Lord help us! Even the Beatles get trashed around here for showing Michelle some love!

There is more outrage in this damn place because Paul McCartney dedicated "Michelle" to Michelle Obama than there has EVER been towards the racist fools who compared her to a gorilla!!

Now all of a sudden, he's a no-talent hack who hasn't made a decent song in 49 years and is just trying to get publicity. WTF? Are people here simply incapable of showing our First Family any love about ANYTHING??!

If anyone EVER tells you that liberals cannot be racists, PLEASE be sure to head butt them for me. I can't stand this!! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

TRUE racists are goose-stepping, confederate-battle-flag-waving, n-word screaming, pot-bellied inbred yahoos that look different and obvious. If you don't fit the above, then you aren't really a racist--kinda like the "class, not race" types. :puke:

SSDD :banghead:

Is this something that certain white folks tell themselves, like bedtime stories, every night?? That racists "look" a certain way? Live only in certain areas and unless someone calls a black person a N*GGER to their face or has burned a cross in somebody's yard for moving into their neighborhood, they can't possibly be a racist?

Where does this foolishness come from??? This DENIAL. I have HAD it. Post-racialist my ass! If anything, this country is even MORE racially screwed since the man took office.

They cannot stand the President or his wife. They are seething with hate for the first family. If you would have asked them about Paul McCartney last week, they would have said he was the greatest!

:grr:

i saw it, and smiled that p. mcartney did that (i'm a long time beatles fan). but knew someone would piss me off in the thread. so glad i stayed away.

(sigh)

i'm considering responding to all offensive posts w/angry rap lyrics, regardless of actual content. dunno how that would go over. but i'm thinking about it.

i'm considering responding to all offensive posts w/angry rap lyrics

This one album will MORE than suffice! Pick a song! ANY song! They're ALL angry! :)

Truly, one of the greatest (and angriest, misogynistic and most profane) rap albums EVER. I always waited until my mother was out of the house before I played it. If she'd ever caught me playing this or even knew that I OWNED it she would have coordinated a neighborhood bonfire and burned it to bits. After she whupped my butt, of course. :rofl:

...that was the album i played when i wanted to frighten (non-ethnic people) that pissed me off during college. well, that and public enemy. :rofl:

the noises pe utilized for their mixes seemed designed to irritate (or frighten) non-ethnic folk. though these days, they dig public enemy as much as us. :shrug: back in the day, you could do a little damage with public enemy (sigh).

i watched some clips on youtube.com, earlier. there were just as many white boys in the front of public enemy's show, as black and latino. :spray:

don't get me started on how i had to hide dh's copy of nwa. he used to drive around blaring f*** tha' police. :scared: not a good idea for anyone of any race in so cal. officers do NOT like nwa or ice tea (cop killer) here.


p.s. i dare you to post that pic in response to offensive posts.
:rofl:

don't know what the fuck they're SAYIN!! LOL!!:rofl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Key7D1bRW4g&feature=PlayList&p=62BC7B979016F823&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=41

though some may not take the hint.

:evilgrin:

for those lacking the patience to get to the good part...it's Asshole by Denis Leary. ;)
something i think of frequently when reading around here.

Girl you are hillarious!!! I have to meet you when I come back to the D for Thanksgiving. Hillarious!

lolol

that was the album i played when i wanted to frighten (non-ethnic people) that pissed me off during college.

Coming from the SWATS everybody was black so I took that little jewel with me to undergrad. Where the population was 5% black. :)

Girl, you play that junk in a dorm room at 10 o'clock at night and your non-Negro neighbors learn reeeeal fast that you are not to be trifled with! I rocked Public Enemy too. I was playing PE in the car just a few days ago! It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is a CLASSIC.
I will be playing that when they wheel me into my nursing home. :fistbump:

...how we went from public enemy,

this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltITMV4Mp5c

and this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzU7jJBMElM


to this mess...
:eyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evrtZ1-rPOw

shorty, turn it around, lemme' see su-thin'...?

seriously? that's ALL you have to share, with the world?


:puke:
the video and song piss me off to no end.
:grr::mad:

we got a whole lot of foolishness popping up on the airwaves.

