I have to go ahead and echo Andrew Sullivan’s embrace of Snoop’s eloquent condemnation of Don Imus:
“It’s a completely different scenario. [Rappers] are not talking about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and sports. We’re talking about ho’s that’s in the ‘hood that ain’t doing shit, that’s trying to get a nigga for his money. These are two separate things. First of all, we ain’t no old-ass white men that sit up on MSNBC going hard on black girls. We are rappers that have these songs coming from our minds and our souls that are relevant to what we feel. I will not let them muthafuckas say we in the same league as him.”
Well said, Mr. D O Double G.
Coincidentally, you gotta love a news item that includes the track list of an upcoming album and whose subhead reads:
MC says radio host’s racially inflammatory comments shouldn’t be compared to rap lyrics; The Big Squeeze due April 24.
One Response to “SNOOP DOGG ON DON IMUS”
on 14 Apr 2007 at 11:50 pm # The Daily Squid » IMUS AND THE RAPPERS
[…] The misogyny of Imus’ remarks certainly pales in comparison to what comes out of some commercial hip hop today; Imus, after all, isn’t the one “looking for a slut with a nice butt to get a nut” or observing “bitch ya’ pussy smell like Pepé le Pew.” But the racially charged aspect of his “nappy headed hos” comment is really non-comparable to anything coming out of hip hop today. Snoop Dogg referring to a black woman as a “ho” is incredibly sexist, indeed, but not at all racist; Snoop is not disparaging her race from a perch of racial privilege. Imus, on the other hand, was doing just that, an “old-ass white men that sit up on MSNBC going hard on black girls,” as Snoop himself put it. Whether Imus is an “actual racist” or not, it is that blatant racial insensitivity that ultimately cost him his job. […]