[kj] OT: Fuck Hip Hop

[Alexander Smith]

Oh no? WATCH ME.

Ale xin NYC



On Thursday, October 14, 2004, at 07:11 PM, fluwdot at earthlink.net wrote:

> common alex, he's just one dumb rapper
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>  with folks like mos def, del the funky homosapien, beasties..etc.
> you can't write it all off
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> On 14 Oct 2004 at 17:21, Alexander Smith wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> </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."
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>> 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.
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>> "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.
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>> "So when the planes hit the building, we were like, 'Mmmm - justice.'"
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>> 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."
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>> 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.
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>> Parker also sneered at efforts by other rappers to get young people to
>> vote.
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>> "Voting in a corrupt society adds more corruption," he added. "America
>> has to commit suicide if the world is to be a better place."
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>> 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."
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>> But, judging by Parker's downward-spiraling career, he's already bent
>> on self-destruction. </fontfamily>
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