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The young P.R. flack at VH-1 that e-mails me all their business is a sweet little piece of white meat, but like most broads in the entertainment industry she is prah’lee only a star-fucker. Props go to the Glamazon for being that bitch on wheels in Hollywood and still such a fucking lady in the bedroom (not that I know personally, but I’ve heard…).
Anyhoo, I get a nice e-mail from homegirl at VH-1 thanking me for being active on the Hip-Hop Honors project. For me it was nothing since this was the one thing that Viacom produces that I believe in wholeheartedly. I wish it were semi-annual or even a series like ‘Driven’, or ‘Behind The Music’. The good news was that the show drew nearly 2 million viewers to a 9pm Tuesday slot. That is fucking incredible and I thank everyone that tuned in regardless of whether you heard it from me or somewhere else. Your participation will cause this program to be regenerated, plain and simple.
I’m sure a lot of you wonder how it is that people know the exact numbers of cable television program viewers? Understand that your cable box is directly attached to a server which creates a database of the programs that you’ve watched. This is no big deal anymore I suppose since we are already used to having our privacy invaded on so many levels. It’s all good as long as I get my MTV.
Here’s where my jaw hit the floor… Flavor of Love’s finale episode reeled in 7.5 million viewers. That is some Black Bullshit! I sit here in my parent’s basement and I rail on Viacom for creating this Step-n-Fetchit jiggaboo programming and you go and consume it right behind my back. Forget a Hip-Hop Honors program because the viewership for that is peanuts compared to the money that a network can make when they have a darkie put on some white gloves and a top hat.
What the hell am I doing over here?!? You people are obviously happy with your entertainment options. I thought that we were starting this neo-meta-progressive movement and that we were going to free ASSATA and free MUMIA and free NELSON MANDELA, but I see that you jokers only want to free O.J. and MICHAEL.
Have it your way, I quit…
First!
All I have to say is ain’t a damn thing gonna change until nigga’s get tired of being niggas and i mean that in all honesty and sincerty.
Flavor Flav has won the hearts of millions with no mind trying to make housewives out of Detroit hoes….now you tell me if this isn’t a case of stupidity running rampant!
Touche to Chris Abrego’s camp for cashing in on the lowest common denomenator but double touche to the 7.5 million idiots who probably won’t bother voting in the upcoming Gubenatorial race but sat around at home did a coon dance when Flavor Flav made yet another fool of himself.
I have blogged on this same topic. Flavor of Love sets the race back about 30 years. As black people, we have got to stop the coonery. Not only do we allow these shows to stay on the air…..we WATCH them and like it.
Flavor of Love, Being Bobby Brown…where is the dignity? Now I hear that Monique is going to host a show called Charm School where she teaches the Flavor of Love castoffs how to act civilized. WTF? That will probably win a damn emmy.
If we aren’t part of the solution, we are part of the problem.
Ive been telling my 3 three sisters my nephew and nieces to not get caught up in the scripted coonery that is Flavor of love.
October is on the way of becomming one of the bloodiest months since they declared mission acomplished in Iraq. November elections are comming up. Im not asking people not to watch the show but to be more balanced.
Viacom is a hell of a drug.
if you thought you knew, you don’t…this coon shit is starting to go hard body. Every single has been/washed up/broke ass NIGGA is getting in on this coon shit and there probably no end in sight….
1. Flavorliscious/Flavorette or whatever they gonna call it, is gonna feature flavs dicarded bottom bitch NY in own show where she tries to nail the nexdt crack head to go hollywood
2.ICE T’s RAP SCHOOL, cant really hate the O(ld).G., but do we need this shit? How bout a show teaching black kids how to start a business or something?
3. this may be just rumor, but I also hear MR. T, is getting a show. About what you ask? Who cares…..
4. and by far the worst in my opinion, is docudrama similar to driven, etc. about none other than GANSGTA’s, you know ALPO, SUPREME, DIDDY,etc.
The sad part of this, is like a friend of mine said, this isnt even racism. It’s Capitalism, the big money machine at its best. This is all about marketing and making that dollar, and just likje sex, ignorance sells. I am starting to think that we cant even blame Viacom, because we participate in this bullshit.
I can’t front, Ive wasted enough of my life doing bullshit that didn’t matter. But now that I see my Son’s and daughter repeating my footsteps, I know we have find a way to make changes in our lifestyle, Hip Hop is supposed to be more than this, more than money at the end of the day. We have to find a way to make things different.
Flavour of Love is a good show. For what it is, it’s decent entertainment. I really do not understand why everybody (on the internet) seems to be up in arms about the show. Seems to me like a bunch of disgruntled PE fans are kicking up an unnesessary fuss.
