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When did Ozzy talk about worshipping the Devil again? When was the last time he bit the head off of a bat? A man that America loves who swears a good deal isn't the same as a generic rapper who spouts off about fucking bitches, slapping hos, and shooting haters. Not the same at all. Oh, wait, Ludacris has had some great songs, I forgot. Like..."Southern Hospitality"..."dirty south women give dirty south head"...or "What's Your Fantasy"...a song encouraging promiscuity...yes, let this man sell our Pepsi products! He's a fine, upstanding young man! Name me one song where Ozzy talks about stuff like that. If you really want to compare the two, call Bill O'Reily a hypocrite, let's get some comparisons going. How in the holy hell are you saying that the two are similar? Its funny that Bill doesn't mention that Luda has his own charity foundation. Getting him off Pepsi is fine and all, but then turn around then replaced him with some pill popping, washed up rocker. I thought Bill was all about family values and Osbornes doesn't resemble any family values that Billy talks about. Billy is a hypocrite plan and simple. Oh by the way, where was Billy at when Dr. Dre was doing Coors beer commericials? or Jay-z when he was doing Heinekein and having his own shoe deal with Rebok? Billy has a personal beef Luda IMO.

R.I.P (Rot In Piss)

Soooooooooo its ok, to replace him with a guy who talks about worshiping the devil, and biting bat heads off?

Another Ludacris Situation Tuesday, March 02, 2004 By Bill O'Reilly Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. Another Ludacris situation. That is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo." You may remember a couple years ago that Pepsi hired gansta rapper Ludacris (search) as a commercial pitchman. "Talking Points" objected, saying major American corporations have an obligation not to reward people who harmed society. Millions of you agreed, Pepsi folded, Ludacris was fired. But now the St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch Corporation (search) has signed a deal with Ludacris, paying him big money to sell beer. Since this guy continues to celebrate violence and drugs, Anheuser-Busch is guilty of aiding and abetting, in my opinion. And I will not be buying their products or visiting their theme parks. And a personal note to the executives at Anheuser. You guys must be nuts. Most Americans deplore the kind of garbage Ludacris puts out, and they're going to remember that you are rewarding him. Pepsi got the message, but you guys don't seem to. Unlike Ozzie Osborne (search), who curses, or Britney Spears (search), who's an immature exhibitionist, Ludacris is hard-core. He glorifies criminal conduct, and kids hear this stuff. Some of those children are from troubled homes and adopt the anti-social attitudes as their own. Ludacris is real big on firearms: Quote: "Hollow bullets I pull it. I'm about to live in vain. And then I drill 'em, refill 'em. Make sure they feel the pain. My shotguns are cold and hard, and my triggers are always talking about some squeeze me, squeeze me. I smack bitches with 'no. Just get a couple of girls that shake their thang." Got the picture? Well, this gangsta stuff is foolish to anyone who's mature, but for impressionable kids, drug and guns make an impression. Anheuser-Busch knows all this and doesn't care. [it] Simply wants to make money and thinks Ludacris can sell beer and malt liquor--Society be damned. So this Bud is not for me any more. Responsible Americans must hold corporations responsible for polluting the country, whether it's PCB's in the water or hyping criminal behavior on C.D.'s. "Talking Points" believes Americans are getting fed up with all of this. And our poll question on billoreilly.com is: "Will you continue to buy Anheuser-Busch products now that the company has hired Ludacris?" Will you continue to buy Anheuser-Busch products now that the company has hired Ludacris? billoreilly.com poll, we want to hear from you. We want to see what the plurality is here. We will, of course, send the results along to Anheuser. But by the time they get them, I suspect the company will have received a message that's anything but ludicrous. Americans have a choice when it comes to buying products. And that's "The Memo." The Most Ridiculous Item of the Day Time now for "The Most Ridiculous Item of the Day." I just couldn't watch the Academy Awards (search) last night. Too boring. I had it on in the background as I did some paperwork and read a book. But I have to say that most of the winners behaved themselves. That makes for a dull presentation, but it shows that drive-by political attacks are now out, that people who manage the stars know that careers are damaged by inappropriate comments. No question about that. Have you heard much from George Clooney or Alec Baldwin lately? High-profile people with opinions are always welcome here on "The Factor" where political discourse is in context, and it's not ridiculous at all that the folks didn't have to put up with political rantings at the Oscars last night. Oh wow, its funny that Ludacris got replaced by Ozzy, but Bill didn't have a problem with that, damn hypocrite. Bill has made this personal with Ludicris, I don't even consider Luda a "gangsta" rapper he's more of a comical rapper IMO.

^No he won't, he's career 12pt scorer to me.

The situation is bad either way, Aristide is corrupt, and the Rebels are not helping. People of Hati will be fucked for a while. Aristide might as well stay with the US officials, because if he go back to Hati it's mostly likely he's going to get killed.

