Burn Hollywood Burn was Rap/hip-hop

[jbridel1]

If you (the collective you as well) don't see the "irony" (to be polite) of
Ice-T on highly rated network TV portraying a murder police ( as they were
called on the far superior Homicide: Life on the Street, with far superior
black actors and characters) after Cop Killer, then I have further wasted my
time.  As for Ice-C... well... Friday was pretty funny, Next Friday was
looking for a paycheck. Let's not confuse the film work of these two
aritistes with the noble advancement of the black man in American media.  I
know I'm picking on a couple of prominents (whose music I really did dig
when I was a bit younger), but they asked for it...  Anyway, I digress...  I
know not whereof I speak.

J
----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Wise <philwise at paradise.net.nz>
To: jbridel1 <jbridel1 at home.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: Burn Hollywood Burn was Rap/hip-hop


> Okay, then, I guess Ice T shouldn't be trusted in his comments about Bob
> Dylan or his interest in music generally because he's got an acting job.
> Makes perfect sense to me...
>
> He's played cops more than once.  There may be something to it.  Plus, the
> point of PE's Burn Hollywood Burn is that they don't (or perhaps didn't)
> cast enough black people in non-stereotyped roles, so what's Ice C meant
to
> do when they come along?  Turn 'em down?
>
> Phil
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jbridel1" <jbridel1 at home.com>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 3:05 PM
> Subject: Re: Burn Hollywood Burn was Rap/hip-hop
>
>
> > I believe Ice-T plays a homicide detective on "Law & Order: SVU" these
> days.
> > "Cop Killer" indeed.  Says all I need to hear about factory produced hip
> hop
> > and its target markets these days.  We are wasting our breath on these
> > posers (that is, the mainstream or "popular" hip hop artists/producers).
> > They are wallpaper.  And Ice Cube's "Burn Hollywood Burn"?  How many
> flicks
> > has he been in?  "Fuck Hollywood".
> >
> >
> > J
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Phil Wise <philwise at paradise.net.nz>
> > To: <FrodeauxB at aol.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 6:31 PM
> > Subject: Re: Rap/hip-hop
> >
> >
> > > Ice T said something similar in an interview I read once,
interestingly
> > > enough.
> > >
> > > Phil
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <FrodeauxB at aol.com>
> > > To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 1:40 AM
> > > Subject: Re: Rap/hip-hop
> > >
> > >
> > > > When my boys were teenagers, they played basketball on a team
> sponsored
> > by
> > > > the Kiwanis Club (I'm gonna take a lot of heat for this, but you
folks
> > > really
> > > > don't know me now, do you?) of which I am still a member. The squad
> was
> > > > almost all inner city black kids and I was the assistant coach. One
> > night,
> > > > returning from a road game, I popped some early Dylan in the tape
> > player.
> > > My
> > > > boys recognized it, and the inner city ones were very interested.
> Seems
> > > they
> > > > thought this old time white dude named Bob Dylan was an early
rapper.
> > Like
> > > my
> > > > mamma says, "You never know, do you?"
> > > >
> > > > TTFN
> > > >
> > > > frodeauxb
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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