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TheOmni		2004-04-20 09:46:16 PM

I tried Babelfish but it didn't help. Can anyone tell me what the headline says?

Jikel_Morten		2004-04-20 10:45:30 PM

I'm not sure but I think that's a long euphemism for sex.

Chariset		2004-04-20 11:58:16 PM

One of the best uses of the Unlikely tag I've ever seen

rockist		2004-04-20 11:59:32 PM

Is this in reference to Von Dutch?

g026r		2004-04-21 12:02:12 AM

I know the headline writer wasn't being serious, but I still want to brutally maim him/her.

snizwilk		2004-04-21 12:02:22 AM

I didn't RTFA but I assume it has something to do with the Escalade, the perfect high speed traspo for all our professional bling blingers down here.

Sidi		2004-04-21 12:02:52 AM

TheOmni it means that undertalented, overpaid "musicians" who've decided to stop singing about killing cops and focus on how rich they are (and how much better their cars are than yours) are making automakers a lot of money. Oh, and that you can't afford to be driving the BMW on dubs with a DVD player, TV screens on the headrests, and $5,000 rims.

Sajem		2004-04-21 12:03:20 AM

Wow. My father could have written a hipper article.

Waffen-SS		2004-04-21 12:03:42 AM

It means that rap stars put cars like Escalade's and Navigators in their videos, which makes them popular and desirable. But then again, rappers have huge crews of like 10 and 20 people, including drug dealers, body guards, mix tape pushers, etc., so they need huge SUV's to drive everyone around. Why on God's green earth does a stupid 40 year old mother of one need a tank-sized vehicle to drive around town with?

Texa$		2004-04-21 12:04:05 AM

No I don't speak bling, the new jive. I don't speak jive either

Driver		2004-04-21 12:04:06 AM

"In this game, size does matter," Jarasa said. "That huge grill makes an impact. People won't forget it."

Especially if they are jay-walking...

chemical_angel		2004-04-21 12:05:09 AM

bling bling = flash and affluence ... street cred = real world relevance ... phat (in this context) means a nice, ridiculous amount ...
in other words ....
The flash and high priced street fashion showcased in those crazy hip hop music videos has become highly beneficial to the auto industry for generating consumer desire for pricey options and vehicles.
/speaks jive

Frinky		2004-04-21 12:05:25 AM

Look at it this way... it'll all be gone in five years.

sonofa-beauch		2004-04-21 12:05:50 AM

Snoop dog make my gangsta style 501's rise in da' front.

Oops- Did I just write that out loud?

chemical_angel		2004-04-21 12:06:53 AM

sonofa-beauch

people were saying that more than 5 years ago man ... face it ... we're farked

skinink		2004-04-21 12:06:54 AM

"Snoop Dog, I've been watching you. And I know you been watching me. And I know that you know that I've been watching you. Snoop, how would you like to fark me up the arse ?"

/Eddie Murphy

chemical_angel		2004-04-21 12:07:31 AM

hominahominahomina

cheguevara12		2004-04-21 12:08:59 AM

In other news, auto industry experts are receiving a dissertation on turning "ordinary and boring" words into totally biatchin street words thanks to Snoop Dogg and his course "Get off 'ma fashnizzle dizzle"

cheguevara12		2004-04-21 12:09:34 AM

I apologize for my lame attempt at humor

Ishkur		2004-04-21 12:09:55 AM

I have a theory going that a person defines who they are depending on how they earn their money.

ie: people who don't work very hard for a living yet have lots of money tend to not respect it very much nor the work required to get it, and are prone to spending it on frivolous crap. A pure example of this is children and the way they treat their toys, things they did not earn and hence place no personal value on them. Children ruin their own stuff all the time. This is also true of lottery winners, "old money", large inheritances and other private windfalls on people who did little or nothing to earn it.

