I want to die in my sleep now.

For the community's information: This user is 2 week temp-banned and this video is being removed. We don't have any room for this disgusting racist filth here.

*discuss

This video is being sent to Sift Talk for discussion - discuss requested by lucky760.

I dunno about this Lucky - I considered posting this as well.

This vid was produced by Nas, in response to how hip-hop went from empowerment to ridiculously stereotypical silliness. He recruited Nick Cannon and (I believe) Affion Crockett to don blackface and perform as Shuck & Jive.


This particular embed doesn't have the explanatory message (voiced by Nas) that the original vid did (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgRAgJI7aoc), and out of context this vid would seem to be totally racist. It is, however, a commentary about the degree to which *hiphop has lowered itself, and the extent to which 'artists' are whoring themselves out to corporate 'slave masters' in the name of money & fame.

See here:
http://www.ampradio.com/2009/08/nas-nick-cannon-eat-dat-watermelon/
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/videos/id.3430/title.nas-nick-cannon-affion-crockett-eat-that-watermelon-psa

Adding video to channels (Hiphop) - requested by SlipperyPete.

That's all interesting information SlipperyPete. However, it is apparent by the title, tags, and summary (and lack of even a hint that this was some kind of attempt at an "artistic" parody) that the only context in which this video was posted was an entirely racist one. The ruling on the field stands.

Hah, I thought this was hilarious even if very racially insensitive and possibly offending to some people. SlipperyPete has the right angle on this.

I wish this had been posted in its entirety so as to stimulate the discussion it was meant to stimulate.
I agree completely to the reasoning that it was made. Rap used to be a bold cultural statement that was uniquely that of it's creators.

The music industry had bastardized it into marginalized pop music at best. It became the trend to use the music to rise up out of the poverty. Once this trend started, The industry started to engineer it's own studio created blase crap and as long as money was involved, every one went along with it.

I miss the days of Run DMC, Kurtis Blow, Grand Master Flash, Shinehead, Big Daddy Kane, Ice-T, Roxanne Shante and rest of the artists who pioneered the movement. I can't stand the stuff they call Rap now, the mainstream crap that flaunts a big bass, naked girls and MTV style.

It's like if U2 sold out and started making Pop albums and sat back and waited to get paid!
The Empowerment these artists garnered for themselves is all but gone. Sucked into the void of MTV and money sucking "soulless" big business, just like every other fresh music style to come along.

But that's just my opinion....
For some interesting reading - look here:
Kurtis Blow Presents: The History Of Rap
http://www.rhino.com/features/liners/72851lin.html

It's a dupe anyways... http://www.videosift.com/video/The-future-of-hip-hop

And ^that's how you post in a context that negates the otherwise patent offensiveness contained therein.

(Also it helps support the point that they're trying to make a point when you mention they are themselves black fellows; to be honest, I thought they were both very racist white fellows until just now, and that's partially because of the way the video was presented in this post.)

"We don't have any room for this disgusting racist filth here."

Yes you do. Check pprt's comments and then check your head. The guy's a white supremacist. You and dag know this. But you're quite comfortable with this fact, applauding his goofy crossword puzzles, ffs.

Friendly troll, please feed elsewhere. I haven't any scraps to spare for you.

^Whatever. Anybody at any time can read through pprt's history of white supremacist commentary. I applaud the steps taken regarding this video.

Edited for gross over-reaction.

>> ^qualm:
"We don't have any room for this disgusting racist filth here."
Yes you do. Check pprt's comments and then check your head. The guy's a white supremacist. You and dag know this. But you're quite comfortable with this fact, applauding his goofy crossword puzzles, ffs.

OOOOOOOOOH!!!! I finally get it! It stands for "For Fuck's Sake"

Yea and about the video, when taken out of context it could be offensive to someone.