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DUBCC - Tha Connection => Outbound Connection => Topic started by: Citizen-Y on November 01, 2008, 09:30:57 PM
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-30/a-rapper-salutes-the-slave-trade
Our music critic calls Soulja Boy on the carpet.
One of the biggest songs in the country last year was an inane, sex-chant-infused Southern rap called "Crank That (Soulja Boy)," by young Soulja Boy Tell Em, from tiny Batesville, Mississippi, population 7,113. Soulja Boy Tell Em turned 18 this summer and is looking forward to voting for the first time. His monster hit song included repeated assertions of a cartoonishly absurd sex act: supermanning, or as he elaborated repeatedly in the song, "Superman that ho," which means to come on a woman's back and then put a sheet over her so it sticks to her back and she looks like she’s wearing a cape. Ridiculous stuff. He also chants repeatedly, "Supersoak that ho,” the meaning of which needs no explanation, given the neighborhood we're already in.
These are ludicrous suggestions that play into the Cro-Magnon conception of men using sex and sperm to attack and slay women. It's such a mean-spirited vision of sex that every time I heard the record I thought, I bet that before this came out, he was a virgin.
Last week in Atlanta, I got to interview Soulja Boy Tell Em. I found out just how young he really is. He was one of about ten rappers I interviewed in one day for my BET show, The Black Carpet. I decided it'd be fun to give all the rappers part of the Proust questionnaire. I thought it'd be a way to get beyond image and into who they really are. Most of the guys gave good, thoughtful, intelligent, sensitive answers. I asked Juelz Santana, “How would you like to die?” He said, "Loved."
Then came Soulja Boy Tell Em. I asked him, “What historical figure do you most hate?” He was stumped. I said, "Others have said Hitler, bin Laden, the slave masters..." He said, "Oh wait! Hold up! Shout out to the slave masters! Without them we'd still be in Africa."
My jaw, at this point, was on the ground."We wouldn't be here," he continued, having no idea how far in it he'd stepped, "to get this ice and tattoos."
Wow. Never mind that diamonds come from Africa. Never mind that there were many generations of pain in between leaving Africa and getting diamonds. Never mind that the long-term cataclysmic effects of subtracting about tens of millions of young, strong people from Africa over the course of a couple of centuries is a large part of the reason why Africa now appears so distasteful to you. Never mind all that, Soulja Boy. You put country first.
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wow....... :loco: :grumpy: :eh: ???
dude is just flat out retarded, but i guess we shoulda known that based upon his music.
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I hope this kid isn't getting robbed by his label b/c when this music shit is over he has no future at anything.
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new generation yall. :-X
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wtf what an idiot
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wow....... :loco: :grumpy: :eh: ???
dude is just flat out retarded, but i guess we shoulda known that based upon his music.
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stupid comment
Soulja boy is as retarded as his music :-X
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someone needs to give him a beat down
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maybe in a few days he will apologize for this statement
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maybe in a few days he will apologize for this statement
Co-sign.
Dude should keep his mouth shut ASAP.
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theres bigger thigns in this world going on than some lil dicked fuck shit talking becasue he thinks hes big time.....
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lol cosign soulja boy, America has jewelry and the tastiest food.
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someone needs to give him a beat down
werd
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why has he not already been beat down? everyone hates him
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why has he not already been beat down? everyone hates him
m-town u got a good point :laugh:
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why has he not already been beat down? everyone hates him
Maybe people feel sorry for him? Didn't some 12 y old kid throw rocks at his tour bus?
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Why can't the guy have an opinion? It's got nothing to do with this "new generation" shit. He's only a few years younger than we are and has been through the same schooling and shit that we've been through. Now this opinion of his will probably change in the next few years and then change again a few years later, but he can still hold it now. He believes that it is privelege to live in a country that millions of people each year want to get in to, and he believes that his life would be worse off right now if there was never a slave trade and he had been in Africa.
