Rapper Nas Sends Petition Signatures to Fox
In the ongoing battle between Nas and Bill O'Reilly, Nas is having the last laugh...so far. The rap superstar created a petition asking Fox News to protest "what he sees as racist attacks against Black Americans and presidential candidate Barack Obama," according to RollingStone.com
He has so far accumulated more than 620,000 signatures in a petition against Fox and its correspondent O'Reilly. Activist group ColorofChange are reaching out to African-Americans in order to highlighht what they view as racist smears peppering Fox News broadcasts.
Nas reportedly said: "Fox poisons this country every time they air racist propaganda and try to call it news. This should outrage every American that Fox uses hateful language to talk about the person that may be the first black president.”
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Fox News commentators are bloody racists, they and white supremacists are not far behind.
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Nas truly is half-man half-amazing (listen to 'Nas Is Like' if that doesn't make sense to you). Long into thug rap it's nice to see that Nas, a true forefather of modern day rap music, has moulded himself into a true role model. I don't know if you caught it, but he was on the Colbert Report last night talkin about how rap isn't the problem, the reality of the streets is. He then went on to preform one of his new songs off his new untitled album (was supposed to be titled ... reggin (read it backwards)) called 'Sly Fox' - if you haven't heard it, youtube that one too... "remote control soul controller", "I see cbs and I see b.s., tryin to track us down with g.p.s. makes a brother wanna invest in pbs" "watch what you watchin, fox keeps feedin us toxins, stop sleepin, start thinkin outside of the boxes..."
Nas is more than your average rapper. He's a concerned citizen who wants equality, has one hell of a mind, one hell of a voice, and some serious lyrical abilities, each backing the other up.
I hope those 620,127 signatures don't fall on deaf ears...
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> Definitely worth the read.
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> This article came from a gentleman in his 80's (and a DEMOCRAT!)
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> who actually lived thru those (and these) times. Whether you agree
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> or disagree, this is a powerful statement.
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> Everyone has a different opinion on the war and our current
> President. But this article probably makes sense to those
> who remember. Read it and give it some thought. What a
> difference 60 years makes..!!!
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> 'You Ain't Gonna Like Losing.' Author unknown
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> President Bush did make a bad mistake in the war on terrorism.
> But the mistake was not his decision to go to war in Iraq .
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> Bush's mistake came in his belief that this country is the
> same one his father fought for in WWII. It is not.
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> Back then, they had just come out of a vicious depression.
> The country was steeled by the hardship of that depression,
> but they still believed fervently in this country. They knew
> that the people had elected their leaders, so it was the
> people's duty to back those leaders.
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> Therefore, when the war broke out the people came together,
> rallied behind, and stuck with their leaders, whether they had
> voted for them or not or whether the war was going badly or
> not. And war was just as distasteful and the anguish just as
> great then as it is today. Often there were more casualties in
> one day in WWII than we have had in the entire Iraq war. But
> that did not matter The people stuck with the President because
> it was their patriotic duty. Americans put aside their differences
> in WWII and worked together to win that war.
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> Everyone from every strata of society, from young to old
> pitched in. Small children pulled little wagons around to gather
> scrap metal for the war effort. Grade school students saved
> their pennies to buy stamps for war bonds to help the effort.
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> Men who were too old or medically 4F lied about their age or
> condition trying their best to join the military. Women doubled
> their work to keep things going at home. Harsh rationing of
> everything from gasoline to soap, to butter was imposed, yet
> there was very little complaining.
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> You never heard prominent people on the radio belittling the
> President. Interestingly enough in those days there were no
> fat cat actors and entertainers who ran off to visit and fawn
> over dictators of hostile countries and complain to them
> about our President. Instead, they made upbeat films and
> entertained our troops to help the troops' morale. And a
> bunch even enlisted.
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> And imagine this: Teachers in schools actually started the
> day off with a Pledge of Allegiance, and with prayers for our
> country and our troops!
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> Back then, no newspaper would have dared point out
> certain weak spots in our cities where bombs could be set
> off to cause the maximum damage. No newspaper would
> have dared complain about what we were doing to catch spies.
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> A newspaper would have been laughed out of existence if it
> had complained that German or Japanese soldiers were
> being 'tortured' by being forced to wear women's underwear,
> or subjected to interrogation by a woman, or being scared by
> a dog.
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> There were a lot of things different back then. We were not
> subjected to a constant bombardment of pornography,
> perversion and promiscuity in movies or on radio. We did not
> have legions of crack heads, dope pushers and armed gangs
> roaming our streets.
