BTW, happy MLK day. If there is one thing I have learned is that MLK promoted a non-violent approach to progress. Why don’t you explain to us here how Biggie Small’s music really promoted non-violence?

T.I. – Why would a rapper, who recently was lucky enough to get home arrest for trying to purchase weapons from the ATF, endorse a democrat, the gun-banners of our country?

Rick Ross. – Why would this thug acting rapper deny that he once was a correctional officer? What a wussy!

Yung Jeezy – Why would he also endorse a democrat in Atlanta while making a career out of thug life filled with glorified references to those nasty things called handguns?

Jay-Z – This one is a hard one even for me. Why would a self-made millionaire dis on the republican party (associating his song 99 problems with McCain and Palin) while promoting a life of true capitalist principles?

I say they are a bunch of Demo-sellouts, as bad as the press, trying to coddle to their new “rulers” for favors.

A bunch of nonsense these fools are…

I was actually commenting on your thinly camouflaged racism. Which is like misspelling. But different.

I couldn’t agree more with Debbie about glorifying street thugs. Kudos to Debbie, and a big STFU to anyone who doesn’t agree with her.

It is fitting that gunfire erupted at a theater showing this disaster of a movie. That’s what rap culture is all about, after all. The local music scene in my city has been destroyed by rap, and everyone entering a rap club gets searched. There are no searches or metal detectors for entering rock and country music clubs, just the rap clubs. The natural consequence is that people don’t go to music clubs anymore for fear of being shot by patrons of the nearby rap clubs.

Rap is a scourge upon humanity and it should have died long ago but sadly, it remains. Movies like this only serve to keep it alive and kicking, ensuring that more people will aspire to become street thugs.

Could not agree more! It is this kind of movie that keeps much black community in the trenches in which it continually finds itself. Why would anyone even want to MAKE a film that glorified someone who was really just “kinda okay” when he was alive, and this is coming from someone who grew up in the 90s and listened to the incessant ramblings of the East Coast/West Coast drama.

I did not even know this movie was coming out until Thursday. I heard someone say, “I can’t wait to see NOTORIOUS.” and I said, “What’s it about?” This person actually gawked at me, even after I explained that I turn on the television once per week and it is not for a show that would cater to an audience that would watch something like NOTORIOUS. I suppose this person just could not imagine that another black person did not know about a lousy movie, but also was not calling local movie theatres to make certain of their showtimes.

Honestly, has Hollywood become so bereft of notable persons to tribute that they have to stoop to this?

Speaking of stalkers, thanks for the continued critique. As for suggesting that if you’re gonna hold up a thug for reverence at least find one with some ‘class’?

I think you misspelled “white.” But that’s okay. We all heard the dog whistle.