Purple Ribbon...What Does It All Mean?

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During this last month Big Boi's Purple Ribbon label has been splattered everywhere, even this site. So me being the info seeker that I am, I did some research to find out what the meaning behind "The Purple Ribbon" title is. Many might argue, who care's as long as the music's tight...I feel ya' on that too. But anyway, let me share with you what I found.

One site acknowledges the symbolism of the purple ribbon by saying that in many cultures and religions the color purple is associated with a higher spiritual calling. It's the favorite color of many Pagans (hmmmm) and it's a color most everyone seems drawn to. It's warm yet cool, a balance of the color energies.


Another site, Purpleribbon.org is an organization that fights against child abuse and neglect, with the headlining slogan "Because it Shouldn't Hurt to be a Child"...Interesting?

Another Purple Ribbon site campaigns against domestic violence and uses the purple ribbon to symbolize "Bruises women have sustained at the hands of their abusers"

My conclusion, well the purple ribbon is definitely used to campaign for or against something. So...I wonder what campaign Big Boi is targeting?

Posted by SOHH Southern at November 16, 2005 05:22 PM

Comments

It got to do with dogs. Its the highest honor a dog can receive, and you know about big and his pits.

Posted by: Chris at November 15, 2005 08:35 PM

It's obviously a camron diss.

Posted by: Jiay Quanh from STL at November 16, 2005 01:28 AM

probly to symbolise the purple bruises Andre 3000 has left on his ass.

Posted by: ESSCAY!!! at November 16, 2005 04:51 AM

hahaha should call that shit purple band aid.... nice site esscay

Posted by: KJ - killaco at November 16, 2005 04:57 AM

Washed up artist rounded up, Is what it represents. Yeah big boi has talent but he doesn't have enough talent to turn bubba sparkx into eminem of the south.

Posted by: Kayser9soze at November 16, 2005 06:30 AM

All c'mon y'all...

Everyone knows that "purple" is the main color in the Fag rainbow flag, and being that Big Bio is from Atlanta and Atlanta being the biggest Faggot capital next to San Fag-sico... well, it's obvious what that nigga is saying!

HE GOING INTO THE DIRECTION OF "HOMO-HIP-HIP"!

Yep... you heard it first from ME!

Posted by: Cutty_Ranks at November 16, 2005 08:30 AM

damn yall nigga down south and cant rep for ya peps!! purple ribbon is the purest breed of dog you can get. if a dog is considered purpleribbion bread, u can trace its bloodline back 6 or 7 generations. its comes from Big Boi's love of dogs!

Posted by: Primo at November 16, 2005 08:56 AM

Damn yall are stupid...please try to focus your energy on something else, damn!

Posted by: c'mon man at November 16, 2005 10:31 AM

What the hell is going on with all this hate? Whatever, I'm not even about to waste time starting an argument.

Posted by: Ncon at November 16, 2005 10:33 AM

...well I think for the most part who and the hell gives a fuck what the purple ribbon definition is... my question is why take this blog serious?

Big Bio named his production company after a dog award... okay, good for him! Big-fuckin'-deal!!!!

Posted by: Cutty_Ranks at November 16, 2005 10:49 AM

HEY CUTTY RANKS, FUNNY THAT YOU KNOW THAT PURPLE IS THE MAIN COLOR IN THE GAY FLAG.... MAYBE YOU ARE A FAG, YOU WOULD BE THE ONE TO BUY THE FIRST COPY OF HOMO-HIP-HOP!! :)

Posted by: cuttysafag at November 16, 2005 11:41 AM

Off Topic: But there are too many gay people in atlanta.

Posted by: David at November 16, 2005 11:56 AM

Cutty Ranks....WHY take this blog serious? Because people like me who's first memory in life is hearing Nucleus Jam On It up and down 72nd/Eberhardt in Chicago, Hip-Hop is our way of life and therefore we take it serious. Big Boi represents the birth of the state of Hip-hop today-predominately of the South. Show some respect or take your comments to MTV where CB4 groups (g-unit) have plenty of space left on their dicks for niggas like you to hitch a ride.

