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Michael Vick:Under Fire For Living A "Hip Hop" Lifestyle

Written by SOHH Southern

Posted on August 7, 2006 3:24 AM

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With the 2006 NFL Season jumping off this past weekend, let me jump into some interesting headlines facing the city this last week.

The face of the NFL, Michael Vick has been catching alot of criticism this past week in the media for a photo that has him plastered all over the net smoking something up for debate. Is it a cigar? Is it a blunt? Is it marijuana wrapped in a cigar?

Check out what Vick had to say in this Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the situation.

The thing that puzzles me is the fact that media keeps referring to Vick's "hip hop" lifestyle as being a contributing factor to some of his news scandals. My question is, what is a hip hop lifestyle? Do all marijuana smokers live a "hip hop" lifestyle? Negative. I can point you to some people who have never heard a hip hop track all the way through but will smoke you under 10 tables. Real talk.

Vick's case has nothing to do with hip hop. Yeah Vick stays on the scene but hey, he's 26 years old with 100 million dollars-plus to play with everyday.

Nobody will ever know what he's smoking but him. And for the record, I am 99% sure that that's a Black and Mild cigar that he's smoking (zoom in). Now what's in the black is anybody's guess.

At least he's not shooting up with steroids. However I will say this, I'm not sure which is worse? Smoking Black & Mild's or actually smoking marijuana...those black and milds will give your lungs the fight of their life.

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Damn, Vick's mouth looks Herped out. I don't follow rumours around, but I clicked he link...If thats not an outbreak then Game ain't a scripper.

Vick needs to slow his role or they will crash his ass. It's wrong for them to term his lifestyle 'Hip-Hop', but this is just evidence that there is not only a 'Hip-Hop Police' working against us, but an entire conglomerate which includes the media.

They will take away every dime of his hundred Million with law-suits, sanctions, scandals, propaganda and the like and its not due to Hip-Hop...Vicky makes his self an easy target.

Valtrexx!

..mmm being a guy that puffs every now and then, I gotta say that isn't a black & mild but if it is then he still needs to stop smoking those.

I pledge no allegiance, fuck the President's speeches
What the industry did to 'Pac they did to Jesus
Rapin' his vocals and destroying his message
Tryin to deport us if they can't destroy arrest us
Government front religious, but thier heart is empty
Like a televangelist preaching out of his bentley
Calling abortion murder in a medical building
But don't give a fuck about bombing Iraqi children
Talking like units in the fucking libretto
Look at thier mansions and look at your suburban ghetto
The gulag, the new hood where they send us to live
Cause they don't give a fuck about none of our kids
That's why blacks and latinos get the worst education
While devils run america like "Birth of a Nation"
Affirmative action ain't reverse discrimination
That shit is a pathetic excuse for reparation

IMMORTAL TECH !!! READ MY NIGGAS !!

Man, whatever it is, it has a tip. Now he's got the money to have someone take the immese amount of time to empty a black and mild and refill it with the chronic, but I seriously doubt that. If it was...than he really is stupid...you know you can smoke at home camera free, with all the women you like, and your herpes.

If you've never been in the immediate area of a "black" then wouldn't know that that mini cigar, by some standards, really makes its presence felt. I'd go so far as to narrow it down to a swissa sweet...that's a wood tip to me...plastic would have had more of a glare.

Good look though news media, MV smoking blunts lol!!...he's black and college educated, of course he knows he's throwing away that "franchise player" moniker with this kind of bad publicity.

yeah when you young black and rich its a hiphop lifestyle...lol! When brett farve go have a drink is he living a red-neck lifestyle...

Man thats a fuckin black and mild! That don't even look like a blunt or a joint! Either way that smoking gone fuck him up in the long run!

EVEN THE MOST POPULAR NIGGAZ IN THE A STILL ROCKIN THAT NY FITTED.....SHOULD TELL YOU CLOWNS SOMETHING......AND THE SYMBOL ON THE A HAT LOOK MAD STUPID

Like my man said, It's a black & mild. Don't you see the tip of the black? Now if the black has been gutted and stuffed, that's something we can't tell. Do you see how far down the black is smoked? If it was weed, we could tell. Take if from an ex toker...If he was smoking, his herped face would show it. All it's showing is "I'M RICH BITCH".

i agree with slick, if he it was weed, his face would look so gone. and what does a "hip hop lifestyle" mean? if he was sniffing crack would he be living a "rock and roll lifestyle"?

