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By: Renzo

Renzo — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:30:02 +0000

Snoop’s just a big sell-out. One day you see him dancing in a video with Mariah Carey and singin corny love songs with her and the next day he’s talkin about pulling out his AK47. He will do anything for some $$$$ He doesn’t care bout hip hop.

By: whatup

whatup — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 15:55:19 +0000

Snoop is an authentic African American WHO should get a free pass from criticism AFTER BILLIONS OF STRONG BLACK MEN MURDERED IN THE MIDDLE PASSAGE. Haven’t you ever heard of affirmative action? Real African Americans (not the negroes) know that he’s joking about a cartoonish image. You flatass caucasian folk get all hot and bothered about a joke. Yes, people tell jokes about everything. LIGHTEN UP, WHITEBREAD! yOU JUST WANT TO KEEP DOWN A BLACK MALE WHO’S MADE IT. YOU DON’T WANT TO GIVE UP YOUR SLAVE-MURDERING POWER. GET REAL, with your collagened lips and fake tans trying to be black, you hypocrites!!!!!!

By: zorilla

zorilla — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:09:14 +0000

“I say to myself: sexual expression is complex and that’s how I like it. I am an adult. I justify: I live in America, contradiction is my burden to bear. […] l multiply it next time I ‘m out, dancing “yes” and thinking “no.” The language of the abused.” ****>>> contradictio in terminis. wisen up or shut up.

By: jck

jck — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 22:43:20 +0000

everytime a rapper would call out for the BK or the BX i used to change it to if someone was repping my heritage, and felt the chills. thats why hip hop is universal now, because english is the global second language, and hip hop is speaking to the boy in the dirty dirty X — where the dirty dirty is wherever the wrong side of the tracks are
Its also the reason wherever you go, the Shia are almost always poor
sorry to double post

By: jck

jck — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 22:37:40 +0000

i think the jay leno audience is the one who wants to have the gang banger on the couch, they are the ones really pushing for it.
why would kids who already know about gangs in there real life really be affected by Snoop throwing up gang signs.
A) if they are in the life, I think they’d be happy to see it, but they are already in the life.
B) if they aren’t in the life, they might not like Snoop doing it, but won’t they be more affected by every day events. they already don’t like that life so Snoop isn’t going to change that is he?
Not being black, i look at it from my own point of view. and i do have a heritage that gets repped at times — not in america though. And the parts I agree with, I’m happy to see Repped, regardless of what other people see. And the parts I am not happy about, it doesn’t affect me as much as my own ever day experience.
The issues of repping a hood are couched in the Black American experience, but the thrill of the call-out from marginalized people is not solely an American phenonemon. The thrill is universal, and to me, Snoop’s signifying has alot to do with that. I see him as someone who still lives that life, but choice.
Gangs in and of themselves are found all over the world wherever boys are in a community thats marginalized. they just have different names.
It always gets translated. Did you know that Al Pacino in Scarface has a huge following among South Asian male youth in the UK? Because they share exactly the life conditions of Scarface.
I could give you a person who in the parlance of “Don” who gets shouted out all the time in my community. And other people would be like “that guy did X bad thing, what a bad example”. but to those who follow him, their connection is so much more immediate that they ignore it. And those in the community who do not like it know that they have way more problems then that anyway

By: Jay Smooth

Jay Smooth — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 05:32:20 +0000

1. Snoop totally deserves to be put on blast for that track.
2. I’m with Will on the crip-walk issue too.. So many of these artists act as if their gangbanging/weight-pushing days are behind them when they are cozying up to middle america on Leno, then whip it back out whenever their realness needs a steroid injection. And if we’re gonna laud Em for his “Mosh” video cuz we’re hoping it influences kids by making political engagement look cool, then we gotta hold Snoop accountable for making dumb shit look cool.
Oh yeah, and parading a real life pimp around as a mascot is just wack as hell. Especially one as withered and decrepit as Snoop’s longtime companion. Has he gotten sent to the glue factory yet?

By: Jay Smooth

Jay Smooth — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 04:39:45 +0000

Wow I’ve been missing a lot of action
Joan Morgan, Fieldston represent!
(hmm, somehow “Fieldston” and “represent” don’t look right together)

By: RJ

RJ — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 03:10:46 +0000

Yeah, Snoop should be on blast for his lyrics, because his song not only demeans women, but black males as well; why should the white world have this as their example of black males? It ties into the whole mandigo character trope that been around as long as black men has existed in North America.