoevsky said:
:"Know your enemy well enough
:And you will pity them instead"
:Pity will soon turn to love
:It's what Jesus Christ once knew
:They changed their minds the day when
:They met a homeboy crew
:Great big count... great big country
:Great big count... great big country
:Why?
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==External links and references==
*The TISM Wiki at archive.org
*Machiavelli and the Four Seasons at Discogs
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