Posted by: MILK at November 16, 2005 12:29 PM

everyone knows that what that purp is. got that purp vol.2, duh purple haze

Posted by: brian b at November 16, 2005 12:34 PM

Yall some dumb ass niggas. what Primo said and a few others is correct. if you dont know Big Boi owns a kennel that breeds pitbulls its called pitfalls kennel. purlple ribbon is the purest breed that you can get!

Posted by: Just_Ice at November 16, 2005 01:15 PM

why dont both of you herb ass mufucka kill yo' self. yall shit is trash. i can't believe yall pussies are battlin over the internet...that'a a new one. what are yall like 11 years old or something. you have way too much time on your hands and you are polluting the web. stick to the topic og the blog you morons!

Posted by: Just_Ice at November 16, 2005 03:10 PM

IS THE WHITE POWDER SUPPOSED TO BE ANTHRAX OR COKE MYBE B.C POWDER THATS SHITS GOOD FOR HEAD ACHES AND THATS COOL YOU FREESTYLE ON A BLOG BUT THIS AINT A PROMOTIN SITE DUDE WE COME ON HERE TO HATE ON FAMOUS PEOPLE SO ALL YALL PUT YOUR GLASSIS OF HATEERAID UP................................ AND THROW THEM AT WHITE POWDER

Posted by: tommy moore at November 16, 2005 04:54 PM

I'm just tryin to get money
Fu*k the fame
Standin' on da corna
Hustlin' Caine
Feel my pain
Though my rhymes
you cant stop time
or go back
you just gotta move forward
and face facts
Most my homies locked up
Yo, cant believe it
Its all fu*ked up
Like a paraplegic
Ya wonder how i live it
Just go day by day
Stay on da grind
Its the only way
Yeah Im better than 50
N WHITE POWDER sound like
what i sucked form your mamas tittie
Ill murder both you fake rappers
Stay back
Or ill be forced to clap ya

Posted by: Mike at November 16, 2005 04:55 PM

his campaign is against all the whack ass rappers out there....

Posted by: m3gaman at November 16, 2005 05:00 PM

It all sounds like nigger shit to me. Do you numb in the head koons ever read what you write? No wonder niggers are known as morons.

Posted by: KrazyKoonKiller at November 16, 2005 05:17 PM

White powder is the next big thing!

Posted by: KrazyKoonKiller at November 16, 2005 05:21 PM

This is Mike AKA Little Godfather..i wrote the last rhyme and murdered white powders and goats skills

Posted by: Mike at November 16, 2005 05:32 PM

YA ITS YO BOY WHITE POWDER DOING IT REAL BIG... I AM THE CREATOR OF THE NEW MOVEMENT CALLED: FUCK THE BLOGS... IM DOING IT BIG... I APPRECIATE LIL FELLAS LIKE MIKE TRYNNA BATTLE ME.. BUT HE AINT RUNNIN A DAMN THING BUT HIS MOUTH

ITS OFFICIAL I HAVE THE FASTEST FINGERS IN TOWN... WANNA BATTLE ME.. I POSTET TWICE B4 U THOUGHT OF UR FIRST LINE

IM OUT
NO DOUBT
IM A SCOUT
GIVIN A SHOUT OUT
TO THESES FAGS THAT DOUBT

A QUICK 5 LINES B4 I GO CHILL FOR THE DAY... SO YALL CAN HAVE NIGHTMARES.;.

IF YALL SHOW SUPPORT TYPE WHITE POWDER WE SMELL YOU

Posted by: WHITE POWDER at November 16, 2005 06:48 PM

not to hate at all but all three of you are goofballs for battlin over the internet specially with those hodgepodge lyrics you suck!
SELASSIE I JAH RASTAFARI
CONQUERING LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH
EARTHS RIGHTFUL RULER
SELAH

Posted by: RICH PROPHET at November 16, 2005 06:52 PM

DAMN RICH PROPHET....

