The big story last week was when an executive from the Louis Roderer brand of liquer products was quoted or misquoted as saying that all Hip-Hop fans could do for him is “buy his champagne and shine his shoes.” For some reason this touched off a maelstrom of faux political concern over here in the States. Was this executive being racist? Why wouldn’t he want his brand of champagne associated with people throwing wads of dollars into the air at a strip club? Again, why wouldn’t this executive want his brand regarded as the best champagne for pouring all over a woman’s body?!? KIMORA LEE SIMMONS even uses it as bath water.
What the executive was actually lamenting is the fact that champagne is losing its cache as a high brow luxury item. People are doing everything with it other than drinking it. This executive pines away for the days when champagne was sipped and the ‘other’ knew their place. So guess who comes to the rescue to save the day for all of the jigs who are confused on what booze to conspicuously consume? The capitalist’s machines number #1 prophet for profit – JIGGERMAN. The word from the mount(Universal’s offices at WorldWide Plaza) is that Blacks are now instructed to buy KRUG and Dom Perignon. Thank you oh great JAY-Z for your benevolent wisdom.
Who the fuck cares?!? Who the fuck cares what champagne you serve in YOUR nightclubs. All champagne must be imported from the same region in France (or else it can’t be called champagne). So if someone had a problem with Blacks, chances are his neighbor feels the same way. Don’t get it twisted and act like the Cristal people anf the KRUG folks don’t bring their kids to same school for ‘gifted youngsters’. How about going away from France altogether and bigging up prosecco? That’s Italian sparkling wine for the uninitiated. Peach nectar and prosecco is called a ‘Bellini’ and believe me, it knocks the socks off any mimosa.
Forget about buying shit anyhoo. JAY-Z wants to tell me what booze to spend my money on and OPRAH wants to tell the ladies that it’s okay to buy a trillion dollar Hermes handbag. Both of these clowns get enough swag to fit out their whole entourages while the rest of us have to pay the inflated prices to cover for all of the freebies. I’m waiting for the day that JAY-Z tells me how I can become a millionaire when I’m spending money like a sieve on all the tchotkes he’s hocking.
“REAL TALK” no matter how long your money gets, at the end of the day we are being taxed (no jigga-boo)
lol @ your use of “tchotkes”
oy gevalt!
Well put.
DP, it’s joints like this that keep me coming back to your blog! I feel you on this one!
is the 40/40 Club popping like that? Does he honestly think that he’s going to dry up their business? I haven’t been down with dude since he tried to rename himself God, he can get the ultimate STFU and go back to drinking tap water for all I care!
Plus I’m a Pierre Jouet kinda chick myself!
C’mon D. I was waiting for a Champale reference!
(nice post, by the way)
(Cheers) I was discussing this situation with MaDukes, this morning. What is sad…how many folks would even know what Mr Louis Cris-tahl said if it was not for a Jay-Z response. Cart leading horse aka – going no where, eh? That comment just floating around in media space as rappers keeping rapping about that CRISTAL and MTV cribs letting them open the refrig to flash that gold foil.
I am sure if we could wiretap enough European boardrooms, broadcast the convos…plenty of TRAP corners will be shocked. Unoriginal puppets.
finally, jay-z takes a political stance.
cristal? what about ballantine?
I love this!