I don't get it. Between him and the recent rise of Kesha I feel like my intelligence is under direct attack. I hate her more, only because I genuinely believe he has a mental deficiency and I feel bad for him.
[quote="Squirrel"]I don't get it. Between him and the recent rise of Kesha I feel like my intelligence is under direct attack. I hate her more, only because I genuinely believe he has a mental deficiency and I feel bad for him. Souljah Boy is 20. The impulse control / decision-making portions of his brain are literally not yet complete.
Lyrics are one thing and that's what make me feel stupid but in his case he sounds like Giovanni Ribisi in "The Other Sister". Youtube that if you haven't had the pleasure of watching it before.
[quote="Squirrel"]Lyrics are one thing and that's what make me feel stupid but in his case he sounds like Giovanni Ribisi in "The Other Sister". Youtube that if you haven't had the pleasure of watching it before. Dang. I see what you mean. It's like Bob Dylan levels there.
I will say 2 things. 1, i heard this about 6 times at work today, enjoyable piece of trash it is. And 2, he has the best case of rapper tourettes at the end where hes like "anime,anime-anime-soujaboy".
I added this to like the 4 or so rap songs on my zune that i know about.
Kesha had near-perfect SAT scores in high school. source. [quote="Kesha"] "I was very studious," she says. "I was in the international baccalaureate program, I loved physics and math, and I was in the marching band.
[quote="ZeonicFreak"]Im to white to know what good rap is other than Gangsters Paradise, Hypnotize and Cant touch this. Check these guys out... Outkast Kanye West Timbaland Pharrell Williams Bone Thugs n Harmony Busta Rhymes Missy Elliott Cyprus Hill Saul Williams Roots Nas KRS-ONE
Del the Funky Homosapien The Streets Jurassic 5 Ozomatli (latin rap hybrid when they team up with some of Jurassic 5, 100% awesome) Mad Villain, some of this stuff I find a little hard to listen to but the song All Caps is great.
*Throws Gnarls Barkley/ CeeLo Green in that list.*
Soulja Boy, among other celebrities, is a symbol of how EASY it is in America to get famous. I think we can all aspire to such greatness.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go make a song about how I look like a Thunder Cat riding Optimus Prime and go video tape my friends throwing themselves out of a plane in a port-a-potty.
[quote="God"]Try last.fm and pandora out to find music. It would be better to listen to Polish R&B than to listen to Soulja Boy or Gucci Mane. Thank you! For Once we both agree.
[quote="Squirrel"]I don't get it. Between him and the recent rise of Kesha I feel like my intelligence is under direct attack. I hate her more, only because I genuinely believe he has a mental deficiency and I feel bad for him. He never has a mental deficiency, he just a jiggaboo.
[quote="xenomouse"][quote="ZeonicFreak"]Im to white to know what good rap is other than Gangsters Paradise, Hypnotize and Cant touch this. Check these guys out... Outkast Kanye West Timbaland Pharrell Williams Bone Thugs n Harmony Busta Rhymes Missy Elliott Cyprus Hill Saul Williams Roots Nas KRS-ONE I not sure about Timberland, unless you mean he production songs.
[quote="wayintothe7thart"]I not sure about Timberland, unless you mean he production songs. I dig the music for which he is a producer as well as the stuff from his solo albums.
By the way, I had to look up "jiggaboo" - albeit on urbandictionary - and I can't help but feel a little uncomfortable with racist connotations of the word. What the deal, yo?
Jigaboo? Really? That's some old timey racist shit. You really went back for that one.
My theory is that there has to be a certain number of untalented celebrities to emerge over the next few years. Once that number is reached, they will all join together like some giant robot and form the Anti Christ.
You might have been making a reference to the fact that the artist calls himself Souja Boy, but here in the South white people would refer to grown black men as "boys" as a way of deriding them. It's easy to see how your remark could be interpreted as racial, especially with the "learn his place" bit at the end.
Eventually racism will be a long forgotten thing in the future, im betting about the next 50 years or so.
Its gonna take longer for southerns to understand that when i got jimbo in his jacked up Chevy pickup who wants to ride around town with a REBEL FLAG flying in the bed of his truck (I am dead serious, there is a truck that has the rebel flag on a 5 foot pole waving in the wind when this idiot drives by, and I think his cousin drives a full sized pickup with "01" on the side with Dukes of Hazzard colors... oh god). I think i just ranted... im not sure.
But yea, peace an harmony will happen... when im dead.
[quote="ZeonicFreak"]Its gonna take longer for southerns to understand that when i got jimbo in his jacked up Chevy pickup who wants to ride around town with a REBEL FLAG flying in the bed of his truck (I am dead serious, there is a truck that has the rebel flag on a 5 foot pole waving in the wind when this idiot drives by, and I think his cousin drives a full sized pickup with "01" on the side with Dukes of Hazzard colors... oh god). I think i just ranted... im not sure.Forget southerners, how long is it gonna take for ME to understand that nonsense?