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> No, President Bush did not make a mistake in his handling
> of terrorism. He made the mistake of believing that we still
> had the courage and fortitude of our fathers. He believed
> that this was still the country that our fathers fought so
> dearly to preserve.
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> It is not the same country. It is now a cross between Sodom
> and Gomorrah and the land of Oz. We did unite for a short
> while after 9/11, but our attitude changed when we found
> out that defending our country would require some sacrifices.
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> We are in great danger. The terrorists are fanatic Muslims.
> They believe that it is okay, even their duty to kill anyone
> who will not convert to Islam. It has been estimated that
> about one third or over three hundred million Muslims are
> sympathetic to the terrorists cause ... Hitler and Tojo
> combined did not have nearly that many potential recruits.
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> So...we either win it - or lose it - and you ain't gonna like losing.
> Today, for many folks, America is not at war. The military is at war.
> America is at the mall.
And then we have Obama spewing his Anti_America CRAP in Germany... in those good old days he'd be washing toilets in leavenworth not brcause of race but because of treason and Stupididy....
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Nas is the heat. Excellent rapper (right up there with Jay Z, except political)
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@■ Paul Bright
Nas is the heat. Excellent rapper (right up there with Jay Z, except political)
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he was on the Colbert Report last night talkin about how rap isn't the problem, the reality of the streets is.
A bit of an open ended statement there isn't it? -
@■ Richard Bass
A bit of an open ended statement there isn't it?
a Culture that he Expliots to the fullest and will probably result in another regression by the " street people' akin to the mental enslavery done by Jackson, Sharpton, and the Louisina Democrat party... -
@■ redhawk
a Culture that he Expliots to the fullest and will probably result in another regression by the " street people' akin to the mental enslavery done by Jackson, Sharpton, and the Louisina Democrat party...
LOL You dont have to tell me.
I live in Louisiana. its pathetic what you can see on any given day here. -
@■ Richard Bass
A bit of an open ended statement there isn't it?
Also where is it the streets fault in This song? BTW Who Obama admires and I suppose thinks is good for the Black community. -
@■ Richard Bass
Also where is it the streets fault in This song? BTW Who Obama admires and I suppose thinks is good for the Black community.
.. and I thought tha he was Nothing BUT a Uniter.. what No whiteys??? -
@■ redhawk
. and you are????
I am pbrite (Paul). Nice to meet ya! -
@■ redhawk
. and you are????
I am pbrite (Paul). Nice to meet ya!
OK here are some more lyrics from "Sly Fox"
They say I'm all about murder-murder and kill-kill
But what about Grindhouse and Kill Bill?
What about Cheney and Halliburton? (Halliburton?)
The backdoor deals
On oil fields
How's NaS the most violent person?
Ya'll don't know talent if it hit you
Bringin' up my criminal possession charges with a pistol (pistol)
I use Viacom
As my firearm
And let the lyrics split you
Who do you rely upon?
They shoot shells at Leviathan
I'm dealing with the higher form
F**k if you care how I write a poem?
Only Fox that I love was the red one
Only black man that Fox loves is in jail or a dead one!
Red rum
Political bedlam
Don't let the hype into your eyes and ear drum
Murdoch on Fox
Not 18 with Barracas
And he hate Barack cause
He march with the marchers
While I personally don't think that news stations and other such media make a consensual decision to portray black people (or African-Americans, another term I don't use to describe half of myself) in the worst light, I can see Nas' point. But that's mostly about the Fox News talking heads to begin with, left OR right. That station is on 24 hours where I work at b/c of the limited television we are allowed to watch. There are a couple of hours in the morning where the news is done well and even Neil Cavuto seems like an intelligent person with some strange views that I disagree with. But there is this block of 6 hours where I think WTF is THAT talking and WTF are they talking about?
Just complete ignorance and hyperbole and yes, it does touch on the racial and violent aspect.
"Fair and balanced" means you don't constantly bring up someone's past criminal record on one end of a discussion but not another. Tim Allen from "Home Improvement" is a former drug dealer. In all his heyday it was rarely brought up in normal conversation, where you can blatantly hear it when people refer to some rappers in the news. It doesn't belong, unless it is relevant to the discussion.
And that seems to be Nas' point. It's not about "it's whitey's fault" or anything like that, it is about Fox News and their portrayal of African Americans. -
@■ Paul Bright
I am pbrite (Paul). Nice to meet ya!
OK here are some more lyrics from "Sly Fox"
They say I'm all about murder-murder and kill-kill
But what about Grindhouse and Kill Bill?
What about Cheney and Halliburton? (Halliburton?)
