Showing posts with label minstrel show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label minstrel show. Show all posts
Monday, June 18, 2007
Another BS 'smash hit!'
Every year there's more and more commercial hip hop artists that come out with more and more plastic songs. These are the artists you can find on your local FM radio station and on MTV and BET in heavy rotation. Artists like the Shop Boyz and their 'smash hit' (I beg to differ) "Party Like a Rock star." If we as blacks in the U.S. didn't need more shit to be embarrassed about from ignorant Zip Coons like these tap dancing and minstrel flamboyant black males on TV. The more and more ignorant and degrading a song you come out with, the more promo you will get. But behind all the smoke and mirrors, the Shop Boyz like (D4L, Franchise Boyz, MIMS, etc.)are doing all this tap dancing, shucking and jiving on TV screens throughout the world, but are not making truly enough money for the degradation they put themselves for. I cannot blame the record label heads at Columbia and Universal for slaving these morons on TV and FM radio until their overly gaudy lyrics and Nintendo-like production are forgotten by the teeny-bopper generation who have forgotten what to "Walk It Out," "2 Step," "or "Chicken Noodle Soup" is.
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Monday, February 19, 2007
We love you, Zip Coon! You make me Laugh!
"Another version is called "Natchez Under the Hill". The lyrics are thought to have been added to an earlier tune by Bob Farrell who first performed them in a black face act on August 11, 1834.
A satirical version has appeared as:
Do your balls hang low do they wobble to and fro'?
Can you tie them in a knot?
Can you tie them in a bow?
Can you throw them o'er your shoulder like a Continental soldier Do your balls hang low? "
An excerpt from Wikipedia.com about "Zip Coon," a minstrel show character used to stereo type black males during the 1800's. You can see this stereotype of Zip Coon even in today's movies, TV shows and even music videos. If the stereotype of Zip Coon is for the degradation of blacks, then why did commercial rapper, Jibbs (a black man), make a song called "Chain Hang Low" in 2006 using the same melody of the verse above to rap about jewelry? Sad! The verse above from "Natchez Under The Hill," was popularized in today's society being played in your neighborhood ice cream truck repeatedly, and sung in campfire songs such as "Dirty Bill" for all of your children to sing and remember by the tender ages of seven.
Shake hands with the character (stereotype) Zip Coon!
Notice how flashy of a dresser he is. You can see "Zip Coon" in today commercial rap music videos as well...
A satirical version has appeared as:
Do your balls hang low do they wobble to and fro'?
Can you tie them in a knot?
Can you tie them in a bow?
Can you throw them o'er your shoulder like a Continental soldier Do your balls hang low? "
An excerpt from Wikipedia.com about "Zip Coon," a minstrel show character used to stereo type black males during the 1800's. You can see this stereotype of Zip Coon even in today's movies, TV shows and even music videos. If the stereotype of Zip Coon is for the degradation of blacks, then why did commercial rapper, Jibbs (a black man), make a song called "Chain Hang Low" in 2006 using the same melody of the verse above to rap about jewelry? Sad! The verse above from "Natchez Under The Hill," was popularized in today's society being played in your neighborhood ice cream truck repeatedly, and sung in campfire songs such as "Dirty Bill" for all of your children to sing and remember by the tender ages of seven.
Shake hands with the character (stereotype) Zip Coon!
Notice how flashy of a dresser he is. You can see "Zip Coon" in today commercial rap music videos as well...
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