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Snoop the Role Model??? F**K that.
Posted on January 10, 2007 2:16 AM
So I’m a little confused. Apparently there’s a special that’s scheduled to air on the Spike network next Tuesday called “Big Snoop Dogg’s Youth authority: California”. The program will find Calvin taking a trip down memory lane, visiting various sites in Long Beach where he used to chill/bang at, the juvie hall he stayed in, and the place where he got jumped into the East Side Long Beach Crips in 1982. Apparently the program’s director is hoping that to “use the stories of kids still caught up in what Snoop once lived.”
Umm... what the fuck?
Last time I checked, Snoop’s still living that life- 2006 saw him breaking new records in the “rappers getting arrested” category, and it also seemed like the year that Snoop decided once and for all to claim Crip on each and every track he ever appears on. If the point of this program is really to prove that Snoop has moved on from being a gangbanger to live the live of a successful adult man, they might want to push the release date back.
I appreciate that Snoop would like to be a positive role model of sorts for struggling kids. But he’s not doing it. I definitely applaud him for doing some positive things in the community (the football program, etc.), but it all pretty much gets negated by all the shit that pops up in the media. And while conspiracy theorists can claim all they want that cops or the media are setting him up (which is unlikely, at best), there’s no one else to blame every time he glorifies gangbanging (on and off wax) or brags about the year that he spent systematically destroying his marriage so that he could go become a pimp. What better way to improve the self images and self esteem of girls and young women than to idolize a man who explained the aforementioned actions (in an interview on allhiphop.com in September of '06) with, “I wanted to see if I could get some money out of a bitch, and I did. I wanted to see if I could make a bitch do what I [told her to] do, and I did. I had fun... That’s what I wanted to do, and I did that and I ain’t gotta explain that shit to nobody.”
I understand that nobody’s perfect, but maybe we could choose our heroes a little more wisely. As adults, the majority of us can discern the difference between reality and entertainment, and that the people we choose to admire for their ethics and/or morals will probably not be rappers. But kids are a bit more impressionable, and to allow a rapper who makes irresponsible decision after irresponsible decision to step up on a pedestal and present himself as the new messiah for inner-city youth is pretty fucking abhorrent.
Comments
It's funny how society chooses whose negative actions they want to ignore, and whose they want to bring into the light. I'm a Snoop fan, but I would never see him for a rolemodel for anything(that includes getting paid)
Scarface is a role model to drug dealers everywhere...at least snoop makes hismoney legitimately and overall does more positive than negatives
spike does not care about snoop being full of shit they know he is good tv and will bring numbers that night its all about the guap regardless who, when, or where you are
spike does not care about snoop being full of shit they know he is good tv and will bring numbers that night its all about the guap regardless who, when, or where you are
Posted by: randy at January 10, 2007 8:02 AM
^^^^^^^^
co-sign
They should show hime going in Death Row Records offices and trying to "Pimp Slap" Suge, like he said on a song. Then they will be doing a R.I.P Snoop special the following show.
what positive influence does snoop have to even be considered a "role model"???
what positive influence does snoop have to even be considered a "role model"???
you cant be serious! so ur saying you can be a role model if u are a bad person? hell no u cant! snoop dogg is by no means a horrilbe person. snoop is one of the the coolest people god has blessed us with. but duke is doing some questionable shit as of late! in order to be a role you have to do right in order to be right!
I'm from the South and Snoop is one of my all time favorite rappers. That being said dude does some positive things, but he is not without his flaws. I don't hold that against him though, he just needs to lay off the blow. But his new album is bangin.
Snoop Dogg is a goddamn hypocrite and that's that.
chuuuuuuuuch!
