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WTF, Ludacris Gets Dissed By Ebony Magazine For Boris Kudjoe??
Posted on May 4, 2007 11:42 PM
Every since Don Imus made those ridiculous comments regarding the Rutgers Women’s Basketball team that ultimately got him canned, everyone has been feeling the ripples of censorship.
From Television to Radio it seems that we’ve all been playing it extremely safe, particularly in Hip-Hop, when it comes to what we say and how we’re saying it. The hot topic has gotten so heated that it seems that fortune 500 companies as well as national publications are looking at rappers with a certain uneasiness that’s apparently tricked all the way to down to Atlanta rapper Ludacris.
According to published reports Ludacris has been dropped by Ebony Magazine as their June cover guy picking Boris Kudjoe instead. It seems that the Hip-Hop controversy has become all but too much for the conservative magazine and they have just decided to play it safe and go with a squeaky clean family man.
In a statement obtained by Gyant this is what Ebony has to say regarding the matter:
The Don Imus-fueled controversy over misogynistic rap lyrics surrounds Ebony magazine’s recent decision to pull rapper Ludacris from the cover of its June issue on “the New Black Fathers†and replace him with actor, Boris Kodjoe, reports Journal-isms. “Something has changed in America in the last few weeks,†Bryan Monroe, editorial director of Ebony and Jet magazines, told Journal-isms, without disclosing the identity of the rapper. As president of the National Association of Black Journalists, Monroe led the movement to have Imus fired. “I think the media is being called to account in these areas,†Monroe said.
Now before I render my verdict on this situation, I’m going to hold my tongue because I plan on seeing the leader of DTP this weekend at Bobby Valentino's album release party and want to ask him how he feels. Now I may not get the chance seeing that I’m not well liked over at the DTP camp, or so I’ve been told. However, I still am going to try my best to get his official response on camera.
But in the mean time, what do y’all think about this? Is everyone overreacting to the Hip-Hop controversy, or are they justified.
Talk To y’all lata,
--SoHH Gyant
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I think this is a bunch of bull shit!! I don't have anythingb against Boris Kodjoe or anything but that Don Imus shit is going to ruin some of the most influential voices in hiphop. I personally love Ludacris and I think he is a very positive role model. I respect him as a rapper and business man, I also respect him as a man,Chris Bridges. The man who gives back and has soooo many different foundations that's its crazy!! Alot kids around could call him Daddy, that's how much he takes care of his hood. He gives back,....I not only blame all of this on Don Imus but also on Oprah's ass. She is probably mad cause she can't pull a rapper. I will be so glad when she goes off the air for good. Then maybe she will sit her ass down and tend to Stedman,instead of a man she knows NOTHING about---HIP-HOP!!!!
I don't read Ebony.
That's what his butt get. If he doesn't like it then he should clean up his act. I hope this trend continues.
I agree with Tabitha all the way on this one.
First of all, I see Boris Kudjo once every 290 years, never seen him in a major movie, maybe once (coulda been a mistake) but yet he keeps gracing covers like Ebony. Ludacris is a wonderful dude, he is peacful, homboy is definitly funny, he reaches out to the community, takes care of his daughter, always looking to sign new artist (only dumbass ones want to try to "beef" with him but that shyt dont work out) do i need to go on? What about Trick Daddy (who love da kids and is respected in the hood cuz he resepcts others, and encourages children, gives back to the community) Samuel L. Jackson, or Bernie Mac? Nas? Squeaky clean family man my culo. this time, Imus aka Imus-ta been born an ass hole has nothing to do with this AT ALL, so using a scapegoat (for people who dont know what that means it's blaming others) for how black people choose to have on a front cover is not needed. Quite frankly I dont read Ebony no more cuz its just like Oprah, fake. She probably own that too. As far as her, the only thing she did was open up a school for African young girls who want a posistve start in life. She coulda did that shit here in USA, and she could afford to help with the children here, but too damn stingy cuz she worried about how it would look to white people. That whole "you get a car" bullshit i seen, how many black women was there except for maybe 2 or 4 and the rest got cars, houses, and shit but just bored cuz they husbands is either cheating or never there. Oprah can go jump in a volcano with gasoline underwears on and a picnic basket. Imus can go wit dat ass. They both need to be with each other.
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It really disturbs me to here my people speak like this. Whenever there is an issue and you have chosen to take a side you must also see the view from the other side. Our generation has embraced hiphop and love it for its ability to express ones freedom and frustrations, but it is because of the generations before us that we have this opportunity and their fight "to them" seems in vain because of the way that we choose to use those freedoms. I love hiphop, but I also understand why my mother does not. Simply because she grew up in a time when the offensive words that they often use in these songs were used against people of color and it was not a symbol of love. And for the comments made about Oprah, I don't know what to say. This is a phenomenal BLACK woman who has done some great things for ALL people. As black people it is our resposibility to take care of our own but it is also important to give to those who don't look like us, otherwise we are no better than THEM.
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