“Just when I think you couldn’t possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this…and totally redeem yourself!” – (c)Harry Dunne
Believe it or not, there was a time when hip-hop made sense to some people. Even though there were always the detractors who claimed that it was noise, or just “nigger talk”. According to De La Soul’s ‘Stakes is High’ there was some common sense element to it. There was a time before platinum grills, every other artist having beef with one another (can you even imagine Dana Dane and Kwame having beef??), and rappers issuing their disrespectfully immodest trite verses like “I can still sell a mill saying nothing on the track.”
During that previous time when things made sense, it wasn’t so much that the actions were any less ignorant, mind you. They made sense in that gangstas acted like gangsters. They beat up television hosts, got killed, caught rape cases, murder cases, even attempted murder cases. However, they did NOT, under pain of death, 1) strip, 2) kiss men, or 3) do the Soulja Boy dance.
Seems like lifetimes ago…
Like Harry from ‘Dumb and Dumber’ (classic shit), I start thinking that things couldn’t possibly get any dumber in hip-hop. Every gimmick’s been used, every glass of NyQuil has been sipped, every tattoo has been tatted. Even butterflies. On faces. Of “gangsta rappers” .
Then I’m reassured – “Yeah, Jah, you ain’t seen nothing yet!”
Case in point, we have the brilliant folks who designed these $50,000 diamond encrusted sneakers. Apparently $200 is not enough to spend on an immediately depreciable good. We need our finances to be infinitely worse. In fairness, though, these sneakers are encrusted with 11 carats of diamonds. “Woo hoo!”
What’s next? Platinum-plated prosthetics?
“Yo, son, my fake leg got SIX rubies in it, kid!!!!”
Holler.
–GYASI
You got something on your so-called mind? You want to tell it to a thousand million people? Send it to DP Dot Com and we will put you up in our Guest Room.
