I had some middle school teachers who would have rioted if there weren't a teachers' smoking lounge.

It's all about over exposure. They get enough of that at home.

What's next? no hot teacher-on-student action? WHEN WILL WE DRAW THE LINE?!

this is the second green for this story.

A black man self-titled "Gorilla"? Of course Texans love him. It's almost as if something is wrong with that place. Almost.

So farking what?

At the very end of the story, they say that Gorilla Zoe states he provided the kids with a different poster from the one they were going all apeshiat about; "a cleaned up version".

So which is it? Is this another non-story trumped up into hysteria? Did the new station not even bother to pursue the issue of exactly what poster the kids received?

Ral: So which is it? Is this another non-story trumped up into hysteria?

Yes.

No rap "artist" could possibly teach school-age children anything. If you have nothing educational to do for them let them go home.

/Unimpressed

Most of these kids are going to end up in prison anyway so I think this poster is right on target.

What they should be told: Look I smoke dope and won 8 gold medals.



What they are told: Drugs are bad m'kay.

40oz_A_Knight............Couldn't have said it better.

Not really a fan, but that "Lost" track is one of the better written songs on top 40 radio these days imo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcYyLQWXrk0&feature=related)

40oz_A_Knight: No rap "artist" could possibly teach school-age children anything. If you have nothing educational to do for them let them go home.

Tha GZ is a worrier and a poet! YOU DONT SLAG ON HIM. He pulled hisself out of the ghetto to be a famos musician. U DONT" KNOW shiat DUMASS!

Ow, that hurt.

I thought the white kids like rap these days.

Did their parents forget how much they enjoyed rap when they were younger.


White kids, black music, it has been goin' on for years.

Rozinante: 40oz_A_Knight: No rap "artist" could possibly teach school-age children anything. If you have nothing educational to do for them let them go home.

Tha GZ is a worrier and a poet! YOU DONT SLAG ON HIM. He pulled hisself out of the ghetto to be a famos musician. U DONT" KNOW shiat DUMASS!

worrier?
/dumass?

This could almost be an Onion story. Almost. But there can't be parental outrage. It should just be "Rapper Give Motivational Speech to Young Students." And consist of him talking about completely inappropriate topics and the poster could be an image in the article.

Yogimus: Rozinante: 40oz_A_Knight: No rap "artist" could possibly teach school-age children anything. If you have nothing educational to do for them let them go home.

Tha GZ is a worrier and a poet! YOU DONT SLAG ON HIM. He pulled hisself out of the ghetto to be a famos musician. U DONT" KNOW shiat DUMASS!

worrier?
/dumass?

Of course he's a worrier. He has a lot to worry about. I don't know what a "famos" musician is, but it's always stressful to pioneer a new style of music.
So leave him alone.

/And leave Britney alone - she has enough to worry about too.

40oz_A_Knight: No rap "artist" could possibly teach school-age children anything.

Can probably teach them more than "teachers."

40oz_A_Knight: No rap "artist" could possibly teach school-age children anything. If you have nothing educational to do for them let them go home.


;

Never give up!

Pechorin: This could almost be an Onion story.

Haven't you noticed? The US has become an Onion story. Kinda why Fark exists.

/quote Tha GZ is a worrier and a poet! YOU DONT SLAG ON HIM. He pulled hisself out of the ghetto to be a famos musician. U DONT" KNOW shiat DUMASS! /quote


Rap is not music/art/poetry. it's a bunch of made up events, of fictional places and times, that dumbass kids think is real.

Want real? slap yourself and get a job. Get mugged by some rap fan. Have him take your earnings. or worse, fight him off and get sued.

Real as it get's.

Rap is a disease.

aphexcoil5: This is perfectly acceptable. However, we need to institute new policies that enforce school uniforms. We also need to crack down on violence, sexual contact and drug usage.

Put into place new "zero tolerance" rules. If a kid is found near, around or with any form of possible weapon, drug or condoms, we need to kick those kids out permanently (along with their siblings, because failure is genetic.)

We need to put a stop to this crap immediately. A school is a place for learning and prayer -- not sexually excited people high on some drug while brandishing a weapon.

0/10

You're not even trying.

NSFW.

You can see the next big thing in music here.

NSFW.

Used to be in House of Pain.

So someone the kids actually might care about came to encourage them to work hard in school and make more opportunities for themselves than he did? But *gasp* he drinks and smokes and...carries a gun (in Texas no less!). How horrible!

Listen parents, grown-ups smoke, drink and sometimes have firearms. Also, not everyone your kids admire will be perfect in every way. This doesn't mean that they don't have anything useful to teach them. It's up to you to make your kids understand why smoking, excessive drinking, and irresponsible use of firearms can be harmful, not just raise a fuss whenever anyone who isn't squeaky clean comes around them. Guess what? You have your own vices.

I think passing out the poster was a poor decision on the rapper's part (though I don't know what the more tame version he says he actually handed out looked like) but otherwise, I don't see what the big deal is. He's a rap artist who actually wanted to take time out to give something back. Let's string him up for the children!

40oz_A_Knight: No rap "artist" could possibly teach school-age children anything. If you have nothing educational to do for them let them go home.

Isn't it past your bedtime, gramps?

aphexcoil5
This is perfectly acceptable. However, we need to institute new policies that enforce school uniforms. We also need to crack down on violence, sexual contact and drug usage.

Put into place new "zero tolerance" rules. If a kid is found near, around or with any form of possible weapon, drug or condoms, we need to kick those kids out permanently (along with their siblings, because failure is genetic.)

