Unless you're playing scrubs, there's NO REASON ct should peek at double doors. Ts set up first everytime. Smoke that shit and camp B or something.

Wow what a sad story. And this kid seemed particularly depressed and hopeless, and like defiantly suicidal (it's a good enough reason for me to kill myself). I wonder how this could've been prevented outside of having better parents. Crisis recognition and prevention in the schools? More commercials advertizing help…

what makes you think my explanation was directed to "you girls"? Did I say "listen up ladies whist I explain hiphop, dumb broads"? I believe I directed my explanation to a person who defined freestyle as simply "rapping over a beat" leaving out the improv aspect, which is crucial. signed, someone so proud of your…

Isn't it the case that this is commonly accepted in pop music? I mean, no one thinks a singer is less a singer in that case. But I guess not the same for rappers, since a rapper pretty much IS their lyrics? Ok, I can get that, but I've been under the impression that rappers use ghost writers commonly too, but it's…

Understood. But isn't Iggy under fire for maybe not writing her lyrics? Taylor the same thing? I know they never ask a singer to write a song on the spot, but dammit maybe they should! Pop should take more cues from hiphop. I say, bring on the pop star freestyle battles!

you can ask, and if the poet doctor or rapper says "fuck off I ain't gotta do that. I got nothin to prove to you" it doesn't make them not a poet doctor or rapper. But I can take the point that a GOOD and SMART rapper would be prepared, but I think Iggy is neither.

that's fair. thinking more on it, I think this for sure reveals her as like, not as into the culture of hiphop as I'd like her to be. But I thought the same about Solja Boy. When Nas (correctly) proclaimed hiphop was dead, I don't think he meant it was killed by corny white girls.

I've read her tweets. bad tasteless jokes, but not "let me tell you about the negro" type shit, not "these people are inferior" type shit. Even the slave master bit was a misinterpretation of a song lyric of hers, but people keep pushing that. Dumb people say dumb shit, but I think of racism as actively showing you…

I know what I'm talking about, as a fan of hiphop and all that. I'll admit I didn't know all about Sway's show, that's my bad (don't be an asshole about it though dude). And I think appropriating is terrible that's why I'm concerned when people are falsely accused of it. I'm not "talking shit cause I hate blah blah…

I get that. It's just this story comes on the heels of other articles that DO make those claims, it's hard not to take this as "more evidence to that effect". Like, if she IS disrespecting the genre and the people behind it, you might expect that she wouldn't be prepared in this situation. But if that's reading into…

the key element of freestyle is the improvisation, doing it "off the top of the dome". Do you think all rappers should be able to improvise a rap on the spot, and that a rapper who has to take time to write lyrics isn't a real rapper? Well.... ok I can kinda get with that. I mean, better to be better than not better…

Thanks for the link. It's good to have the information on hand. Some dance too close to the line, but what I read is a dumb and insensitive broad not a racist (racism here defined roughly as putting another race down as inferior).

I stand by my assertion that all the evidence of her racism is insinuation at this point, but damn that pic is mad funny LOL!

That's true, but at the same time just cause you don't like a person doesn't make them racist. What makes her racist? "She's copying a black way of speaking" (the concept of a "black way of speaking" sounds racist and patronizing in itself) "She said she was a slave master" Actually, she didn't, it's a…

Let's talk about critical thinking. I said, "iggy never called herself a slave master, if you look at the lyric" indeed the next line makes no sense if master is applied to the former line. Your response: "it's not cool to call yourself a slave master". ugh, you weren't listening I said she never called herself such.…

The lyric you speak of, she claims the words slave and master apply to two different lines. "I'm a runaway slave / Master the past gotta spit like a pastor." Maybe she's just covering her ass, maybe not. I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt.

hey I can dig it. she should've been prepared for that (T.I. as well, considering he's freestyled on the show b4, I looked up a few freestyles). Hell, I watched Joell Ortiz freestyle while staring into his phone (which suggests he wasn't freestyling at all), sway didn't mind. So just from a PR standpoint, this was…

Oh does he? I haven't listened to Sway since I dropped XMradio, but I remember LOTS of interviews without freestyle requests. And in general, rappers aren't expected to freestyle rap whenever and wherever anyone asks. But if Sway has a rep for asking that I don't know why T.I. and Iggy were surprised.

It's too bad Jezebel isn't behind Iggy, or else the tone would be:

All those pictures of Japan and I don't see one ninja???.... waitaminute..... oooohhhh I get it, good job ninjas of Japan, good job.