Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Washington Post talks Clinton/Timbaland

Here's another article, from a few weeks back also talking about the Hilary Clinton & Timbaland dinner. A snippet:

Put me in the camp of those who implore Sen. Hillary Clinton to give it back -- "it" being the reported $800,000 that's sitting in her presidential campaign coffers thanks to a fundraiser hosted in her honor March 31 in the Pinecrest, Fla., home of a huge Clinton fan who refers to himself as Timbaland.

In response to my questions, Clinton campaign spokesman Blake Zeff said in an e-mail this week that it cost $1,000 just to get into Timbaland's fundraiser, that about 200 guests were on hand and that the senator was accompanied by former president Bill Clinton.

You would not be reading about Clinton or about Timbaland -- who entered this vale of tears 36 years ago in Norfolk under the name Timothy Mosley -- were it not for the fact that he is a well-heeled hip-hop producer and noted performer of the kind of misogynistic and denigrating lyrics that informed Don Imus's derogatory comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team.

Mrs. Clinton, you may recall, took umbrage at Imus's remarks, branding them "small-minded bigotry and coarse sexism." His words, she said in an e-mail to supporters, "showed a disregard for basic decency and were disrespectful and degrading to African Americans and women everywhere."

Good for her, I say, except it must be asked why she was down in Florida making nice to -- and pocketing big bucks from -- a rapper whose obscenity-laced lyrics praise violence, perpetuate racist stereotypes and demean black women.

Check out Timbaland's latest album, "Timbaland Presents Shock Value."

Here are lyrics from the track "Come and Get Me":

"Nigga Your Time Is Up, I Aint Come To Kid You
I Knew You Niggas Was Dumb, But How Dumb Is You . . .
I'm A Ride Or Die Nigga, I Be Tearing [expletive] Up
We Aint Like Them Other Fools, Who Don't Compare To Us
All The Hoes Love A Nigga, They be Backing It Up
But Me I Love Money I Be Stacking It Up . . .
I'm Rich I Can Pay To Have You Six Feet Deep (Nigga)"

And from his track "Kill Yourself":

" . . . most of u rap niggas is hoes to me,
wherever u from
the question I ask
is do u think I give a [expletive] . . .
u mad at me? cuz im getting rich,
well put the pistol to ur head and empty the clip, pop nigga!"

And how about this little ditty, "Considerate Brotha," from an earlier recording:

". . . Hoes coming up short? Hoes finna get cursed out!
. . . Slam the mask out of these hoes and they say, 'What is that, velvet?'
And they betta meet they quota, betta yet betta meet they deadline . . . I'm a pimp all around
A pimp of the town -- we pimpin 'em up, HOES DOWN."

FULL ARTICLE

So is this an attack on any hip hop artist and Timbaland just happened to be the victim this time? Is Colbert right, can Clinton say Imus was disrespectful to women and then get support from Timbaland, based on his own lyrics?

What you all think?

7 comments :

  1. i say dude listens to "Work It" and/or "Get Ur Freak On" and shuts teh eff up.

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  2. One of the verses wasn't even Tim, is was Attitude.

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  3. but you gotta remember he's the evil genius behind Timbo's rhymes.

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  4. Its juss lyrics to boost record sales, i myself was shockd when i heard him swear like an irish bishop all over the album, den i rememberd its all fo the fans/money/fans or whatever you call it... Carefull out thurr TiMBO!

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  5. the one song on shock value that timbo raps on hes getting a bunch of heat for. the oher wasn't even him it was ludacris. these reporters are stupid

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  6. the one song on shock value that timbo raps on hes getting a bunch of heat for. the oher wasn't even him it was ludacris. these reporters are stupid

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  7. I didn't realize how truly shitty these lyrics were until I read them. Embarrassing.

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