I got seven Mac-11s/about eight .38s/nine 9’s/10 Mac 10s… – B.I.G.
It doesn’t take the hip hop police to break down those opening bars from the Notorious One. But what’s more dangerous: the words or the weapons? It’s like Chris Rock said in his comedy special Never Scared.“White people sell guns, that’s all right. Black rapper says ‘guns,’ congressional hearing.”
A certain superstore may have one believe that an explicit verse from Hell “Ruger” Rell could do more damage than an actual Ruger rifle. That’s right. Don’t enter Wal-Mart expecting to pick up Devin the Dude’s latest disc next time you’re out. Actually you can pick it up but it won’t have the Parental Advisory stamp on the lower right hand corner. But if you’re heading over to the sporting goods section feel free to pick up that 20-gauge before you check out. Oh, I get it.
16 “dirty” bars = bad; 16 sights and scopes = good
Nothing like the good ‘ole stars and stripes. Only in a land where hypocrisy is as American as racism and basketball could this make sense. Now before the gat-totin’ pistol-holdin’ members of the NRA brief me on the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms, I have something for them. There’s this basic thing called freedom of speech that came before anything about a musket. How else can you explain Don Imus being on the air for so long? (Well that and the fact that he made millions for CBS and others.)
One could argue that Too Short’s favorite word is not protected speech. But I don’t remember the last time someone scrapped it out when “Shake that Monkey” came on. Or I seriously doubt Huey’s “Pop, Lock & Drop It” will shut down the club this weekend. So the next time someone puts society’s ills solely on hip hop, do me a favor. Ask that person if DJ Don Cannon’s sounder is more serious than ducking rubber bullets and billy clubs from an LAPD imitator.
COMMENTS
man shit cant ever be perfect but this shit is FUCKED UP
hey its fucked up but wat you gonna do
This article is on point- shit is never gonna be right- its always gonna be fuked up in some sort of way...
Like it mattaz, most peeps these dayz too cheap and lazy to spend the money and go out to buy a cd, they rather download it or burn it from sum1 else.
Besides why any us be at wal mart for a cd? Go to a music store for that, go to wal mart for ya bread n shit. If no one goes to wal mart to buy cd's cuz they all censored maybe they change there ways.
Brown Bomber? I would say welcome.. But something tells me you've been around.. for a minute.. Anyways good article.
Kart00n-702 — about 6 hours ago
Like it mattaz, most peeps these dayz too cheap and lazy to spend the money and go out to buy a cd, they rather download it or burn it from sum1 else.
Besides why any us be at wal mart for a cd? Go to a music store for that, go to wal mart for ya bread n shit. If no one goes to wal mart to buy cd's cuz they all censored maybe they change there ways.
man u missed the point completly its got nuthin to do with downloading or boycoting wal mart its the fact that these people view hip hop more dangerous than selling someone a gun and are basically saying hearing bad language is more harmfull than taking a shell to your chest
DATS SOME REAL ASS SHIT !!!!!!
shit yall know soon enough WAL MART gon be slangin doe-doe!!!!!
in 2010 when the democrats legalize it.........
once they realize how much tax money they can make, yall already know
they gon put the streets outta business!!!!!
good article. but i dont buy my cd's at walmart anyway.
This article aint about where u buy cd's.
Its about how we cant talk about guns but we sure can buy some.
U gotta be over 18 to buy a shotgun.
U gotta be over 18 to buy a parental advisory cd.
Kids get a hold of guns.
Kids get ahold of parental advisory cd's.
Last time i checked kids were shooting guns not cd's.
Thank you UVF.. Damn.. somethings just go over peoples heads..
SnappS — 26 minutes ago
This article aint about where u buy cd's.
Its about how we cant talk about guns but we sure can buy some.
U gotta be over 18 to buy a shotgun.
U gotta be over 18 to buy a parental advisory cd.
Kids get a hold of guns.
Kids get ahold of parental advisory cd's.
Last time i checked kids were shooting guns not cd's.
well i'm over 18 so again don't really care. this shit ain't new they've been doing shit like this since hip-hop started. you will never be able to change it.
Don’t blame it on the sunshine
Don’t blame it on the moonlight
Don’t blame it on the good times
Blame it on the boogie
first amendment
word...rap got a bad rap....they tryna shut us down again my niggaz
Ah America, the home of the hypocrites. No wonder all the other countries hate us.
