Different directions is putting it mildly. This is an interesting study. Both are talented, yet one is evolving and one isn’t:

One, Master P, apologized to women for past songs that demeaned them, while another was defiant.

Former gangsta rapper Master P, whose real name is Percy Miller, told a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing that he is now committed to producing clean lyrics. The angry music of his past, he said, came from seeing relatives and friends shot and killed.

But he said now that he doesn’t want his own children to listen to his music, “so if I can do anything to change this, I’m going to take a stand and do that.”

“I want to apologize to all the women out there,” he said. “I was honestly wrong.”

Good for Master P, I wish him the best.

But rapper and record producer Levell Crump, known as David Banner, was defiant as lawmakers pressed him on his use of offensive language. “I’m like Stephen King: horror music is what I do,” he said in testimony laced with swear words. “Change the situation in my neighborhood and maybe I’ll get better,” he told one member of Congress.

What is Crump doing to change his neighborhood? His victicrat mentality is a major part of the problem in his neighborhood. You have a voice that has caught the attention of many people, Mr. Crump, I suggest you use it for the good of all, rather than the good of just your pocketbook!

AOSHQ points out this gem from Ja Rule:
“They got my man Doug Morris under fire and @#!*, they got him going down to go speak to Congress about hip-hop lyrics, are you @#*$ing serious?” Ja said. “There’s a f–king black kid right now about to get 25 years for having a fight with some white kids over hanging the nooses over the white tree, let’s get to that. Let’s get into sh-t like that, because that’s what’s tearing up America, not me calling a woman a b–ch or a h-e on my rap songs.”
“And if it is, then we need to go step to Paramount, and f–king MGM, and all of these other motherf–kers that’s making all of these movies and we need to go step to MTV and Viacom, and lets talk about all these f–king shows that they have on MTV that is promoting homosexuality, that my kids can’t watch this sh-t,” he continued. “Dating shows that’s showing two guys or two girls in mid-afternoon. Let’s talk about s–t like that! If that’s not f–king up America, I don’t know what is.”

Again with the victicrat mentality. If he does want to discuss those things, could he at least be courteous enough to get his facts straight?

3 Responses to “Two rappers, sitting side-by-side in a House hearing room, went in different directions Tuesday on the need for hip-hop artists to expunge their work of sexist and violent language.”

1. snowy egret
   September 26, 2007 - 12:31 PM on September 26th, 2007

   Will the infamous ICE-T ever appoligise for his nasty rap song COP KILLER?

2. Pam
   September 26, 2007 - 01:56 PM on September 26th, 2007

   Snowy, I don’t think he will apologise, but here is an explanation:

   TV Guide: What do you bring to VH1 Hip Hop Honors as host?
   Ice-T: I personally know all the people being honored. I was in the first Hip Hop Honors, inducting Kool Herc, and last year, [they] inducted me. This time I’m inducting Ice Cube. [It] turned out to be kind of a cool show, you know? When VH1 first decided to do it, hip-hop raised its eyebrows. “Isn’t VH1 Chris Isaak videos?” But they have some people who really know what’s up.

   TV Guide: Are you performing?
   Ice-T: I don’t think I’m going to perform, but I get to do little comedy skits between the shows.

   TV Guide: Your new series, Ice-T’s Rap School, debuts afterward.
   Ice-T: Yeah, they had this show with Gene Simmons called Rock School [filmed in England], and it was cool, but they wanted to do it in the States, and the kids here really weren’t excited about rock. They were more into hip-hop. So [VH1 asked], “Who’s the most odd person to teach your kids?” And they said, “Let’s leave ‘em alone with a gangster rapper!” It sounds odd, but it came out alright.

   TV Guide: You taught them the basics of rap?
   Ice-T: I learned really early in the show that I wasn’t going to have super rappers. A lot of them couldn’t even snap their fingers. I was terrified when I saw that. I really conceded early to the fact that they’re going to rap to the best of their ability and… we’re just going to have them enjoy it.

   TV Guide: Seems like you taught them some life lessons, too. Like when you chastised a girl for using the word “ghetto.”
   Ice-T: Well, the thing is these are kids. If they don’t have somebody to teach them, they’re not going to know. She could say that around the wrong person and be in a fight, so I had to break it down to her: “You know, you just can’t say these things.” But you know, you go to the ‘hood and you tell a kid to put on some Dockers, he’ll say, “That’s what white people wear.” So you’re gonna get that reverse s–t. My job with these kids was to give them a little street sensibilities about how you have to be sensitive about different things.

   TV Guide: What did you learn from the kids?
   Ice-T: I learned that there are some kids out there that’ll break their necks to win, learning-wise. They’re achievers. And I grew up around kids that really wouldn’t put in the effort a lot of the time. These prep-school kids are really honed in on winning.

   TV Guide: Would you ever consider teaching?
   Ice-T: It’s hard to teach [with] one person in the class who’s disruptive. I apologize to all my teachers [for] my years of being the class clown. It’s definitely a very admirable job raising the youth.

   TV Guide: You released the controversial song “Cop Killer” with your metal band Body Count back in 1992, and now you play a cop on TV in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Does that strike you as odd?
   Ice-T: Nah. It doesn’t strike me as odd. It strikes me as odd that I’m an honest citizen in America! [Laughs] Coming from the path where I was out to break the law and wasn’t planning on ever being a “real” person, to be sitting around here and be on television… what a difference a day makes. [But] “Cop Killer” was a protest record about brutal police, and I still don’t have love for brutal police. When I made “Cop Killer” we were dealing with the Rodney King [beating]. It was ‘92. It’s a different day. When I went on Law & Order, Dick Wolf told me straight up, “We know you ain’t that fond of the cops. We want you to play the kind of cop we need.” So that’s the sensibility Fin has.

   TV Guide: With Hip Hop Honors, Rap School and Law & Order, you have a lot going on.
   Ice-T: When you come from the hood, you have so little opportunities. I feel you’re jinxing yourself if you don’t take advantage of them. An old hustler told me, “Turn down nothing but your collar. And keep that up.” So they ask me to host, why the hell not? All I could do is fail.

3. sarah
   September 27, 2007 - 03:41 AM on September 27th, 2007

   this is f$ckin shite

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