I'm from is a small community of about 20K people. About a half a mile from my house is a home actually has a confederate flag that has been painted on their roof. I used equate the confederate flag as meaning that the person who is wearing/holding/whaterevering it is a racist, but that has changed over the last 4 or 5 years. In my last two years of high school, being a redneck actually became like a trend equivalent to goths or emo kids. There is a lot of rural/farming area in my town, but most of the people who fell into that group were from the suburbs and were middle class. I had people I'd known since elementary school, start wearing camo, John Deere clothes, and confederate flags on them, but in all cases that really did not change their behavior or my opinion of them. That led me to suspect that most likely it's just something that people learn from their environment and they just adopt the confederate flag as being normal. Similar to how blacks accept saying nigger as just being normal.
That changed my opinion on young people wearing/using the confederate flag, but not really my opinion on any that grew up pre 1970s (The time my town actually became desegregated). I worked as a Census Enumerator this summer and my area included wide range of people. I had a rich suburb, a middle class suburb, and a less than middle class to poor area of homes. I went in expecting that to run into a lot of racism from middle age to older low middle class to poverty level white neighborhoods. Especially from the areas that had trailer parks and had signs that they were quasi redneck (old boats, hunting materials, weird signs, confederate flags). But those people were by far the most easiest, nicest, and pleasant groups that I enumerated. I actually went to the confederate flag house and the guy invited me in and we had a conversation about The Seminoles. I did find the craziest bunch of people to be high income middle class women.
Sometimes people just like things for no real reason. It might be the confederate flag, wearing a long t-shirt and baggy shorts, or something else. It doesn't make them a racist or a gangbanger or whatever other label that people will stick on them. I don't think most people can really justify using the Confederate flag, but they don't need to.
I don't think most people can really justify using the Confederate flag, but they don't need to.
That's where I disagree with you. The stars-and-bars has a strong historical connotation, and even if you're doing it from a position of pure ignorance, when you fly that sucker you're choosing to associate yourself with all the negative stuff that comes with that history. The same can be said if you wear a Che Guevera t-shirt. Ignorance is no excuse.
I'm from is a small community of about 20K people. About a half a mile from my house is a home actually has a confederate flag that has been painted on their roof. I used equate the confederate flag as meaning that the person who is wearing/holding/whaterevering it is a racist, but that has changed over the last 4 or 5 years. In my last two years of high school, being a redneck actually became like a trend equivalent to goths or emo kids. There is a lot of rural/farming area in my town, but most of the people who fell into that group were from the suburbs and were middle class. I had people I'd known since elementary school, start wearing camo, John Deere clothes, and confederate flags on them, but in all cases that really did not change their behavior or my opinion of them. That led me to suspect that most likely it's just something that people learn from their environment and they just adopt the confederate flag as being normal. Similar to how blacks accept saying nigger as just being normal.
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THE CONFEDERACY HAS TAKEN OVER DA SPACE!!!! Space is part 2 of our Civil War... in the future.
Im sure if anything, the person who drives around town with a rebel flag is probably a really nice guy for all i know, and probably isnt racist at all. But, I dont understand having pride in a part of american history that was really a bad time that everyone (people in the south) wants to remember (150 years ago!). I wonder if its the same for people in Russia trying to forget Communism when they have their neighbor Ivan that has his USSR flag hanging outside his apartment. Theres somethings people will never understand.
[quote="Dave"]Forget southerners, how long is it gonna take for ME to understand that nonsense?
In due time my friend... in due time.
Funny how we switched subjects like this, because Souja Boy was getting boring to talk about.
[quote="Gokiburi_Chachacha"] That's where I disagree with you. The stars-and-bars has a strong historical connotation, and even if you're doing it from a position of pure ignorance, when you fly that sucker you're choosing to associate yourself with all the negative stuff that comes with that history. The same can be said if you wear a Che Guevera t-shirt. Ignorance is no excuse.
http://www.myfox8.com/wghp-story-confed ... 1978.story I saw this article the other day at work and I commented to a coworker about her reasoning she gave, that she is simply supporting her southern heritage, would be like someone of German descent flying a swastika and saying it's not because he's a Nazi, he's just supporting his German heritage.
I'd argue that Southern heritage isn't worthy of support, especially not with a symbol that is also gleefully used by white supremacists and other loonies.
WOW. First of all, the song sucks, but not any more than a lot of other shit that's popular with brain-dead hipsters & "cool folks" out there, regardless of their ethnicity.
Second; I was going to call out specific posters in this thread, but then I realized that I don't really know you. Maybe I'm missing some inside joke or something. I'll just say this: Some of the posts I've read lead me to believe that the authors are even more ignorant than Souja Boy appears to be. If I'm misreading those posts, or missing some super-subtle sarcasm, I apologize. On the other hand, if the posts are meant to be taken at face value, then please go fuck yourself.
Yep; I know that isn't very original or constructive. But seriously, go fuck yourself.