UPDATE: Because it is getting a bit heated in here, I have decided to correct a mistake in the post below. The role of Ice Man was played by Mr. Show’s Bob Odenkirk, not Ben Stiller. I seriously regret the error. So does Three Times One Minus One.
In our hyperreal media multiverse, it’s getting harder to stick with metaphor while communicating the desire to kick someone’s ass. So indie-hoppers East Coast Avengers have foregone pretense entirely and released a single called "Kill Bill O’Reilly."
What would Roger Ailes think? We’re sure to find out once the trio drops its forthcoming effort Prison Planet this fall. He’s probably going to be as pissed as O’Reilly, who’s no stranger to heckling hip-hop. In 2007, he incited a beef with Nas over violent lyrics and the Virginia Tech shooting, which then prompted Nas to ridicule him in public and on record, most notably in the tune "Sly Fox" from his recently released effort Untitled. It also encouraged Nas to deliver over 600,00 signatures denouncing Fox News and lead a protest outside the network’s New York headquarters.
But the East Coast Avengers, who openly cite Marvel Comics supergroup The Avengers in their rhymes, are a whole new breed of headache for O’Reilly. They are literally singing about killing him. Check out the stream below for the gory details, and make sure to stick around until the end, which samples O’Reilly ‘s infamous on-air meltdown on Inside Edition.
But note: This isn’t safe for work at all. You definitely will want the headphones.
STREAM: East Coast Avengers’ "Kill Bill O’Reilly"
On a related note, "Kill Bill O’Reilly" reminds me of a similarly humorous skit from The Ben Stiller Show, where Stiller played a rapper called Ice Man who released a controversial song about killing his neighbor, Doug Szathkey. His escape rationale for the call to murder was one for the ages, and might even pass the mainstream media smell test today.
"It’s like I’m saying," Ice Man explained, "it’s just censorship, straight up. I would like to make it clear that when I said, ‘Kill Doug Szathkey’, I was using street terminology to describe a situation from my life. When you misinterpret my words, all ya’all dis me, you dis my fans, and you dis the United States Constitution. And that’s a real crime."
