Archive for the ‘hip-hop’ tag
Diddy Did It? #
I don’t know how I missed this. Apparently the LA Times ran a story this morning that said, essentially, they’ve got more evidence that Sean ‘P Diddy’ Colmes knew in advance about the 1994 shooting and assault of Tupac Shakur. I didn’t see it ‘til this story showed up on my radar. Whether the Times is right or not, it’s interesting to see the story coming up again 14 years later. And it’s a reminder of this fact:
On Sept. 7, 1996, Shakur was fatally wounded in a drive-by shooting on the Las Vegas Strip. Six months later, the Notorious B.I.G. was shot dead in Los Angeles, also in a drive-by. No one has been charged in either slaying.
EDIT (3/26/2008): The Smoking Gun is calling the “new documents” forgeries. The Times promises to investigate. (via DF)
Snoop Dogg Maybe Rejects the “B” Word #
The Daily Intelligencer brings the positive but provisional news that Snoop Dogg may be thinking hard about hip-hop’s tendency to misogyny.
At Monday’s Hip-Hop Summit Action Network awards gala at Capitale, honoree Snoop Dogg repented for some of the harsh language he’s used against women in his songs. “I’m not trying to do anything to offend nobody, but y’all’ve got to understand, I’m from the East Side,” he said. “I worked hard to become a man on my own. My mother showed me how, but she couldn’t really teach me how to become a man. My father wasn’t there. I never knocked him for that. But the playas that I learnt from, they taught me the wrong way. … It wasn’t until once I got older and got married and had a daughter and had kids and started to realize that now my music is starting to swing in a different direction, because I understand that I was wrongfully taught.”