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Rawse calls Eminem a honky

I was checking Twitter just now, and I see there's a heated debate going on about whether or not Rick Ross is a racist. Really?

In case you haven't checked World Star yet, Rawse has got a video out where he's bragging about Deeper Than Rap being the number one album in the country, and G-Unit has been dropped from Interscope, and then he calls Eminem a honky. I guess someone from G-Unit was complaining about Rawse calling Fiddy Cent a monkey, a la Muhammad Ali taunting Joe Frazier (if you haven't already, you might want to check that HBO documentary about the Thrilla in Manila), and Rawse wanted to show he's an equal opportunity offender.

I saw the video a couple of hours ago (I know, mad early!) and actually did a post on it for XXL, but the race angle hadn't occurred to me. White people must be on edge, because of Asher Roth. I know cracka-ass crackas have been some of Roth's biggest detractors, but the hate has gotten a bit intense, given that he's hardly done anything that racist. He's probably a nice guy. I'd feel bad for him, if he wasn't balls deep in some smokin' hot sorority broad right now.

Which brings me to my point: Who gives a shit if Rawse called Eminem a honky? Haven't these people seen the first season of the Real World? Black people can't be racist.

YouTube Channel of the Day: kdivine0814

The YouTube channel of my Twitter pal, Kelly Divine, who apparently likes hip-hop. I wonder if she has any interest in hip-hop journalists.

Quoted: Asher Roth on "these black rappers"

If he keeps up like this, he'll never get back on Nah Right!

And I quote:

"You guys are always going off about how much money you have. Do you realize what's going on in this world right now?' All these black rappers? African rappers? Talking about how much money they have. Do you realize what's going on in Africa right now? It's just like, you guys are disgusting. Talking about billions and billions of dollars you have. And spending it frivolously, when you know, the Motherland is suffering beyond belief right now."

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Is Mexican flu a race-specific virus?

So far, hundreds of people in Mexico have died from swine Mexican flu, but the only person to die from it here in the US is a Mexican baby. Could it be that Mexican flu is a biological weapon designed to target Mexicans? That's what Alex Jones is claiming.

He says the government has been coming up with biological weapons based on race. My mid '90s heads might recall that HBO movie about how the military (as opposed to some Saigon whore) gave black soldiers syphilis, for whatever reason. Some Americans might end up dying from Mexican flu, but remember: you can die from the flu anyway.

I'm not sure why they would only target Mexicans, and I guess Alex Jones isn't gonna reveal that until tomorrow, or next week. Maybe they figure it can help get the economy back in order, by freeing up some jobs in the manufacturing sector - though you'd think it'd be easier to just ramp up those ICE raids.

Checkit: Is Swine Flu A Race-Specific Virus? [Prison Planet]

And after the jump is a video that looks like it might just be the same article in YouTube form, for the millenials.

Swine flu, or Mexican flu?

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The other day, a guy from Israel of all places became one of the first people outside the US or Mexico to come down with swine flu. Officials there, many of whom I'm sure were tall, made it a point to note that you can't get swine flu from eating pork, you get it from coming into contact with another person. I guess they figured this might be a strong marketing opportunity for their, um, superstition. As if anyone thought that guy caught swine flu from a half slab of babybacks. Why would someone go all the way from Israel to Mexico on vacation, other than to drop a load on a TJ hooker? There probably aren't very many street walkers in Israel. I know Arabs get a lot of flack for making their women walk around in beekeeper suits, but a lot of these Jew broads stay pretty well covered up. Which is unfortunate, since you know a lot of Jewish women have especially large, if not particularly well shaped cans, due to the effects of inbreeding. It just goes to show who really runs the media. But I digress. The Israelis actually went so far as to call this pandemic Mexican flu, rather than swine flu, and they may have had a point.

I was watching TV yesterday, before I had to go bust a shift at the BGM (as mocked by eskay, who hates the working class, despite the fact that that's where he got his ideas about conflict resolution), and they had the guy who was the head of Homeland Security or some such agency on there talking about how you can't catch swine flu from eating bacon, even if you like it still a little bit pink and chewy. You know how the government's role these days is basically to run PR interference for corporations. I don't think he even mentioned anything else in that press conference. Though I wouldn't want to make the mistake of suggesting that he received any payment to go on TV to alleviate people's fears about pork. I wouldn't want someone from the National Guard to come to my house and slap me. Lord knows I've got enough problems. I was hoping swine flu might drive down the price of pork. Tomorrow I officially become a homeowner, thanks in part to the dreaded BGM, and I figured I might celebrate by cranking up the Weber. But who knows. The pork industry might not be able to come down as much, due to the state of the economy. I don't remember Dominos having any special deals after that video of those nasty cracka-ass crackas farting and putting boogers on people's pizza. That's why I'm not going back.