How else could we have gone from "Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge I'm trying not to lose my head" to "This is why I'm hot"

Seriously I think I heard a song based on some silly sing song game I used to play as a kid. And my sister wonders why I refuse to listen to the radio these days.

it's such a shame. :( i stopped watching BET many, many years ago. i haven't listened to radio in years (unless it's a classic rock, pop, r&b, etc. station).

whenever i search for the classic stuff on youtube, i find comments by younger people that seem to love what i grew up listening to. i'm often surprised by how positive their comments are about our music.

many comments frequently complain that the current releases are crappy, and not as good as what we grew up with (their parents). if they don't like it--who's buying it? :shrug: or i guess maybe they buy it anyway, for lack of choices. :crazy:

Do you remember that Caribbean girl that used to come on there?? Raaay-challl. She was supposed to be black but she actually looked more Indian than black (she was probably from the West Indies which has a surprisingly large number of Indians).

When they hired her, I knew BET was going to go downhill FAST. That heffa spent more time in a damn bikini than the Ms. Hawaiian Tropic contestants.

I will NEVER, ever, EVER forget the interview Raaaay-chall did with Mary J. Blige. Mary just sat and looked at her like she was the dumbest ***** she'd ever seen. :rofl:

...i didn't catch her. she sounds pretty humourous (and awful)!
mj's passing was the first time i watched bet in about 20 years. i promptly stopped as soon as they stopped showing his videos.

i saw donnie simpson once (at a restaurant). he cracked me up, as he seemed "perturbed" that no one "recognized" him.

a friend and i had a running thing about bet. where we complained about how terrible and annoying we found it. if i got a call out of the blue, it was almost always my friend calling to tell me about something horrific he'd seen on bet (beggin' me to turn the channel, so i could suffer w/him). :spray:

her marriage to a BET executive but I'll be good.

Sometimes I've got to wonder if The Boondocks is onto something-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hYMUCuodv4

:rofl:
unfortunately, bet was mad at him for that. i'd heard of the clip and the incident, but never seen it--so THANK YOU for the link! :loveya:

i tried to find it, but can't...:( did you see the one (not banned)where huey watches bet for an entire weekend to see how it affects him on a mental level? his experiment was an effort to see if bet made people stupid.

:spray:

Here's it is-

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxyazJhhqDU

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAnhcjeuf5k&feature=PlayList&p=7D9DDBBE16D337B7&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=14

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvVNh5nNFX0&feature=PlayList&p=7D9DDBBE16D337B7&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=15


When I was looking for it I got confused and thought it was on the "Soul Plane 2: The Blackjacking" episode. I know many place are serving Luther burgers after the episode where granddad opens a restaurant aired. I can picture this sequel actually getting made by people not realizing they're being mocked.

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgOxok2zPM8

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgdVDqaKBmU

watch some of the rap threads around here and rap is the only genre where people aren't allowed to point to old school or non-commercial hits to show it is a valid art form.

:rant: *gets off the soap box*

the year of the "rap song winning." :eyes: though i don't know if there was as big of an outcry when it was eminem. :shrug:

while i didn't care for the song that won, i jumped in the fray to defend the genre. after one idiot tried to say no one in hip hop even "read music", much less played an actual instrument. that seemed rather blatant, and i lost it. :grr::mad:

but that was back when i still posted in the lounge. some of the old school hip hop lovers (like bigmclargehuge) helped me out :thumbsup:. i honestly believe that was my last effort in the lounge. i left after that one, and never returned. it's either sexism or racism in the lounge. why bother?

:)

I feel sorry for every damned moderator in that joint.

:eyes:

White folks fought rap for so long and so hard they made it far more prosperous and universal than ever.

The more money started to be made, the more idiots who didn't have a damn thing to say but could make a snappy beat got involved. And messages of black empowerment were lost amongst the pleas for girls with big asses to "back that thing up."

...i was hot w/ll. he tried to 'complain' about the 'male misogyny message' and how that had to change, for the sake of his daughter. i thought to myself, "oh negro, puh-lease!"

Mister...
Brenda Got a Big Old butt, I know I told you I'd be true,
But Brenda Got a Big Old butt...so I'm leavin' you....

:eyes:

I damn near went off on a guy who was listening to the uncensored version of this song on a train this past weekend-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1QCi-cRwyo

Apparently I was suppose to feel complimented when he tried to talk to me but I'm sure if we meet again he won't make that mistake.