Snoop aint no muthafuckin role model....he's just reinforcing the "who cares if i go to jail,etc... ill just be a rapper..."mentality of black kids in the hood. Snoop has made alot of money and shit, but he still bangs, if you can call it bangin, nigga be payin hood niggas to protect him. He bangs from the suburbs in his gated community. Snoop aint even that gangsta. Do a Tv show about easy, or the relatives, south central cartel, or b brazy and them niggas on fig... some real niggaz... Snoop isnt no real og. everybody i know done been locked up, sold drugs, gangbanged, so that shit aint impressive....I already know what snoops show will be about "im from the streets of long beach, yadda yadda, i've been bangin forever, yadda yadda, its in my blood, cuzz, yadda yadda." Snoop is ignorant, and he is visibly withering away, and that dont happen from smokin kush...if snoop was still in the hood, he would be breakin into houses so he could "hit the dope spot". fuck fake ass snoop, he aint no gangsta...daz, none of them fake ass niggas...he had to pay real niggas from long beach (eastsidaz) because he was gettin slapped up everywhere he went, by bloods and crips... do a tv show on Suge, a REAL GANGSTA who WENT TO COLLEGE and PUNKED THE SHIT OUTTA FAKE ASS GANGSTA RAPPERS for DAT CHEESE, almost legally too....thats a muthafuckin role model niggas.
@ Mayoroflosangles
"Suge, a REAL GANGSTA who WENT TO COLLEGE and PUNKED THE SHIT OUTTA FAKE ASS GANGSTA RAPPERS for DAT CHEESE"
^^^You always say the realist shit. I know alot of G's in college. You have to kno who wto make the best moves in life. when to advance and when to fallback and chill. Life is a chess game. I'm in college now and i'm transferring back to California (san diego) and gonna be the ROLE MODEL and encourage my black and latino brothers to come up and get paper without having the law on your back evry waking day.
as far as Snoop, I semi-like Snoop as a rap artist but as a person he is actually one of the most ignorant black performers ever! He says the most retarded things in his interviews. On the artistic side his raps are getting weaker, all he does is SPELL HIS NAME FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS ON EVERY FUCKIN SONG. Nas had to force Snoop with the pistol to get more lyrical on his album (hip-hop is dead). How come Snoop's verse on Nas's album is hotter than Snoop's album. Hmmmmmmm? (ghost writer?)Did Nas pen a few lines for Snoop. Here is are a average Snoop line structure that I MADE UP:
Its the Boss Dog
I thought you knew this
Big Snoop i stay true to this
you can't fade me
I send the blue boyz to spray thee
having your mama say:
I miss my Bay-bee!!
^^^^This verse don't exist. Its just a example of something snoop would say. The nigga is the most predictable hip-hop artist other than lil'john.
idolize a man who explained the aforementioned actions (in an interview on allhiphop.com in September of '06) with, “I wanted to see if I could get some money out of a bitch, and I did. I wanted to see if I could make a bitch do what I [told her to] do, and I did. I had fun... That’s what I wanted to do, and I did that and I ain’t gotta explain that shit to nobody.”
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That shit was stupid when he left his wife to be a pimp. nigga dem hoes gonna give u money cause u Snoop Dogg. WTF a real pimp do his shit out of game talk not cause he fucking famous. Nigga i get money out of hoes all the time and hoes pay 4 my shit all the time I think Snoop should stayed in his lane. Cuz that pimp shit aint for everybody.
it's about ratings, man.
you know what's so funny about this shit? its that people like somehow expect these dudes to be role models...like they get a seven figure advance and self-actualized by jimmy iovine or whoever. i remember when that vibe fork stabbing happened and all these white folks were like, all them g-unit dudes are rich, why do they have to act so ignorant? it's like newsflash, buck, yayo and 50 were crack dealers (and violent ones at that). fuck all the "he ain't gangster" talk, some of these dudes really were conditioned by the streets, had all that ignorant shit hardwired into them. snoop is a pothead. so he's chill, but he's also a fucking gang member who has been in trouble with the law since the early nineties. fuck do people expect? what y'all think dmx should be teaching sunday school cause he made lord gave me a sign?
@ SOHH BLOGGERS AND YOUNG HIP-HOP FANS
Let me show you SNOOP FANS how Snoop SHOULD be rapping like. This verse don't exist, i am just gonna GHOST WRITE for Snoop, hopefully he will read this:
( should be imagined in snoops laided back voice)
Blue Black attack
7:30, re-up for the get back
Never cap'em in the back
Man-up, Face to face
Let the "K" OFF
Relax 'nef,
I'll see y'all...
Creepin on the sidelines
Grab the P-9
This is Tru-Life, C-Crime
You witnessed it on my last ryhme
I'm forced to wear tubesocks
Not to fashion trend
Just to STASH and VEND
Muitiple vendattas against the Dog
The next time you see Fog
Know the S-N double O-P was around,
your way.
