Saturday, January 17, 2009

Biggie = Obama? Negro Please... of January 17, 2008

Dipset rappers (or former Dipset rappers) Jim Jones and Juelz Santana will be providing a free screening of the film, Notorious, to fans. The film covers the life of the late Christopher Wallace, also known as Biggie Smalls and the more popular Notorious B.I.G.

B.I.G was gunned down on March 9, 1997 (a day before my birthday... depressing year) leaving an after-party in California. The slaying has remained unsolved as the rapper’s mother, Voletta Wallace and wife, Faith Evans, continue to seek justice in the aftermath of the tragedy.

"I never got a chance to meet him, so this is me as a Harlem dude saluting a cat from Brooklyn, in a small but meaningful way," Juelz stated. "Jim and I figured that so many people in the Hip-Hop community would be going to the see the movie individually; if we can make it so that everyone sees it together, that's a great thing."

Ditto to that. Most regions are too proud to big up a pioneer from another one, try to convince some ATLiens to get that chip off their shoulder.

However, someone is always going overboard...

"I did it for Hip-Hop," said Jones, who compared B.I.G. to another trailblazer. "It's as big as Obama's being the first black president. This is part of our history in the urban community; Biggie was our first Obama."

Word? Negro Please.

Forget B.I.G. Forget 2Pac. Forget Pimp C. God bless the dead, but NO rapper, dead OR alive, can be compared to President Barack Obama's historic win. "Ready To Die," "All Eyez On Me," or any other classic album by whatever hip-hop artist, any Black artist ever, cannot compare to this win for Black people everywhere.

Jim Jones is an ignorant nigga, not quite as ridiculous as Lil Wayne, but this takes the cake. I want to see "Notorious," but I'm not as geek'd for it as... oh... the Inaguration of President Obama. If someone offered me a free ticket to DC over some free screening, the choice would not be hard.

Biggie = Obama? SMH.

>KABOOM<

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