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I must be getting old, I cannot tell the real women from the transvestites anymore. Honestly, I can’t.

After reading the statement, I am still not sure what the Chris Brown/Drake rivalry is about.  Honestly, that statement fits L’il Kim’s public image. This might be damaging to Halle Berry’s image had she uttered this kind of nonsense,  but not L’il Kim.

I have no idea what she means when she says any of that. What? Good gracious, learn to speak, that’s atrocious. 

@WaitingToShrug@xanga - It’s called “slang” lol… I understood what she was saying.

She has her opinion and I agree with her statements at how it’s easy for people to point fingers at Chris Brown because of his past and we shouldn’t do that. He’s outspoken, doesn’t have a filter which is a BAD trait being under the public eye…  But then when he DOES try to keep mum, people poke at him to see him blow up again, so yeah… ANYwaaay, I think we should just drop this because no one knows the real story or who really truly started it. I don’t even think Chris Brown pointed his finger right at Drake either. People assumed it was Drake because he was there at the same time, so…. who are we to make up stories and try and fill in the blanks?

@pick_my_friggin_nose@xanga - It may be called slang, but what it is is ignorance. Or glorification of thug culture, whichever you think fits. I have no patience with that since the little wannabe thugs roaming my neighborhood started vandalizing our property. My mentally disabled uncle speaks more clearly than that. 

@WaitingToShrug@xanga - Her statement wasn’t even that difficult to understand, though. Could you tell me what part(s) in that statement threw you off? From the way Lil’ Kim speaks isn’t “ignorant.” It’s just the way she talks. Ignorance is the lack of knowledge or information, not in the way a person speaks. I can talk that “ignorant slang”, as you think it may be, to my friends, but that doesn’t mean I’m “ignorant.” Because I listen to rap, hip hop, R&B, soul, etc. where some of the artists skew words into that “ignorant” talk, would that make me ignorant as well because I understand what they’re saying? I’m just curious…

@pick_my_friggin_nose@xanga - Being involved with that culture, thinking that the values it promotes are fine, thinking it’s cool to have been in prison or be a gangster, thinking that I shouldn’t judge a person’s intelligence by how well or poorly they speak, thinking that these ridiculous pissing contests that rappers get into matter- that would be ignorant. Whether any of those apply to you, that’s for you to answer. 

@WaitingToShrug@xanga - So, you mean to tell me because I listen to rap music or because I’ve been to shows and/or concerts where they featured hip hop artists, I’m ignorant? Honestly, I want to know what you think… Are you calling me ignorant? Are you saying anyone who associates themselves in the hip hop/rap culture environment ignorant? Please, let me know. This is interesting.

@pick_my_friggin_nose@xanga - It’s not interesting to me, but if you get a big kick out of it, okay. Listening to rap and enjoying the music is indicative of nothing more than bad taste. When you start dressing, speaking, and behaving like a thug, then you’ve reached the point of ignorance. If you can’t behave decently with normal people and are obsessed with someone “disrespecting” you, or if you have a huge, frail ego always on the lookout for insults, that’s bad. Again, I can’t tell you if you’re there or not. Only you can do that. Since, you know, I don’t know you. 

Garbage.

@WaitingToShrug@xanga - Some of the stuff you wrote really struck a chord with me: “Listening to rap and enjoying the music is indicative of nothing more than bad taste,” and this one was the real kicker:  “If you can’t behave decently with normal people and are obsessed with someone ‘disrespecting’ you, or if you have a huge, frail ego always on the lookout for insults, that’s bad.” Did you read what you wrote before you hit the submit button? And what do you mean by “normal” people? Remember how I gave you the definition to ignorance before? Here, let me give you dictionary.com’s definition(s):

1. lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.

2. LACKING KNOWLEDGE OR INFORMATION AS TO A PARTICULAR SUBJECT OR FACT.

3. uninformed; unaware.

4. due to or showing lack of knowledge or training: an ignorant statement.

You generalizing rap music and the culture as being nothing but bad, tasteless, disrespectful, etc. seems a little ignorant, don’t you think?

Any man who beats a woman like Chris Brown did has no redeeming qualities in my eyes.  Which doesn’t mean Drake isn’t a jerk too.  In fact, I don’t actually know them so I can’t really say.  But I’m 100 percent sure that Chris Brown beat the shit out of Rhianna.  And no man who can do that has true respect.  

@WaitingToShrug@xanga - I think the “disrespecting” issue is what is the biggest problem.  That is solely based on perceived intent and it’s shameful some people subscribe to it in all its forms.  

“Drake’s a bottom” XD

So does this make Chris Brown a top? Or maybe the fight was over who would bottom…? ;D

@Erika_Steele@xanga - for Rhiana

Little Kim is a few weeks past her expiration date.
Her huge claim to fame was “no snitchin”…and that was all she was good for.
Move along…nothing here worth discussing.

Lol.. wow. Just trying to fuel the fire.

They’re all disrespectful niggers and Drake’s just mad that he can’t be apart of “Da Club”. His homeboys are the executives of Sprite soda. Enough said.

@pick_my_friggin_nose@xanga - Lol, I am familiar with that culture. The slang has changed but the attitude is the same. If I didn’t know anything about it, I wouldn’t have commented on it. Also, you seem like you just want me to step on your toes here. Maybe you feel like, um, stepping to an internet stranger, I don’t know, but whatever the deal is, you should get over it. I can’t tell you if you’re ignorant or not, and I’m not really sure what you want me to say… that rap is artistically and intellectually relevant? I don’t know what your point is, so I’m done with this conversation.

@TiredSoVeryTired@xanga - Ugh, tell me about it. There are some rude little thugs in my neighborhood… no job, nothing but petty vandalism and a clothing style that looks like a full diaper to distinguish them, and I’m supposed to respect that? Or worse, some of them believe, fear them? If it was just a type of music, who cares, but the whole idea of “no disrespect” and nothing at all done to merit respect grates on me. They remind me of Juggaloes. Can’t decide who’s worse. And none of them venture outside their own neighborhood.

@WaitingToShrug@xanga - It’s sad that some people create a culture like that.  It’s not just the rap cultures, several other sub-cultures have created the whole, “I ain’t gonna let nobody disrespect me”. 

@TiredSoVeryTired@xanga - True, rap is not the only one. 

@WaitingToShrug@xanga -  – I’m just trying to understand where you’re coming from. Its far-fetched that you have to generalize rap into a culture that’s all about disrespect and not giving a shit, but there are other elements that you seem to not know about. Listen to Common, Mos Def, Talib Kwali, a lot of songs from Tupac, Eli & Grouch, and more. Not all rap/hip hop artists are “thugs,” as seems to be your favorite word to describe them. Some are intellectuals who don’t dress inapproriately (as a matter of fact, Common is VERY good looking well dressed man who I think is very handsome lol), and can speak on a level that isn’t ignorant.. Anyway, I was never trying to “step” on your toes. If you took it that way, then you took my explaining wrong. Hopefully those “thugs” in your neighborhood get caught for their wrong doing. God bless.