I stay heated and smoke a pound all day
Stop Beefin'
or get laid around your way,
So find a God and bow to pray.
Cuz I vow to stay...
True to this GGGGGGGG shit!
All I need is a hammer and a ful clip
maybe some chocolate,
and a homie crip.
It's that GGGGGGG shit!
You niggaz ain't Gorillaz,ya chimps
I'm notjust a G imma pimp.
Ask ya moms!
( End of Verse)
I'm from a place so far out of touch from Snoop Dogg, and I can honestly say he single-handedly made gangbangin look cool to enough impressionable youths.
Got lil niggas in fuckin South Africa hangin blue-flags on the left side of their khakhis, puttin blue laces in their chucks, and usin that appauling, misubderstood "cuzz". With that said, Snoop Dogg is no role model!!
wtf
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worst idea in history......
Man nobody believes Snoop is a model citizen.....fuck outta here I work at a stadium and when he was here at his Wild Wild West concert the nigga stayed smokin on the stage all night....He been arrested Damn i dont know how many times, 50 been shot up, Game been shot up, there aint one rapper thats a 100% model citizen, all these niggas come from the hood, its the mentality.....well maybe Fresh Prince, he the only one.....
Clothing featuring the late Bay Area rapper Mac Dre has been banned in Riverbank, Calif. due to the slain rappers “glorification of drug use,” educational officials told the San Jose Mercury News.
Riverbank Unified School District board members voted unanimously yesterday (Jan. 9) to ban clothing bearing Mac Dre’s image or brand name at the district’s only high school, Riverbank High.
Mac Dre’s clothing was added to a long list of banned names and labels that the school district prohibits from the dress code.
School officials said Mac Dre's popularization of the word "thizz, " which is street slang for the drug ecstasy, was the reason the rapper's image was banned from the school.
According to Riverbank High’s principal Ken Geisick, none of the high school’s students have been disciplined for having possession of or using ecstasy in the last four years.
Geisick also told the Mercury News that images of other popular Bay-Area rappers are still permitted on clothing.
Administrators review the school’s dress code policy every year.
Other phrases and brands on the banned include "eight ball," "Joe Camel," "Nor Cal," "Rolling Hard," "Sol Beer," "south pole" "vato loco" and others.
Officials noted that many of these phrases and images are prohibited because they are affiliated with gangs.
Mac Dre was gunned down in Kansas City, Mo., in 2004 while returning to his hotel after a concert performance.
how can snoop be a role model when all he does is promote drug use. how can this weed head be a little league coach, america whats happening with right and wrong.
who's gonna be our next kids role model a f*!KING SERIAL KILLER.
AMERIKKKA! wake up drug use is bad and we all know this.
ITS A SHAME I BET IF THIS TREND CONTINUES THE NEXT GENERATION, NEWBORNS AND BABES ARE GONNA BE A BUNCH A DRUG USER AND TIME WILL ONLY GET WORSE AND MORE DANGERUOS. LETS GO BACK TO THE REAL TIMES WHEN WE ARE KNEW THE DRUGS WERE BAD AND KILL YOU AND ONLY LOSER USE DRUGS....
I'm getting tired of folks using gang affiliations as a reson to hold a man back. If Snoop said he spoke for Republicans/Democrats he would be called a sellout. If he spoke on the condition of Africans it would be a publicity stunt. so, maybe adults black and white should pool their money together, get a reality show and show kids what life is about living check to check. Or better yet raise your own FUCKING KIDS!
I don't listen to The West, as far as Hip-Hop wise. The West has about 2 solid rappers out, which is a good thing for Hip-Hop. Just limit The West, and the rest of the world lives on in Peace and Harmony.
Hip-hop was never like this, I can remember watching Big Daddy Kane rocking that fly 80's gear: slacks a knitted sweater and those brolic gucci links with the flat top looking like "a million bucks" rapping and dancing "ain't no half-steppin", i remember loooking at Slick Rick profiling with his 300 dollar armani slacks and the ballies, i want hip-hop to be stupid-fresh again--If listening to good music, laughing and partying with out drugs or guns is just a back in the day dream of an era gone to all the young people I will say this-- HIP HOP IS DEAD!
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