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Topic subjectRE: Prince is the opposite of a well-loved personality.
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2548879, RE: Prince is the opposite of a well-loved personality.
Posted by murph71, Sat May-14-11 09:19 PM
>This post is not (at least as far as I can tell) about who
>makes the best music... so My_SP1200 is missing the point by
>trying to dissect the quality of Snoop's discography.
>
>I mean, think about this: Snoop is, by definition, a "gangsta
>rapper."
>
>A GANGSTA RAPPER.
>
>Actually, a gangsta rapper who has produced a series of
>pornographic videos.
>
>And yet he gets hired to do TV commercials and invited to
>appear on "Sesame Street."
>
>He's a gangsta rapper who is known to smoke a lot of weed, to
>the point that it's the main thing associated with him in the
>mainstream... yet, how often do you hear about him being
>busted?
>
>The cops probably smell marijuana smoke coming from a car and
>pull him over, when they see his face they're like "Oh, it's
>just Snoop... Ride on, player!"
>
>Snoop could probably light a blunt on a plane and everybody
>would think it's cute.
>
>And then he's a gangsta rapper who starred in a Cosby-esque
>reality show and then goes back to making gangsta records and
>is never criticized.
>
>Snoop just gets a pass all around.



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