Here's one for the Double Standard file. This is so over the top ridiculous that it's funny.
During a telephone interview on MTV, Snoop Dog drew the "subtle" distinction between rap lyrics and the "nappy-headed ho's" comment that cost Don Imus his MSNBC show.
From NewsBusters:
MTV says "the Dogg" found there is no parallel [between rap lyrics and Imus' racial slur]. The Rutgers women Imus ridiculed were a success story, while the women he knocks in his music are "ho's that's in the hood that ain't doing sh--."
MTV transmitted a long, profane self-defense Snoop offered in a phone interview:"It's a completely different scenario," said Snoop, barking over the phone from a hotel room in L.A. "[Rappers] are not talking about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and sports. We're talking about ho's that's in the 'hood that ain't doing sh--, that's trying to get a n---a for his money. These are two separate things. First of all, we ain't no old-ass white men that sit up on MSNBC [the cable network home to Imus] going hard on black girls. We are rappers that have these songs coming from our minds and our souls that are relevant to what we feel. I will not let them mutha-----as say we in the same league as him."
Snoop doesn't hold back.
So though some rap on the surface may appear extremely vulgar and degrading to women, it's really an artistic expression that should be protected and honored, according to Snoop's view of things.
How lame!
Ugly is ugly. Disrespectful is disrespectful.
Who is going to stand up for "old-ass white men"?
I suppose an excuse or justification can be created for just about anything, but not always with success.
This is an example of a very unsuccessful excuse.
2 comments:
Mary, You and I are certainly on the same page on this issue. I agree with you completely.
You and your readers might find my take on this interesting. Compare and contrast Snoop Dog's justification for his misogynistic music with the actual words and phrases he used in a recent huge hit record: here.
Keep up the excellent work. Like you I have little interest in defending Don Imus, but I'm sick and tired of rap stars being exempt from basic human decency.
I think the Imus matter has the potential to backfire on the rap industry.
People who otherwise would never have realized the racist, sexist, degrading content of some rap music are now getting a good look.
It's not pretty.
Music executives and their artists should be nervous. I doubt they'll continue to escape scrutiny.
If there's any justice they won't.
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