T.I., Fat Joe, RZA Speak On Imus Controversy

The people speaking out against rap lyrics never liked rap to begin with. This imus situation only makes them feel validated in not liking rap (which is a cultural expression.) it's sad to me that there's so many people jumping on the anti rap campaign and endorsing censorship, to me the position "white" america, and other cultures who can't relate to rap music, is yet another form of oppression, trying to shut black people and other likeminded hip hop artists up. In other words "we don't wanna see you or hear you, and what your lide is like" where has the white media been all these years when the kkk and other racists organizations were hollering out hatred and racists comments/words towards black people/other ethnicites? it's peculiar that when a white man gets fired from his job for using innapropriate words publically, everyone jumps on the bandwagon about black (as a majority) artists in rap and them using certain words. Always us being used as an example. Give your head a shake. If they want to ban the use of teh n word among rappers, and other words they think might influence our children, they better look into country music endorsing drinking alcohal, and alot of the demonic lyrics in heavy metal... I guess the messages kids get from that music is good. I will never agree with white america dictating what i say and how i say it. What are they gonna try and control next? look at the big picture people.

F*ck imus

The rza always speaks da truth! real attracts real, thats da way it will always be!

Everybody really knows the answer to this question, they just dont know what to say.. Rza obviously lays it down simply...

Ya'll some squares....i could careless about all of diss sh*t. I like my side of town cuz theres always sh*t poppin n tha weekend especially now that its cruisin time n erybody go hyphy...bumpin tha jams n mackin to da breezies

Lol ya'll can get sucked in by the white media ... They wanna silence us like they always have.. Now's their opportunity! it didn't matter who used the word n*gga until this white clown imus got fired, then the white media jumped on that as a means of shuttin the black community up, talking about "well black rappers/other hip hop artists say it in their music." majority of time i don't think anyine is glorifying jack, their just tellin it like it is. Getting dictated to by white america is something i won't ever do. Why didn't they jump on the real racists using that shi* openly ? cause it didnt matter that much... It just mattes when a white boy gets fired. Wake up.

Damn rza speaking the truth, respect goes out for you for saying that peace

Y do peoples blame everything in hip hop..wen people using bad words..they blamed snoop for glamourising weed..they blamed hip hop for everythingk

I agree with the way hip-hop is being blamed. It's biased and unfair. I like how the older rappers and artists are becoming more mature and wiser. That's the tendency of everyone when they become older. I don't point the blame on anything (music, tv, games, etc) in any circumstance whether someone says something or does something except to the person who does it. You control your own actions. There are no excuses when you mess up. (by excuses, i mean looking for a scapegoat, source, or way out to easy street). By the way, who are the only 2 wu-tang members of the 9 that are not felons?

Hip-hop gets blamed for everything wrong in the world. This is why hip-hop is forever powerful. Hip-hop will never die because it is always in the media. If these critics get rid of hip-hop than they have to get rid of newspapers, videos, tv, all game systems, games, some magazines, internet exct. Another question how the F*ck does racism come in on when he said nappy headed hoes. Whites, blacks, latinos, and asians are all called hoes. Everytime racism comes up and im getting real tired of it.

F**k rza dumb ass wu tang glorified the hood in the 90's dont sell the people some lame ass story because your records aint selling no more. Remember caaaaaasssssssssshhh rules everything around me cream get them money dollar, dollar bills yall. Think people

Bull crap how the f*ck u gonna put this sh*t on hip hop as the world as we know is full of mass media movies is the start and parents use vile terms in the presence of there children and the look 2 blame hip hop blame the black man.... Y don't parents take control of there children rather than point fingers.

I wish everyone was a different color, from black and white to green and blue and if you a racist then fukk you!!!

^ great quote

Yo....rza spoke out my mind!!!

When we gon get self-desruction/same gang pt 2?..it's alot of issues out here these rappers need to be speaking on.

