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Jay Matthews
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| Posted: 05 July 2006 at 2:05pm | IP Logged | 1
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No problem, Todd. I probably had the thing open at my desk for 10 minutes. It could have been forever before I responded, and I have neither the power nor desire to have my own little "answer first" rule. We can leave that one to the host who graciously answers about 10 questions a day.
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Glenn Brown
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| Posted: 05 July 2006 at 2:09pm | IP Logged | 2
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Ian wrote:
| ...I was kidding?? Please tell me Glenn got it, at least...! |
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Yep...took me a moment but I finally got it...we're good.
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Leroy Douresseaux
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| Posted: 05 July 2006 at 2:26pm | IP Logged | 3
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without much thought to whether a rap "song" that encourages the rape and brutalization of women...
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Informed opinion. So when Will Smith is not raping white culture, he's singing (Ooops) rapping about raping the bitches and ho's?
Edited by Leroy Douresseaux on 05 July 2006 at 2:27pm
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Emery Calame
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Calling Will Smith a rapper can get you beat up where I work.
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Wallace Sellars
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Why is that, Emery?
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Ian Evans
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Yep...took me a moment but I finally got it...we're good.
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Cheers Glenn(and Jay and JM)...but that has taught me something - as I posted, I was conscious of the problems of tone we sometimes have, so made sure that I was as outrageously OTT as I could be - and yet still could be taken as serious, despite the post being based on nothing that you had said, nor that we had argued about, etc etc
And I thought I was being dead funny too...
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Emery Calame
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Wallace, because Will Smith is viewed as an MTV pop-music, dance club, sitcom, kid-pleasing entertainer who is imitating the "real important" rappers(whoever they may be at any given time) to sell singles and is not viewed as being representative of "real" rap.
And the people in question wouldn't actually beat you up physically but you could start a pretty heated conversation talking about Will Smith and Rap and there would be a lot of head shaking and someone would go out to the car and come back with a Tupac CD and blast it until I told them to turn it down(becuase I am the official low end corporate buzkill on the night shift).
To them calling will Smith a rapper would be like calling bubblegum and jelly beans a hearty meal.
Edited by Emery Calame on 05 July 2006 at 4:22pm
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Glenn Brown
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You know what's funny, Ian? Despite the obviousness of your exaggerated tone and comments, people here DO react that way so often that I went back to review if we had indeed argued in the thread! Which is much more of a commentary on how this board has progressed and message board communication than it is about anything you said...in fact, you sounded an awful lot like a member whom I've had to ignore in the past; I couldn't take his rants and attacks anymore...
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Jay Matthews
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| Posted: 05 July 2006 at 4:51pm | IP Logged | 9
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Emery
The hardest part for me to believe about your Will Smith story is the part about you having a job. If it's okay with you, I'm going to continue to picture you as part of the bathrobe brigade.
But you know I got nothing but love for ya
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James Hanson
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What exactly is hot dog pie?
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John Mietus
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Some horror that slothered out of the mind of Mike O'Brien.
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Leroy Douresseaux
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To them calling will Smith a rapper would be like calling bubblegum and jelly beans a hearty meal.
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Strangely, Emery. Will was rapping before many of the people who insist he isn't a rapper were themselves rappers or even rap fans. But I know what you mean. Will's record label during the 90's (Sony?) told him to give it up when they dropped him in 2001 or so.
In a related matter: since some worship at the alter of informed opinions, it's important that one really know what the boom shaka they're talking about. So name a rap song or track or whatever that specifically encourages the rape and brutalization of women in general or of a specific woman or a "kind of woman."
Some don't want to be called racist but they're sure quick to denegrate black artists, entertainers, and popular culture. God Bless.
Edited by Leroy Douresseaux on 05 July 2006 at 6:44pm
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