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...Imus has the right to make a living, but we have the right to make sure he does not come back to disrupt our living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Nov. 19, 2007 | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

After calling the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos,” shock jock Don Imus quickly found himself embroiled in scandal. Despite Imus’ profuse apology, Reverend Al Sharpton didn’t seem keen on hearing any explanation. Appearing on everything from Larry King Live to Fox News, Sharpton mounted his crusade against Imus’ language. Suddenly, just as the nation was trying to digest and debate the event, we were bombarded by a din of nonsense from a man who enjoys the sound of his own voice...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins | Title: Where Narcissism Rules | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...more hard-core stuff like you did on Get Rich or Die Tryin' [in 2003]? -Raveen Bhasin, DallasI take into consideration what the music business is facing with things like the Don Imus situation. I think it would cause a full uproar if I wrote [hard-core] lyrics from that perspective all the way through my album. That's why I released Curtis instead of my next project, Before I Self Destruct. It's more of a hard-core sound, and it would be too aggressive for this period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for 50 Cent | 9/10/2007 | See Source »

When the political activist Al Sharpton pivoted from his war against bigmouth radio man Don Imus to a war on bad-mouth gangsta rap, the instinct among older music fans was to roll their eyes and yawn. Ten years ago, another activist, C. Delores Tucker, launched a very similar campaign to clean up rap music. She focused on Time Warner (parent of TIME), whose subsidiary Interscope was home to hard-core rappers Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur. In 1995 Tucker succeeded in forcing Time Warner to dump Interscope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hip-hop's Down Beat | 8/17/2007 | See Source »

...light of the recent Imus situation, do you feel that the black community is filled with hypocrisy? Do you still think that it's okay for black people to call their friends the n-word? -Millicent in Bronx, NY Well, I can't speak for the black community given that I am only one member of it and consider myself more a member of the American community. But I don't think it is a question of whether black people should be allowed to use the word or if Don Imus should be allowed to use the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Questions with Don Cheadle | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

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