...i sincerely hope you cut him. that song is vile. i stopped after the filet mignon.

:wtf:

And yet, I still vaguely nauseous from just listening to those five seconds.

i know. just the worst thing EVER!

:(

...at least we had a few decent tunes, where dudes TRIED to say positive things about women.

These days, it's all about body parts. (sigh)

I'm still bitter w/teddy riley and rump shaker...that seemed to usher in all this nonsense, and didn't help anything.
:eyes:

WHY, 20 years later, is everybody still making the Rump Shaker video???? :shrug:

But I have to admit... er... I do kind of LOVE that track. :blush:

...between appreciating the track, and the visuals. i like the string portion, sampled on sisqo's Thong Song sound. but when that moment is over, where's my remote? :puke:

To be honest I don't like most of them. How much artistry is involved in getting a bunch of scantily clad women to shake their barely covered asses and breasts in front of a camera? Not to mention have you ever heard an interview these days? How do they expect to have an interview that says something when they're talking about the release of an album or video that says nothing. And frankly, I don't even want to hear an interview with these pathetic excuses for rappers anyway. They can't string together a sentence, they pepper a paragraph with too many "you know what I'm saying?" I always want to yell at the radio, no motherfucker, I don't know what you're saying because you haven't said anything! It's annoying as hell and frankly adds to the "you speak so well" pseudo-complement that gets thrown out there but I digress.

I don't watch MTV, BET nor VH1 although out of the three I'd probably watch VH1 Classics. They occasionally play those old pop up video shows which I loved but otherwise I have no use for videos at all.

I don't think I'm old enough to come across as this damn crotchety when it comes to music but the music business exists to put out crap and I won't spend money on it.

I just can't STAND the hip hop that's out now. Seriously, I really do think that 1993 was the last year that I listened to hip hop on the radio. When they play classic Hip Hop on the music channels here, I am GLUED to the television for hours if need be.

I always want to yell at the radio, no motherfucker, I don't know what you're saying because you haven't said anything!

Get 'em, girl!! :rofl: :rofl:

I appreciate the thought, the gesture and the song. As always, you are a lovely human being, Sir Paul.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifobQSP-b7E&feature=related

(a performance of Michelle, w/the love of his life, Linda McCartney).

and this one goes out to all the haters in GD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzJ2NKp23WU

(though i think most need substantially more than love....:evilgrin:)

deceptive and shameful. I'm not saying ALL liberals are like that but certainly a surprising number are indeed racist.

If even the most "progressive," world-traveled and "educated" ones are depressingly narrow-minded in how they see race, what hope is there??

that most of the most negative here, are in the minority in the world. (but i can't lie, it's a challenge to do this, on a good day...:()

i see them as cowards, with no outlet for their nastiness in the real world. so they take to internet boards, where anonymity protects them. they can spew their hatred w/out the negative repurcussions it would carry away from cyberspace.

they know if they dared to say any of this to our faces, there would be hell to pay. at the very least, a well deserved beat down....;) .

of course, this is just my spin on it. i could be deluding myself. :shrug:

... You do know that there are lots of white folk who thought that Paul McCartney was a no-talent hack who hadn't made a decent song in 38 years back in 2008 before Obama was elected, right? You do know that there are white folk, and often-considered-white-folk such as myself, who considered him a hack, in some cases since childhood... right?

I'm just saying. Dedicating Michelle to Michelle is pretty cool, in my book... but overall I still consider McCartney to be something of a hack who hasn't written much of anything interesting in 39 years.

As long as my Beatle trivia is center stage... you do realize that the song "How Do You Sleep" on Lennon's Imagine album was written about McCartney... specifically about his asshat decision to bundle and sell the rights to all Beatle songs so that the rights could be liquidated... and that Ringo and George Harrison also played on the song... and that a line of the lyrics which is cut from "radio versions" goes something like: "How do you sleep at night, ya cocksucker?"...

The rest of the Beatles had their issues with McCartney too, back in '72, apparently.

But... if you find it more convenient to think that all of us that think McCartney is a hack, think so "just because" he dedicated a song to the lovely Michelle Obama.... and that it isn't a sentiment that goes back practically to the time I was born... well... have fun with that theory. :)...