Imus: The Rap Backlash
DrWu
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Today on Oprah a panel discussion with Sharpton, Crouch and that Whitlock dude amongst others talking about how rap is denigrating black people and women. Snoop is definitely in their sites. I could see this building momentum. Shit might get ugly here real soon.
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As a guy who does not listen to rappers like Snoop I might not know what I am talking about but... I under the impression that Snoop raps about prostitutes who he calls hos. I don't think he calls champion basketball teams hos. But I could be wrong. In truth I would love to hear rappers clean up their language, especially in regards to the N word.
hopefully their 'sights' are focused on actual perpetrators, instead of deriding the entire hiphop genre wholesale.
PS: I don't think there is any connection between rap lyrics and Don Imus.
thank satan for a Lord Like Zappa
Snoop is coachin' kids football[ for 400 mandatory hours] ease back on the LBC G.
aheemmm note my post count [like chocula on sat morn]
plaese to explain.
what good rappers have never said "ho"?
Thats what I was trying to say.
i couldn't tell you... but there's definitely a difference b/w the lyrics in the average gangster rap track and the average conscious rap track. but i don't see sharpton or oprah acknowledging that difference, or even acknowledging that there's a massive grey area.
Both are demeaning.
Then why are you defending one?
ps : sorry i tend to forget it's a US forum sometimes. I will try to be more precise and accurate.
Shit happens, huh? I didn't know that!
You're ignorant.
Please don't have kids.
typical Euros. y'all love these stories that show how racist the US is; must make you guys feel better or something.
meanwhile you sleep on the positives, like Sienfeld re-runs.
Please stop.
yeah I just don't wanna see "concious rap" championed here. after all, it's the worst rap out these days.
To com back on th subject, talking about Imus is NOT talking about americans. It's about ONE dumb white mofockers. We dont need to take it to a national identity crisis my man...
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, but it's actually quite acceptable to say "nappy headed ho" when discussing race issues publicly in America. In fact, that's what we're doing right here - talking about the dude who said "nappy headed ho." In fact, discussing the state of racism in America is one of the only times it is acceptable to throw around just about any racially loaded term, as long as its in the context of discussing the use of the term.
It's not like Imus was saying, "Did you hear about that politician who called his lawyer a "nappy headed ho?" How crazy is that? And do you think it's more racially or sexually offensive to call a woman a "nappy headed ho?" Said in all sincerity, there's nothing wrong with that statement.
Didn't mean to mess with you just on semantics, but I wasn't sure if that was just a misused phrase or if that's what you actually meant.
Man, I really need to stop messing with these race threads.
Yo, drama teacher.
You go in some thread, and you whine because you said you were a drama teacher and then people call you out? asshurt for dayzzzz on that. waaaaaaaambulance, 'how could you bring up my teaching???' when you did it in the first place.
And then, you take some 'Don't have kids,' moral stance on this?
GTFOOHWTBS.
Man...you bug me so much i am about to make you my first 'ignore'. i hope your students have the same good sense.
Again, you and old stinky sneakers need to learn some history.
Black people did not invent racism. Calling Black women whores, and using nappy as a negative comes from White American culture not Black culture. Blacks have been oppressed in this country for centuries by the dominate White culture. It is the dominate White culture that from the earliest days of slavery have stereotyped Blacks as sexual beings. DWC came up with the negative terms used for Blacks like nappyheaded.
I just realized how ridiculus this is. You guys think Blacks and Whites are equal except Blacks just don't know how to act and nothing I say will change you.