ALL TAN EVERYTHING…

Post-racialism and the ‘Tanning’ of America is where the media is buzzing right now in regards to racism. The election of Barack Obama to the highest government position in America is proof to some people that we are beyond our nasty little color complex.

Supremacy never takes its foot off the gas pedal tho’ and I don’t accept that even if America got a tan it would respect the skin I’m in. I dropped a few lines on the Steve Stoute blog to give my take on tanning.

My Take on Tanning: Dallas Penn


Das Racist – ‘All Tan Everything’

10 Responses to “ALL TAN EVERYTHING…”

  1. illill says:

    take on tanning was well said

  2. Read this from your link on the Twits. Nice Q&A there DP.

    I wonder – When did Jay-Z become this cultural measuring stick?

  3. illill says:

    when jay crossed over to white amerikkka is when that happened

  4. Labia Major Taylor says:

    @ 40: when Chuck D. dipped just enough to be written off/out of contemporary dialogue on race, economy, aesthetics? (Gil-Scott Heron was always too far out but to be a reliable ‘spokesman’ for anything but his own genius black poetics.) Someone find me fucking Jay-Z that, in real-time, hits even a fractionally as hard as “Hell No Wain’t Alright”–

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSzfETQ209w

    And I’ll eat a deflated red, white & blue ABA basketball.

    I reject Shawn Carter hegemony without apology but in terms of KKKApitalist hegemony it’s a losing battle.

    I also don’t think Obama’s all that “cool” but that’s shades of tan, I know– he might be TOO “cool” for anyone’s good.

    Rhetorical Capitalist Question, Sneaker Fiend Style: how many SFU locations in BK, BX, elsewhere/anywhere have partial or whole black ownership?

    Let’s see Jay-Z or Obama start microlending (in whatever way they can) to folk and then maybe I’ll consider their “cool.”

  5. illill & LMT –

    I think its deeper than that. I think Jay has become the ultimate black 10%’er. The way people defend his money, his earnings, and already fawn over his unborn like the next coming of Baby Jesus is troubling to me. In many of the ways of the world he’s become truly Jay-Hova a god like messianic character in so many people’s lives like the Archangel SCC is going to alleviate us from all the ghetto ills. Often times as I get branded “hater” my the mentally feeble when I even dare raise any critique on the brother. I am happy for his otherworldly success when I’ve always thought him to be a mediocre rapper at best, but to use his on line “What you eat don’t make me shit.” So again I ask, what has he given other than the directionless hope of “being a hustler” that gives him such gravitas with the press that somehow he bears any presence in the life of being black/brown in America? He’s about as culturally significant as Madonna is to Italian-Americans. Sure they’re great models of success, but I don’t look to them to advance in the struggle that can be as a black man in America. (Like Chuck D or GSH). Am I alone in the room yelling at padded walls about this?

  6. BIGNAT says:

    i am with you with you 40 especially when you said this

    “Often times as I get branded “hater” my the mentally feeble when I even dare raise any critique on the brother”

    one of my friends is a die hard jay stan. he is the best rapper alive blah blah blah. i said if jay-z made it but never made it as big as he did would you still be riding with him? some people are down for the music some people are down because the person is “winning”. then he tells me the rappers i listen to are boring but yet he listens to jay. who has been basically rapping about the same shit since 2000.
    yes i acknowledge his success but that doesn’t mean it’s going make me like him anymore. he made it……. okay me and most of my friends made it to. we don’t have his money but we are contributing members of society. trying to help our peoples get on so we can all be eating good. at the job i work at now on the low a lot of us knew each other before we started. you don’t let people know that because they don’t like that you have a little sub network within the job.
    you need that shit because i have seen it time and time again. race may be a issue but the biggest thing is who you know when you want to get ahead. i have seen people who are worthless excuses for human beings get good jobs. they didn’t earn shit they knew the right people. while other people who are overqualified and would just be happy to have a job get looked over. i got my network down i’m beating it in they head the only way you can get ahead. is to get paid the legal way. you can listen to jay-z don’t know how far you can get but a million more have failed on that path. i know alot of people who worked hard and have stuff to show for it. i think i’m going stay on this path

  7. illill says:

    40 diesel and big nat…..no question. i think jay is the most overrated ever and he still has never topped his first album, which is the only album of his ive ever copped. its crazy the love he receives when lyrically he really hasnt improved (agreed big nat) and has always talked about the same shit. indeed its not just about lyrics with him. and white amerikkka had no idea who he was in hawaiian sophie or even 96. most cats i would say 35 and older know the deal. i still remember him pushing the dead prez single with the album snippets on the back at beat street when he was kicking written verses from bring it on mayhem and martin moore. you are not alone on this 40. the jayz and the kanyes and the like have made hiphop friendly and a mockery to what it was designed to be. i miss the fear factor of hiphop. you are not alone on this 40.

  8. BIGNAT says:

    To me if he stopped at the black album like he was suppose to I could say he is great one of the best. He is killing his own star. He should have faded in the back get his guest spots . Then jump back and did this joint with kanye it would have had more impact. Nas on the other hand keeps fucking up and then he drops something that makes you like him again. His last couple albums have been on point. His collab joint with d marley is classic. Common also does the the same thing do a couple good albums then drops a shit sandwhich. I got high hopes for his new album. T.I. to me can never beat trap muzik and king. He shouldn’t even try I hope he doesn’t do trap muzik 2.

  9. illill says:

    nas has battled that one demon his whole career…..Illmatic.

  10. BIGNAT says:

    most artist can never outdo their first album. with the exception of ac ouple people like tip he put in the work and made a classic. his first album was trash waste of space. then he came back with trap muzik and started the whole trap movement. with nas his problem is making some quality music. it’s never the rhymes it’s always the production. he picks the most horrible beats sometimes.

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