R U A DOT HEAD
IM A POT HEAD
UR COMMENT SUCKS
UR MOMS I FUCKS

Posted by: WHITE POWDER at November 16, 2005 07:11 PM

You "POSTET TWICE B4 U THOUGHT OF UR FIRST LINE" cuz ur rhymes are as elementary as ur bitch that im fu*kin'

Posted by: Mike at November 16, 2005 07:24 PM

this wack ass blog and comments made me laugh out loud. LMFAO@mufukas battlin! classic.

Posted by: DJ Fukalya at November 16, 2005 09:16 PM

Free the Lox publishing

Posted by: ez at November 17, 2005 12:03 AM

yo ENGLANDRESPECT... wanna show england some respect.. then stop commenting, u faggot ass bitch... go have a nice cup of tea at 5 o'clock

Posted by: H at November 17, 2005 08:29 AM

the dog thing is right...big boi had/has a company that does breeding of dogs for competition

Posted by: rich k at November 17, 2005 08:45 AM

Cutty_Ranks Fag people follow fag things. you fit the discription. Batty bwoy, go suck your madda, and run down your fadda and suck him too!. Scrams!!!

ATL Westside ZONE1

Posted by: reggieshotta at November 17, 2005 08:49 AM

How did we go from the Purple Ribbon to Internet Rap Battle?

Posted by: Logica at November 18, 2005 12:01 PM

Y'all... Purple Ribbon is hot.

Posted by: Kel from AK47 at November 20, 2005 06:32 PM

Yo white powder you've got crazy skillz.


NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: hata 4 life at November 23, 2005 01:20 PM

i mean damn do u itchy dick and stank pussy hoes ever get the fuck off the net and wash ya ass.and why white people think since eminem,paul wall and bubba sparks came in the rap game that? yall can just jump up and start rappin well new flash bitches yall are still corny and wack now bitch thats right i posted it hoe im a racist i hate you pickle suckin fuckas

Posted by: yeah bitch i posted dat at November 27, 2005 04:43 AM

at least he didn't call it purple dookey.

Posted by: hobbit at November 30, 2005 05:50 AM

YO WHITE POWDER
THAT SHIT U TYPE IS SOUR
GET YOUR VOCAB UP
YOU TYPE LIKE A FAGGOT GETTING FUCKED
PLEASE BELEIVE THE ILLEST IS HERE
LISTEN FOR THE CLAP WHEN THE STRAP IS AT YOUR EAR.
KILLING SHIT

Posted by: THE ILLEST at December 2, 2005 02:58 PM

news flash wheres the cash
give me the work or thats your ass
not a mumbling word ya heard
fuck it duct tape this bird
The ILLEST!!!!!

