Posted by
Donna Deliva
• 06.20.08 12:56 pm 
Used to be if good comedians wanted to get noticed by Black America they would have to leave Mr Show and do a movie like Scary Movie 2.
Used to be if good comedians wanted to get noticed by Black America they would have to leave Mr Show and do a movie like Scary Movie 2. Then Kanye West came along and told everyone to start checking out shit like Takashi Murakami and stop wearing baggy pants. Now you have Gnarles Barkley paying homage to Napoleon Dynamite, ?uestlove from The Roots confessing his dream girl is Tina Fey and even sexy R&B songs about getting “some of my McLovin.” What’s next? Hip hop thugs liking Black Flag (I’m serious – mark my words – that is next).
Who are these girls, and how old are they?
Newsflash: Black thugs been rockin’ out to Black Flag for a long time…
Ice-T (does he qualify as a thug?) always talks about liking old punk. Heck, he even sings a Black Flag song on that Black Flag Memphis 3 comp. If you don’t know who Ice-T, Soulja Boy says to look him up on Wikipedia
Um, perhaps you mean “hip-hop culture.” By claiming the “black culture” is suddenly into nerdy shit, you are generalizing all blacks. not every black person is into the hip hop culture (whether they are into a diverse group of music/scenes or shun hip-hop all together). and hell, the term “black culture” is pretty stupid in itself because there is no singular black culture. There are blacks from all over the world (african, latin american, carib, europe etc) and I think it’s pretty myopic to automatically associate blackness with black Americans.
If you think I’m being snarky, then let me ask you–how vague is the term “white culture?”
Ha ha ha. THere’s no such thing as black culture? What a naive baby you are. Let me guess: Pied Piper is a Canadian?
Have you ever heard of a thing called BET? Have a look at what the B stands for.
No, Red. Actually, I am a Nigerian American. And you’re telling me that BET is black culture? Get the fuck out of here. Most black people I know think of it as a joke. Although the Johnson family originally headed the channel (btw it was meant to be an educational and cultural program at its inception) it is now owned by white people. BET is marketed at blacks with minstreling and commercial rap, but it hardly represents hip-hop culture or even the black American experience (not to mention the black experience as a whole). 60% of BET’s audience is white. It aims to be a 2nd rate urban version of MTV. My friend, Don’t get consumerism confused with culture. BET is no more of a microcosm of “black culture” than MTV is of “white culture.”
Pied Piper, I’m a black nerd and I think I love you.
yo! souljah boy kicked ice-t’s ass in a battle of wits! check it out on “the tube”. a 17 year old nigga givin’ an old ass “edu-tainer” a mental beat down. straight schooled him. ice-t made himself look like a crotchedly old asshole. the john mccain of hip-hop. welcome to the new school, ice! souljah boy’ll hit ho!
Speaking of Mr. Show, another Mr Show skit that became reality:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7467597.stm
Plenty of blacks have always loved bad brains
Is this the Street Carnage comment section or a really lame argument between Kurt Loder and Sway?
i have a question in relation to the great band Bad Brains. what was spawned first or what what propagated which first, was it punk then came reggae or the other way around or was it something else in Bad Brain’san organic synthesis of the two genres?
We’re talking evolution so it’s key that everyone is on the same even keel
How come white people always use the term “Rock Out” or “Rocking Out”? What does that mean?
black people don’t care about george bush
So yeah… black culture, BET, nerds, global stuff….. ummmm yeah…. how old are these girls?
bad brains history is on wikipedia. It’s a good write up. As far as this nerdy trend. Yeah it’s true. I’ve seen a lot more nerdy styles up in Harlem in the last few years. It’s a good look and a good break from the stupid “I didn’t know this style was homo” pants below the ass look that’s been going on for way too long.
it’s true. hoodrats around here are fucking obsessed with spongebob squarepants.
“I take my Coffee like a I take my women; Strong, black and proud.” – Michael Ian Black.