in particular the line of...What in the name of patriarchy is Ice-T talking about? Cop Killer Ice-T? Law and Order Ice-T? It isn’t clear to me whether Ice-T is more angry at Hurricane Chris’sand Souljah Boy’s perceived lack of “black thug” masculinity or at the their inability to measure up to Rakim, Das Efx and BDK as emcees. “Man [...]
Archive for July, 2008
The Hip Hop Generation Gap: I Cram to Understand
Monday, July 7th, 2008The Guardian
Friday, July 4th, 2008I woke up this morning tired. Putting ice on my knee tired. I went out to Ms. Coca’s party last night.Ali Shaheed played Electric Relaxation and I got hoarse from singing along. I was checking my blog statistics this morning and noticed that I was gettingreferrals from The Guardian. I clicked on the link and [...]
Hip Hop, Violence and White Men
Friday, July 4th, 2008Honesty is incredible. I was honest in my piece, “If You Want to Change Society…”,and the Racilicious readers turned around and gave me some feed backthat took it to a whole other level. I found myself writing so manyresponses that I knew I just had to go ahead and post about it.A reader, a white [...]
Who Raises the Kids, Rappers or Parents?
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Our children’s successes and our children’s failures belong to us.We are the reason. Every time I criticize hip hop, I am dumb founded by the responses I get back. Its like, I am talking about peoples mommas or something. Sportaphile’s insistence that it starts with “the family” is misguided, at best. No one makes it [...]
A Response to BET’s Hip Hop vs. America
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Last week, Tracey Rose sent me the above video.As I watched Hip Hop vs. America the video weighedon my mind. For example, in the clip titled TI and Nelly Speak Nelly continued totalk about TipDrillGate. The general sentiment of the women at Spelmanwas that they wanted to host his bone marrow drive,(his sister died of [...]
