Comments on: Oprah Gets a Bad Rap

By: Kirk

Kirk — Wed, 17 May 2006 14:48:50 +0000

I’m 90% water, 2% stale air, and 7.9% Evan Williams brand whiskey. Mmmmm, sweet cost effective goodness!

By: Rex

Rex — Wed, 17 May 2006 06:09:20 +0000

Famdog, I’ll bet the differences between us are even less than 10%, scientifically that is.

By: Farmdog

Farmdog — Wed, 17 May 2006 04:30:05 +0000

and Kirk, I’m glad you saw that I was trying to lighten things up!!!

By: Farmdog

Farmdog — Wed, 17 May 2006 04:26:46 +0000

if y’all wanna see the affects of positive messages on society, check out the movie “What the bleep do we know”…there is a segment about the power of positive and negative messages and how they affect the quality of the chrystals formed by freezing individual water molecules…apparently, messages affect the structure of water molecules at the molecular level. Humans are 90% water (makes racism, homophobia, sexism etc… seem that much more ridiculous when you realize that 90% of all of us is EXACTLY the same), so it is not to difficult to extrapolate that positive and negative messages profoundly affect humans individually and collectively…be nice to people, folks…say nice things, and mean them…your life and the lives of those around you will improve perceptibly…it might take all the fun out of gangsta rap, so we’ll all have to find some Mozart Cd’s for our next drive by…

By: J. Montez

J. Montez — Tue, 16 May 2006 22:10:44 +0000

I agree with Shotclock.
Art often imitates life. If all the people that I see growing up that are successful, guess what I’m going to want to be?

It’s not so much the message that we are putting out, its the lack of an alternative. There’s no way we can get rid off all the disruptive images in our society, but what we can do is push more of the positive ones.

Like you said Oprah was extremely wrong for editing out Luda’s comments as well as for putting him on blast when he was on the show for “Crash,” not to discuss rap music. Futhermore if we are going to attack Rap music, shouldn’t we take similiar attacks on other entertainment genre’s i.e. Movies.

By: eauhellzgnaw

eauhellzgnaw — Tue, 16 May 2006 09:21:30 +0000

The problem is the huge demand for such rappers and lyrics, not the rappers and lyrics themselves. You know what would happen if you could get all major rappers to clean up their acts? They would be replaced by new rappers who used the same negative language–fans would consider these new voices to be “real.” Describing violence, misogyny, criminality, homophobia, and racism as an “authentic” black behavior is bigger and older than rap, despite what the Civil Rights generation and/or the cultural conservatives would have folks believe. Making this about rap (no matter how bad or offensive) is a smokescreen.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Tue, 16 May 2006 08:07:33 +0000

Hey Farmdog, ever think about going into acting?

By: Farmdog

Farmdog — Tue, 16 May 2006 07:44:35 +0000

all I know is, everytime I listen to rap, I feel like gettin high, grabbing my crotch and doing felonious acts…ummm hmmm

By: Kirk

Kirk — Tue, 16 May 2006 06:58:15 +0000

Rex, there’s probably no way you could have known this, but I may very well be the biggest Prince(ss) hater on the planet. His symbol is equally obnoxious to Indiana.Areola’s, or whatever she calls herself, name, but no more or less so. They’re both overrated and obnoxious, and I can’t really be bothered to distinguish between them beyond that.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 16 May 2006 06:54:36 +0000

Spider - I thought the same thing as Rex… thought “Raptors” was a typo! And I incorrectly placed you in a category that’s clearly not you….. you’re too well informed. I do apologize.

On a different note, when I see Oprah I think of that one Chappelle episode…