Archive for March 12th, 2008
Al Sharpton, Lemme Holla @ you for a minute
You must be kidding me.
Is it the attention?
Did you REALLY think this was ok?
The Rev. Al Sharpton and NAACP activists stood outside the State Attorney’s Office Tuesday morning, protesting what they say is disparate handling of black teens accused in the rape of a Dunbar Village woman and her son and white teens from suburban Boca Raton accused in the rape of their drunk friends.
Sharpton said the black teens remain jailed and the white teens are free on bond, despite them committing the “same act.”
In the Dunbar Village case, four teens are charged with armed sexual battery for the June crime where they allegedly forced the woman at gunpoint to have sex multiple times, including with her son. Police say the teens then used cleaning agents on the victims afterwards in an attempt to cover their crimes, including stuffing a bar of soap inside the woman. They face possible life in prison.
In the Boca case, five teens are charged with sexual battery on a helpless person because the then 13- and 14-year-old female victims had downed repeated shots of vodka .
According to the teenage boys, at least one of the girls asked in her drunkeness to have sex. Prosecutors recently amended charges so the teens cannot argue consent as a defense. The teens face of a maximum of 30 years in prison.
Again I ask, Is it the attention? You could have just stuck to the Florida Primary issue and been ok. Are you THAT tone deaf to the issues of Black Women (and girls) that you would agree to go down and investigate the Rape initially, then cancel at the last minute only to return to stand by the sides of the alleged perpetrators?The Best Song Snoop never wrote?
So, I am working on the NEXT post you will see on this blog while Listening to Real Late with Peter Rosenberg (required listening for all you grown up Headz) and I hear this new Snoop Song talking about how being scared of marriage will mess up your relationship with a good woman.
*pauses to cue record scratch*
Yes, the man who brought the world a debut album with such insightful relationship commentary as “We don’t Love them Hoes” and “Bitches ain’t shit but Hoes and Tricks” is now exalting the joys of Monogamy. There is hope for HipHop after all.
Uh….small problem.
He didn’t write it. Or Sensual Seduction. Or anything else on his upcoming album.
Back to the album. Initially, there weren’t supposed to be any guest artists on Ego Trippin’. Why the switch?
It just happened. That might be me ego-tripping. The real ego-tripping on this record is that I let people write songs for me.
Singing songs? Rapping songs?
Everything.
Have you run out of things to say yourself?
Nah. I’m ego-tripping. I was watching Diana Ross getting inducted into a Hall of Fame, and she got up there and named all these great songwriters. Her biggest songs were written by somebody else. So I’m thinking, Wow, there’s nothing wrong with my pen, but I’m going to let other people write for me.
Has the recording process become easy?
Yeah, because I know what I want. When you know what you want, you aim for it and shoot for it. I was talking to Quincy Jones. He told me that, when he used to make records, there was a target they used to aim for, whether it was a No. 1 song or a hot artist. If you aim for a target, you’re either going to hit it or go higher. That’s what I’m on right now.
So there you have it. The VERY second I get ready to praise Snoop for FINALLY growing up, It turns out that someone GREW him up. (Although I can’t front, The Blue Carpet Treatment was not without its positive points.)
More on this as it develops.
