Today’s song is “Leech Lake” by Muja Messiah. This son is the new Minnesota anthem. Touching on all things relevant in 45-degrees north and the land of “Yeah, yeah, you betchya,” Muja Messiah crafts a powerful song that hits close to home, while maintaining the wit and good-humor that comes with living under snow for half of the year. The city comes alive with shout outs to ice fishing with white women, Bob Dylan, Jimmy Jam & Terry, big spoon with a cherry, Liquor Lyle’s, Pizza Luce, fried walleye dinners, snow boarding, recording, Denny Hecker, Gophers, Vikings, Friedman’s, Somalian Crips, Jesse Ventura, Keith Ellison, Verb X, Kalid El-Amin & Brock Lesner in this celebratory track. But the real line the strikes at the heart of Minne-snow-ta is: “Shotgun a beer / shotgun a deer … We all about beautiful women, I’m talking Robyn Robinson, Black Blondie, Lucy Michelle, my little girl Niani.”
Muja Messiah’s new mixtape, M-16s, is out now on Black Corners. For more information on Muja Messiah, check out MySpace.
Muja Messiah….”shotgun or beer/shotgun or deer”