Wu tang needs to school all u F*ckng kids!!!!wu tang is for the children and that aint no F*ckn joke! word is bond truth

F-em. H e probably used that more like a racist derogatory way. If i said it it would be aight right. F*ck them faggots. Who is this guy imus. I never heard of him till today and never known his show. Ny to cali. Who listens to this guy. Broke ass brokeback ass bastard

Hip hop is not a parent it is an art form. Music can be a powerful thing i'll admit that, but if an art form has more of an influence over your child than you then you need to reavaluate the situation bc hip hop is the least of your problems. It is a parents job to teach a child of what is right and wrong not hip hop. I'll use that old saying if hip hop jumped of a bridge is your child are you gonna jump of too. What the bottom line is and it has been said so many times so many ways if your offended by hip hop or you think its not appropriate for your child then dont listen to it or allow you child to period.

Rap aint gont nuttin to do with what imus said. He said it because he wanted to. He wasnt right in what he said but how can you blame rap for that. People gone say what they want to sya. Yeah mabye somethings influence people to say things. But i dont think rap really made him say that.

Imus is a racist F*ck and we all know that...i'm actually just finishing up this research paper on this whole media responsibility thing...he knows what he did and he could sum it up to trying to identifying(horribly at that) with another demographic if he was really so cowardly, but his 10 million listeners are middle aged white men and i'm betting more than half of them even laughed at the time he made that comment. The forum he has created through his show is an incredibly hostile one, to be perfectly blunt, it's a white show... I bet the day he goes to apologize he'll say well, gotta go meet these nappy headed hoes, at the end of the day he still thinks what he thinks and he can do all the apologizing in the world for saying it outside of his living room, it's only half sincere. Howard stern must be having a field day with this!!!! i could get into the whole rush limbaugh/donovan mcnabb thing but i'll spare the bandwidth

I just want to say that all this nonsense about rap music is hidden racism. If a 'white' man can keep a black man down, he will. The truth here is that white people once again are hating the fact that people are rising to the top & the funny part about it is that the blacks that are rising are young healthy black males or females from the ghetto, blacks who the white man had already labeled as a nobody, as another number in the local jails. Rap music is part of the black culture, continue with the music, dont make any changes. Black men be bold, stand firm & black women, continue to shake what your mama give you. White america is mad & upset bcuz black artist are now able to compete with them, blacks are now able to rise out of the ghetto & buy penthouses, condos, stocks & even rank among the other white folks in forbes. Do you think white america wants to see that, especially when its a rapper out of the projects? hell no. Rap music is a form of music it doesn't degrade anyone. Those black artists give back to the communities, promote education & some of them put more money into the education system them the white man. Therefore, rappers, black american, continue to live your dreams, you are an american citizen & its your freedom of speech, by all means do ya thing. Because i dont hear any controversy over how many innocent blacks are in jail or there isn't any issue with white america having sex with black women in their call girl sevices. Issues only arise when blacks rise atop. Young black m

I just want to say that all this nonsense about rap music is hidden racism. If a 'white' man can keep a black man down, he will. The truth here is that white people once again are hating the fact that people are rising to the top & the funny part about it is that the blacks that are rising are young healthy black males or females from the ghetto, blacks who the white man had already labeled as a nobody, as another number in the local jails. Rap music is part of the black culture, continue with the music, dont make any changes. Black men be bold, stand firm & black women, continue to shake what your mama give you. White america is mad & upset bcuz black artist are now able to compete with them, blacks are now able to rise out of the ghetto & buy penthouses, condos, stocks & even rank among the other white folks in forbes. Do you think white america wants to see that, especially when its a rapper out of the projects? hell no. Rap music is a form of music it doesn't degrade anyone. Those black artists give back to the communities, promote education & some of them put more money into the education system them the white man. Therefore, rappers, black american, continue to live your dreams, you are an american citizen & its your freedom of speech, by all means do ya thing. Because i dont hear any controversy over how many innocent blacks are in jail or there isn't any issue with white america having sex with black women in their call girl sevices. Issues only arise when blacks rise atop. Young black m

----continuation-- issues only arise when blacks rise atop. Young black men can now fly first class, they can own their own planes. Do you think white america like that. The biggest problem here is that white america find themselves competing for the top of forbes with blacks who didn't graduate high school or college. The sad part of all of this is that majority of the rappers are high school graduates, some even college grads. Rappers continue what u're doing, bcuz for all those who dont want their kids to listen, thats ok, because thats why there's an edited version & an unedited. Music is rated, just like television shows. So america wake up & smell the coffee. As long as black women is in the penthouse mag or playboy videos, there was no controversy. Now that black women are performing for black men, its degrading. My fellow brothas, continue to strive & dream big & make your dreams a reality. White folks high is "meth" they sing about it also, no controversy. Black folks get high on 'weed', we sing about it, controversy. Weed has never caused anyone to kill, rob or go crazy. Black bros & sista ontinue on your road to sucess, but most o all, never forget where you came from because some of the money you put back into the community is alot more than what the white man is willing to do. The white man doesn't care about the projects. Do you think they care about the schools looking like condemn buildings, or the lack of computers? no. But they will make sure that a loan is issued or that a bui

