[kj] OT: Fuck Hip Hop

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common alex, he's just one dumb rapper

 with folks like mos def, del the funky homosapien, beasties..etc. 
you can't write it all off






On 14 Oct 2004 at 17:21, Alexander Smith wrote:

> 
> 
> >From the New York Daily News.....
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> <bold><fontfamily><param>Georgia</param><bigger><bigger><bigger>KRS-On
> e, decency zero 
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> </bigger></bigger></bigger></fontfamily></bold><fontfamily><param>Geor
> gia</param>If <bold>Osama Bin Laden </bold>ever buys a rap album,
> he'll probably start with a CD by <bold>KRS-One. 
> 
> 
> </bold>The hip-hop anarchist has declared his solidarity with Al Qaeda
> by asserting that he and other African-Americans "cheered when 9/11
> happened." 
> 
> 
> The rapper, whose real name is Kris Parker, defiled the memory of
> those who died in the terrorist attacks as he spouted off at a recent
> New Yorker Festival panel discussion. 
> 
> 
> "I say that proudly," the Boogie Down Productions founder went on,
> insisting that, before the attack, security guards kept black people
> out of the Trade Center "because of the way we talk and dress. 
> 
> 
> "So when the planes hit the building, we were like, 'Mmmm - justice.'"
> 
> 
> 
> The atrocity of 9/11 "doesn't affect us [the hip-hop community]," he
> said. "9/11 happened to them, not us," he added, explaining that by
> "them" he meant "the rich ... those who are oppressing us. RCA or BMG,
> Universal, the radio stations." 
> 
> 
> Parker's screed drew a loud boo from novelist <bold>Tom Kelly </bold>,
> who was in the audience. "I lost six friends there on 9/11," Kelly
> told us afterward. 
> 
> 
> Parker also sneered at efforts by other rappers to get young people to
> vote. 
> 
> 
> "Voting in a corrupt society adds more corruption," he added. "America
> has to commit suicide if the world is to be a better place." 
> 
> 
> Ex-Nirvana rocker <bold>Krist Novoselic </bold>, who was on the panel,
> yelled back: "That is <italic>wrong, </italic>man. Suicide is
> <italic>not </italic>the answer." 
> 
> 
> But, judging by Parker's downward-spiraling career, he's already bent
> on self-destruction. </fontfamily>