I'm sorry to tell yall, but they call that shit "grinch". I know rich niggaz(not rap niggaz) in da "A" dat said he be burnin b/c they sold him sum.

I want to say that was some real knowledge you spitting mize2. I agree with SOHH Atlanta. How you gone call smoking weed "hip-hop"? More white people get high than black people. They just smoke a joint or smoke it out of a bong.

Niggas can't tell a black from a blunt I see. Fucking reporters and blog writers don't have shit else to do except make up shit and over-analyze pictures.


Fuggahttahere

I thought Michael Vick was bi-sexual??..it shouldn't be a surprise to anyway that a NFL football player is smokin' weed?...if it's true, well then so what???.

barbaraa.jackson...

what do you mean "it shouldn't be a surprise to anyway that a NFL football player smokin' weed"?

Blunt or not, this bring up an issue that's had me trippin for a min. - WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU POST ANY "HOT" PICTURES ON MYSPACE?????

Do people not realize that they settin themselves up by having incriminating shit on a website that anyone in the world can look at. So, if that is a blunt, he better smack his girl up. If a bitch cost me $2.5 mil cause she wanted to show me off on her MySpace.....

Whoa. That nigga paid some chick 6 figures to stay quiet? That nigga has super herpes... lol!

- D$

diangela aka brookyln massive.....

Well, does everyone think that they are squeaky clean?...

I SEE HE ROCKIN THE YANKEE FITTED.....DONT HE PLAY IN ATLANTA?

IT HURTS, I KNOW, BUT EVEN OUR HATS LOOK FLYER THAN YALL NIGGAS

G.O.O.D. GET OFF OUR DICK

Even though it's obviously a Black & Mild all white people see is a Black man + smoking = weed. That's just the way they operate.

Lol @ nycity

Now a region war is starting over fitteds? I think everybody across the board who likes NY hip hop, rocks a fresh yankee fitted. That hat alone represents hip hop's birthplace. For me it's an "NY" or a "P" for philly, on my fitteds.

Unfortunately, you'll never catch me with an "A" on my hat though.

Addicted 2 Me, that's true.

If he was holding an old fashion Sherlock Holmes, corn cob pipe, they would still assume it has weed in it.

Who cares if Vick smokes weed, I just hope he's burnin that exotic and not mid or Reggie. The question should be is he gonna take the Falcons past the first round of the playoffs. And wassup wit niggaz talkin bout they know Vick burns because they know people who sold it to them. Thats called snitchin on my block,goddamn you niggaz is worse than 12(thats means police if you aint from GA)

it looks like a swisha sweet, not a black, or the cigars with the wood tips

I read this on the AJC blog about 2 weeks ago. Trust me some people really have it out for this guy simply because he is young, black, and rich. The guy don't even got a record, but you wouldn't think it if you read some of the blogs on the AJC. It's funny how he never gets any publicity for the charity work he does with the Boys & Girls Club in the Metro area, and back in his hometown. MV is just a young black man, and because he has money and fame he can pretty do anything he wants. And frankly that pisses certain people off.

I mean hell Michael Jordan admitted in his autobiography he smoked cigars driving in his car on the way to most of the home games he played in Chicago. But he presented himself in three pieces suits that did not threaten Corporate America. Go Figure.

And I'm back after a week and a 1/2 vacation.

Since when did smoking chronic concstitute a "Hip Hop" lifestyle? chronic has been around 4 centuries. It's really sad when those fools, the meida, looks 4 something negative 2 wirte about, why not write about the charities that these rappers donate 2? why dwell on the NIGGAtivity? so U can assassinte their character, leave these Black celebs alone, go fuck with Mel Gibson.

I am sure many professional football and basketball players smoke weed. As long as they perform on the field, who cares? In my opinion, Michael Vick is the most overrated player in the NFL. He's all hype; he's never done anything in the League. He's nowhere near the top QB's, not even close.