----continuation-- issues only arise when blacks rise atop. Young black men can now fly first class, they can own their own planes. Do you think white america like that. The biggest problem here is that white america find themselves competing for the top of forbes with blacks who didn't graduate high school or college. The sad part of all of this is that majority of the rappers are high school graduates, some even college grads. Rappers continue what u're doing, bcuz for all those who dont want their kids to listen, thats ok, because thats why there's an edited version & an unedited. Music is rated, just like television shows. So america wake up & smell the coffee. As long as black women is in the penthouse mag or playboy videos, there was no controversy. Now that black women are performing for black men, its degrading. My fellow brothas, continue to strive & dream big & make your dreams a reality. White folks high is "meth" they sing about it also, no controversy. Black folks get high on 'weed', we sing about it, controversy. Weed has never caused anyone to kill, rob or go crazy. Black bros & sista ontinue on your road to sucess, but most o all, never forget where you came from because some of the money you put back into the community is alot more than what the white man is willing to do. The white man doesn't care about the projects. Do you think they care about the schools looking like condemn buildings, or the lack of computers? no. But they will make sure that a loan is issued or that a bui

----continuation-- issues only arise when blacks rise atop. Young black men can now fly first class, they can own their own planes. Do you think white america like that. The biggest problem here is that white america find themselves competing for the top of forbes with blacks who didn't graduate high school or college. The sad part of all of this is that majority of the rappers are high school graduates, some even college grads. Rappers continue what u're doing, bcuz for all those who dont want their kids to listen, thats ok, because thats why there's an edited version & an unedited. Music is rated, just like television shows. So america wake up & smell the coffee. As long as black women is in the penthouse mag or playboy videos, there was no controversy. Now that black women are performing for black men, its degrading. My fellow brothas, continue to strive & dream big & make your dreams a reality. White folks high is "meth" they sing about it also, no controversy. Black folks get high on 'weed', we sing about it, controversy. Weed has never caused anyone to kill, rob or go crazy. Black bros & sista ontinue on your road to sucess, but most o all, never forget where you came from because some of the money you put back into the community is alot more than what the white man is willing to do. The white man doesn't care about the projects. Do you think they care about the schools looking like condemn buildings, or the lack of computers? no. But they will make sure that a loan is issued or that a bui

----continuation-- issues only arise when blacks rise atop. Young black men can now fly first class, they can own their own planes. Do you think white america like that. Hell no...the biggest problem here is that white america find themselves competing for the top of forbes with blacks who didn't graduate high school or college. The sad part of all of this is that majority of the rappers are high school graduates, some even college grads. Rappers continue what u're doing, bcuz for all those who dont want their kids to listen, thats ok, because thats why there's an edited version & an unedited. Music is rated, just like television shows. So america wake up & smell the coffee. As long as black women is in the penthouse mag or playboy videos, there was no controversy. Now that black women are performing for black men, its degrading. My fellow brothas, continue to strive & dream big & make your dreams a reality. White folks high is "meth" they sing about it also, no controversy. Black folks get high on 'weed', we sing about it, controversy. Weed has never caused anyone to kill, rob or go crazy. Black bros & sista ontinue on your road to sucess, but most o all, never forget where you came from because some of the money you put back into the community is alot more than what the white man is willing to do. The white man doesn't care about the projects. Do you think they care about the schools looking like condemn buildings, or the lack of computers? no. But they will make sure that a loan is issued or

