April 29,1992 was the onset of 53 deaths, some 10,000 arrests, 2,300 injuries, and more than 1,000 buildings on fire in the city of Los Angeles. Let it burn, wanna let burn. (Sublime) This short quote from this song hit me like a train thundering down its tracks. I was stunned, and I did not know what to think. This song describes the Los Angeles riots not as a catastrophe, but a rude awakening on what life has become. This song is called "April 29, 1992," and it was written by Sublime in Southern California. Sublime is a small garage band that originated an innovative form of music. I will answer those questions that I immediately thought of when I heard the song. I will also describe the riots, and express what the song means to me.
Songs with controversy, riots, and disturbance are the songs that I relish the most. Hearing a song like this just makes people want to hear the song over and over again. The song actually takes place in the riots. True and genuine feelings, flows out of the small band called Sublime. They wrote this song with no dismay and what people would think. Immediately after hearing this song, I researched the riots. The more I read, the more I was confused, because I did not know if I agreed with Sublimes song. I looked the topic up on the Internet and read about how on April 29, 1992 there was a trial held for four white police officers accused of beating a black male named Rodney King. The beating was caught on tape, and the injustice was televised across America. The harsh beating was replayed over and over on television and in people's minds. The trial was concluded and the four police officers were found not guilty. Not guilty. These two words echoed across the city, from taxi drivers to street venders, from suburbs to ghettos, from blacks to whites and from East Coast to West Coast. All these years of racism and hate were slowly bending and bending the rational part of the city.
