J-School Rappers Rhyme Against Fox News

Normally I don’t like making fun of Columbia journalism students, because it’s like shooting fish in a barrel, if the barrel were full of Columbia journalism students.

And that would be very wrong.

But when I saw this video, I couldn’t resist. It’s of a panel, in which students are pointing out how predictable cover letters won’t help you get a job in the post j-school world. So what would? How about a rap?

And so it begins, as one student unleashes his inner Jay-Z, listing in all earnestness a lengthy promise of his many qualifications.

Roll tape, roll-tapers:

So, no surprise: the student raps benign pap that his professors and like-minded dorm-rats would applaud – from railing against complacency, to never losing touch with “his humanity.” But I’ll repeat the part the kid really wanted them to hear:

“There’s no need to hear crazy, or create a false sense of parity, like Fox News and Hannity.” (more…)

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Tags: Columbia, Columbia journalism school, Fox News, Hannity, j-school
Posted Oct 26th 2009 at 4:11 pm in Daily Gut, Media Criticism | 252994119 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/10/26/j-school-rappers-rhyme-against-fox-news/J-School+Rappers+Rhyme+Against+Fox+News2009-10-26+23%3A11%3A02Greg+Gutfeld

MTV: When Rush Says It, It’s ‘Graphic Detail’

MTV ran this headline today: ‘Rush Limbaugh Responds To Jay-Z’s ‘Off That’ In Graphic Detail’

A network’s that’s spent two decades lining its pockets selling vulgar sex to young people calling anything “graphic” is patently absurd. Here’s what Rush said on his show regarding rapper Jay-Z:

I’m now in a rap tune by the famous rapper Jay-Z. I would remind the rapper Jay-Z: Mr. Z, it is President Obama who wants to mandate circumcision.  We had that story yesterday; and that means if we need to save our penises from anybody, it’s Obama.  I did not know I was on anybody’s balls, either.

“Penises” and “balls” qualifies as “graphic detail”? For MTV? Rush is of course referencing the possibility the Obama administration will mandate circumcision for all baby boys.  But let us not forget Mr. Limbaugh’s quote is in response to a song where he’s asked to remove himself from The Jigga Man’s scrotum and testicles: (more…)

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Tags: "Off That", Andrew Breitbart, Jay-Z, MTV, Obama
Posted Aug 26th 2009 at 4:02 pm in Culture, Entertainment, Music | 212070131 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/amarlow/2009/08/26/mtv-when-rush-says-it-its-%e2%80%98graphic-detail%e2%80%99/MTV%3A+When+Rush+Says+It%2C+It%27s+%E2%80%98Graphic+Detail%E2%80%99+2009-08-26+23%3A02%3A13Alexander+Marlow

Popular Music Abandons Everyone Over Forty

Those damn kids today and their strange and frightening music raise an important question for me:  When did I become my dad?

Back in the eighties – when popular music reached its pinnacle of achievement - I would be home from college, in my room, cranking cool tunes and my father would get home from work, peer in, scrunch up his face and ask how I could listen to that infernal racket.  The answer, of course, was that I had (and still have, dammit) really awesome taste in music.

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I actually pitied my Dad for being unable to appreciate the Midwestern-inflected post-punk glory of The Replacements, or the sonic frenzy of their Minneapolis brothers-in-noise Husker Du, or the soaring, roaring guitar heroics of The Clash.  I don’t know what music he actually liked.  There were some LPs lying around the house – kids, you can ask your parents what those are – but they were things like the Kingston Trio and the Sound of Music soundtrack.  This last one was a particular sore point for me since my mom got the idea to name me Kurt, which is the German equivalent of Melvin, from the little Von Trapp twerp who sang “Fa.” (more…)

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Tags: 50 cent, Black-Eyes Peas, fergie, Flo Rida, Husker Du
Posted Jul 31st 2009 at 5:03 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Music | 193510252 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2009/07/31/popular-music-abandons-everyone-over-40/Popular+Music+Abandons+Everyone+Over+Forty2009-07-31+12%3A03%3A46Kurt+Schlichter

Feelin’ the Healin’: Young Jeezy, Jay-Z Perform “My President is Black” Remix on Inauguration Eve

I do not feel the need to offer much commentary.  I believe this video speaks for itself and expect no condemnation from the “hope-change” artistic community.  From knowledgeable people, I have been informed that Young Jeezy and Jaz-Z are popular troubadours in the Hop-Hip community.

0:41-1:17
Young Jeezy:  I know you all are thanking a lot of people right now, the people of Barack Obama campaign.  Just everybody who did everything, on the street getting votes and all that and sh*t. I wanna thank two people, I wanna thank the mother f**ker overseas that threw two shoes at George Bush and I wanna thank-and listen, listen-and I wanna thank the mother f**kers who helped dem move their sh*t up out of the White House.  Keep it moving bitch because my president is mother f**king black, nigga!

2:02-2:06
Jeezy: Nigga
Jay-Z:  You know it
Jeezy:  I’m so proud to be black right now.  I don’t even know what to say, nigga.

Jay Z- at about 5:40 on this video
Neva thought Id Say this sh*t baby Im good
You can keep ya Puss,
I dont want no More BUSH
No More War, No More Iraq
No More White LIES, My President is BLACK

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Tags: Jay-Z, Obama Inauguration, Young Jeezy
Posted Jan 21st 2009 at 10:26 am in Video | 2661787 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/01/21/feelin-the-healin-young-jeezy-jay-z-perform-%e2%80%9cmy-president-is-black%e2%80%9d-remix-on-inauguration-eve/Feelin%27+the+Healin%27%3A+Young+Jeezy%2C+Jay-Z+Perform+%E2%80%9CMy+President+is+Black%E2%80%9D+Remix+on+Inauguration+Eve2009-01-21+18%3A26%3A47Andrew+Breitbart