The backdoor deals
On oil fields
How's NaS the most violent person?
Ya'll don't know talent if it hit you
Bringin' up my criminal possession charges with a pistol (pistol)
I use Viacom
As my firearm
And let the lyrics split you
Who do you rely upon?
They shoot shells at Leviathan
I'm dealing with the higher form
F**k if you care how I write a poem?
Only Fox that I love was the red one
Only black man that Fox loves is in jail or a dead one!
Red rum
Political bedlam
Don't let the hype into your eyes and ear drum
Murdoch on Fox
Not 18 with Barracas
And he hate Barack cause
He march with the marchers
While I personally don't think that news stations and other such media make a consensual decision to portray black people (or African-Americans, another term I don't use to describe half of myself) in the worst light, I can see Nas' point. But that's mostly about the Fox News talking heads to begin with, left OR right. That station is on 24 hours where I work at b/c of the limited television we are allowed to watch. There are a couple of hours in the morning where the news is done well and even Neil Cavuto seems like an intelligent person with some strange views that I disagree with. But there is this block of 6 hours where I think WTF is THAT talking and WTF are they talking about?
Just complete ignorance and hyperbole and yes, it does touch on the racial and violent aspect.
"Fair and balanced" means you don't constantly bring up someone's past criminal record on one end of a discussion but not another. Tim Allen from "Home Improvement" is a former drug dealer. In all his heyday it was rarely brought up in normal conversation, where you can blatantly hear it when people refer to some rappers in the news. It doesn't belong, unless it is relevant to the discussion.
And that seems to be Nas' point. It's not about "it's whitey's fault" or anything like that, it is about Fox News and their portrayal of African Americans.
Tha is quite a rather "empty" post ...Why is it that If a News organization exposes something like others " Bury" for Conveneince sake or political sake some people give apass to them.. is it that Ignorance os bliss?? For example.. The fcat that Rep Wexel of Florida had not had a Florida address but file taxes as aFlorida address while lving in Maryland ( a high tax state) to avoid paying State taxes and the Florida Newspapers got Scooped and are acting Hissy Fitzy over that fact that they have been aiding and abetting a rather Unsavory practice by a Liberal Elected official .. is that a Fix Fault that they found it??? -
Tha is quite a rather "empty" post ...Why is it that If a News organization exposes something like others " Bury" for Conveneince sake or political sake some people give apass to them.. is it that Ignorance os bliss??
What part of "expose" are you talking about in reference to my post? It's not about exposing anything. When the news refers to someone as "former (insert blank here)" it's typically public knowledge. The point that Nas is trying to convey is that Fox would be quick to put a story out on a rapper's violent lyrics and claim it is inspiring violence, but hundreds and millions of dollars more is made on movies like "Kill Bill" with nary a nod to the violence that portrays. Bill O' Reilly, to my knowledge, didn't make a big deal about Quentin Tarantino making that movie or any other horrifically violent movies. But as soon as Pepsi picks Ludacris, a less-gangsta and more humorous rapper as a representative for their music, he has to devote his Talking Points to it and his "demeaning lyrics, etc". It is THAT type of slant Nas is addressing.
Just curious, Redhawk et al., has anyone actually LISTENED to this song or any of this music before criticizing it or the artist? It's like calling the Rolling Stones racist b/c they bite off of blues music and put out the song "Brown Sugar".
For example.. The fcat that Rep Wexel of Florida had not had a Florida address but file taxes as aFlorida address while lving in Maryland ( a high tax state) to avoid paying State taxes and the Florida Newspapers got Scooped and are acting Hissy Fitzy over that fact that they have been aiding and abetting a rather Unsavory practice by a Liberal Elected official .. is that a Fix Fault that they found it???
Umm, what's that gotta do with this post? Are you trying to say that Fox News is quick to pick up on stuff no one else did? Ok. They can be. So can the Enquirer as we found out today with John Edwards. That seems to be irrelevant to this issue about Nas and Fox News.
With the lyric "bringing up my criminal possession charges with a pistol", Nas is referring to O'Reilly's criticism of Nas as a criminal b/c of that charge. That happened when he was 17, (17 years ago). Bill O'Reilly was critizing him b/c Nas performed at a Virginia Tech benefit concert after the shooting
and some of Nas' songs had references to guns in them. Instead of him saying it wasn't the best song choice, he decides to say
Even in his personal life, man, he's got a conviction for weapons, all right? He's got a weapons conviction, sir! On his sheet! This is a school that had a mass murderer with a pistol gunning down people—this guy has got a conviction for weapons, and you say he's appropriate? Come on!" Add a Comment
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