"big deal" and other yuppie triumphs in newsreel headlinedom

my favorite fact and folly focus group was talking about the impending doom of hip hop movies, tituhlt "notorious" if i remember correctly, and perhaps even if i don't.

general consensus was that it was going to be a max melanin "medellin" but that much is obvious. i was more interested in the restless apprehension surrounding the possibility of tupac as principal thugtagonist. i'm not as knowledgeable on the subject of interregional rabble rousing as i should be, but i'm tired and knowing is for nerds so i'm gonna say some things that might put a dimmer on your shiny suit. tupac and biggie were, respectively, good and great rappers who chose murder from the menu and were made to pay in full. they were asking for it.

here's what i think is going to happen in the movie. the news media's gonna shove the rotund rap star, who'd purportedly been forging his jug since black folks first arrived in that new new via slaveship. hollywood and academia are finna convince the intellectually mind marks of america that biggyyynpac had no part in the perpetratin, in the same manner that they had me thinking (until i was of age to juxtapose the deuces) that those^ ships were woven of cotton in the magnolia south. my grampa probably has a prescription for perpetratin. probably takes it with his jack daniels. anyway, dog, those excuses are softer than mase's voice.

i'm having trouble imagining peter jennings as having a part in the studio session that spawned hit em up, whispering to pac of "controversy concerning the question of whether you're prepared to let him do you like that" like some wormtail lurking behind the music. was the media catalyst for the enron catastrophe? chyeah. did the media claim to fuck the wife of a top flight lyricist who today might have to roll to the set of biggest loser on the back of a flatbed sitting on jiggas (30's the new 20)? dubious.

if dog the bounty hunter or mothers against drunk driving carved these corpses out of televised exposure, i'll stand down. from my armchair, though, it looks like hip hop is running a hot route straight out of bounds on this issue. they talked about killing each other, being ready to die, and in general giving nothing resembling a fuck. they got killed. it's sad when anyone dies, but sadder when we forget who they were. i just hope the people who made "notorious" recognized blame as they should.

paid for by white people.