America is the best. You gotta love how they will blatantly contradict themselves just to bring down the Afican American culture... if there was a flipside to this shit, lets say hip hop appealed to these white collar, high class whites, you wouldn't hear a thing about it.... But of course since this is something that blacks started and embrace as a part of our everyday lives... its more detrimental to our health than the actual guns used to kill ppl... Makes sense, Congress! Makes me fuckin proud to live in DC where our great, great President lives that has made our gas prices ridiculously high, put soilders into a war without reasonable reason, passed that good ole Patriot Act, and put a Gone Fishin' sign on the Oval Office's door when Katrina hit... Oh yeah, America was made for us niggas.... And FUCK Wal-Mart... still sellin violent video games and movies
but we don't wanna hear this nigger Rap about violence. Let me quit while I'm ahead.
WhoozThaBoss — about 6 hours ago
America is the best. You gotta love how they will blatantly contradict themselves just to bring down the Afican American culture... if there was a flipside to this shit, lets say hip hop appealed to these white collar, high class whites, you wouldn't hear a thing about it.... But of course since this is something that blacks started and embrace as a part of our everyday lives... its more detrimental to our health than the actual guns used to kill ppl... Makes sense, Congress! Makes me fuckin proud to live in DC where our great, great President lives that has made our gas prices ridiculously high, put soilders into a war without reasonable reason, passed that good ole Patriot Act, and put a Gone Fishin' sign on the Oval Office's door when Katrina hit... Oh yeah, America was made for us niggas.... And FUCK Wal-Mart... still sellin violent video games and movies
but we don't wanna hear this nigger Rap about violence. Let me quit while I'm ahead.
Skrate up.
they act like violence and all that shit never happended before the music and it still goin on now if they was to ban hip hip violence would still happen regardless but thats what they wanna blame it on.....thats bullshit
America is the best. You gotta love how they will blatantly contradict themselves just to bring down the Afican American culture... if there was a flipside to this shit, lets say hip hop appealed to these white collar, high class whites, you wouldn't hear a thing about it.... But of course since this is something that blacks started and embrace as a part of our everyday lives... its more detrimental to our health than the actual guns used to kill ppl... Makes sense, Congress! Makes me fuckin proud to live in DC where our great, great President lives that has made our gas prices ridiculously high, put soilders into a war without reasonable reason, passed that good ole Patriot Act, and put a Gone Fishin' sign on the Oval Office's door when Katrina hit... Oh yeah, America was made for us niggas.... And FUCK Wal-Mart... still sellin violent video games and movies
but we don't wanna hear this nigger Rap about violence. Let me quit while I'm ahead.
COSIGN! ! ! !
Wow... Boss as always and Mr. Pres... great shit...
They never cease to amaze me with the bullshit.
Anything and everything that "WE" as minorities touch and make profitable...THEY have a fuckin' problem with it.
It's not enough that they set us back 400+ fuckin' years.
It's also not enough that "WE" forcefully built or "touched" this country (wage-free) and made this muthafucka the richest, most prosperous, most sought after all around country in the fuckin' Galaxy...
U know what...lemme NOT go where I was about to take this fuckin' post...I dont wanna 'cause a Mason-Dixon line to be formed on this site...
But this shit is ridculous seriously.
Hip-Hop makes minorities violent right?
Well if that's the case then I guess that Christianity or Catholocism or whateva they claimed to have been... MADE THE KKK THE WAY THEY WERE!
(Those muthafuckas have been hateful waaaaay before hip hop was even thought of...
what the fuck is their excuse??)
BULLSHIT right? My sentiments exactly!!!!!
I'm going to leave it alone at this point...my fuckin' blood is getting warm...
~Be Eazy!
A lot of great points were made here---except for the obvious ones that stick out---If you take a look at the timing of this all---the election cycle is shaping up---hip hop may become this election cycle's distraction---a distraction from what's going on in Iraq, a distraction from the fact that the Bush/republican troop increase isn't doing any good in terms of keeping the violence down, Hurricane Katrina will be used as an example of republican failure, the high unemployment rate, and the numerous congressional hearing that are being conducted by the democrats to flush out abuses and corruption of that occurred while Congress was under republican control, a distraction from high gas prices, and a distraction from the fact that the republicans opposed a minimum wage increase. Hip Hop is this coming election's gay marriage. Hip Hop is the evil that is tearing at the moral fabric of society (in other words, just another republican campaign punch line).
I think it is funny how "we" allow these people to set the agenda when it comes to our lives, how they have the right to define what morality is in this country. Also, I find it funny to see how all of the so-called activists jumped on the bandwagon to blame hip hop for society's woes, and how none of them could articulate the difference between a rapper who expresses him or her self by using explicit lyrics in a song( a form of art that receives protection under the 1 Amendment), and uses the word bitch or whore, and apply theses terms generally, to a generic group of men or women, as opposed to a shock jock who used derogatory terms to describe a distinct and specific group of woman.
Damn Ejab..great post!
~Be Eazy!
yo ejab. thats shits on point. These politicians gon use niggar and hiphop as smokescreens instead of addressn d real issues
this is a good thought out article.
-props