'Handicapped' rapping?
- 24 Jun 05, 12:00 AM
Yo yo yo, dis is da MC Crippled Monkey, down wiv da cripz in da hood, innit? Or something.
No, I can't do it. I'll have to speak normally.
Right, so can any of you hip young things out there, with your finger on the pulse of what the kids are listening to, enlighten me as to what the possibly offensive title of the album Hannicap Circus is all about? It's the new CD by a US rapper called Bizarre, who is a member of the D12 collective famous for working with Eminem. I'm very confused. (Apologies for not providing a link to a review anywhere - all the pages I found included a tracklisting containing some very, er, fruity song titles, or details of lyrics of the sort that you wouldn't want your mother to hear.)
Comments
Oh no! It's just another use of the "H" word again! Why can't people learn that it is an offensive word to describe disabled people! It's hurtful too.
Why am I not surprised? After all, D12 is a group who revel in littering their "songs" with the delightfully unedifying epithet "retard". Expect nothing better from uneducated people who would be the first to scream if someone used a racist term at them. Can they spell the word H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-S-Y?
Being from the Detroit area I'm not too shocked. These artists come from a dying city and a violent experience, the educational system is in tatters. Oh yes, and a mayor who refers to himself as the 'hip-hop' mayor. They will never be enlightened. But what do I know I live on the other side of '8 Mile'.
Bruce - with respect, that's a cop-out. Education is free to all - you only have to visit a library. Ignorance is a CHOICE - our impairments AREN'T.
chris does have a point, from what i know school is basiclly free as long as you come to learn and even then some law firms and such things sometimes give out scholar ships