http://urbanhonking.com/cowboyz/2007/12/15/now_he_gonna_beat_it_up_like_h/ Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:37:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://urbanhonking.com/cowboyz/2007/12/15/now_he_gonna_beat_it_up_like_h/#comment-1629 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:17:30 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/cowboyz/2007/12/15/now_he_gonna_beat_it_up_like_h/#comment-1629 All this talk about Ike Turner is freaking me out. Just the other day in my gym class we were listening to an 80’s best of CD and none other then “What’s Love Got To Do With It” came on. Not two days later I heard about Ike’s comeback and how that particular song was about his violence to Tina. I had no idea. I distinctly remember seeing the music video when I was probably 5 and wondered what standing in front of a chain link fence and huge hair had to do with love.

]]> http://urbanhonking.com/cowboyz/2007/12/15/now_he_gonna_beat_it_up_like_h/#comment-1628 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:03:56 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/cowboyz/2007/12/15/now_he_gonna_beat_it_up_like_h/#comment-1628 Ann Powers wrote a piece for the LA Times about how you can’t separate Ike Turner’s violence toward women from his music, etc. etc. One of my professors wrote in a rebuttal, in which he refers to Led Zeppelin as “baby rapers.” But yeah, exactly this point you’re making. Led Zeppelin gang rapes (literally!) women in hotel rooms, Vince Neil kills a bunch of people and throws prostitutes around by their throats, but it’s in IKE TURNER’S music that we can’t separate out the violence??????

]]> http://urbanhonking.com/cowboyz/2007/12/15/now_he_gonna_beat_it_up_like_h/#comment-1627 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:29:14 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/cowboyz/2007/12/15/now_he_gonna_beat_it_up_like_h/#comment-1627 Separating the art from the artist is hard. I have a Modigliani print on my wall.
Or: Ike the Barry Bonds to Elvis’ Roger Clemens?

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