I’m real sorry about the content of this post. The words are not mine; I don’t even know what half of them mean. These are the lyrics of three different rap artists and what they have in common is they are all produced under CBS’s Columbia Record label. As we all now know, this is the same CBS which fired the always less-than-polite Don Imus from his radio show for boorishly referring to the Rutgers woman’s basketball team as “Nappy-headed hoes.” If you want to skip past the lyrics, I don’t blame you. But, for those who want to hear what passes for music – at least to CBS executives – please feel free to read on:
The words of Three 6-Mafia:
Yeah, run bitch. Run hoe! Ya nice motherfuckas!
Y'all jealous ass bitches!
You know what I'ma call y'all? Some Jello niggas.
Cuz y'all jealous of us, bitch.
Every motherfucker in our camp ridin clean, nigga.
Y'all know the motherfuckin score.
And this one right here is dedicated to you [censor beep].
It's dedicated to you, nigga.
More from Three Six Mafia:
Well all them hoes that used to be down with me
I signed a deal, made some money, now you bitches downin me?
Bitches tryin ta blast at me,
or am I dreamin the motherfuckers be after me?
Why you tryin ta be like me? You labelled as a wanna-be.
You ghetto hoes, you need to read a bonus Gangsta Boo
Cuz you might find a tip, bitch, that can help you.
I'm a down chick
Niggas be wantin ta crown chick
Stay around chick
Whenever, however, it's goin down, bitch.
Pearls from Lyfe Jennings:
Im from a place where them niggas dont talk a lot
License suspended so we walk a lot Always been a thug since i was a young cat
Breast fed by Godzilla mix my Similac with cognac whoa
Now i cant even pray no more
Cuz i done did so much dirt and smoked so much dro
Im afraid God will be like what you calling here for
Dont be tying my line up asking me for shit no more, whoa.
DMX at their best:
Song titled What These Bitches Want
Aiyyo!! Dog, I meet bitches, discrete bitches
Street bitches, slash, Cocoa Puff sweet bitches (WHAT?)
Make you wanna eat bitches, but not me
Y'all niggaz eat off the plate all you want but not D (UHH)
I fuck with these hoes from a distance
The instant they start to catch feelings
I start to stealin they shit
then I'm out just like a thief in the night
I sink my teeth in to bite
You thinkin life, I'm thinkin more like - whassup tonight?
Come on ma, you know I got a wife
and even though that pussy tight I'm not gon' jeapordize my life (aight?)
Now, back to something resembling normalcy by comparison. Over the years I have listened to Don Imus. He’s sometimes pretty funny, sometimes not. After a few years and several fruitless searches on my local radio dial for his show, I gave up on him. I never thought of him until the recent flap and predictable hypocrisy pushed him into the limelight.
It didn’t take long for those in the race trade to inject themselves into the middle of this show of bad taste, and the cameras followed. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who each have uttered enough racial slurs to begin their own rap group, demanded Imus and any other white bigot pay a price; cash in a suitcase preferred. Sharpton even got Imus to make a trip to kiss his ring in the hope of absolution that wouldn’t come.
What has our sense of perspective in this country come to? CBS throws a fading radio talent under the bus in the name of racial sensitivity and then rakes in millions off the misogynistic rap artists it produces. Jackson and Sharpton have been working off the same tired script for years, setting themselves up as the racial arbiters of our time and yet don’t have an ounce of the moral authority to lead a congregation, little alone a nation.
These two men are the real whores in this story, doing anything to move their own agenda forward. It just so happens that their agenda is the same as their plantation owners, the democrats. The debate will surely shift to the coarseness of words on talk radio and it won't be long before the Fairness Doctrine will be invoked and a movement started to put an end to talk radio (or at least conservative talk radio). Words don't usually scare the average person, but it can scare a democrat if the words cost them an election. Sure, Imus is nominally a liberal, but he can be sacrificed if he serves a larger purpose.
Rather than helping salve the wounds of racial tension, the hypocrisy and hidden agenda are so overwhelming and obvious that it will have the opposite effect. And that will end up being the sad ending of this story.
5 comments:
I obviously agree with you that the treatment of Imus is nothing more than yet another example of the hypocrisy that has become commonplace in today's world. In the end I actually think this may do more harm than good for Sharpton and Jackson (and their ilk of racial ambulance chasers) as I think a number of people who may have been on the fence with them have been tunred off by these recent events. There was a certain level of vicousness about this, as if there was some sort of vendetta, that certainly surprised me about the whole thing.
With all of that said I think it is a little inappropriate to bring the democrats (or plantation owners????) in to the conversation and imply that they are behind this. You should surely know that the past few years, under the control of A republican (originally Michael Powell),the FCC has enacted more censorship than we have seen in quite a while. This of course is less to do with Republicans as much as it is an attempt to appease whacko christians whose sense of family values is affronted by a nipple (funny how the nipple is in its essence the very thing that allows a family to exist).
My point I guess is that this seems to be less of an issue of republican vs. democrat, and more of an issue of one or two persons attempting to continue to accumulate power,money, or respect at the expense of another. Besides, any American political party who created the Patriot Act is surely disallowed from accusing another of violating freedoms. Ultimately I just don't see this situation as anything mmore than a power shakedown with an opportunist kicking a man when he is down. It is sad as you would hope that this could have stimulated similar discourse to what you brought up here (regarding rap lyrics) but it looks as if it is easier to point out a porblem than admit you are part of it. If Sharpton truly cared about "appropriate conversation" he would use his new found power to go after the other guilty parties. Problem is, they pay most of his salary.
For another theory on the Imus thing, check this out. http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/89728-0
Yeah, I saw the Russian thing on Pravda. They're big on UFOs attacking Russian military bases too.
I brought politics into it because Jackson and Sharpton deliver the black vote to the democrats with the predictability of my rationale running this way. I refer to them as plantation owners because the democrats can keep the black vote by ensuring blacks don't succeed and can continue to dangle programs to keep them on the reservation.
I also believe the rhetoric in DC has been to use the Fairness Doctrine to stiffle political debate and has been raised again since the Imus thing blew up. It shouldn't surprise you that Rush and Hannity and others have helped republicans more than democrats and it is certainly not lost on the democrats.
Let's just say you read it here first, but keep your eye on complaints like this being raised by democrats. And then you can apologize.
You said it BEST when you described Jesse and Al as the real whores. I choose not to listen to that kind of music (I ask Mrs Sladed to turn it off when I'm around) and I chose not to read the lyrics in your post. Both you and K make good points.
After listening off and on to the debate for a week, my conclusions are these: 1. Imus was an ASS for making that rude comment and he shouldn't have. 2. He should not have been fired for it. 3. The difference between Imus and the song lyrics is that Imus directed his comments toward specific people who didn't deserve to be called those names while the lyrics are not directed individuals. There IS a difference, though I dislike both. 4. Those girls had their athletic achievements forever tarnished by some ass trying to get a rise out of people. The Rutger's women were playing in the game of their lives and ended up having that whole experience and the effort it took to get there, overshadowed by Don Imus. What a shame.
One more thing. Isn't it interesting that this comes around the same time that the Duke Lacrosse players were declared innocent. Where are Jesse's and Al's appologies for their slanderous accusations of rape and assault made against those caucasian lacrosse players, no doubt based on their altruistic desire to represent and defend all African-Americans against bigotry and racism? Too bad they let race bias affect how they viewed the black stripper and the white lacrosse players!
Well said, my best friend (from Cincinatti).
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