----continuation-- issues only arise when blacks rise atop. Young black men can now fly first class, they can own their own planes. Do you think white america like that. Hell no...the biggest problem here is that white america find themselves competing for the top of forbes with blacks who didn't graduate high school or college. The sad part of all of this is that majority of the rappers are high school graduates, some even college grads. Rappers continue what u're doing, bcuz for all those who dont want their kids to listen, thats ok, because thats why there's an edited version & an unedited. Music is rated, just like television shows. So america wake up & smell the coffee. As long as black women is in the penthouse mag or playboy videos, there was no controversy. Now that black women are performing for black men, its degrading. My fellow brothas, continue to strive & dream big & make your dreams a reality. White folks high is "meth" they sing about it also, no controversy. Black folks get high on 'weed', we sing about it, controversy. Weed has never caused anyone to kill, rob or go crazy. Black bros & sista ontinue on your road to sucess, but most o all, never forget where you came from because some of the money you put back into the community is alot more than what the white man is willing to do. The white man doesn't care about the projects. Do you think they care about the schools looking like condemn buildings, or the lack of computers? no. But they will make sure that a loan is issued or

----continuation-- issues only arise when blacks rise atop. Young black men can now fly first class, they can own their own planes. Do you think white america like that. Hell no...the biggest problem here is that white america find themselves competing for the top of forbes with blacks who didn't graduate high school or college. The sad part of all of this is that majority of the rappers are high school graduates, some even college grads. Rappers continue what u're doing, bcuz for all those who dont want their kids to listen, thats ok, because thats why there's an edited version & an unedited. Music is rated, just like television shows. So america wake up & smell the coffee. As long as black women is in the penthouse mag or playboy videos, there was no controversy. Now that black women are performing for black men, its degrading. My fellow brothas, continue to strive & dream big & make your dreams a reality. White folks high is "meth" they sing about it also, no controversy. Black folks get high on 'weed', we sing about it, controversy. Weed has never caused anyone to kill, rob or go crazy. Black bros & sista ontinue on your road to sucess, but most o all, never forget where you came from because some of the money you put back into the community is alot more than what the white man is willing to do. The white man doesn't care about the projects. Do you think they care about the schools looking like condemn buildings, or the lack of computers? no. But they will make sure that a loan is issued or

----continuation-- issues only arise when blacks rise atop. Young black men can now fly first class, they can own their own planes. Do you think white america like that. Hell no...the biggest problem here is that white america find themselves competing for the top of forbes with blacks who didn't graduate high school or college. The sad part of all of this is that majority of the rappers are high school graduates, some even college grads. Rappers continue what u're doing, bcuz for all those who dont want their kids to listen, thats ok, because thats why there's an edited version & an unedited. Music is rated, just like television shows. So america wake up & smell the coffee. As long as black women is in the penthouse mag or playboy videos, there was no controversy. Now that black women are performing for black men, its degrading. My fellow brothas, continue to strive & dream big & make your dreams a reality. White folks high is "meth" they sing about it also, no controversy. Black folks get high on 'weed', we sing about it, controversy. Weed has never caused anyone to kill, rob or go crazy. Black bros & sista ontinue on your road to sucess, but most o all, never forget where you came from because some of the money you put back into the community is alot more than what the white man is willing to do. The white man doesn't care about the projects. Do you think they care about the schools looking like condemn buildings, or the lack of computers? no. But they will make sure that a loan is issued or

--continuation--- but they will make sure that a loan is issued or that a building is refurbished to build a liquor store practically on every corner in the project. Don imus was speaking from his true feelings. A white person will call you a n*gga in a min, they dont because they know there will be consequences. Blacks continue on your road to success. White america hates the fact that we are dominating the world of sports. We dominate golf, tennis, basketball, & football. As a black person, we can dominate anything we put our minds to. We just like to cut ourselves short & let the white man have the glory. Our biggest problem is that we have not yet figured out how to trust each other & live together.

--continuation--- but they will make sure that a loan is issued or that a building is refurbished to build a liquor store practically on every corner in the project. Don imus was speaking from his true feelings. A white person will call you a n*gga in a min, they dont because they know there will be consequences. Blacks continue on your road to success. White america hates the fact that we are dominating the world of sports. We dominate golf, tennis, basketball, & football. As a black person, we can dominate anything we put our minds to. We just like to cut ourselves short & let the white man have the glory. Our biggest problem is that we have not yet figured out how to trust each other & live together.

