No offense to the San Diego Chargers and their fans, as they’re a very likable team, but this song is just terrible. Chargers fans are great, and the city of San Diego is indeed paradise, but “Save Our Boltz” by C-Siccness featuring Roadeezy is a horrendous song.
All “pop” songs about sports teams are awful; this isn’t news. But “Boltz” still stands out as being especially terrible.
It pains me to say this too; as rap music is my favorite genre and I have a soft spot for the San Diego Chargers. “Charger Pride” and “Charger family,” phrases C-Siccness uses in his tune, are familiar to me.
I played high school football for the Chargers; at A.A. Stagg in Palos Hills, IL. But once John Oliver called my attention to this music video Sunday night, in his must-see segment on sports franchises extorting public taxpayers, I had to get straight to YouTube to check this out.
C-Siccness rhymed the words “city” with “city.” And then he did it again in the second line after that. In other words, he rhymed “city” in three out of four lines.
Talk about phoning it in.
I thought it was bad enough when Tupac Shakur committed this atrocity in the lyrics to “How do U Want It:”
Forgive me i’m a rider, still I’m just a simple man
All I want is money, fuck the fame I’m a simple man.
That’s extremely lazy; and just bad. C-Siccness committed a similarly egregious act. Then he did it again rhyming “shine” with “sunshine.” But hey, I did just compare him to 2pac; so that’s something.
I’m guessing his music hasn’t drawn a lot of 2pac comparisons. And pluralizing with Zs?? WTF? I thought that trend went extinct back in 2003! Maybe I’m overreacting to this, as this guy’s heart is in the right place. I completely agree with his message- keep the San Diego Chargers where they are. Don’t move to Los Angeles. This isn’t about the music anyway. It’s about a NFL franchise staying where they belong.
I guess I just expected better from the San Diego Chargers community. After all, “San Diego Super Chargers” is the GREATEST traditional fight song among the old classic ALL NFL fight songs. Period:
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