LET'S TALK ABOUT SOMETHING THAT MATTERS

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Teens whose iPods are full of music with raunchy, sexual lyrics start having sex sooner than those who prefer other songs, a study found.
Whether it's hip-hop, rap, pop or rock, much of popular music aimed at teens contains sexual overtones. Its influence on their behavior appears to depend on how the sex is portrayed, researchers found.
Songs depicting men as "sex-driven studs," women as sex objects and with explicit references to sex acts are more likely to trigger early sexual behavior than those where sexual references are more veiled and relationships appear more committed, the study found.
Teens who said they listened to lots of music with degrading sexual messages were almost twice as likely to start having intercourse or other sexual activities within the following two years as were teens who listened to little or no sexually degrading music.
Among heavy listeners, 51 percent started having sex within two years, versus 29 percent of those who said they listened to little or no sexually degrading music.
Exposure to lots of sexually degrading music "gives them a specific message about sex," said lead author Steven Martino, a researcher for Rand Corp. in Pittsburgh. Boys learn they should be relentless in pursuit of women and girls learn to view themselves as sex objects, he said.
"We think that really lowers kids' inhibitions and makes them less thoughtful" about sexual decisions and may influence them to make decisions they regret, he said.
The study, based on telephone interviews with 1,461 participants aged 12 to 17, appears in the August issue of Pediatrics, being released Monday.
Most participants were virgins when they were first questioned in 2001. Follow-up interviews were done in 2002 and 2004 to see if music choice had influenced subsequent behavior.
Natasha Ramsey, a 17-year-old from New Brunswick, N.J., said she and other teens sometimes listen to sexually explicit songs because they like the beat.
"I won't really realize that the person is talking about having sex or raping a girl," she said. Even so, the message "is being beaten into the teens' heads," she said. "We don't even really realize how much."

"A lot of teens think that's the way they're supposed to be, they think that's the cool thing to do. Because it's so common, it's accepted," said Ramsey, a teen editor for Sexetc.org, a teen sexual health Web site produced at Rutgers University.
"Teens will try to deny it, they'll say 'No, it's not the music,' but it IS the music. That has one of the biggest impacts on our lives," Ramsey said.
The Recording Industry Association of America, which represents the U.S. recording industry, declined to comment on the findings.
Benjamin Chavis, chief executive officer of the Hip-Hip Summit Action Network, a coalition of hip-hop musicians and recording industry executives, said explicit music lyrics are a cultural expression that reflect "social and economic realities."
"We caution rushing to judgment that music more than any other factor is a causative factor" for teens initiating sex, Chavis said.
Martino said the researchers tried to account for other factors that could affect teens' sexual behavior, including parental permissiveness, and still found explicit lyrics had a strong influence.
However, Yvonne K. Fulbright, a New York-based sex researcher and author, said factors including peer pressure, self-esteem and home environment are probably more influential than the research suggests.
"It's a little dangerous to just pinpoint one thing. You have to look at everything that's going on in a young person's life," she said. "When somebody has a healthy sense of themselves, they don't take these lyrics too seriously."
David Walsh, a psychologist who heads the National Institute on Media and the Family, said the results make sense, and echo research on the influence of videos and other visual media.
The brain's impulse-control center undergoes "major construction" during the teen years at the same time that an interest in sex starts to blossom, he said.
Add sexually arousing lyrics and "it's not that surprising that a kid with a heavier diet of that … would be at greater risk for sexual behavior," Walsh said.

Martino said parents, educators and teens themselves need to think more critically about messages in music lyrics.
Fulbright agreed.
"A healthy home atmosphere is one that allows a child to investigate what pop culture has to offer and at the same time say 'I know this is a fun song but you know that it's not right to treat women this way or this isn't a good person to have as a role model,'" she said.
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Looks like a wood tip or a black and mild to me...I dont think even rich niggas would take all the time or have someone gut that when you better off with a rello......come on that's not realistic...They see a black man with something that is not a Newport and automatically it's weed. LMAO @ the Hip Hop lifestyle....I know a weed smoker when I see one and I work in a corporate environment and see them everywhere...Confining weed to hip hop....HELLO while they're at it...did they forget about our beloved hippies and surfer dudes...

LET'S TALK ABOUT SOMETHING THAT MATTERS

www.abcnews.com

Teens whose iPods are full of music with raunchy, sexual lyrics start having sex sooner than those who prefer other songs, a study found.
Whether it's hip-hop, rap, pop or rock, much of popular music aimed at teens contains sexual overtones. Its influence on their behavior appears to depend on how the sex is portrayed, researchers found.

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Um, that's not totally true. I grew up listening to classical music by Mozart, Bach and any other musical genius, and I still wanted to fuck everything with ass & tittes since kindergarten.

