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Dissecting Fiascogate

(Editor's Note: "Fiascogate" is the dumbest name ever, couldn't someone call this "Lupe's Fiasco" or some other quirky play on words? Damn...)

There was once a superhero with amazing powers. Well…he wasn’t actually a “superhero” but more like an individual with great abilities that we would assume should do great things.

One day, the superhero saves a poor little kitten from a tree. Because of this presumed heroic event, the superhero is thrust into the limelight but becomes uneasy because he isn’t what people think he is or wants him to be.

The fact is, he doesn’t even like kitties…it just so happens that he did it because some sexy ass woman was the owner of the cat. Now our adopted superhero is on edge because he’s pigeonholed as this cat saving/kitty loving/friendly mu’fucka.

Everyone expects him to save every cat from every tree and although he benefited from the spotlight, our superhero is now being pushed to the darkside because of the extra pressure to become the person the people made him out to be.

He finally declares “I don’t even like cats yo!” and a collective gasp comes from the onlookers as criticism (just and unjust) fires from all angles.

The clouds cover the skies, thunder and lightning immerse the night and a torrential rain pounds the ground.

Our Anakin Skywalker is officially Darth Vader and will probably kill tons of kitties because of this “Fiasco”

You can blame this new villain all you want (and rightfully so in some cases) but you gotta blame yourself for your part in creating this monster as well.

On the other side of the coin, the more you keep saying “I fucking hate cats” to cat lovers (and to add insult to injury say "I'll fucking kick a cat if I see one" simply in spite), the more you are going to piss people off and turn them against you. It’s pretty much like “Okay I get it but if you want to wear it as a badge of honor than FUCK YOU!”  If you care what they think then this point is moot, if you don’t care, maintain the speed you are already at.

Feel Me?

The moral of the story is this…

You can’t expect someone to be everything you think they should be because they accomplished something that you hold near and dear to your heart. You can’t be upset because this person crushed the box you put him in.

Martin banged mad chicks, Malcolm was a hustler, Che killed people, Gil Scott Heron was an addict, Kanye isn’t “political”, Al Sharpton has a perm because of James Brown, Michael Jackson likes little people (monkeys, Webster, your kids, etc)…

The list goes on and on. Nobody will be this picture of perfection you want them to be. Either you accept it or you don’t.

You’ll never know what makes him do what he does. Maybe you should just enjoy the music and move on. If it offends you that much then don’t cop the music. Whatever it is you choose, stand by it and don’t let the winds sway you. I respect that more than when the superhero accomplishes something else considered great and everyone is sucking on his super penis again.

I can agree to disagree with anyone who is honest about his/her stance.
 
The more pressure you put on him to become this “thing” you want him to be, the further he will push back to make sure he NEVER becomes what you want him to be.

Regardless of his superpowers, he’s still a human with faults and growing to do. He’ll never be perfect. Cry a river, build a bridge and get over it.

Do I agree with everything said superhero has declared? Nope. Does it really matter? Not really. Do I understand where he’s coming from? Absolutely. Whether I condone the way he handled it or not, I’ll still keep it cool regardless and enjoy the show.

And there it is…

Point Blank Period 

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You Want Real Hip Hop With A Message? Fuck Yeah You Do!

Yeah kids,

I've been super busy with keeping DX up to speed which is why you haven't seen a blog or a Who The Hell Am I in a minute (hope you are digging the content...if not, fuck it. My bad?), but before I bless all of you with "Stop Rapping And Get A Job" as my next editorial I have a gift for you....

I (like some of you) yearn for the days where you can actually learn something from Hip Hop music. But we all know that the days of a dope video with a message being blasted on MTV and BET are loooooong gone. So how do we get the message out to the youth?

I got this video from a fellow National Hip Hop Political Convention member that went a lil something like this...

Yo someone sent this video to me and said that he played it for his 7th graders stuck in summer school because they all failed again. When I first saw it I thought it was funny but then I realized we basically have to treat and or tell people they are stupid in order for them to become motivated to learn. That is sad! So without further a due here (it) is...



Is this what it has finally come to? Probably...

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Fox News Picked On The Wrong Negro!

So this Don Imus shit is blowing up right (scary because it's blown up bigger than the Sean Bell case and somebody died there)? Hip Hop's detractors have come out in full force acting as if Don Imus was influenced by Snoop or Too $hort. Every gotdamn hour it's Don Imus and then something about rap music followed by some shit where they say "well he said sorry...geeze." The two shouldn't be intertwined in this instance.

At any rate, the biggest phoney of a news network, Fox News, decided they needed to attack someone to make their point that hip hop is fucked up seem that much more vaild. They tried to holler at your boy Davey D to be on the O'Reilly show but Davey wasn't going for that shit.

So Neil Cavuto reached out to grab a rapper they could dominate and apparently the likes of Yung Joc and Young Jeezy were too busy (or too smart) or something so who did Fox go and get? M-1 from dead prez!

Dude...how stupid do you have to be to challenge someone like M-1 to a debate? Below I have attached the transcript as M-1 GAVE IT to Cavuto. He befuddled him to the point where Cavuto had to tap out.

Now here's the funny thing...there is NO TRACE OF THIS ONLINE. Below is the "transcript" of  the interview and it has no trace of M-1 sonning this cat. I saw it live and you probably won't see it in full again.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200704130001

There's a link to the video and you'll see how it was cut off. The shit isn't even on Cavuto's foxnews.com page. Gotta love how they control the masses minds with swift editing tactics.

And after you read this segment of nonsense, peep the interview with M-1 on Davey D's show to talk about the experience and so much more (CLICK HERE).

From the April 12 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto:

CAVUTO: M-1, I know that this is not your parent company, but NBC Universal owns Interscope Records, which has, under its employ, a lot of rap artists who routinely say stuff like you've just said and worse. And, NBC is OK with that, not OK with Don Imus making an errant comment. Do you find that, just as an artist, hypocritical?

M-1: No, I don't find it hypocritical mainly because of our relationship to the system -- our relationship with our oppressor. Once again, with personal responsibility taken at hand here, we're talking about rappers who are coerced to say things other than what the reality of our community is and Mr. Imus, who obviously has said sentiments that come from his personal beliefs. I think you are comparing apples and oranges here even when you bring the rap community into the question. And once --

CAVUTO: No, you know, M-1, I don't think I am. I mean, a ho is a ho, right? So, if Imus uses the expression and then you use the expression, you've both said "ho."

M-1: Well, no, I don't --

CAVUTO: Well, you've both said it. So, now, you're saying --

M-1: No, I don't use "ho."

CAVUTO: All right, so --

M-1: I don't say "ho." And that's my point exactly. And even the word "ho" existed way before 1976, when rap began. "Ho" is a relationship between the pimp and the pimper, the pimpee, if it may. And so --

CAVUTO: So, there's nothing wrong with Imus saying it, right?

M-1: Well, of course --

CAVUTO: And there's nothing wrong then with rappers -- unlike yourself -- saying it, right?

M-1: Well, of course there's something wrong with both of those relationships. However, what governs that relationship is the historical relationship of oppression between black people and our white oppressors in this country, and that's not a racist statement, that's the reality that we live in.

CAVUTO: But Don Imus wasn't oppressing you or anyone else. He made a mistaken -- maybe a badly phrased comment. He's lost a job on the air as a result of it. You can continue to make pretty, you know, outlandish comments for art, whatever you want to call it. It just doesn't seem right. Does it seem right to you?

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