
I can see why people have a hangup with the use of the word faggot. In a perfect world, it would be just as much of a taboo as anyone who isn’t black saying nigga/nigger. But I didn’t write the rules of the game, and I don’t have enough cache’ to re-write them all by myself. The time will likely come where that’s completely off limits, but Rome wasn’t built in a day. Hip Hop is a genre & culture that has always been dominated by alpha males, and questioning someone’s manhood has long been the most effective tactic of getting under an opponent’s skin in a battle. That’s just part of the sport of being an MC.
I don’t blame anyone for being mad at me for saying it (or mad at Sadat for what he said 20 years ago), but neither of us intended to offend gay people...
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I blame my radicalness on my 5th grade Social Studies teacher—a white lady who opened my eyes to the plight of Black America and the injustices of White America—from the Kent State Riot to the Vietnam War to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The seed of confrontation was planted many moons ago. I didn’t just become this fire-spitting dragon in the Internet age on Facebook! I done rode shotgun with Yahweh ben Yahweh, sat on the same stage with Farrakhan and had dinner with Kwame Toure’ (Stokely Carmichael). You don’t get much more militant than that! Check the credits!
Not everyone thinks MegaUpload was such a bad thing. That includes Busta Rhymes, who recently came to the defense of recently-named MegaUpload CEO Swizz Beats, while pointing to a model that actually monetizes free downloads. That’s a story that includes the unlaunched MegaBox, which planned to pay artists 90 percent of revenues (and even pay out on free downloads). All without any major label involvement.
(Sara Baartman)