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*Let’s start with the recent quotes and then get straight to the clownin’ of an idiot.
"'Gangsta rap' was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. 'Gangsta rap' didn't exist."
- Alicia Keys (in an interview with Blender Magazine
In response, Curtis "50 Cent" offered the following ignorance.
"I don't like Alicia Keys no more though … the same reason why I said that I don't like Oprah Winfrey. I'm prejudice. I don't like people who don't like me. If you don't like the content that I write because of my experiences; I am being who I am when I am writing it. I fall into that 'label' as far as you considering artists creating 'Gangsta music,' we fall into that.
"If she don't like that, (then) I don't like that classical music s--- she be doing. At some point she's playing some s--- that don't relate to me. … We listen to it and try to figure out why people actually enjoy it. I am trying to enjoy it. That statement changes my perception of Alicia Keys totally. But the magazine is standing behind it, which means they probably have a tape of her in conversation saying it. It's just not really a bright comment anyway."
- 50 Cent (Village Idiot)
No, 50 Cent did NOT just say, “it's just not really a bright comment anyway," did he?!
“She be doing?” Alicia Keys…”she be doing” classical s___?!
First things first. When you fail to construct even one grammatically correct sentence over the course of two paragraphs (in an interview no less) you forfeit the right and privilege to accuse ANYONE of being less than “bright” in his/her commentary. At least be SOMEWHAT articulate in your birth language before grading the "brightness" of someone else's commentary.
Just a suggestion...
"I'm prejudice. I don't like people who don't like me.”
- The English major - 50 Cent
Here’s a question 50…what did "verb conjugations" and "basic sentence structure" ever do to you? Clearly you don’t think highly of them either. Mo’Kelly just wants to know what they did to get on your bad side because you obviously have beef with them.
It is one thing to thoughtfully disagree or even discredit another's opinion with facts or with reason and rational argumentation. Although many might disagree with the notion that the advent of “Gangsta Rap” was a ploy to hasten the genocide of African-Americans, it still is worthy of consideration and discussion.
Legal Definition – “Accomplice”
"Someone who helps another person (known as the principal) commit a crime. Unlike an accessory, an accomplice is usually present when the crime is committed. An accomplice is guilty of the same offense and usually receives the same sentence as the principal.”
In addition, an accomplice need not be actively involved in the perpetration of a crime. Knowing where the “bodies are buried” and who helped bury them makes one complicit in the crime and is at the minimum, an “accessory.”
In other words, if Mo’Kelly sees a murder and does not report it, he’s an accessory. If he knowingly purchases the gun to be used in a murder, he’s an accomplice. And by law, subject to the same legal ramifications as if he were to have pulled the trigger.
Put a post-it note on the above information…we'll come back to it later.
Mo’Kelly has worked for a number of record labels, including Warner Bros., Virgin/Rap-A-Lot and Interscope. The very same Interscope Records which serves as the parent company to the G-Unit imprint label which has distributed the whole of Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s music career. That would also be the same Warner Bros. Records that released Ice T’s, Cop Killa. Mo'Kelly was mentored by the legend Dick Griffey; the same "Dick Griffey" who mentored Suge Knight and helped fund Death Row Records. It was because of an article that Mo’Kelly wrote for the L.A. Times in 1996 on the death of Tupac Shakur that Griffey reached out to Mo’Kelly. We spoke in length about the shameful realities of the music business and "who" is to blame.
So be very clear Curtis (and others) from whence Mo’Kelly’s forthcoming supposed “not really bright” comment comes. Mo'Kelly was working in the world of Hip-Hop long before anybody cared to cavort to the seminal 50 Cent song, In Da' Club. Mo’Kelly was taught by the same man who taught your mentor Dr. Dré.
You’re WAY out of your league Curtis, attempting to lecture folks on the reality of the music industry, brandishing the tools of indefatigable ignorance to support your misguided point no less. Not only that, you owe Alicia Keys an apology. Not that you ever will give her one, but it needs to be said…and ultimately needs to be done. You are not an honorable man and respect for womanhood is not within you. Nevertheless, you owe Alicia Keys (and countless other women) an apology.
If anyone is really “not really bright,” in his/her comments, it irrefutably is Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson.