I co sign with Lion XL but im not sure if it’s capitalism because with all the heavy rotation snap music and the new coon music Gangsta rap has been getting, only one Hip Hop/(c)Rap artist went platinum this year.
^Eloheem
True, but Capitalism is the art of of trying to make money at all costs, it doesn’t have to be succesful for it to be Capitalsm. All those jigg rappers and studio gangsta’s were out there trying to make money at any cost, even by sellin out themselves and their craft. They just werent good at it, or the buying public is smarter than we give them credit for.
^Nigeria, its not a good show and it sends a bad message. For instance, one of them chickens has made the cut and has been seen doin commercials and such, not to mention blowin up myspace. Do you know what made her famous? Shittin on Flav’s floor!!! WTF!??? Is that what you would want for a career jump off? Why is that entertaining?
This is all the fault of one Andre A. Young p/k/a “Dr. Dre”.
THINK ABOUT IT…
Lion got some good points. I think one of the best statements made all night was when KRS was like “We need to work on the decriminalization of hip-hop”.
Honestly though I take greater issue with giving the light to these “Urban Action Heroes” (commonly known as “gangsta rappers”) then the documentaries on real “gangsters”. I think these dudes need a voice and kids need to understand that the life of a real crimey doesn’t end with sneaker deals and NBA franchise ownership percentages.
The real crime is this totally sanitized commercialization of “the hood” that sells pipe dreams of infinite illicit gains with no reprocussions. All they’re marketing is the guy who supplies the weight and shoots first and in all this pie flippin’ and gun bussin’ there’s gotta be someone on the other end, right? But that’s never shown. So the true sadness of all of this is the selling of these utopian gangster tales with no other subject matter alternatives is the modern day equivalent of a bunch of happy darkies singing on the plantation like its all OK…
Nigeria…
Flavor of Love is a good show? Let’s be real….an unattractive, black man becomes a novelty after appearing in a show for washed up stars “Surreal Life” by dating another washed up white woman (Brigitte Neilsen).
In turn they give him a show where busted crackheads/strippers/baby mamas vie for his affections.
They curse, sh*t on floors, fight and act straight NIGGERISH on television and you say this is a good show?
C’mon.
I agree with pretty much everyone on this post. First it was the rappin’ about gold chain, cars and rims jiggs, now jiggs are on television with clocks and crowns…They’re all around us.
I changed the channel to BET yesterday. A small piece of me would like to turn there one day and find that they’ve revamped their current shows and have decided to air more positive, meaningful/educational programming for folks that care about what’s going on in our communities. Nope, some jigg dancing in front of a car in a video with a wad of fake money in his hands.
I haven’t seen this excrement on the floor event , so I cannot defend an incident I’m unable to see. But the cursing, fighting and other negative attributes you observe on Flavour’s show are not ‘niggerish’ traits, but rather the attributes and mannerisms of many, many, people who are not bound to any race or culture.
I would like to add that if a young lady was able to acquire a significant enough media profile that she is now promoting products, all because she defecated on a t.v. show it speaks volumes of American culture and not African American culture. I do not see a significant relation between a few persons on a popular television show acting in a negative manner and the mindset of the average individual who watches these programmes, if the commentators truly believe there is a link between these abstract ideas then you have a very low opinion of the average person, which is rather dissapointing.
Let the proles have there fun.
So glad to see that there are at least a few people that agree that the Flavor of Love show is degrading. Nigeria I agree that there are many cultures doing the same foolishness but that doesn’t mean that we have to contribute to it.
^Nigeria, you just jumped the track right there so I guess it’s up to me to throw you under the bus…just joking!
BUt seriously, If I am correct, you are not from the US, So I’ll be gentle. All of those traits are niggerish traits. Niggerism, is not representative of our race. Rather it is represenative of those that live their lives through ignorance, stupidty and all out coonery. Those NIGGERS may be black, or white or latin. If you are in any way familiar with the American history, the names nigger, coon, sambo, jigg, porch monkey, etc. were terms used to demoralize the american black. Along with those words they started using negative imagery in plays, television and films to further demoralize us. Thus the birth of terms like cooning, dancing a jig, etc. We have started to FLIP those names and use them as slang to weaken their power over us, but there is difference from calling some one “mah NIGGA” and calling them out for acting ‘NIGGERISH’ and there is very fine line that we walk in using such terms.
@eloheem *
Viacom, MTV, VH1, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX…hey…I wonder what station the Jews were watchin’ when the holocaust was goin’ down????
“never in the history of niggadom….” — Katt Williams.
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