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Jay-Z backs Kanye West’s telethon outburst
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Posted on 09/08/2005 6:12:56 AM PDT by Gomez

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To: petercooper

http://media.skoopy.com/vids/vid_00747.wmv


21 posted on 09/08/2005 6:20:14 AM PDT by petercooper (Mark Levin for Supreme Court Justice.)
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To: Gomez
“I’m backing Kanye 100 percent,” Jay-Z told Billboard by phone from London. “This is America. You should be able to say what you want to say. We have freedom of speech.”

OK then. Jay-Z is a talentless crackpot with no clue.

His racism is exceeded only by his ignorance.

How's that for free speech?

22 posted on 09/08/2005 6:21:43 AM PDT by airborne
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To: Gomez
“This is America. You should be able to say what you want to say. We have freedom of speech.”

Yep. You DID say what you wanted to say, and NBC said NOT ON OUR DIME, dork.

23 posted on 09/08/2005 6:22:41 AM PDT by glock rocks ("We will deal with looters ruthlessly." - Haley Barbour)
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To: Gomez
He's got 99 problems but good sense ain't one.

-Eric

24 posted on 09/08/2005 6:24:20 AM PDT by E Rocc (Anyone who thinks Bush-bashing is banned from FR has never read a Middle East thread.)
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To: RexBeach

They tell me Jay-Z is "Teh Rule". "The" being deliberately misspelled to show empathy to the inner city "oppressed".

All I can say to this is.................."Yo, s'up". They also tell me that's "old skool" and no longer used in accepted street venacular.

Thank God I'm an old white guy.....I couldn't imagine dealing with this stupidity on a daily basis.


25 posted on 09/08/2005 6:24:54 AM PDT by Dazedcat
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To: airborne
Jay-Z hates white poeple. So does this West idiot.

Meyer has spoken freely.

26 posted on 09/08/2005 6:25:08 AM PDT by meyer (Eastern Tennessee)
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To: RexBeach

Don't you mean his little rock-slinging heart?


27 posted on 09/08/2005 6:26:03 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
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To: Gomez

Sad thing is that a lot of people had their checkbooks open and ready to give and when these guys opened their mouths...those checkbooks slammed shut!

Local talk radio here was on this yesterday and countless people called in saying they had planned on giving over the weekend but once these guys started flapping their gums....no way were they donating any $$$


28 posted on 09/08/2005 6:27:33 AM PDT by 4everontheRight (Born/raised on MS beaches (SC now)...Criminals feed on the indulgence of society's understanding)
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To: Gomez

As far as I can tell, this Kanye West character has every right to say whatever he pleases, and when Jay-Z (whoever that is) suggests that he's being denied his rights as an American, he's full of it.

If these guys had paid any attention in school they might be able to grasp that whether there are consequences to what you say, regardless of your freedom to say it.

These consequences probably include a very long pause between now and the next time some organisation dependent on donations from the public calls on Kanye West to perform or speak.

Of course, that may be a moot point, because rap is not exactly a career with a future. Think how hard it is going to be for music moguls to find another boy who can... more or less rhyme. And express that rare attitude, teen rebellion.

By 2007, kids who buy music will be saying, "who dat?"

By 2010, young West will be shouting at an accountant, "what you mean, the money gone?"

By 2030 when he dies in a flophouse, or prison, or shot down in a holdup, he probably won't even be a two-graf crime story on Page B13.

That just breaks my heart.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F


29 posted on 09/08/2005 6:28:46 AM PDT by Criminal Number 18F (Is it news, or is it CNN?)
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To: Dazedcat

Dat chile iz oft dah muscle!

This means: He's a great guy. Good Lord, what idiocy. Splendid idiocy.


30 posted on 09/08/2005 6:29:02 AM PDT by RexBeach (Pardon me, but is that a malaise sandwich in your pocket or are you just glad to be in a funk?)
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To: Dazedcat

"F'shizzle" and "bling-bling" back atcha.

Stupidity in its purest form.


31 posted on 09/08/2005 6:29:56 AM PDT by SerpentDove ("Where there is no vision, the people perish." - Proverbs 29:18)
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To: Gomez
In the interests of full disclosure I will point out that Jay-Z is the president of Roc-a-Fella Records and Kanye West is currently their biggest-selling artist.

If anyone thought that Jay-Z would disagree with his cash cow, they were smoking the product Jay-Z originally used to retail.

32 posted on 09/08/2005 6:31:09 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
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To: SerpentDove

Say what you will about Jay Z and Diddy's music, they are both true capitalists. They sell everything it seems like. Dave Chappelle did a skit about this with Roc-A-Wear tampons. Both are very good businessmen no matter their politics.


33 posted on 09/08/2005 6:33:41 AM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You know, Happy Time Harry, just being around you kinda makes me want to die.)
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To: Gomez

Let me make sure I understand this:

A drug dealer-turned-rapper endorses a mama's boy-turned producer-turned rapper's completely outrageous comments, and this is news??

The media is so infatuated with the idea of "celebrity" that they think that simply adding someone's name to an article makes it newsworthy. Yuck.

MJ


34 posted on 09/08/2005 6:35:23 AM PDT by mjustice
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To: Gomez

Let me make sure I understand this:

A drug dealer-turned-rapper endorses a mama's boy-turned producer-turned rapper's completely outrageous comments, and this is news??

The media is so infatuated with the idea of "celebrity" that they think that simply adding someone's name to an article makes it newsworthy. Yuck.

MJ


35 posted on 09/08/2005 6:35:43 AM PDT by mjustice
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To: mjustice

Sorry about the double post.

MJ


36 posted on 09/08/2005 6:36:26 AM PDT by mjustice
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To: Mercat
It was the crazy left's reaction to Gulf 1 that brought me to the dark side.

Actually you came to the light.......

37 posted on 09/08/2005 6:36:34 AM PDT by Osage Orange (I give up........)
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To: cwiz24
They all share a brain cell

Yeah, but they're both missing a chromosome.

38 posted on 09/08/2005 6:36:50 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
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To: Mr. Blonde

Michael Jackson is a true capitalist too. In addition to being a child molester.

I don't respect people just because they make big bucks appealing to the lowest common denominator.


39 posted on 09/08/2005 6:38:08 AM PDT by SerpentDove ("Where there is no vision, the people perish." - Proverbs 29:18)
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To: Gomez

I would love it if some of the more vocal socialist black elitist would leave the US and live in any country in Africa or the Middle East for 5 years. If they hate the racist US so much, then go to a different and live within a different, maybe better, country. And when they end up disenfranchised on European shores, they may just have a better appreciation of America.


40 posted on 09/08/2005 6:43:11 AM PDT by kipita (Rebel – the proletariat response to Aristocracy and Exploitation.)
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