That's another thing that draws fans away from the NBA. They do a lottery based system but they don't do it in front of the fans, they only give the results. Thus there's no way of saying they couldn't be rigging it. How else could the Cavs get the home town hero Lebron James? Of course it is rigged. Let's not forget the Knicks conviently getting the top pick and drafting Patrick Ewing, and Jordan just happened to have won the lottery and had the #1 pick when he was GM/ VP of Player Personnel of the Wizards Yep, and they got Kwame Brown, Brown is a medicore player. So it wasn't like the Wizards got the steal of the #1 pick.

Hopefully Depaul gets in the 65 Tournament. The Cincy game on thursday is big for them.

Actually, Jon B. is married to a black woman. I guess that Jon doesn't dance so he doesn't get as much attention as Timberfake. Ripper, you talk about Jon B's comment getting pops from black audience, I find that funny because look at Timberfake, he went from curly hair, clean shaving, and squeaky soft voice to bald fade, goatee, and talking with a deep drawl in his voice. Its obvious the label covinced him to change his image so he can appeal to black listeners. Im glad Justin got removed to host the show, so I don't have hear him being in forced ebonic/slang mode. I mean they could have Teena Marie hosting or that McDonald guy from the Dobbie Brothers hosting, instead of Timberfake. But can you name one boy band member that still acts like the pretty boy studio made thing they were before they got away from the group. Look at the members of N-Sync and compare their look, and how they act as opposed to what they were like when they came out. They were caricitures of human beings when they first stepped out on the scene. THAT is a studio made persona. And how in the flipping hell does Timberlake act "black". I just don't see all this "he's fake" thing that people want to toss on him now. I honestly don't care for his music, but jeez, the guy acts like a normal human being now and not that THING that he was in N-sync. At least that is what I see. Justin is still a pop star who's attempting to do Pop/R&B. Ever since Justin went solo, he changed his image I saw right through it. Its similar to the Vanilla Ice suitation in terms of appealing to black listeners. To me, Justin doesn't respect the R&B culture, he's just exploiting it to make money. I think he's talented but his image is fake.

^ They could've tapping phone lines as well. The CIA might've been getting some info from blacks that weren't for the movement. *shrugs*

I guess it was a good signing, Dre dropped the ball with Rakim so I don't how Busta is going to work out. I don't know if Busta has an album in him anymore, but he should do well on guest appearances. I have a feeling the Detox album well be more of a compilation album then a solo album since Dre doesn't rap and proably do a couple of songs that were ghostwriting anyway.

Actually, Jon B. is married to a black woman. I guess that Jon doesn't dance so he doesn't get as much attention as Timberfake. Ripper, you talk about Jon B's comment getting pops from black audience, I find that funny because look at Timberfake, he went from curly hair, clean shaving, and squeaky soft voice to bald fade, goatee, and talking with a deep drawl in his voice. Its obvious the label covinced him to change his image so he can appeal to black listeners. Im glad Justin got removed to host the show, so I don't have hear him being in forced ebonic/slang mode. I mean they could have Teena Marie hosting or that McDonald guy from the Dobbie Brothers hosting, instead of Timberfake.

$3 dollars everywhere else but it'll cost $4 bucks in Illinois. It looks like i'll be riding buses and trains during the summer.

TIMBERLAKE OFF MOTOWN 45 TV SHOW: ABC bows to pressure from activists and public. Justin Timberlake (Feb. 23, 2004) *When it was announced that Justin Timberlake had been chosen to co-host the upcoming Motown 45th anniversary, you could smell the funk that "decision" created a thousand miles away. To say folks were pissed, would be putting it mildly. Not only were activists like Ali upset, so were the pundits. “The selection of Timberlake as co-host of this Motown special is a cultural insult to the black community,” said Najee Ali, executive director of Project Islamic Hope. “Before the Super Bowl scandal Timberlake had gotten a ‘Black folks pass,’” Tanya Kersey, wrote for EURweb. “But then he sold out Janet [Jackson] to save his own skin, showing his true colors in the process. It’s a classic case of profiting from black culture, but jumping ship when things get hot. ... And now Timberlake plans to co-host the ‘Motown 45’ television special? I think not!” Well, guess what? Justin's about to make a lotta black folk happy; he's got a convenient, er, perfect excuse for bailing out of "Motown 45" says the show's Executive Producer Jeff Margolis. “When Justin was asked to host the Motown 45th Anniversary special, he gladly accepted, but alerted us to the fact that he was in talks to star in his first motion picture with Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman and that at the last minute there could possibly be a scheduling conflict. The movie in fact is scheduled to be shot in Canada at a time which no longer allows Justin to host the “Motown 45” special. He has canceled all television appearances through the end of April to allow him to concentrate on making the movie.” Yo, I heard this on the radio on the Doug Banks Show this morning that Motown had already scrap the idea of having Justin hosting the show a long time ago. But get this the execs of Motown records didn't have any involvement with show until recently. Mark Goloblatt (sp?) was producing the show. How can you have a show on about Motown without Motown getting involved?

