Bambatta Possibly a pedo/nonce
kala
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regurgitated from VICE
fucking pathetic
maybe he can fuck Hasert and Sandusky into redemption
http://www.vice.com/read/how-black-boys-suffer-sexual-abuse-in-silence
fucking pathetic
maybe he can fuck Hasert and Sandusky into redemption
http://www.vice.com/read/how-black-boys-suffer-sexual-abuse-in-silence
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That was a depressing read.
"But due to the restrictive statute of limitations, no criminal trial is possible to bring evidence or discovery that might unveil what happened so many years ago."
Wow. Obviously it would be hard to have solid evidence at this late stage but that's really tragic.
B/w
I think there is also a documentary in the works on bam's life
whelp.
Hey,
Bam's credibility is highly suspect given the number of victims reporting consistent stories of abuse. It's despicable when people in a position to positively impact others use their platform to prey upon others. There is no defense for that bullshit. To whom much is given, much is required!
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
Also about him coming on very strong to very young UK emcees & B-boys while on tour at that time.
Now this is crazy with the extent of people coming out about it.
Most people seem to be in denial as no one wants to believe it & no mainstream media seem to want to touch it?
The latest comes from a very heavy Zulu insider - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-9MIgbhOuY
Knowing about it since the 70's, turning a blind eye to it until 2007 is not a good look.
He was late to the game way after herc
"Planet Rock" is easily the most important record of my lifetime. And beyond even that, Bam's individual influence on my musical sensibility simply cannot be overstated. That he did something like this, and that he's been doing it for so very long, is a great, great sadness. A kind of death, really.
I hope he's made to answer for this, and hope that the survivors are able to find peace.
I mean I have no problem never seeing or hearing from dudes like Bill Cosby or Rolf Harris ever again. But thats easy because I was never a fan of them in the first place.
Do Ike Turner and James Brown get a pass for their behaviour against women because their music is so good.
Or do I stop listening to Brand Nubian because of Sadat X and Lord Jamal's homophobic views ?
I can't in good concious listen to bands like skrewdriver. So where do you draw the line ?
Yeah, that's always the question.
I dearly wish that I could say I always make these kinds of listening decisions based on my moral beliefs as a person, but I think I most often make them based on my self-centered needs as a listener. That is, my main question is usually--I'm ashamed to say--"Okay, to what extent does knowing what I now know distract me from the music?"
I personally tend to be distracted by Music/Shit balances at the two extremes--that is, cases where the two are
A) so synonymous that The Music keeps throwing The Shit in my face (e.g. sexual predator R. Kelly dropping album after album celebrating sexual predation)
or
B) so opposed that I really have to work to reconcile The Music with The Shit (e.g. the aforementioned Donald Fagen, who presents as a paragon of smooth and epitome of a man who is never without the answer, showing out as one unable to keep his cool in his own fucking living room).
--so the stuff I tend to let pass is the stuff that falls between those two extremes.
To use one of your examples: James Brown has enough chauvinist horseshit peppered in there to let you know he's definitely on some retrograde cro-mag stuff ("It's a man's world," "I just want to tell you about your do's and don'ts," "bring me that lickin' stick," and on and on and on), but it's not always right in your face. Because of that, I guess I feel like with him I can listen to The Music without feeling like I'm totally ignoring The Shit, but also without feeling like I'm constantly being asked to co-sign The Shit.
But, I mean, Bam's whole thing--the through-line of his art, his career, his iconography, and his personal example--really is that utopian ideal of "Peace, unity, love, and having fun!" It's there in song after song, record after record, interview after interview, ill-fitting t-shirt after ill-fitting t-shirt. If he was less aggressive in promoting that message throughout his body of work, it might make the contradiction easier to stomach. If I as a listener were not so often being asked to accept this relentlessly positive vision, it's possible I wouldn't be so preoccupied by these fresh revelations of his thirty-plus years as a serial sexual abuser.
I don't know. I'm having a real hard time with this.
I wondered (folll-lish-ly, out loud) as to where the line could be drawn between art and life and cited how it appears to be almost compulsory for Strutteurs to give, for example, MJ a pass (regardless of whether or not any of those stories were true, sheesh) but compulsory to gas face other artists for their public misdemeanours.
The poaster was most displeased with my "Comparing MJ to Skrewdriver - MJ was mega-important in my life..." - "...How could I?" etc.
That wasn't my point at all.
The bulk of us here on soulstrut are non-black dudes heavily focused on one or more types of black music. And, race relations between black and white being as historically fucked and imbalanced as they are, I think each of us harbors, as well we should, some ambivalence and/or some guilt regarding this fact of our musical tastes and our commercial appetites.
One of the common ways music dudes address this imbalance, whether we do it consciously or unconsciously, is to give black artists a pass where we might not for white artists.
I think sometimes this double standard is based on a well-meaning if misguided attempt to in some very small way "pay it back," and sometimes it's based on a more wrong-headed belief that "Well, their culture is just, you know, different." And while the specifics might vary depending on where a particular soulstrutter might live--I'm sure the black/white dynamic is different in the UK, for example, than here in the colonies--I think this is something most of us on the board do to a greater or lesser extent and for one reason or another.
That I made this realization while reading said book on the toilet only added to the sordidness of it all.
As a hip hop dude this sucks so bad.
As a supporter of gay rights I'm bummed I know imona see all kinds of stupid responses to this.
I don't know if Meriman gets much coverage of UK current affairs but one recent headline grabber was the conviction of a ring of child abusers of British-Pakistani origin in Bradford. Again, the mega-politically-correct social services workers feared accusations of racism so much that nothing was done for years and complaints fell on deaf ears.
I just hope that when/if he answers for his crimes, the f*cker enjoys his dinner-mashings the other way 'round. I believe the saying is "It's better to give than to receive."
*not that I'm conflating the two things of course!
Hip-hop hasn't seemed particularly inclusive in this respect, but if there's a bunch of successful, openly gay rappers I've missed, colour me misinformed.