---continuation--- that a condemned building is remodeled & reopened as a local store which sell all types of alcohol & cigarettes. They will make sure to patrol the area & keep you under false pretense that you are a nobody. Black people can do anything we put our minds to. We have dominated majority of the sports. At one time, golf wasa white mans game & they would only allow black people to work there for them. Look at it now, a black man is #1, the same with tennis, black sistas have dominated that. We as black people need to learn to live with one another & stop working with the white man to sabotage each other. Stand up & be proud, be proud of who you are & never forget the struggles of your ancestors.

I think hip hop should not be blame for the imus comment because hip hop been around for a long time and many people dislike it but i think he is sorry for the comment he just thought it was okay maybe because some rappers say stuff like that like calling women names like b#$%^es and hoes i just think hip hop should not be blame.

About what that dude from wu tang clan said, they are not bragging about it, they are just sayin where they come from and thats just how they are, that that kinda stuff is in them and if u cross them then the beast will be unleashed. And about all the sex, sex sales, and i know a lot of rappers and other hip hop moguls are just tryin to make money and provide for their families, they prolly dont even believe half of that stuff themselves.

In all reality hip hop has become way bigger than they ever thought it would be and there trying to shut it down,look what they did to dj drama, they scared of the power that hip hop has. I thought this was america people what happened to freedom of speech. The crazy part is they just dont kno all this hate they bringing towards rap will only make it stronger so keep hatin.

F**k dat fag imus

Yveringle yu spoke the realness. Fu*k em jealous haterz. They are a dying racist race thats gonna be extinct soon, thats why they so mad. The black dna strand resilient :-) we stayin black for ever f*ck em

Honestly, some of the commments i've read are pointless...blaming whites or blacks, both callin each other racist and referring to one another as 'races'...hip hop is entertaining, it speaks the truth about what, mostly non-whites, have to live through in the day-2-day flux...yea white people have been fukin us non-whites up the as*-hole for centuries...but are we really gonna go down to their level...hip hop, rap...wtv....is an escape to emotions, and its a in-sight of reality...lets start fixin america's problems from the top...bush and all them mutha-fu**s whos' sole interest is they own families n pockets... Tl king, representing for the league of latin king nations! peace out!

Either way, you can't just call someone a "nappy headed ho." it aint right. I agree with t.i. You can't blame rap music for something like this. You can only blame the person who said it.

Ey wat it do mi name is aullylicious dat's wat mi nick name is. Well i juss wanted ta say hey n dat i love you sooooooooooooooo much you'z mi dude fa real doe no lie striaght up. But yeah well i got to go soo ill holla at chu sumothea time iight iight den 1. **aullylicious**

Now its turned into some F*ck*n racist sh*t.. I ent havin u say white people wna shut dwn rap coz they hate blacks. Its coz they sayin "im goin to kill u, u F*ck*n hoe". Is tht wht u wants ur kids to grow bein like.. If not then shut the F*ck up Bia'ch

What i dont understand is why hip hop is getting blamed for something a white man who probably never listens to hip hop said! imus is a racist biggot and hip hop has nothing to do with that! i don't want to hear anything about how hip hop is a bad influence because its called supply and demand people! once the demand goes down so does the supply! people are still buying rap and hip hop music so thay must not have that much of a problem with it! when people stop buying the music then rappers will stop making it! i totally agree with whoever said if hip hop is teaching your kids instead of you then you have a much bigger problem than what kind of music they are listening to! o and white guy you can shut the hell up! you are probably a racist biggot just like your buddy imus! all i have left to say is black people, we need to stay strong and stick together!

What i dont understand is why hip hop is getting blamed for something a white man who probably never listens to hip hop said! imus is a racist biggot and hip hop has nothing to do with that! i don't want to hear anything about how hip hop is a bad influence because its called supply and demand people! once the demand goes down so does the supply! people are still buying rap and hip hop music so thay must not have that much of a problem with it! when people stop buying the music then rappers will stop making it! i totally agree with whoever said if hip hop is teaching your kids instead of you then you have a much bigger problem than what kind of music they are listening to! o and white guy you can shut the hell up! you are probably a racist biggot just like your buddy imus! all i have left to say is black people, we need to stay strong and stick together!

First of all i think all this controversy is f**n retarded if you don't like the music then don't listen to it thats what i think no one is forcing anyone to listen to anything and second of all its called freedom of speech its in the first amendments. Also why is it just hip-hop thats getting looked down upon theres many other kinds of music out there why don't they start looking down on them.