Here’s why…
The music industry has never been averse to making money, a fact in which we are all intimately aware. Conversely, the music industry has never allowed…yes, allowed the subjugation and debasement of any singular ethnic group, with the exception of African-Americans.
Granted, White hip-hop executives have never demanded a certain “type” of music from their artists, expressly for the purpose of eventual genocide; yet inarguably, did willfully promulgate a music genre which was specifically derogatory, destructive and de-evolutionary in nature.
To Alicia Keys’ point, accessories and accomplices are just as guilty as the trigger men (artists). Going further, it’s not by chance that anti-Semitism is neither promoted nor tolerated in music.
In short, “Gangsta Hasidic (Jew) Music” would never, ever see the light of day or the turntable of any DJ or radio station playlist. There has not been and will not ever be a day in which the degradation of Jews, the misogyny against Jewish women or the celebration of the worst of the Jewish tradition will be sold, promoted or in turn profited from.
Never, not ever.
Subsequently, we can surmise that there is a degree of “consciousness” within the music industry. There is and has always been a conscious choice in terms of the acceptable social collateral damage to African-Americans versus other ethnic groups. If you disagree, might Mo’Kelly refer you to the controversy surrounding the single “Kike” reference in the Michael Jackson song They Don’t Care About Us.
The amount of outrage expressed at the historical misogyny and derogatory depictions of African-Americans has been more than quintuple of that expressed in criticism of Michael Jackson on ONE occasion. Yet and still, ONLY Michael Jackson has been forced to change his lyrics…ever.
EVER.
“Beat me, hate me
You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me
Jew me, Sue me
Everybody do me
Kick me, kike me
Don't you black or white me
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us”
- Michael Jackson - They Don't Care About Us
Jackson eventually acquiesed and removed the ethnic references from the song. Conversely, “Nigga” is welcome to earn any and every record company ungodly sums of revenue.
In fact, we can all look forward to the release of Nas' CD Nigger. But you will never, ever, ever be able to purchase any CD named Kike. Not only will there be zero Jewish "idiots" to record it, there will be zero Jewish "idiots" in which to allow its sale...much less purchase it.
It will NEVER happen.
Along those same lines of contradiction; in 1992 rapper Ice-T endured considerable criticism for his song Cop Killer which principally railed against police brutality. The pressure on Warner Bros. Records was such that Ice-T was forced to remove the song from the forthcoming album Body Count.
Historically and undeniably, “Black people killing Black people” has been an acceptable product to both promote and sell. These are the facts and they are inarguable in nature. “Black misogyny” historically has also been an acceptable commodity to be bought and sold…slavery parallels aside. It too is factual and inarguable. Disparaging remarks about any other ethnic group or government institution have been held to different standards.
The evil committed against (and unfortunately by) African-Americans is conscious complicity by definition. (See post-it note above.)
You 50 Cent, are too an accessory and accomplice to the truths in which Keys spoke…idiot.
Alicia Keys has a music career to protect…Mo’Kelly doesn’t. So Mo’Kelly will “go there” on her behalf. Keys is right and the only person making “not really bright” comments is the idiot on the Interscope record label.
It is indicative of a conscious complicity in the debasement of African-Americans. The promotion of the 90s East/West rivalry by media and record companies alike was also conscious complicity.
Alicia Keys, you may say your comments were "misrepresented," but Mo’Kelly will gladly pick up the baton and expound upon your intended sentiment.
There ARE limitations in terms of content that will be produced and promoted by record labels…they just don’t apply to the superfluous negative African-American images in hip-hop music.
Alicia Keys is inarguably correct and it is shameful that Curtis Jackson couldn’t see fit to do something OTHER than disrespect an African-American woman. You know, do something OTHER than act like an average hip-hop artist.
If NOBODY else comes to Keys’ defense, Mo’Kelly will. And the next time you feel like picking an “intellectual fight” Fiddy…pick on someone your own size and try not to further diss yourself in the process. It’s noted and noticeable how you’ve never spoken out against Mo’Kelly, despite the many times Mo'Kelly's clowned you specifically; yet you disrespect an honorable African-American woman, Alicia Keys who never even mentioned your name.
Clown.
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