Posted by: THE ILLEST at December 2, 2005 03:27 PM

Sorry, NIGGERS, but it’s true: your race are a failed race because you’re a feckless, unruly, uncivilized horde of feral proto-humans. You never figured out how to live in a society bigger than one or two squabbling families. Starting thousands of years ago, everyone else on this planet without exception did - they invented religion, the idea of law, and the ideas of property and respect for the value of human life. This enabled tribes to coalesce into bigger groups and become organized. The rest is history, or rather civilization.
But your lot never did this, did they? Abstract thought and problem-solving have never been the black man’s strengths, have they? Did they invent a long-lived and intellectually coherent religion? Nope. Did they ever build a city? Nope. Did they even invent bricks? Nope (the reason there’s no Stonehenge in Africa is because it took more than 20 people to move the slabs of rock - clearly a non-starter in Africa, where assembling more than 20 niggers normally results in a war). Did they till the land? Nope. Did they domesticate an animal for their use? Nope. Did they invent a written language? Nope. Did they invent the wheel? Mainly, nope. Were they curious enough about what lay out across the sea to sail upon it? Nope.
And blacks are the only “humans” on this planet of which all this is true. Eskimos are more technically advanced than blacks were, despite the handicap of having no raw materials to work with other than dead fish and snow. Indians managed to domesticate the elephant. Why couldn’t Negros?
So why do you fail everywhere even today? Let me offer a hypothesis. It’s because feral behavior - innate savagery, murderous violence if annoyed, predisposition to rape many women and thus fecklessly father many children - conferred valuable survival advantages on individuals in the backward, Paleolithic milieu of Africa. But they don’t help your kind in a civilized society. Unfortunately for the rest of us, the last few hundred years have not been long enough for these behaviors to have been domesticated out of you all. So you’re all still at it.
Let me illustrate this for you by analogy. Technically, an American pit bull terrier and an English golden retriever are exactly the same species. They can produce offspring, if crossbred.
The former was bred to exhibit certain characteristics - wanton aggression, propensity to fight, physical strength, powerful bite, and so on. The latter was bred to retrieve birds shot and killed by its masters, and to do this, it has to have a docile, placid, unaggressive nature; otherwise it would treat what it found as its own kill and refuse to hand it over.
Now imagine that your small children, aged maybe two or three years old, are going to be locked in a room with five or six of those dogs, and the dogs haven’t been fed for a week.
Which breed would you rather lock in there with *your* children? Hungry pit bulls, or hungry golden retrievers? Or do you figure that, even though they *look* differently, they’re all the same species really, so of course the pit bulls certainly won’t act any differently?
Exactly!
All this PC crap we hear spouted in the media about how “there’s no such thing as race” is just that - crap. A dog has four legs and a tail; a cat also has four legs and a tail, but that doesn’t make it a dog. The superficial similarity between cats and dogs and between whites and blacks is just that - superficial. If there really were no genetic difference between niggers and humans, then presumably my white woman and I could very easily produce a black baby between us at any time, and any nigger and his ho a white one.
Whenever blacks achieve a certain critical mass numerically in a pre-existing non-black society, they start to exhibit their natural feral behavior and to turn their environment back into a recognizably African, essentially Stone Age one. Thus, Africa has the jungle; black enclaves have “da ‘hood.” Native Africans were small wandering herds of marginal animals, one famine away from extinction, and which therefore fought each other savagely for pieces of territory. Large groups of African-Americans?at liberty in the west actually deliberately break themselves down into *smaller*, tribal hordes, because they feel uneasy in and unaccustomed to a larger society. Negro gangs of twenty to fifty individuals assert their rights to tag?other peoples property through gang violence, but fail to co-operate otherwise.
For instance, a 15- or 20-strong horde of Negroes was recently filmed by a security camera inside a London bank they were robbing. Once they had terrified the cashiers into handing over the money, they then fought *each other* for it, in the middle of the cashiers hall, like hyenas fighting over an antelope. Having stolen from the bank, they instantly started to steal from each other. The idea of escaping first, then sharing the swag, was just too complex for them to understand, never mind implement.
And so it goes on. You *cannot* fuse blacks into existing large societies or standalone nations because they are just plain not adapted to it. I’m sorry for you niggers and for your savagery, and I’m sorry you were born a violent black aboriginal savage in a civilized society, but I’m more sorry for the white societies that are having to tolerate all your crime while we try to absorb you.
This is why all black nations fail economically and sink into corruption, civil war, and permanent dependence on the white man’s generosity.
And presumably this is also why you pathetically allowed yourselves to be enslaved: you’re savage enough still to be angry about it long after it ended, but you were too backward to stop it at the time. No black Spartacus, is there? Why no slave uprisings among blacks? Slaves repeatedly rose against the Romans even they knew they’d be crucified for it, when captured.
*White* slaves, that is. They cared enough about their stolen liberty that they were prepared to risk even that. So whats different about the Negro? Why did you all sit there, enslaving each other even in America, and still enslaving each other even today in Africa, until a kindly but misguided white benefactor set you free? Is it because, as slaves, you were fed, watered, and housed, and that you as a race had no ambition beyond that if it entailed doing any work or taking any risks? What are you - lazy, cowardly, stupid, or all of the above?
And you’re *still* bleating about slavery now. If slavery is the root of all your problems, why did Australia prosper? England used Australia as a dumping ground when her prisons overflowed. Within a hundred years, a nation manufactured from convicts in irons had its own autonomous elected government, and barely a hundred years on from then, Australia is now a major economic power in the Pacific. And at no time have *they* niggerwhined for handouts from the mother country - in fact, if anything, it’s mostly been the other way around.
You know what? It’s because Australia is *white*. Oh yes it is. Just imagine if theres been a Black Australia. Look how few aborigines were able to live in Australia’s climate, and now look at how many whites can. If President Monroe had sent his niggers there, they’d be niggerwhining about how Bwana dumped de po?black folks on a desert island in the middle of nowhere, so they never had a chance. Every week there would be news of a new famine or civil war in Australia. The Africoons would be slaughtering the Aborigines, or the other way around, or whatever. The collecting tin would come out regularly, but the money would be stolen and spent on Kalashnikovs, and Black Australia would still owe Whitey billions which we’ll be expected to just forget. If all those unfortunate convicts we sent out there had been black, Australia today would just be yet another Liberia - a crappy failed nation of murderous warring niggers, with one hand held permanently out for money in the general direction of Bwana. And you know it.
So quit whining and thank the white man you live in America, not in Africa.

