01-06-2004, 06:03 PM
Here is something that bothered me this weekend:
Hammer (MC) spent all of his musical earnings employing a large number of his neighborhood residents to the point of going bankrupt, but he is considered a "sell out", a wannabe, because he pawned his personality for advertisement and further "spread the wealth" employment of fellow black personas. The apex being opening Pepsi while receiving a grammy.
Enter 10 years later:
Snoop Dog does a whole fricken half time video for Nokia during the Sugar Bowl with lyrics towards Nokia product, holding the fucking things like Dana Peterson (Wheel of Fortune), but somehow Snoop is still "keeping it real". How is it that Snoop is not a sell out, that he is not a bitch to the man?
Hammer (MC) spent all of his musical earnings employing a large number of his neighborhood residents to the point of going bankrupt, but he is considered a "sell out", a wannabe, because he pawned his personality for advertisement and further "spread the wealth" employment of fellow black personas. The apex being opening Pepsi while receiving a grammy.
Enter 10 years later:
Snoop Dog does a whole fricken half time video for Nokia during the Sugar Bowl with lyrics towards Nokia product, holding the fucking things like Dana Peterson (Wheel of Fortune), but somehow Snoop is still "keeping it real". How is it that Snoop is not a sell out, that he is not a bitch to the man?
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<center>Boy the way Glen Miller played,
songs that made the hit parade,
guys like us we had it made,
those were the days,
and you know where you were then,
girls were girls and men were men,
mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again,
didn't need no welfare states
everybody pulled his weight,
gee our old Lasalle ran great,
those were the days!</center>
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<center>Boy the way Glen Miller played,
songs that made the hit parade,
guys like us we had it made,
those were the days,
and you know where you were then,
girls were girls and men were men,
mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again,
didn't need no welfare states
everybody pulled his weight,
gee our old Lasalle ran great,
those were the days!</center>