They killed rock-n-roll

[Felch]

The reason those tools are all respected is because aspirational hood rats think that they can blow up and get rich too. Black people are as trifling as corporate rap. That's why broke ass welfare mothers spend hundreds on their hair, and ghetto niglets wear hundred dollar shoes.

Every single time will.i.am craps out a new single, a little part of me dies.

[Al B. Sure!]

The reason those tools are all respected is because aspirational hood rats think that they can blow up and get rich too. Black people are as trifling as corporate rap. That's why broke ass welfare mothers spend hundreds on their hair, and ghetto niglets wear hundred dollar shoes.

Every single time will.i.am craps out a new single, a little part of me dies.

Oh really? Tools? Will.I.Am is ruining the world?

Here's some corporate rap. Will.I.Am and Common. This was corporate enough to have been written and recorded for the movie Freedom Writers. Here's the video:



Yes, that is ruining the Black community

[Al B. Sure!]

If none of you have ever asked an adult well-versed in rap with at least half a brain about introducing you to some rap and honestly listened to it, you have no reason or basis for categorically denigrating the entire genre of music.

It's as simple as that. You can not hate what you have never tasted. Anything else is inherently prejudicial.

[Felch]

Is will.i.am unironically comparing himself to MLK? What a pompous douche.

[Al B. Sure!]

Is will.i.am unironically comparing himself to MLK? What a pompous douche.

Whatever. Can the man not share in MLK's dream? What do you think of the message? Of Common's lyrics? Is this guns bling and whores rap? Hmm?

[Asher]

Whatever. Can the man not share in MLK's dream?

[Al B. Sure!]

See this is typical behavior of prejudiced people. When confronted with anything that challenges your preconceived notions, you immediately misdirect the focus to ancillary things which you can marginalize with derision.

What do you think MrFun? Did I just accurately dissect some of the psychology of prejudice?

[Al B. Sure!]

Here, MrFun, I'm posting this song specifically for you since Common address the homosexual community in the third verse. Common with Cee-Lo.

[Felch]

The message is generic platitudes that I'd expect to find on a college girl's bumper stickers.

Common is a fine lyricist, but he's a hell of a long way from corporate mainstream rap. When was the last time you heard him on a Top 40 station?

[Al B. Sure!]

The message is generic platitudes that I'd expect to find on a college girl's bumper stickers.

Common is a fine lyricist, but he's a hell of a long way from corporate mainstream rap. When was the last time you heard him on a Top 40 station?

Yet is that message harming the Black community, as you claimed?

As for Common, his most recent albums:

UMC, hit #12 on the Billboard 200 and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album.
Finding Forever hit #1, selling 155,000 units in the first week of release
Be hit #2 and received four Grammy nominations

Those aren't the rap charts. The Billboard 200 includes all genres/releases. Between that and the Grammy nominations, you claim Common isn't mainstream?

[Asher]

See this is typical behavior of prejudiced people.

Calling you out for melodrama has nothing to do with prejudice.

Grammy

Grammy != mainstream.

How many Grammies did the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears win?

[Al B. Sure!]

Asher:

Spears has been nominated for eight Grammy awards and won her first in the category of Best Dance Recording for her single Toxic in 2005

I'm not sure what your point is. You're saying Grammy awards/nominations aren't given to popular acts so me mentioning some of Common's most recent nominations is not indicative of his mainstream success? But they ARE given for popular acts! I never heard of anyone claiming Grammy's are given to underground people.

Common has won 2 Grammy's, by the way, along with all his nominations.

[Asher]

Dance

More proof that the genre is a joke.

[Asher]

All I know about Common is he's friends with Will Ferrell. That tells me all I need to know about his artistic ability.

[Al B. Sure!]

All I know about Common is he's friends with Will Ferrell. That tells me all I need to know about his artistic ability.

See. Prejudice. You denigrate him through association (friends with Will Ferrell? Really?) without honestly examining his music on its own merits. Prejudice.

Googling I see no association between Common and Will Ferrell. Are you mistaking Andre3000 for Common?