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...begin, the victory of Three 6 Mafia in the category of Best Song could fairly be viewed as open mockery of Black America. “It’s Hard out Here for a Pimp?? is the explicit and offensive rap song brought to us courtesy of “Hustle and Flow”—a movie that seeks to inspire our sympathy for Terrence Howard’s character by showing us just how hard it really is to exploit and abuse women. Its win on Sunday provides a clear example of mainstream...
However, in my haste to place the blame for this problem on the shoulders of the Academy, I’ve been ignoring the elephant in the room—the fact that songs like “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp?? and performances like Halle Berry’s in “Monster’s Ball” were produced and released for public consumption in the first place. After all, if rappers were responsible enough not to celebrate misogynistic and violent behavior in their songs, and black actors...
...bling-bling hedonism; at best Banner and clique wallow in their grim depravity with a smirk. Crunk ballads (!) such as “My Lord” are overshadowed by workhorse tracks like “Crank It Up” and the “Like A Pimp?? remix. If the first Mississippi: The Album was cathartic and empowering, then this one only finds relief in a dull sort of violence...
...networks than his superfly cell phone. Was it a mistake? Could this really be the same guy who called a bunch of British guys manufacturing similar cell phones “a bunch of limey pansies”? In truth, Rahimi explains, the “phat pimp?? persona on his website is a ruse. “I thought it would be funny if I pretended to be some sort of ‘technology pimp,’” he explains, “but a lot of Europeans bought into...