Is he really wrong? If there was never a slave trade Africa would still have been the white world's victim to this day.
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Why can't the guy have an opinion? It's got nothing to do with this "new generation" shit. He's only a few years younger than we are and has been through the same schooling and shit that we've been through. Now this opinion of his will probably change in the next few years and then change again a few years later, but he can still hold it now. He believes that it is privelege to live in a country that millions of people each year want to get in to, and he believes that his life would be worse off right now if there was never a slave trade and he had been in Africa.
Is he really wrong? If there was never a slave trade Africa would still have been the white world's victim to this day.
please shut the fuck up with that bullshit. you can't say if there wasnt a slave trade Africa would still be fucked up. because if there was no slave trade, then all the negative influences by you white devils would not exist. that means Africa would never have been underdeveloped. you one of those white people thats like "Black should be lucky because we took them out of that savage Africa".
this proves that whites love when Blacks act like fucking retarded ass slaves because you co-signing this bullshit
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^for the first time i will agree with JOB...
there is no good out of the slave trade. thats like Japan saying there glad we bombed them because otherwise we would still be enemies or some bullshit. Soulja Boy is a fuckin moron in many ways, musically, mentally & gaming (that fuck tried to gain fans over xbox :loco:).
strongest point of JOB's statement, that Africa would never have been underdeveloped. i mean when Africans were taken they were thrown SO many years behind the rest of the world.
bottom line...Soulja Boy = FUCKIN MORON! :grumpy:
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Why can't the guy have an opinion? It's got nothing to do with this "new generation" shit. He's only a few years younger than we are and has been through the same schooling and shit that we've been through. Now this opinion of his will probably change in the next few years and then change again a few years later, but he can still hold it now. He believes that it is privelege to live in a country that millions of people each year want to get in to, and he believes that his life would be worse off right now if there was never a slave trade and he had been in Africa.
Is he really wrong? If there was never a slave trade Africa would still have been the white world's victim to this day.
its just a very selfish way to look at it, but yes he can have an opinion, but he is spitting in the eye of his ancestors
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Why can't the guy have an opinion? It's got nothing to do with this "new generation" shit. He's only a few years younger than we are and has been through the same schooling and shit that we've been through. Now this opinion of his will probably change in the next few years and then change again a few years later, but he can still hold it now. He believes that it is privelege to live in a country that millions of people each year want to get in to, and he believes that his life would be worse off right now if there was never a slave trade and he had been in Africa.
Is he really wrong? If there was never a slave trade Africa would still have been the white world's victim to this day.
its just a very selfish way to look at it, but yes he can have an opinion, but he is spitting in the eye of his ancestors
word, you think Soulja Boy would be saying that if he was around back then? one of the stupidest comments ever made lol.
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^ again, as shallow said, maybe not too stupid, because american life is arguably better, but selfish, in the giving props to the murder and slavery of your own race so that you can wear a chain
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^ again, as shallow said, maybe not too stupid, because american life is arguably better, but selfish, in the giving props to the murder and slavery of your own race so that you can wear a chain
well Africa might not be the same continent as it is today if they all werent taken away from it. then, the whole country itself was put on a low scale. fell behind in development & shit. i dont know....
either way, its a fucked up & yes, selfish comment.
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but look at his quote its like hes saying... hes glad hes not from africa.... its like hes saying damn glad im not in africa...
thats the first thing that came to mind when i read that
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^ wats wrong with that? id rather be in america than africa, id rather be in america than my birth country (ukraine)
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^ wats wrong with that? id rather be in america than africa, id rather be in america than my birth country (ukraine)
wtf? all this time i thought you were english ???
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^ no, im an american ukranian from philly, but i do feel english at heart, and black as well
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^ no, im an american ukranian from philly, but i do feel english at heart, and black as well
damn, i thought you were from London and had moved to the states. i must be have you mixed up with someone else or i´m bugging.