Joke of the night right here. Justin is aight nothing special IMO. To me he's just a white Usher. Jon B> Justin But you said earlier that you had no problem with Usher hosting, so why would the WHITE Usher be a problem? Because White Usher is just a wanna be. But the difference to me is that Usher eventhough he makes pop music could and can make contempary traditional R&B songs that I haven't heard from white Usher yet. I think Timberflake has a fake R&B image and I can't believe how some people bought into that bullshit, listening to Timberflake's songs doesn't make me think Motown Sound. Like I said Jon B (white contempary R&B singer) would be a better host then White Usher. Matter fact I think Motown artists (that are still alive) should host the show. The only reason why the network execs got white Usher to host is because they want to draw white viewers, because most especially white 16-30 demographic wouldn't care or don't know about Motown music history.

Joke of the night right here. Justin is aight nothing special IMO. To me he's just a white Usher. Jon B> Justin

^ See that shows you and most of you on this board don't get it, all they're basically saying that Justin's type of music isn't really what you would think of Motown exactly, which I can agree on, this has nothing to do with him being white.

Scenarios you made up with P. Diddy hosting Country music awards would never happen, because CMA's wouldn't allow it in the first place. I doubt P.Diddy would wanna host the CMA's anyway. Im not saying its race thing with Justin, but I think his music doesn't embody/resemble the Motown sound thats why I feel he's doesn't deserve to host the show. If Jon B host the show I wouldn't have problem with it. I would have a problem if say Ginuwine hosted because dude sucks.

There's no such thing as reverse racism. Reverse Racism=Reaction Its like 50 Cent hosting some Heavy Metal awards or being casted as James Bond. Oh, To Spicy when I was referring our I meant black people and since I happen to be black I figured to include myself.

So your saying that Motown is just another black award show is just stupid. Maybe there wouldn't be alot Black award shows popping up if our achievements wouldn't be excluded or recognized by non black award shows. But, Timberflake shouldn't be hosting because he doesn't embody anything that is Motown. I rather have Jon B host the show if the need a white guy atleast he's real R&B. I think Usher would be good choice to host it.

^ Well, Jesus didn't go to Tech U. eventhough he banged those two chicks, I know he did go to Big State for his pops and all but Big State had better looking females anyway. But there's girls that are like that, if they think you got a shot at going pro and making millions they'll be drooling/slobbing all over your dick.

I think "Girl 6" was the worst movie Spike ever directed. Mo Betta Blues: was ok Crooklyn: Was ok Clockers: Didn't like it all that much Do the right thing: Great X: Great He got Game: One of my favorite B-Ball movies

Black Leaders Express Outrage Over ABC-TV Selection of Justin Timberlake as Co-Host of "Motown 45" Special A coalition of prominent African American organizations and leaders are demanding that the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) remove entertainer Justin Timberlake as co-host of "Motown 45," the upcoming ABC-TV special. Outraged over the selection of Timberlake to co-host this musical celebration, the coalition is launching a national e-mail, fax and phone campaign against ABC to protest Timberlake's inclusion in the Motown tribute. Motown has a proud and historic legacy of being one of America's greatest musical institutions. It has launched the careers of some of the most prominent African American artists in recording history including Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Four Tops, The Commodores, Lionel Ritchie, The Tempations and the Jackson Five. "The selection of Timberlake as co-host of this Motown special is a cultural insult to the black community," says Najee Ali, Executive Director, Project Islamic HOPE. "This special, celebrating the success of the legendary music label, should not be compromised in the pursuit of a crossover audience." In addition, Timberlake's recent handling of the Super Bowl incident has been met with harsh criticism in the black community. He immediately distanced himself following his performance with Janet Jackson and failed to accept his responsibility in the "wardrobe malfunction." "I mean I was completely shocked and appalled, and all I could say was, 'Oh, my God, Oh, my God,'" Timberlake told reporters at a recent Grammy rehearsal. "We cannot support Justin Timberlake co-hosting Motown 45," says Ali. "We are asking concerned citizens to call, fax and email ABC-TV in protest." Call (818) 460-7777, e-mail and send your letters to: Alex Wallau President ABC Television Network 500 South Buena Vista Street Burbank, CA 91521 [email protected] Lloyd Braun Chairman ABC Entertainment Television Group 500 South Buena Vista Street Burbank, CA 91521 [email protected] Andrea Wong Senior Vice President Alternative Series and Specials ABC Entertainment 500 South Buena Vista Street Burbank, CA 91521 [email protected]

^Damn Ripper I thought you was locked up for a doing a white chick in GA.

You really do have a flair for melodrama dont you?? It was a horrid movie. I'd kill to see "Malcom X" directed by a competent director. That being said, yes, Denzel was screwed. I suppose that his Oscar for the blah "Training Day" was a make-up for that oversight. I feel Spike is racist (in "He Got Game", one of his characters said, basically "White girls give it up for nothing. Black girls make you work for it." A little racist, no?) and that his films are, universally, rather bad. Why he's the most prominent black director is beyond me as he clearly is not the most talented. -=Mike About that line, as a former HS athlete and being around star athletes back in high and some people in college that I know say its true. I mean every star in any sport are gonna have groupies not matter of race, but white girls tend to throw themselves at black athletes more than black women just because they're good at their sport and they think that if a brotha have potential to go pro, they don't wanna miss out. How can Spike can be racist when he made the 25th Hour, and usually cast Italians in his movies.