Comments on: I got 99 problems, but elected officials presiding over the House Energy and Commerce Comittee ain’t one. http://www.nosoapbox.com/2007/09/25/i-got-99-problems-but-elected-officials-presiding-over-the-house-energy-and-commerce-comittee-aint-one/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:20:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: No Soap Box: Where Media and Politics Collide » David Banner on being fake http://www.nosoapbox.com/2007/09/25/i-got-99-problems-but-elected-officials-presiding-over-the-house-energy-and-commerce-comittee-aint-one/#comment-1007 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:55:55 +0000 http://www.nosoapbox.com/2007/09/25/i-got-99-problems-but-elected-officials-presiding-over-the-house-energy-and-commerce-comittee-aint-one/#comment-1007 [...] You may remember the article, I got 99 problems, but the elected officials presiding over the House Energy and Commerce Committee ain’t one that I published last week.  In it one of the main quotes is provided by David Banner, who along with Master P spoke in defense of their medium.  Rolling Stone did a follow-up interview with David, and found him to be in a rather chatty mood.  He had five major complaints he wished to air, which are listed in this article.  I’m not here to copy/paste the material of the interview, but I do want to focus in on a few of the more interesting points he made. “One of my top three groups in the world is the Police. I love the old Police with Sting and the drummer holding the drum sticks the old-school drumline way … I happen to fall upon ‘Murder By Numbers.’ [Sings] ‘Murder by numbers, one, two, three … easy to learn as your A, B, Cs.’ He said in the song the best way to kill a man is put poison in his coffee. You look at ‘Wrapped Around Your Finger,’ that was a stalker song. Johnny Cash said he wanted to kill a man just for the sake of killing him. But that’s ‘art.’ So basically what you’re telling me is that [rap is] not art because we’re black.” [...] […] You may remember the article, I got 99 problems, but the elected officials presiding over the House Energy and Commerce Committee ain’t one that I published last week.  In it one of the main quotes is provided by David Banner, who along with Master P spoke in defense of their medium.  Rolling Stone did a follow-up interview with David, and found him to be in a rather chatty mood.  He had five major complaints he wished to air, which are listed in this article.  I’m not here to copy/paste the material of the interview, but I do want to focus in on a few of the more interesting points he made. “One of my top three groups in the world is the Police. I love the old Police with Sting and the drummer holding the drum sticks the old-school drumline way … I happen to fall upon ‘Murder By Numbers.’ [Sings] ‘Murder by numbers, one, two, three … easy to learn as your A, B, Cs.’ He said in the song the best way to kill a man is put poison in his coffee. You look at ‘Wrapped Around Your Finger,’ that was a stalker song. Johnny Cash said he wanted to kill a man just for the sake of killing him. But that’s ‘art.’ So basically what you’re telling me is that [rap is] not art because we’re black.” […]

]]> by: Mike Lentricchia http://www.nosoapbox.com/2007/09/25/i-got-99-problems-but-elected-officials-presiding-over-the-house-energy-and-commerce-comittee-aint-one/#comment-1005 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:53:55 +0000 http://www.nosoapbox.com/2007/09/25/i-got-99-problems-but-elected-officials-presiding-over-the-house-energy-and-commerce-comittee-aint-one/#comment-1005 hate when they do this shit. by the way, you may want to fix the grammar of "Prominent old-school, for instance Master P, were paraded on stage and spoke of being true to their culture." Also Master P isn't really an old-school rapper by an measure, I think his debut album was around '98 ;) Otherwise, good article. hate when they do this shit.

by the way, you may want to fix the grammar of “Prominent old-school, for instance Master P, were paraded on stage and spoke of being true to their culture.” Also Master P isn’t really an old-school rapper by an measure, I think his debut album was around ‘98 ;) Otherwise, good article.

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