I had no idea that "Jay-Z" was a constitutional authority. Bless his little pea-pickin' heart.
freedom of speech doesnt mean freedom from social consequence.
Keep talking Dems. Just keep talking.
OK, I confess, I really admire Mike Myers. He's a genius. So my secret hope is that this experience starts his crazy brain thinking and he comes over to the dark side. Something in the way he reacted gives me hope. I used to be a liberal. It was the crazy left's reaction to Gulf 1 that brought me to the dark side.
They all share a brain cell.
Yawn, another "shut up and sing" clown.
Forgive me for having no respect for the opinions of a grown man who calls himself something like Jay-Z, P. Diddy, or the like.
I don't like rappers. There.
Who is Jay-z? I guess I should get out more.
Jay-Z, another stellar citizen of this country, everyone bow down and honor him for being so astute.
http--media.skoopy.com-vids-vid_00747.wmv.url
Kanye West is a moron.
Nice to know that Jay-Z stands somewhere behind that.
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?
Yep. You DID say what you wanted to say, and NBC said NOT ON OUR DIME, dork.
-Eric
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 $$$
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
If anyone thought that Jay-Z would disagree with his cash cow, they were smoking the product Jay-Z originally used to retail.
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