Seriously. It was like bringing a wooden spoon to a nuclear war.
Jay-Z and Drake have recently put out a little ditty called “Off That” because we all know that Jay-Z is never retiring. In the song he proclaims the many things that we are now “off,” including sagging jeans and large chains and making it rain and many other things I’ve chronicled in my “Limits of Blackness” series where I’m all “WTF, my people. I love you, but I can’t go there with you.” I’m all for it. Reminds me (content-wise) of Lupe’s “Dumb It Down,” another favorite track of mine. But the song also disses conservative yak-meister Rush Limbaugh and FOX News talking head/host Bill O’Reilly. You know? Just because.
This ain’t black vs. white, my n—a, we off that. Please tell Bill O’Reilly to fall back. Tell Rush Limbaugh to get off my balls. It’s 2010, not 1864. We come so far…How’s that for a mix? Got a black president, got green presidents.
My folks at Mediaite are on Pundits Are Not Rap Stars watch, looking out for Bill O’Reilly’s response and have already found Rush’s sad, sad penis related reply.
I would remind the rapper Jay-Z, Mr. Z, it is President Obama who wants mandated circumcision. We had that yesterday. That means if we need to save our penises from anybody, it’s Obama.
Um … FAIL! Horrid, horrid fail and Mediaite explains, in-depth, why this is such a fail.
Apparently, he pulled the idea out of Fox News’ ass, where it then exploded across the trembling right-wing blogosphere. They take a CDC report recommending circumcision as a way to prevent the spread of HIV, and tack on a phrase, “Universal Circumcision,” that appears nowhere in that report, or anywhere else. From there, it’s off to the races for painfully dumb and/or painfully dishonest conservative blogs.
MASSIVE fail. Massive, atomic bomb-type fail. Why did he even try?
This just made me spit coffee all over my office. Rush, you just don’t know when to let things lie, do you? Dimwit.(ps Rush, the circumcision rec. was fist made under Bush the Terrible)
P.S. How did I miss the "Limits of Blackness" series? Gold.
I’m still trying to figure out what’s worse: Rush and Bill-O’s clueless responses, or Jay-Z’s regression from great lyricist to perpetual mail-it-inner.
I just hope keep it on wax.
I forgot the "they". Now my witty commentage in ruined.
Wow. I can’t believe anyone listens to that fat moron.
Can we get an icon of the Fail Whale something? I think it’s most appropriate for this situation kind of like the ORLY owl is for other stuff…
Yikes to the song and to the responses of Limbaugh and O’Reilly.
Now, if we could just get off calling each other Bs and Ns in popular song, we might be onto something!