We need to put a stop to this crap immediately. A school is a place for learning and prayer -- not sexually excited people high on some drug while brandishing a weapon.

You amuse me. The problem is that teenagers are sent mixed messages. Don't do drugs, stay in school, blah blah blah, and when they get home, well it's drugs, fame, rap, gangsta, blah blah blah. We want our young men and women of today to be responsible and act like adults, but we don't make them responsible for their actions, and we don't trust them with any worthwhile responsibility. You can't have it both ways.

No condoms for kids? Ok, 4/10 pretty good.

aphexcoil5: This is perfectly acceptable. However, we need to institute new policies that enforce school uniforms. We also need to crack down on violence, sexual contact and drug usage.

Put into place new "zero tolerance" rules. If a kid is found near, around or with any form of possible weapon, drug or condoms, we need to kick those kids out permanently (along with their siblings, because failure is genetic.)

We need to put a stop to this crap immediately. A school is a place for learning and prayer -- not sexually excited people high on some drug while brandishing a weapon.

Well, I agree with the uniform idea. Sort of.

Gorilla Zoe meet Gorilla Amy. Amy good Gorilla. Apple.

FAIL? Really?

See when my kids hear something at school I deem inappropriate, I use that as a teaching opportunity. I can explain that why they are hearing is wrong, and talk about why. That's how you teach your kids values and morals.

Why are the "conservatives" always so afraid of taking responsibility for teaching their kids values and morals? Why are they so against the state and the schools but so unwilling to do the job themselves?

Or are they just like "liberals" were 30 years ago, so smug and content in their day in the limelight that they can't believe it when someone in the world somewhere doesn't completely reflect their own values, and shiat their pants when anyone differs?

We need a new term for "PC". Maybe "LA": Limbaugh Approved.

Rozinante: 40oz_A_Knight: No rap "artist" could possibly teach school-age children anything. If you have nothing educational to do for them let them go home.

Tha GZ is a worrier and a poet! YOU DONT SLAG ON HIM. He pulled hisself out of the ghetto to be a famos musician. U DONT" KNOW shiat DUMASS!

7/10. You actually got a couple of bites on that one. Well done. :)

My, those hip hop heroes sure enjoy their vices and weaponry.

*sigh*

tiamet4: Isn't it past your bedtime, gramps?

I'm in my early 20s. It's less "those damn kids!" than "these same police-blotter idiots doing the same stupid things again and again and blaiming someone else for their own failings".

What's this? A hip-hop artist who involves drugs, guns and sex in his 'art'?



We need a rap version of Happiness Pie.

Link (new window) for the uninitiated.

Just keeping it real yall.

Uh. Subby seems to have school officials confused with lawmakers. Also, Tonesskin is a Wentz.

Rozinante: 40oz_A_Knight: No rap "artist" could possibly teach school-age children anything. If you have nothing educational to do for them let them go home.

Tha GZ is a worrier and a poet! YOU DONT SLAG ON HIM. He pulled hisself out of the ghetto to be a famos musician. U DONT" KNOW shiat DUMASS!

Very YouTube-esque. Well played.

Rap music? More like crap music.


/obligatory

Link (Booya)

/right thread?

Rozinante:
Tha GZ is a worrier and a poet! YOU DONT SLAG ON HIM. He pulled hisself out of the ghetto to be a famos musician. U DONT" KNOW shiat DUMASS!

I'm pretty sure this is sarcasm, folks. Please stop responding seriously to it.

Rozinante: Ow, that hurt.

LOL

/made me giggle, anyway

40oz_A_Knight: No rap "artist" could possibly teach school-age children anything. If you have nothing educational to do for them let them go home.





KRS-One and Cornel West would like a word with you. And that wasn't bad for a one-line troll. 7/10

Somacandra: 40oz_A_Knight: No rap "artist" could possibly teach school-age children anything. If you have nothing educational to do for them let them go home.

KRS-One and Cornel West would like a word with you. And that wasn't bad for a one-line troll. 7/10

In the case of Cornel West the original comment is valid.

One Thirty-two and Bush: Rap music? More like crap music.


/obligatory

amen brother

Somacandra: 40oz_A_Knight: No rap "artist" could possibly teach school-age children anything. If you have nothing educational to do for them let them go home.

KRS-One and Cornel West would like a word with you. And that wasn't bad for a one-line troll. 7/10

Cornell West is less of a rapper than Eddie Murphy was a singer. But anything to keep him out of the movies..I talking to you Matrix trilogy!

And someone needs to listen to BDP's Criminal Minded...as gangsta as anyother album of it's time.

are you down with the trudgemank?

music is great in all it's forms - sometimes you gotta just pretend the lyrics aren't actually words, just cool vocals.

maybe he came to tell them a gangsta's life ain't fun...

nsfw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1WFA0liN1o

40oz_A_Knight: tiamet4: Isn't it past your bedtime, gramps?

I'm in my early 20s. It's less "those damn kids!" than "these same police-blotter idiots doing the same stupid things again and again and blaiming someone else for their own failings".

This.

You can pick the losers before you even graduate...and they are later joined by another herd that wants to be in high school forever.

They're not bad people...just losers that want to party all night and sleep all day...and expect soembody to provide for them.

Because music needs to be ignorant, drug-addled, misogynistic and soulless to be hardcore.




I would weep for our culture, but that would just inspire the Japanese businessmen at Sony to laugh at us harder. I won't give them the pleasure. Ya hear what I'm sayin? Ya hear what I'm sayin, yo?