Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category

Fox Studios Accused of Being Racist

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Rapper Nas isn’t happy with the media giant Fox, and that hasn’t been a secret for a very long time. He objects to their conservative leanings and what he sees as racism in their news reports. Now he’s taking his opinion one step further.

He already penned a song that protests against the company, and he’s joining both MoveOn.org and ColorOfChange.org in the delivery of a petition to Fox’s Manhattan studios. The petition contains 600,000 signatures, and states that Fox must “end its pattern of racist attacks against Black Americans including presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.”

Nas is protesting what he feels is a pattern of racist language against the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and his family, and said that Fox “poisons the country with racist propaganda and tries to call it news,” which was a very diplomatic way to put his true feelings into words.

The concerns that Nas has range along most of the news programs that Fox has to offer but the point of the petition was to address the issues regarding Obama and his wife. The confusion of his name with Osama was thought to be deliberate and the fist-bump with his wife when he reached enough delegates to secure the nomination was labeled as a “terrorist” activity.

Here’s a clip.

Guitar Hero Tribute

Monday, January 14th, 2008

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Band Dance Moves

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Its inevitable that eventually your band will worry about its stage presence. If choreography and dance becomes the decision perhaps I can offer a bit of advice.

The past always becomes cool again. Hair band shit will never die and to be perfectly honest I would never want it to. Hips will always be swinging Elvis style and the same dance moves that were cool ten or fifteen years ago will be cool again today. So what was cool dance-wise ten or fifteen years ago? hmm.. Pulling up the good ol’ way back machine I can predict belly dancing…Shit Shakira. Nevermind. How about MC Hammer and Michael Jackson? Perfect. Now if we can just combine the two in a poppy way we may just have ourselves a crowd pleasing winner. Lucky for us the Indians (People from India not Native Americans) are already about that far behind us in style. They’re sick of the beach boys and moving on to the hardcore pop and you bet your ass Indian gangster rap will be next.

Observe and learn you trendy wanna be’s