Posted by: FESTLER U MONKEYS at December 2, 2005 11:14 PM

'Feral U monkeys' I know you are going to read this because of all the time you must've spent writing what you just wrote. Do you really believe blacks are the only 'race' of people capable of savagery? Is it because black people do not murder in suits? I mean seriously if you wanna blame a particular race we can start by blaming the 'generous white man.'

I mean the Native Americans thanked the white man for trade and commerce only to receive mass murder and genocide in exchange. We went to war against Hitler his 'generous white friends' and President Trauman(another holy white man) used that as an excuse to slaughter millions of japanese citizens, not militia common women, men, and children. And to this day there are old white men saying how proud they were when they saw what they did. You say blacks should forget about slavery, but we always commemorate the holocaust every year.

The point about religion was funny. You're taking claim for creating a religion.

And I'm assuming that racists have a universal belief that blacks never fought for freedom? You're kidding when you asked that question right?

You act as if white people have not commited any crime against the human race. If you really wanna act like you are the chosen race then we wouldn't see anybody hating your 'kind.' I mean you talk about black people globally, but most of the world has brown hair and brown eyes, and most of the world cannot stand America; a 'christian nation.'

Point of the matter is we are one race, we are capable of the same good, and same evil. It's just the white race has done a lot of um 'good' for humanity in order to get to the level of power they have now right.

Let's be honest with ourselves don't just point at others.

Posted by: AnonymousKid at December 3, 2005 01:17 AM

Im BLACK and indian and sorry I dont thank the WHITE man for anything. I thank my own peple for fightin for what all they fought for and Im nowhere near racist and I feel like some of your IGNORANT comments are.

Posted by: LIl N at December 4, 2005 06:26 PM

Y be anonymous just be real with yours, say it, and feel like yo right(even through you nowhere near it). I wouldnt get on you level and talk about others or you and your ignorance-thats what your showin. Have you been taught anything???? *I bet Im younger than you and have alot more knowledge.

Posted by: LIl N at December 4, 2005 06:30 PM

LIL NIGGER:Log-off and go back to school...

Get your learn on you stupid primate.

The use of ebonics makes your point that much more absurd.

Just think. They already have a cell with your name on it PATNA!!!!

Fo Shizzle!!!

Posted by: Festler U Yard-ape at December 5, 2005 08:38 AM

Festler u have the IQ of Mayo. literally. first off Africa is the cradle of civilization. point blank. we did build cities and have written languages and established religions. the Egyptians are easily an example of that. matter of fact lets take a trip through history. it was the Moors that civilized Europe. they were Black. while ur people were sendin children into wars and worrying about potato shortages we were we were flourishing. while u were fightin off the plague we were mining gold and tilling our land or did u forget about the river cities like those of the Nile???? as for Australia and aborigines bein able to survive there...they did it for hundreds of years with England so that argument there is moot. and lets be a lil more real right now. Black American culture is more dominant than any other in this country. whites are just yes men and lackies holdin on to our coattails. everything unique to this country comes from Black Americans. we give the country identity.

Posted by: FlyYungMan at December 7, 2005 10:35 AM