I got home last night, turned on Hardball, and I saw they had Pat Buchanan on there talking about swine flu. It looked like he was about to go in, linking swine flu to a number of nasty diseases (leprosy, bed bugs, etc.) that have reemerged in this country due to the ridonkulous, unchecked immigration to this country from (mostly) Mexico and elsewhere, but Chris Matthews caught him. Matthews was like, "Don't you even go there." So I might have to check out Fox News tonight, to get the real deal. Except today is Obama's 100th day in office, so there might not be as much news on swine flu. Keep in mind, I realize Matthews had a point - swine flu in the US didn't come from Mexicans sneaking across the border with it, it came from Americans visiting Mexico and bringing it back with them. But the point remains. You can't get swine flu from eating swine, you get it from other people. And since the first people who had it were Mexicans, I think it's only right it be called Mexican flu, even if calling it swine flu might help make my weekend. The Mexicans themselves are probably aware of this, which is why they've been calling it swine flu. Meanwhile, I see - as I'm typing this - that the government wants us to call it H1N1. The fuck? Let me guess: the TIs put them up to this. They don't want the public to demand they close the border up.

Was it something he said?

Turns out I was wrong about Asher Roth's first week sales, if not quite as wrong as the notoriously wrong Tom Breihan.

I predicted Roth would sell about 70,000 copies his first week out. This was based on Hits Daily Double's projection based on the first couple of days. I guess the fact that the album only ended up selling 67,449 copies means it didn't have legs - sales slowed down throughout the week. I wonder if the nappy headed hoes incident played any part in that. If so, I'd just like to take this time out to pat myself on the back.

Also, in case you missed it last night, I'd just like to point out that I played a significant role in ridding Nah Right of Asher Roth posts. Eskay isn't gonna post any more of Asher's stuff until he apologizes to the black community for calling black women nappy headed hoes. Roffle. Not that it matters as much, now that the album is officially a miserable commercial failure.

J-Zone on living with his grandma, drinking, etc.

Part 2 after the jump.

The 50 Hottest Rap Blogs

I see the new issue of Vibe, with Eminem on the cover (click to enlarge, no fishsticks), as mentioned in yesterday's post about how editor in chief Danyel Smith has Lauryn Hill-like views on race (but, alas, no kids), has a feature in which the top 50 rap blogs are ranked.

I wonder if my blog(s) made the list. I know they don't like me over there, but I'm black, and that's gotta count for something, right? Roffle. You'll recall that a few months ago, this blog was named the best hip-hop blog evar (or something to that effect) by Hip-Hop Connection, the longest running hip-hop magazine, which promptly went out of business. Coincidence?

Long time readers of this site (which is to say, the most committed of losers) will recall that there was a big beef back in - I don't know, like '05 - when kris ex put together a list of the top rap blogs for Vibe, and of course this site didn't make the list. This was back when there were even less rap blogs than there are now. They may have had to cut the list down to five just to make sure I wasn't on it.

But that was before Danyel Smith was there, and hence before the Christina Aguilera incident. (What, you thought I made that up?) I guess the people who were there before didn't like me either.

From the Inbox: Is Asher Roth biting?

Never mind nappy headed hoes. The last thing Asher Roth wants is beef with Big City Philadelphia. Check my post on him for XXL from a while back. The following is an email I received that suggests Asher Roth has been biting off Big City. Ruh roh.

And you thought Rick Ross was fraudulent... but is Asher Roth biting off Big City?

Most of you remember Big City Philadelphia from his attack on hipster rappers in his "How To Rob An Industry Hipster" track a few weeks ago.

But before this, Big City Philadelphia was introduced to the internet with a rooftop freestyle that put a face to the name and earned him some notoriety - 40k plus views within a few weeks.

Asher Roth was introduced to the internet several months after Big City's popular youtube clip with a rooftop freestyle of his own, done in a very similar way.

Big City is known for his affiliation with Beanie Sigel, as can be seen in Big City's press kit, where photos show Beans and Big City rapping from prison.

Asher Roth has a very suspect clip that surfaced not too long after which, of his randomly running into Beans in Vegas where Beans states that Asher is the future (it is this writer's opinion that this was nothing more than a paid plug).

Big City is vouched for, stridently, by Beanie Sigel, in a clip that recently surfaced on youtube.

Asher Roth, very shortly after, released a track featuring Beans.

Big City recently dropped a song paying homage to Slick Rick's 'Children's Story'.

Asher, shortly thereafter, released a song featuring Rick.