“Chic N Stu” by System of a Down

"Chic N Stu" turns up on Steal This Album!, the record System of a Down put out in 2002 on American and Columbia, with Rick Rubin and Daron Malakian producing. Malakian wrote the music and shares the lyric credit with Serj Tankian, and Andy Wallace mixed it.

The album was the band's answer to a leak: earlier that year, rough MP3s of unfinished songs had spread online under the name Toxicity II, and rather than leave fans with half-done versions, the band finished the songs properly and put them out. The title nods both to that bootlegging and to Steal This Book!, the Abbie Hoffman book from 1971. The press wrote it off as Toxicity leftovers; the band insisted the songs were every bit as strong and simply hadn't fit that album's flow.

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