HIp Hop didn't do that shit

I'm not a good person to talk to right now.

My mother took the machete out the house when I was young fearing my dad was a lil to quick to get at people in the neighborhood.


I haven't written on Imus cause Sylvia really is that fucking good , and I stopped writing abut Duke .

Then I woke up and saw The Post.

And read the comments about Imus and rappers.

And TONY BLAIR RAN HIS FOOL ASS MOUTH

Immediately had to type in Jesus into the iTunes cause Al Green had to convince me not to scream or cry.


The Duke case is a disaster , but It really does amuse me how people's complete ignorance of law procedure, and careful ( and by careful I mean sensationalists, sexist,racist, hegemony preserving clap trap) selective press coverage, pseudo feminist support, can result in the complete destruction of a woman's life.

She was converted into a hip hop type to make it easy to slander and blame and tidly culturally analyze. The video ho, that girl the counterpart to the over sexed rapper , part of the hip hop conspiracy to skip merrily down the way to ruin?

Because while everyone is taking time to assure that we know the boys are thought to be innocent and they get their apologies, everyone seems to forget that the victim didn't want to press charges and has been running hither and yon in fear from pamphlets and death threats.

There are no charges, so lets name her! Even though she was wrongfully named when there WERE , so please absolve of any culpability we have in further fucking up her life , so we must be thorough.

Thorough when you made sure we knew she was stripper, before we knew they were gay bashers?

Thorough when their Duke reputation as sports gods came up time and time again but little was made of her navy service.

Oh and I promise they will comeo out with every wrong deed she did in life cause we need to KNOW!!!!!!!!!

So while Broadsheet and others make very careful to sound measured and " correct" about the boys, no minstrations are made her way. or reproachfulness about the coverage are brought up now , because the shitty way this was handled and helped this mess continue is less important that making sure people know you were measured in your response.

OR how many people felt the same about the CP case ?

RIGHT O, because a proper investigation which respected both VICTIM and accused would have caught discrepancies earlier. It couldn't be that someone was grandstanding or that the entire thing was macrcossomed into the RACE CASE

or that popular coverage went might quick to " HOW DOES THIS AFFECT THE WHITE GIRLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" ( hey rolling stone thanks for that , also appreciate the relevant music ,scene coverage and quality music........ oh right wait)

and of course but but how can we blame it on hip hop today?


Which of course Imus and Tony Blair and everyone wants to run to.

Guess what the number one consumers of hip hop are... white kids. Street stuff teh stuff teh scary black kids love RARELY gets the air play the guns and banging bullshit these morons liek to point out as the downfall of society.

But my question is when did you become a society of idiots? When did the fact taht hip hop which doesn't no matter what anybody says have the ENFORCED corporate ubiquity that say beauty,fastfood,movies, porn, religion have but anybody says something about that

Whinging and whinging on the personal responsibility................................

So is it only when it concerns black people is it completely irresistable

There has NEVER ever been a REASON needed to disrespect Black women, or to take a half assed approach towards black crime , or to disregard black people.

What there hasn't been until recently ( * takes a minute to do a go my people dance*) are alrge amounts of fiscally socially power POC's allied to start hitting pockets. While there is much less of a carte blanche belief in white supremacy ( shit ain't sweet by no means) , so you r intent or your belief doesn't mean shit...

What i find especially amusing is white people missing the basic concept of you CAN say whatever you want . You can go ahead have a blast do your thing. Short of fire or incitement to violence with the goal to cause it, shout it from the mountaintops.

Except if I hear it and I decide to who ride. you have to deal with it.

Privilege results in lazy ass motherfuckers who have no desire to deal with the responsibility of their "rights". It is expected you'll be unchallenged un shaped and allowed to do whatever.

Hip Hop didn't do that.

Hip hop didn't up and decide that these portrayals would hit the mainstream with resonance. Hip hop did not get elected by the International Association of the Black/African Diaspora as blackness to be the convenient scape goat when white folk figure out we ain't taking this shit no mo.

Hiphop doesn't make Our female allies slow out the fucking gate to stand up, or that gay bashing white boys are pitted against grandstanding DA's and leave a lone black woman the face of all evil?

Or a dried out tired media using any opportunity to scare up flagging sales?

Or one white man using rash misogynistic racist language to speak in barely coded terms to his audience and getting caught cause he went after a high profile Cinderella team.

or a weak PM trying to justify doing everything but run his country, and protect his people. Where were the commentary on the rash of racial attacks Tony?

Hip Hop didn't do that shit it just gave it a beat and a hook


Edited to add read UBUNTU