‘Khalil Amani’

Reverend Run! Reverend Run! You all know Run of rappers Run DMC. They broke major hip-hop ground with their song “Walk This Way,” fusing rap with rock music and moving the genre further into the mainstream—the rappers who rapped “My Adidas” and never got a royalty check from the shoe company because no one took rap music that serious way back then.

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Hip-hop heads have got the game all fucked up! I was recently listening to gangster rapper 40 Glocc and Zoo Life talk about the “No Snitching” code and T.I.’s commercial for Crime Stoppers. In their narrow-minded worldview, talking to the police (on any level) is snitching. According to 40 Glocc, T.I. putting out a public service announcement for Crime Stoppers violated the phantom “street code” of snitching. T.I. has marketed himself as a “street nigga”—a “trap rapper” (drug dealer turnt rappa), therefore, had no business being part of a Crime Stoppers commercial.

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Rappers are always talking about what they’re gonna do when they catch the blogger who’s dissed the shit out of them. Hip-hop bloggers are shitting in their Penny loafers! I guess, because a blogger has a great command of the English language, he can’t be no street nigga—because a blogger understands verbs, adjectives, and nouns, he’s a computer geek who sits in the comfort of his own home and “Internet-thugs” his way into the hearts and lives of his least favorite rapper.

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If you haven’t read “Part I” of this blog (Jay-Z, Know-The-Ledge: Jesus Can’t Save You), by all means, read it!
To make Christians feel comfortable about their savior, I’ll concede in the erroneous naming of the Hebrew Anointed One. For the sake of argument, we’ll call the Jewish prophet, whose real name was Yahshua Hammashiah, Jesus Christ. For the simplicity of the simple ones, we’ll act like his name was Jesus and he is that blond-haired, blue-eyed androgynous Cretan on your mama’s living room wall—the white guy who looks like he never came home from Woodstock. There! Are you happy now?
In the words of rapper Remy Ma, “Shesus Khryst!”

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I love Wu Tang Clan! I love Raekwon’s music! But I don’t like his ignorance/homophobia! A little while ago, Shade 45’s Angela Yee interviewed Raekwon “The Chef” and that female/lesbian Snoop from HBO’s The Wire. In the course of interviewing Snoop, they got into a discussion about homosexuality/gay people in the industry. This is what Raekwon had to say: “My mouth too small to suck a dick… we don’t play those homo games over here homie… how do muthafuckas convert over to do some shit like that? …females, you know, they gonna do what they do. I ain’t gonna front. I can’t stand fuckin’ homos!… Get the fuck away from me! Immediately!”

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