Oscar Winner Hits Angry Chord ('Pimp' Song Denounced for Exploiting Negative Stereotypes)

Washington Post ^ | 3/7/2006 | Avis Thomas-Lester

[Mordacious]

Dark and lonely on a summer night
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord
Watchdog barking -- do he bite?
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord,
Slip in his window, break his neck
Then his house I start to wreck
Got no reason -- what the heck!
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord
C-I-L-L
My landlord

[L98Fiero]

Pretty much devalues every award given out the other night. All the losers can tell the winnners, "So what? They gave one to Three 6 Mafia. I, as a loser, am in better company that you."

[Teacher317]

The only place many people see our culture is through movies and on television, and at the same time, this country is experiencing an influx of people coming over here from all over the world, and the only thing they see of black America through the media is . . . pimps and gangsters and all of that. It's always some low-down brother or some welfare mother."

And any black who portrays a successful career-oriented family-loving adult is castigated as "acting white".

[gesully]

I think next year we should look into Bestiality as a song topic.

[Hand em their arse]

"Yaaa knoooww whaaaat i meeeeen???"

sho' nuff, yo... see whamsayin?

[Roccus]

Obviously Mr. Jessup has never attended the annual "Players and Pimps" block party in Harlem.

[Logical me]

"This song just sucked and has no place at the Oscars."

This is Hollywierd! They have lost it big time. This proves we conservatives are right all along, Hollywierd need a cleaning out.

[SerpentDove]

Tsk tsk...don't they realize that all black people are downtrodden due to social inequity and white oppression, and that pimpin' is the only way out of the hood they live in?

/sarcasm

[sarasota]

I didn't see it so I'm going with your take!

[sarasota]

Is that a film?

[Mr. Blonde]

The only reason it has a place at the Oscars is that it was central to the whole film. Him writing the song was what the whole thing was about. The rest of the songs played in the background of the films.

[reagan_fanatic]

It's called rap you dumbass. It's only claim to fame is that it is offensive. There isn't one other redeeming quality to the auditory slime.

You're being to kind. What I think of rap can't be posted here.

[Crawdad]

Modern day Step-N-Fetchits.

[BlessedBeGod]

Hustle and Flow -- IMDB

[I still care]

"I have no problem with movies and songs being gritty," she said, "but I have a problem with something that falls just short of a minstrel show."

Very interesting comment. I have been saying for years that rap music is the minstral show of modern times. Just look at any rap video, with the stylized fingers pointing and performers striding back and forth.

Blacks look back now at movies of the 30's and think their clowning is derogatory (I remember Stymie talking about how some blacks would criticize him.)

Years from now, that rap clowning is going to be looked on as an embarrassment. And they are going to blame white America for "making them do it".

[printhead]

So tell me Willie Horton, Why did you rob that bank?
Cuz dat's where da money is.