Conversely, people who work very very hard for a living respect the rewards and profits garnered from it. It doesn't really matter what avenue of life they're in or how much they make, so long as they feel they've earned it to a generous extent. Many of them don't even have the time to spend it. Manual labourers out in the sun 12 hours a day take care of their paycheck. Bill Gates still wears a sweater and carries a bag lunch to work. It's not because he's a miser, he just respects his income and his lifestyle (but his children won't).

Rappers and rock musicians--especially ones who make it big overnight--of course fit in the former category. It takes maybe 2 days to make a hip hop beat in the studio, and about 45 minutes to come up with lyrics. And that's a hit single. Thus, you find people full of style but no substance, with lots of money and time on their hands, and naturally they're just going to throw their money away at anything and everything, because they don't appreciate it as much as if they had to actually work hard for it. Drugs, girls and parties. Alpha Consumers.

ummmm....what the hell am I talking about?

Urban Barrens		2004-04-21 12:12:27 AM

Waffen SS

A 40 year old mother of one needs an eight passenger SUV because the world firghtens and onfuses her. She is unconfident in her driving abilities so she seeks a larger vehicle for the perception of safty. She worries about her relationship and employment being on shakey ground so she seeks a greater sign of wealth to have the feeling of wealth, instead of buying a smaller cheaper vehicle to actually BE wealthier.

having not RTFA I'll assume that its about the number of rappers encouraging sales of high end SUV's with a large amount of profit built into the purchase price by the automaker. Ever wonder how dealerships can advertise ten thousand off the purchase price of an SUV? By automakers cutting into the profit margin of the unit to increase total units sold.

With the rising cost of Oil and a turn around in the economy, the final move away from the larger SUVs will finally take place. When people become more confident in their future the SUV sales will plummet.

RoachAC		2004-04-21 12:12:47 AM

Ah, black people. Is there anything they CAN'T do?

ynosone		2004-04-21 12:13:08 AM

Yeah, those people waste all their money on that crap working 3 full time jobs. Just so they can drive from job to job looking cool.

Shadow Fairy		2004-04-21 12:14:00 AM

If pimps have to support the drug habits of their girls, how can they afford nice SUVs?

PurpleDuck		2004-04-21 12:15:35 AM

TheOmni

My interpretation of the submitter's headline -
Shiat music's obsession with overly-feminine jewelry brings the automobile industry money from people who like to pretend that they grew up in the ghetto, but really are the only-child of rich, suburban parents who think it will make them "hip" to buy their child pants seven sizes too big and whatever the car dealer convinces them is the "new hotness."

/st00pid

For a idiotic headline like this, try using UrbanDictionary.Com instead of Babelfish.

Sidi		2004-04-21 12:16:24 AM

Actually, I'm sure TheOmni understood it. But I had fun playing off his setup.

Elvis_Pelt		2004-04-21 12:17:54 AM

"Let's face it, the urban markets like chrome."

If only it were that simple, Einstein. Everything would be chrome.

the_lorax		2004-04-21 12:18:47 AM

Isn't capitalism wonderful?

DorkyMcNerd		2004-04-21 12:20:40 AM

meh

ruta		2004-04-21 12:21:36 AM

Rhyme Pays: product placement in hip hop

and bad puns

Sidi		2004-04-21 12:22:34 AM

Ishkur the only problem with that theory is that some people who absolutely kill themselves for their money will blow huge amounts of it on their friends or the people around them. It tends to be people who get one huge paycheck at a time (migrant workers, fishermen, etc.) but aren't all that rich overall...and especially people who do dangerous jobs.

Porkneck		2004-04-21 12:23:42 AM

I don't get it.....

Bung_Howdy		2004-04-21 12:24:32 AM

This fad will be over soon, I imagine...

40oz_A_Knight		2004-04-21 12:25:39 AM

In other news, hip-hop promotes irresponsible behavior, drug use, and teenage pregnancy.

