Kathleen Hanna Asked, “Who Took the Ram From the Rama Lama Ding Dong?” in 1999

Enquiring minds still really want to know, and it’s almost 25 years later.

Le Tigre, “Deceptacon,” 1999, fan-made video

Despite Internet legend about 90s Golden Era NYC, the Deceptacon “gang” was real, and all over where I grew up in Brooklyn. The song in the video above, from 1999, is named after them, most likely. The singer is Kathleen Hanna, absolute legend of Bikini Kill fame. What it’s about is just as good as the name.

(Yo waddup Flipjack, and all? It’s RIOT ONE. I wrote Riot on walls not to commemorate all the action around me in the Brooklyn of my youth, but because I wanted to attract a Riot Grrrl, of whom Kathleen Hanna was the undisputed champ. Manhattan kids were so scared of the Deceptacon legends because they knew not a thing about central Brooklyn things, like the Lo-Lifes.)

All of this derivative 2022 maniac bipartisan cultural policing garbage reminds of a song Tipper Gore most definitely didn’t want you to hear while clutching her pearls and railing against that Naughty Urban Music in 1992, but they couldn’t keep it off Stretch and Bobbito, which I taped it off of:

🎵 No matter what I tell or what I do, they won’t hear /

Millions years of travel, mysteries unraveled /

And tamed / STILL, they try to dissect /

Every jam, every cut, to make me contradict 🎵

(X-Clan, Holy Rum Swig)

That’s how you unite the male and female forces, ladies, gentlemen, and androgynes, and PLEASE GOD THE MOST HIGH ❤️‍🔥

Let’s end on Kathleen:

🎵You bought a new van the first year of your band /

You’re cool and I hardly wanna say “NOT” /

Because I’m so bored that I’d be entertained /

Even by a stupid floor, a linoleum floor, linoleum floor /

Your lyrics are dumb like a linoleum floor /

I’ll walk on it, I’LL WALK ALL OVER YOU /

Walk on it, walk on it, WALKING, one, two🎵

😘

#RIP Vivienne Westwood, 1941-2022▪️