Music didn't cause my sex drive. Having a working penis was/is the reason for my high sex drive.

those black and milds will give your lungs the fight of their life.

Posted by SOHH Southern at August 7, 2006 03:24 AM

Green will too!! I got a nasty bronchitis infection I can't rid of :( it's not cute coughing everywhere, guess I have to give up my favorite past time. I need everyones condolences please.

(IF) Michael is smokin' weed or a cigar....so what, look @ whitney houston.....!!...Shit, even Justin Timberlake just confessed to using 'HEROIN'..!

Bret Favre can wear a budweiser baseball cap,a cut-off flannel shirt,have skoal or chewing tobacco in his mouth while giving a press confrence but no one calls him a thug.People say negative things about black athletes,but what about the igonrant country,hillbilly talking NASCAR drivers? How about those violent thugs in pro hockey?

Fuck Vick , we got Reggie Bush!!!!!!!!Nicca

I really don't care if it is a blunt or not, cause the simple fact is, Vick needs to work on his passing.....as an athlete, he is great, as a QB, he ain't great yet....throw 20 TD's and 3000 yards in a season and then we can talk about him as a passer

Alotta people jus need to stfu and mind they business. What that man does is his business so y are some of yall criticzing him for. And that definitly looks like a black and mild in his hand and not no damn blunt fools!

Today's Hip Hop stand for:

1. Ignorance

2. Shameless Behavior

3. Lack of self respect

4. Criminal Aspirations

5. Sexually deviant behavior

6. Tacky

7. Vulgar

8. Profanity laced language

9. Lack of morals and values

10. Modern Day Minstrels

If any of the above applies then you're probably living a Hip Hop lifestyle.

Bitch Fukk u ......Warrick Dunn would brack o hole through Bush....and where the fuck do Vick Compares to Reggie .... QB dont equal RB stupid azz.....u need to watch Sportcenter more often lmao...... ATL Falcons All Day

Yo Nimrod,
I agree with U on what today's hip hop stands 4, however, it would'nt be this way had we kept the corporations from raping the culture. I feel like I live a Hip Hop lifestyle, yet none of those NIGGAtive aspect applies 2 me. I'm against all 10 of those aspects, because it's not cool 2 be an ignorant, disrespectful, sex crazed, moral-less minstrel show, however, niggas get "menstrual" when U drop that type of science.
And like Caff; I grew up listnening 2 all types of music, that did'nt make me wanna go out & bang the first chick I saw....not until I ceen my first porn flick at the age of 10, but all B.S. aside; that report is 1/2 true & 1/2 false, I don't cee how corporations can use Hip Hop 2 sell products, but at the same time turn around and say "this is what's wrong with society today" as I said earlier; smoking weed does not constitute that lifestyle.
The Hip Hop Lifestyle consists of:
1. MCing
2. DJing
3. Breakin'
4 Graffitti

I AM THAT DUDE & I SUPPORT THIS MESSAGE

That Dude 4President:

Kudos to you for getting what was REALLY being said. Big corporations are a double edged sword. Without them rap would've died on the vine +20 years ago. The commercialism is both a blessing and curse the difference being in the application. Big business will push quality product just as quickly as they push this smut masquerading as an artform. The problem started with the bar being lowered to the point where EVERYONE can relate AND participate. Along the way Hip Hop lost its soul. The pursuit of ever increasing financial wealth brought on by material worship sealed the deal. Now when I think of rap I think of tatooed drenched SAMBOS tap dancing for pennies on the dollar at the expense of us ALL!

The bubble is about to burst... I hope.

We as the people who grew up on and truly appreciate this culture or artform, need to do like those silly birds at Essence tried 2 do and take back OUR music, it's a shame, young stans don't know the history of Hip Hop, nor do they want 2 know it, I tried 2 get this young cat that I know 2 listen 2 "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx" homie told me it was garbage, and I'm like "what?" they don't appreciate where the Jeezys and the T.I.'s got their inspiration from, they just accept that B.S. then say "Fuck the pioneers, nobody wanna hear them" I honestly want to know when did crack slangin' and going 2 jail signify who is hot in Hip Hop? these knuckleheads fail 2 realize that 85% of the "Rappers" they idolize ain't real, contrary 2 what those jokers say on their albums, and the ones who R real, U're not gonna catch them in the streets doing the same shit they were doing B4 they got on, and it's not just the Black kids, them "Colored" kids emulate rappers worse than Black kids. The "Colored" kids R the reason ignorance sells in Hip Hop, I mean, those jerks actually think ALL Black people live like those coons on MTV & BET, they need 2 come 2 the hood & get up close & personal. What I want 2 know is where is the variety in Hip Hop?

