HumanityCritic's Message to Hip Hop: "For the Love of God, Stop Going on FOX News!"
"A wise man told me don't argue with fools
Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who"
- Jay-Z, "Takeover"
Ever so often, whether it's from a friend who doesn't know me at all and mistakenly thinks I'd be in the least bit interested, or some Hip Hop blog that I happen to peruse when I'm not beating my dick like it had an expiration date on it to some deviant form of online pornography - I always learn about some rapper or Hip Hop journalist that decided to express themselves in the house that Rupert Murdock built. Usually these clips are prefaced with sentiments like "MC so-and so really owned Neil Cavuto" or "That Hip-Hop-Journalist-Guy really gave it to O'Reilly!" - and even though I know that the chances that I'll be satisfied with the outcome is usually slim, like getting a blow-job from an epileptic chick with braces, I still play the video clips in hopes that an intelligent representative of my culture gets in that ass like an overeager doctor during a prostate exam. Unfortunately, like that one black person with only three words in their vocabulary that your local news decides to interview at the scene of a crime, the person in said clip usually embarrasses themselves - not because the interviewer dazzled them with their hard-hitting questions, but because they were drooling idiots before they even walked into the FOX News Studios. (See: Dame Dash and Cam'ron) Or recently, when everyone that I know passionately pointed me in the direction of M1's(Dead Prez) interview with Neil Cavuto as if that motherfucker had cured a disease during the discussion - what I found was a person doing the bare minimum while the interviewer generalized his Bush loving ass off, an endeavor as non productive as masturbation or telling a chick with a severe overbite to "use less teeth next time!" Even as articulate a speaker as KRS-One, a person who I'm not always in lockstep with, opinion wise, but who more times than not is a stellar spokesman for Hip Hop culture as a whole - ended up defending himself and his career via Fox's smear tactics and blatant inaccuracies, with Hannity somehow veering off course from the utterly intriguing (sarcasm) subject of naughty language in Hip Hop spawning from the Imus situation. My message to Hip Hop from this point forward is, "Keep your silly asses off of FOX News!!"
I know, I know, Hip Hop should attempt to have its voice heard regardless the venue - and usually I would agree with that sentiment. Bu, what if the venue really doesn't give a fuck what you have to say anyways - using Hip Hop not as a tool to gain any sort of insight, but simply as a prop to use at their discretion - like a fucking tackling dummy or some shit. I mean, that audience already have their minds made up, most of the people who still thought that Saddam was linked to 9/11 just happens to be Fox News viewers - if you think you are going to sway that crowd with anything that comes out of your mouth, you are nuttier than squirell turds. Going on Fox News to talk about Hip Hop is like me walking into a lesbian bar, exposing a completely erect penis and screaming, "OK Ladies, who's going first?" Or better yet, breaking down Hip Hop to the Bill O'Reilly crowd is like trying to convey the lyrical mastery of Rakim - at a fucking Klan Rally.
Hip Hop, for Christs sake, stop going of Fox News - its as painful an experience as Lou Diamond Phillips hearing a Melissa Etheridge song. People who have my email address, stop sending me these youtube clips like its akin to an Edward R Murrow rant - unless a rapper is beating the living propaganda out of one of the Fox News hosts.
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Comments
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GOLDYLOCS NII CHAN says:
THANK F**** U...SOMEBODY SCREEM.....
05/30/2007 at 6:26 PM
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Brother Omi says:
I think M 1 did better than most. I think he held it down and FOX was not able to do the switcheroo on him.
05/24/2007 at 4:41 AM
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DJ Black Adam says:
Man, you made me go look up KRS on fox, all I can say was...damn.
O.K., I love the Blast master, but this is an example of your words coming back to haunt you. He was neutralized and villified BY HIS OWN WORDS. Just like Malcolm's comment about JFK, Kris’s comment about 9/11 went tooo far to make an analogy. Now, when he could have added relevent insight to a social topic beyond Hip Hop, he was neutered. I don’t blame Hannity, I blame Kris.
Moral of the story: “Think before you speak”.
05/22/2007 at 12:25 AM
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thoreauly77 says:
HC- i agree. moreover, fox news just wants to bring in more viewers, so if they bring on M-1or anyone else, they get more hits... its easy, and, its silly to think that any minds will change..
my message is this: tune fox news the fuck out, period. check out alternet, fox, and cnn if you want to get different perspectives and have decent arguing points. only a fool chills with all similarly like-minded.
05/19/2007 at 12:52 AM
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Carla says:
I read your blog on a regular basis because I know that in some way I am going to be entertained. I am little concerned about your obcession with masturbation.
However, I am in agreement with this particular entry. Fox news seeks only to prove their misguided views of issues. There is a reason why they do not interview rappers with an extensive vocabulary (i.e. NAS, JayZ, Common, Talib Kweli, Mos Def or Black Thought) or any semblance of intelligence whatsoever. What made Cam'ron think he was fit to speak to for hip hop when he can barely formulate an entire sentence is beyond me. As a former lover of hip hop I am more than disappointed by the manner in which it is being represented and presented to the world. We need a resolution and that resolution does not include the two witless wonders Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. You seem to have a way with words what do you say you become the new spokesman.
05/18/2007 at 6:49 AM