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Kottonmouth Kings - Peace Not Greed

Music Video
ArtistKottonmouth Kings
SongPeace Not Greed
DirectorDavid Meyers
IntroNo
OutroNo
Production CompanyFM Rocks
Sound MixStereo
Technical Specificationscolour - format unknown

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Synopsis

Kottonmouth Kings deliver a confrontational, politically charged performance built around the song's anti-greed and pro-freedom message. The group appears amid urban locations and protest-minded imagery, joined by punk veteran Jack Grisham and the Corporate Avenger collective. Pakelika receives a striking spotlight, including a towering burning banner bearing his image. The video combines rap, punk attitude, cannabis symbolism, and anarchic visual flourishes, presenting the Kings less as conventional pop stars than as members of a rebellious counterculture movement.

Factoids & Trivia

  • "Peace Not Greed" was released in 2000 as part of the Kottonmouth Kings' *High Society* album and was issued as a single during the group's Capitol Records period.
  • The video features a four-story burning banner depicting Pakelika, the group's imposing "visual assassin" and performance artist.
  • Punk musician Jack Grisham appears in the video. He also contributes vocals to the song, alongside the Corporate Avenger project.
  • The production reflects the song's wider political themes, including peace, freedom, cannabis legalization, and opposition to institutional control.
  • The track reached No. 37 on Billboard's Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, giving the group one of its more visible alternative-radio successes.
  • MTV gave the video exposure around its release. Contemporary music-trade listings identified it as Buzzworthy and reported its appearance on *Total Request Live*.
  • The video was later circulated through the Kottonmouth Kings' DVD/VHS material, helping preserve it as part of the group's early-2000s visual archive.

Lyrics

A lonely teenage daydream,
Of things I just might be,
A surreal kind of thinking,
Keeps on drifting in on me,
My twisted body is lifeless,
Not so their twisted minds,
Peace through power their motto,
Power through peace their crime,

Product of our environment [x8],

Maybe one day they will legalize weed,
In the year TWO 'G' the planet could be deceased,
...
© Kottonmouth Kings - Peace Not Greed. This is an excerpt, provided as citation under fair-use.
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