There Goes the Neighborhood (Body Count song)

Infobox Single
Name = There Goes the Neighborhood


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Artist = Body Count
Album = Body Count
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B-side = "KKK Bitch"cite book |last=Strong |first=Martin Charles |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |others= |title=The Great Rock Discography |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition=7th edition |series= |date= |year=2002 |month= |publisher=Canongate |location= |language= |isbn=1841956155 |oclc= |doi= |id= |pages=pages 724—725 |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= ]
Released = 1992
Format = 12"
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Genre = Hardcore punk
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Label = Sire/Warner Bros. Records
Writer = Ice-T
Ernie C.
Producer = Ice-T
Ernie C.
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This single = "There Goes the Neighborhood"
Next single = "Hey Joe"
(1993)
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Audio file = Body Count There Goes the Neighborhood.ogg

"There Goes the Neighborhood" is the twelfth track of Body Count's self-titled debut album. The song is a sarcastic response to critics, sung from the point of view of a racist white rocker who wonders "Don't they know rock's just for whites? / Don't they know the rules? / Those niggers are too hardcore / This shit ain't cool." [Body Count (1992). Lyrics sheet. "Body Count". Sire/Warner Bros. Records. ISBN 7599268782] For the song's music video, the word "nigger" was replaced with the phrase "black boys".cite book |last= |first= |author=Ice T |coauthors=Sigmund, Heidi |editor= |others= |title=The Ice Opinion: Who Gives a Fuck? |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |date= |year=1994 |month= |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location= |language= |isbn=0312104863 |oclc= |doi= |id= |pages=pages 99—101; 108; 166—180 |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= ] The music video ends with a black musician implanting an electric guitar into the ground and setting it on fire. The final image is similar to that of a burning cross. [Body Count (1992). "There Goes The Neighborhood". Music video. "Body Count". Sire/Warner Bros. Records. ISBN 7599268782]

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