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The Black Culture Thread |OT2|

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SmokyDave

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Topher said:
Ragtime is destroying the fabric of our democracy.
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Scott Joplin: Public Enemy Number One.

Seriously though, in a world where video games as a medium are being deemed misogynist, hip-hop has no chance. People look for the things that fit their conclusions, not the things that buck them.

I loves me some Roots Manuva and he seems to respect the ladies just fine. Kinda.
 
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Devolution

Member
SmokyDave said:
Scott Joplin: Public Enemy Number One.

Seriously though, in a world where video games as a medium are being deemed misogynist, hip-hop has no chance. People look for the things that fit their conclusions, not the things that buck them.

I loves me some Roots Manuva and he seems to respect the ladies just fine. Kinda.
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That's what I mean and even the so called stuff people cite is either in character or a critique. It just boggles my mind how people still pretend hip hop is a woman hating/violent culture.
 
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DominoKid

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got my grad audit back today.
if everything is right I only have 12 hours left which means i'm taking a silly class just to stay full time.
i might take a dance class lol.

on another note, i had a talk with one of the few professors I respect about the stuff i mentioned a few pages ago that had me all down.
i don't really like the guy but he's on his shit and i figured he could level w/ me brother to brother cause he's a straight shooter.
and he told me that the rap on me in the Comm department is that even though they think im a great student, i care more about looking good (style, attitude and swagger) instead of caring about doing well. basically i got a rap for being more flash than substance.
i don't know how i feel about that.
 
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ViewtifulJC

Banned
"I'm watching these horror movies, I'm watching Poltergeist and the Amityville Horror, why don't the people just get the hell out the house? You can't make a horror movie with black people in it, cuz the movie would start, you see niggas running down the street, and then it'd be over!"

Sometimes its easy to forget because he's been shit for so long, but for a pretty substantial amount of time Eddie Murphy was the funniest dude on the planet, bar none, hands down. Bill Simmons said it better then I could

"Why don't we remember Eddie's peak from 1981 to 1988 a little more reverentially? How he exceeded any other non-musician's apex in my lifetime? How he meant more, did more, wielded the highest approval rating, earned a ridiculous amount of money, took the best chances, bridged classes and ethnicities … I mean, what else could he have done?

Why don't we think about race when we think about Eddie? Why doesn't Eddie get mentioned with Poitier, Cosby and Pryor every time? Why doesn't it matter that every successful black comic or actor that came after him — Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, any of the Wayans brothers, Will Smith, you name it — profusely credited Eddie for influencing him?

Why doesn't Eddie get more credit for flipping Saturday Night Live on its lily-white ass, reinvigorating it and becoming its only truly successful black cast member?

Why doesn't Eddie get more credit for, as he puts it, becoming "the first black actor to take charge in a white world onscreen?"

Why doesn't everyone ever point out that Eddie is the most successful comedian ever, by any calculation … and really, it's not even close? That he's one of the best stand-ups ever? That, before Eddie, only white actors were considered sure things at the box office? That Eddie made more money making kids' movies than anyone ever? Doesn't this seem … I don't know … relevant?"

eddymurphybeverly.jpg
 
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Parallax

best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
In regards to the horror thing, I like to think that cabin in the woods stands canon for all horror movies, and it all makes sense that way. Makes them funny as hell to boot.
 
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Slayven

Member
Gothic, a horror book starts with a group of black kids telling some white kids whose car had broken down in the hood, not to go in the house full of cannibals. Of course the white kids run into the house because they thought the black kids were going to rob them.

I thought that was hilarious.
 
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Devolution

Member
ReiGun said:
Pretty much. Eddie has been in so much shit, that it's hard to remember just how successful he's been and how much of an impact he's had.

Probably unfair, but that's just the way it is.
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Makes you understand why certain people don't stretch out so much and only do projects every couple of years or are very selective about their roles.
 
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Slayven

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Shit, why did I click on the talking to girls thread? I knew it was going to be bad, but it always exceeds my expectations.
 
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Gorillaz

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View got a point...Eddie did turn SNL on it's head during his era there. Some people (hell even me sometimes) forget that Eddie started on SNL.
 
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Gorillaz

Member
Slayven said:
We should know better.


Eddie did Trading Places, he can do no wrong in my eyes.
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For me I thought Coming to America was the movie that basically solidified him for everyone. TP was great tho, heard they were going to make a sequel but one of the older guys died :/
 
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Parallax

best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
Gorillaz said:
For me I thought Coming to America was the movie that basically solidified him for everyone. TP was great tho, heard they were going to make a sequel but one of the older guys died :/
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you can count coming to america as a pseudo sequel. they both appear
 
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akira28

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Who knows personal info about him, or other sites or names he uses? He had to be tight enough with someone to share something. DetGAf might not get too far with just a nickname. Even an IP address you could get back to the ISP, but you'd need a legal authority to get user info, or some way inside.

Someone might do a scan of arrests involving foreigners around the time span of his last message, as a possible link. Long shot anyway.
 
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