Texts from Bennett

Doesn't have the same ring to it, does it?

nope

wait are u really arguing that the intents and motivations of race-record covers in the 1950s are indistinguishable from these siccening internet whites?

*pops pecs in tumblr whites*

im nearing my forget coop its ilxtown threshold but obvs max otm you must be fucking joking people

Guys! Guys! Hey, I'm really the only arbiter of all things white here. I mean, none of you people are even related to me afaIk.

(siccening?)

black/white, all are welcome on the information superhighway!

I fcuking hate you ppl for making me listen to Autotune the News btw.

not even close max - im saying that yer making value judgements re: what kind of racism is more problematic and you seem to be siding on the idiots on youtube are the worst position vs yknow black people not getting paid for shit they wrote so

also OH GOOD A RACISM THREAD so really we can stop now, i just thought your dismissal was a little too pithy and supportive of the idea that white peeps in the 50s were just trying to bring that great R&B to the masses because they cared maaaan.

texts from boonepat

just to be clear my dismissal was not intended to be an accurate reading of race and the music industry in the 1950s

yeah sorry, i just get all aggro about that whole thing because of the creeping prominence of that particular revisionist version nowadays

sobering commentary from PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE

now I feel bad for distracting from this threads true intent which is to clown forks

Have we delved enough into gender politics yet? Arguments about suburbs? Feel like we could make this the ultimate ilx thread if we try.

or we could just make fun of your username

arent tacos the worst? also athiests are jerks

tbh we already covered display names upthread, but be my guest

Have we delved enough into gender politics yet? Arguments about suburbs? Feel like we could make this the ultimate ilx thread if we try.

sorta feel it is closer to creating an ilx constitution by piecemeal outlining the crimes & misdeeds involved in posting

oh boy this again huh guys awesome

like it took a month to shoehorn a rehash of the Nina Gordon/Straight Outta Compton thread into the sandbox and you're calling Mac Lethal slow

most ilx of all tho is the wandering eye rollers

"IM WORRIED ABOUT COOP"

http://images.wikia.com/twinpeaks/images/7/76/GordonCole.jpg

hah

http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/3-hangin-with-mr-cooper-1009-lg-48012979.jpg

who got this

he seems sad

well he was reading this thread

sometimes youre just not in the mood to hang

there is nothing outside the text

lol

what happened to the lols

this thread used to be about the lols

I don't even know who you are anymore

yeah that girl sweetly singing "til the sweat runs down my balls" was definitely just exploring the melodic possibilities of the lyric for purely musical reasons

are you seriously arguing that people need to treat a lyric like "til the sweat runs down my balls" w/reverence and respect for the historical weight of sweat running down people's balls

til the web takes down my tumblr

my balls are historically heavy

most ilx of all tho is the wandering eye rollers

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:36 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

yeah i don't know who henrietta is but drive-by smh-ing is the worst

my bad

yeah that girl sweetly singing "til the sweat runs down my balls" was definitely just exploring the melodic possibilities of the lyric for purely musical reasons

are you seriously arguing that people need to treat a lyric like "til the sweat runs down my balls" w/reverence and respect for the historical weight of sweat running down people's balls

― undervalued aerosmith tchotchkes sold in bulk, Thursday, December 29, 2011 2:08 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

um no, not at all? my post was in response to resident devil's advocate iatee saying "I'm not getting the sense they're doing it for lols"

my stance: if you dont have balls, if youre not sweaty, dont sing it

it's a feminist move, like aretha making otis's "respect" her own

ya I'm just skeptical that 'white college kids do a cover of a rap song' is this inherently racist thing, like obv it can be a lot of the time but I'm not willing to assume it always just is. that clip wasn't a bunch of kids posing and making gang sings. doing shitty covers of things is an important part of american college culture, see: acapella.

I'm not getting the sense they're doing it for lols, they probably think their 'get low' sounds really good. I didn't get that they were nec mocking something.

― iatee, Thursday, December 29, 2011 11:31 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

i really thought this post was shooting down the idea that there was any humor in the "Get Low" cover, not whether that humor was of a mean-spirited or racist nature

im happy to say that its inherently racist if that means that no one ever does it again

white college kids do anything is inherently racist

bringing this full circle was it racist when whiney went on stage w/ public enemy

I'm willing to go w/ 'yes'

anyway maura's thing about karmin chick looking kind of pained while she raps and then delighted when she gets to show she can REALLY SING, Y'ALL was a good summation of how this stuff inevitably has a kind of condescending attitude toward rap that's not very tied to race per se

tbf whiney is an irl 'public enemy'