its a black and mild.rap music is not responsible for all of blacks problems.white folks use more drugs then we do.they use the media to continue to keep down, now they are using rap music to poison and neutralize the younger generation to do nothing with there lives. Fcuk all Mindless commercial hip hop. wack production. wack rappers from the North South and West .. they all caught up in the corporate machine

So what if he's smoking weed.It's as if that shit is performance enhancing!If he can smoke weed and still be as good as he is,all the more power to him.

dumb shhh.

looks more like a black and mild to me than a skinny lil blunt. let the man live his life. anyways the discussion about marijuana = hip hop is retarded. true hip-hop and weed tend to go hand in hand but one by no means equals the other, that is some dumb s.

anyways like I said it looks like a black but then I know plenty of folks who "freak" blacks and put their weed in them. bottom line is, who cares??

That Dude 4 President that's some real ass shit i mean the other thing is these little dudes act like they love hip-hop but won't listen to the OBFQL or the Illmatic or even Ready to Die i still listen to Big Daddy Kane, Rakim and Kool G Rap KRS ONE and NWA if they just listen to the old stuff they will feel like we feel that alot of stuff is trash beside people like Saigon and Lupe and it's a sad thing because they act like that to hip-hop and they suppose to love hip-hop do you think these little MF care about slavery or equal right's hell no they don't care about the future or the past and it's sad.

Looks like a black to me.

yea thats a black real chiefing heads know that aint no chron chron but i will say that does look like herpes on his mouth i think t.i got it too in the what you know bout that video looks like he was havin an outbreak

Rod Prez and Talk we live hip hop daily and to say it consists of these negatives you have listed is very narrow minded while consistant with the status quo but at the same time never forget to acknowlege those of us who are still hip hop to the heart because we know nothing else so no matter what is being done in hip hop today it will never erase the footprints left by those who paved the way for hip hop in america today not leaving out the D4L's of the world while thier music may be diffrent from what we recognize as real hip hop it is street music! This is a nigga from the south talkin!!!

the boy making paper and lots of it, let him live anyway he chose, and that defietnly a black and mild

Well it's wrong to judge and slander what a player does off the field, but at the same token Vick needs a redo of the rules and regulations that the NFL want him to go by if he wants to continue to get paid. This is the reason why the new niggas crash and burn like disfunctional 747's. NFL, NBA, MLB, likes to keep their image clean and family oriented. If these niggas cannot get the picture that sports organizations have a tight leash on them, then they are plan to fail. Vick needs to get it together. Stop drinking, stop smoking, stop doing crazy shit. Get your head in the game and remember why you are here.

Micheal Vick is the man!! and why dont you haters just leave the man alone. I mean he worth more than 100 million...so what who gives a fuck about him smoking a blunt or cigar. Do any of you all remember last year when this little boy got hit with a bullet during a drive by...who did this little boy say his idol/hero was..MVick!!! and guess who shows up at this little boy's bed side...MVick!!! So the does have a good heart and he is human just like any of us he's entitled to a mistake...and as for the bitch that says he gave here herpes..she lucky cause Vick could of took her ass out like Rae Carruth did to tha other young lady! Man MVick is fine as hell in person..and I know he be having a lot of hoes coming after him and he doesnt need for some bankhead/buckhead ho ruin his rep!!! Go Falcons

that's a black... and that's a bump!

weed should not be only assoiciated with hip hop.when one of our pres was found to smoke pot did we say its hip hop.plus we need to support m vick because his career has been a flop.but its about time a black qb can get a truck load of money and not live up to expections like ryan leaf.stay focus vick even with those 3 pro bowls you aint prove shit,there has never been a qb in the pro bowl with numbers as bad as yours and there been qb with less numbers but won more(trent dilfer) and did not make the pro bowl.so good luck this season and stay focus.

Vick cheef like a muthafucka, I saw him at Visions last year with Takeo Spikes and them niggas walked by us smellin like a pound of purp.

so what if he smokes and live the hiphop lifestyle, as long as he can get touchdowns and finally lead the falcons to a championship we gives a fcuk, get a life!

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