/flame on
//It's not the music, it's the feeble-minded idiots that buy into the image.

habraham		2004-04-21 12:26:06 AM

Mars, biatches.

joesnotcool		2004-04-21 12:28:14 AM

Don't be frontin biatches...peep this while I give you the 411. If you wanna represent, and roll out on the phattest dubs a playa can get, the h2 is off the hook, all the boos and shorties be all up ons when I creep in my shiznit. Busted ass fools think they can play, y'all don't know me. Don't step, or I'll be all up in your grill...
(does anyone remember when there was a push to teach ebonics in the classroom?)

jrziz		2004-04-21 12:28:46 AM

DorkyMcNerd		2004-04-21 12:29:32 AM

Ishkur is a ravechild

Curious		2004-04-21 12:39:36 AM

(does anyone remember when there was a push to teach ebonics in the classroom?) yes, a stoopid idea then and now.

insert long rant here about the state of America today.

blankman		2004-04-21 12:40:28 AM

Sidi:

It tends to be people who get one huge paycheck at a time (migrant workers, fishermen, etc.) but aren't all that rich overall...and especially people who do dangerous jobs.

Come on. Take a look around you. Everyone's throwing their money away:

"American consumers owed a grand total of $1.9773 trillion in October 2003... Thats about $18,654 per household, a figure that doesnt include mortgage debt." From here.

don't understand		2004-04-21 12:40:40 AM

...and the decline of western civilization.

lbn		2004-04-21 12:43:22 AM

Attrizzle and succizzle Afrizzle-Amerizzle.

Testy Wasserman		2004-04-21 12:45:56 AM

Attndnt : Can I get you something?
Jivemn2 : S'mo fo butter layin' to the bone. Jackin' me up.
Tightly.
Attndnt : I'm sorry I don't understand.
Jivemn1 : Cutty say he cant hang.
Woman4 : Oh stewardess, I speak jive.
Attndnt : Ohhhh, good.
Woman4 : He said that he's in great pain and he wants to know
if you can help him.
Attndnt : Would you tell him to just relax and I'll be back as
soon as I can with some medicine.
Woman : Jus' hang loose blooood. She goonna catch up on the`
rebound a de medcide.
Jivemn2 : What it is big mamma, my mamma didn't raise no dummy, I
dug her rap.
Woman4 : Cut me som' slac' jak! Chump don wan no help, chump
don git no help. Jive ass dude don got no brains
anyhow.
/Airplane

TommyymmoT		2004-04-21 12:46:00 AM

"Let's face it, the urban markets like chrome."

Nice term. They might as well have said that the "urban markets" like fried chicken and malt liquor.

Nickninja		2004-04-21 12:47:00 AM

I hate hip-hop, everything that it represents, anyone who records it or prolongs its unholy existance, anyone who has ever used the term "bling-bling", "props" or anything with "izzle" in it. I am ashamed to be living in a time where this shiat is popular, and I pray every night that the world will wake up and see how horrible pop culture has become.

that is all

Xieflow		2004-04-21 12:48:16 AM

wow, my parents just bought 2 civic hybrids 'cause of the terrible MPG their old SUV got.

Stupid SUVs...

furiousxgeorge		2004-04-21 12:50:28 AM

See, the problem is, the fans of all those rappers...can't afford the farking cars.

Broker-I-Dont-Even-Know-Her		2004-04-21 12:51:36 AM

Do I hear Disco is Dead Music in the background? you know when corporate white america desides to 'catch the urban spirit' it is time to move on....

blankman		2004-04-21 12:52:33 AM

TommyymmoT:

Nice term. They might as well have said that the "urban markets" like fried chicken and malt liquor.

I'm not a marketer. However, I think "urban markets" are largely comprised of white consumers (who are buying into a fantasy version of "urban" culture).

/Didn't RTFA.

SrWapo		2004-04-21 12:52:43 AM

A) Who won the car contest that was mentioned in the article and were were the pictures?

B) I caught Ride with Funkmaster Flex. Thought I'd hate it cause I don't care for flashy Hummers and Escalades, but the dude totally promotes muscle-cars, so he's cool in my book.

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