Financial Meltdown Rap: Song explaining the Financial and Economic Crisis

[MrSummerman10]

MF Doom-Styrax gum?

[MrSummerman10]

MF DOOM's "That's That"?

[andrewchipped]

Hi M Bird,

This is epic. Can i use this track for a video that i am making on the Occupy Wall Street Movement?

Will that be ok with you?

Do let me know.

Cheers

[MBIRD221]

@andrewchipped

yeah dude, go for it!

[Geostrategic1]

Get ready for Crash #2. Thank you Barry O.

[ramsey00m]

CAN YOU POST LYRICS PLEASE!!!!!! this is gunna come in helpful for economics class next year

[Archangel2069]

so nice rap!

[cclodfe]

Uh....A lack of regulation? Or easy credit (increase in the money supply) and low interest rates set by the Federal reserve back.

[MBIRD221]

@cclodfe Yeah I think there are a lot of variables that went into it. While there was definitely a lack of market discipline (easy credit) I most certainly think that deficient regulation of the financial system (like CDS) was a huge factor.

[MBIRD221]

@cclodfe

"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard."

~Edgar R. Fiedler

[inemtsev]

Excellent job on the information, good music and good video editing!

[bbeachbum2923]

unbelievable

[remyworldpeace]

AMAZING

[IronMaiden705]

Good vid

[bigkyle23]

wow! This is phenomenal!! I can't believe you understood this so well 8 months ago! A LOT more people should see this!!!

[chriscrockersucksfuk]

the fuckin shits man, this sucks pile of shit / 5 stars

[kevinmkeating]

just kidding man, I dig your video, you should be proud, this actually really good and well thought out.. keep it up....

[cronaldo7manchester]

NICE MAN!

FIVE STARS!

[patty676]

yeah times are gonna get shitty but you gotta remember life goes on and it will only hurt us if we let it hurt us

[sukkee3x]

superbly done bro!!!!!!!!!!!

[panto111]

Great song and video, Michael!

[whythebailout]

Great vid, someone needs to reference this on all of those "Burning down the house" pages. Open some eyes. Also, if you really want a nice explanation of the whole sub prime mess look for youtube user informedtrades. That's where I found this vid.

[WendyViolet1]

Well done!! That was great:)Encore!

[shockolanu]

How come that in the first days of the crisis when I tried to explain people what to do to save their economies and savings from the starving banks and the falling dollar, youtube was censoring my comments and messages? People, change your Dollars to Swiss Franks. That will get you through for a while. That is if you don't get rich because, as far as I see, Swiss Franks and Swiss stocks are going up,up,up!

[blacklocust1945]

The SMI is going up right now, yes.

But if the UBS can't overcome it's problems...

Well it will fall deep.

[shockolanu]

I wouldn't worry if I were you. Both are strong and will float more than the US market or even the EU markets. If I were from US, I'd change my dollars to CHF, then wait for the dollar to fall. Then I would change the CHF to dollars and wait for the dollar to make it's comeback. People in US should profit from this "Collapse" but, some don't understand or can't see how to make money out of nothing :D

[christikki]

bird, hope to see you in the streets rapping--this was quite an impressive piece-you never disappoint--big props to all its creators.

[GearZa]

Very nice video just wish we could rap this problem away lol.

peace to all

[SWAUVE4U]

nice ; )

Blessings..

[empaintball]

Slick video dude... with this rap and the one about the LHC I have learned more than I do off the news. Thanks!!!

[stinkingdog101]

I also learned more here than all the talk shows on the radio and TV. Thanks and cool video.

[nsilkey]

Holla from the New Haven Texas Exes. McCombs and UT-RTF up in this! Good job, guys. It all makes sense now. :)

[MueX]

Nice video, but you left a few key details out. Go search Cspan's website for 183818-1. The democrats being in bed with freddie and fannie, were hell bent against the republicans who warned of impending doom years ago and wanted more regulation.

What did they do when the republicans cried "Fix it before it's too late!"? They cried racism, gee go figure. So you need to add to your rap.

"Barney frank didn't want no stinking regulation. Fannie is fine, won't be no stagnation!"

[averagejoe0073]

If only the internet had existed during the Great Depression, imagine how much fun it would have been. Or wait, I mean the OTHER Great Depression. Touche.

[chriskill08]

very good rap!! u must be a economist as myself or a banker....

[Mercutio221]

Sweet Rap! Also educational and informative! Thanks. :)

But I wonder if the bail-out will really solve the problem...hmmm, the markets are looking better.

[blargsauce]

blargsauce approves!

[pastorOFdisaster3]

Awesome Rap!

[rockinar]

Liberal fags can't rap!

[WolfPack576]

hater, u cant rap, i want to see u rap about our economy since ur such a big help to our government dumb ass

[antony1985]

Oh but the thing is this is just the beginning! Soon things will get crazier and then the Constitution will be attacked and hang on by thread and who will save the US and Constitution? You'll see pretty soon believe me!

[bisogno69]

american cunts

[pastorOFdisaster3]

Yeah I actually learned something. Great Job! And I think the lyrics/rapping are actually really good. I mean considering what you're rapping about...finance, credit default swap and the bail-out...you really made it work.

[darksaiyajin14]

It was informative, but the rapping was awful. You know your stuff and did a great job organizing it chronologically, but that rapping straight up blows. But if you asked me, I wouldn't say you were actually completely serious about it, though. So good job.

[kayteeseaking]

SO AWESOME!! You clever kid, you

[bootyfofree]

Holy Crap! This rap rocks! And actually educational too.

[Smber2c]

Funny, but our money didn't solve it...our money made is worse. The US is just one step closer to socialism and Paulson is trying to find other moves to keep the trend going.

[beaktor]

Awesome! Nice job.

[willpopski]

funny and smart

[soccerplayer5815]

lyrical master

[Mercutio221]

Hahahha! This is fricken' awesome!!

[GrisA6]

This is rather incredible! Very funny