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In The Line Of Fire

On a side note: Burnett, this is the funniest shit ever.

Anyways, ever since crotchety-ass YT geezer Don Imus essentially made it so that the average Joe like myself can’t go running around calling skeeze-bags kinky-haired trollops without catching flak from fake-ass Sista Souljahs, soccer moms and whatnot earlier this year, the primary topic of discussion of hip-hop this year (outside of the typical gay rapper flim-flam and “Crank Dat” nonsense) has been the portrayal of hip-hop music in the media. Far be it from me to call shenanigans on the entire hubbub – because the fucked-up half of me loves to hear shit like that – but you have to wonder if this “debate” holds any weight at all.

When it really comes down to it, most of the shit is technically legal under the First Amendment [1], and essentially if I wanted to make a song, video or blog (heh) professing my infatuation for feminine penetration, recreational use of Dimetapp and the cost of my Air Forces 3s (the answer? Not much), I should be able to engage in such dumb-ass shit like that without worry of censorship.

Then I forget: this is hip-hop we’re dealing with, and some random-ass dipshit may actually look up to me for that.

The problem with my scenario is that society today has an issue with separating reality from fiction. It’s easy to throw the blame on the rappers, what with their unwillingness to at the very least provide some food for thought that didn’t come with an eight ball and a bullet. With an increasing number of single- and no-parent households, many of today’s children are inexplicably looking to this shit as if it will teach them a lesson at its end Fat Albert-style, thus being unable to tell what’s authentic and what’s phony.

But in another sense, the fact that there could be so many vodka-for-breakfast, retarded children could be for the fact that today’s prominently displayed hip-hop could give a shit about a simple bother like proper parenting, at least not when there’s drugs to be sold and Cisco to be poured on the ample backside of a horse-legged woman and such. So if the parents themselves believe the asinine jibba jabba that these shitbag “poets” are slinging, the shit fucks with the entire foundation of family in the first place.

On the other hand, it’s pretty lame for someone to actually be offended by this shit. Last time I checked my forefathers and foremothers fought for the right to actually put out music without some YT’s visage on the cover in order for it to get play in the record stores, so if they were able to withstand truck-draggings, lynchings and other such inane shit, then the generation today should easily be able to deflect what some random-ass honky says. I know I’m able to, so why isn’t anybody else?

So what’s the solution to all of this? I have no fucking clue, but blaming hip-hop for all of society’s ills is just wrong, not when people look to battyboys like Ted Haggard of all people for “spiritual advice.” And unless someone gives me a legitimate reason to stop, I plan on shooting out the dreaded n-word like I do “Chink,” “Jawa,” “hymie” and every other bigoted word from A to zinc as if it were going out of style.

[1] You know, it’s kinda hard for me to have faith in a country that imposed a law to make my black ass have the same rights as everybody else only four-plus decades ago, but that’s just the conspiracy theorist in me talking.

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