crabbuckit
if a friend falls off tila tequila's myspace, does anybody notice?
i guess i was thinking about whether or not i'm a hater when i was in the office the other day, and my editor at the mag brought to my attention this vietnamese guy who does the fronts/grill of nelly and crew, who also happens to be a rapper. she thought maybe i could profile him, but i couldn't help but wince when i saw his face. the thing is though, that if i didn't see him, i would've thought of him as any other dirty south rapper, he sounded the same, had that flow, but it was hard for me to digest the fact that that music was coming from that face, especially because he was saying "that" word.
so, am i a hater?
i guess i seek to answer this beyond the obvious and unequivocal "yes" in response to that guy and miss tila "i'm a naked asian chick with a sword who made my whole career on myspace", but this is for the reason that these folks do nothing to dispel, rather perpetuate the ridiculous stereotypes out there of asians.
i realize that personal opinion has a lot to do with things, but why are there so many gay asian boys who just hate on margaret cho? the white asian boys eat her up with double fisting (who's your daddy?!) spoons, but the asian fags, they sort of dismiss her as being low-brow and ranty. hello?! what asian women did you guys grow up around that were not loud and opinionated?
and why do conscious, intelligent hip hop artists hate on kanye? yes, i realize that he's an attention hound, and i don't agree with everything he says or does (no, i did not throw up any diamonds in the sky for roc-a-fella but i will touch it with him, dammit) but isn't it enough that he's using his influence to bring attention to homophobia in hip hop, racism in the presidency, and welfare moms, education, diamond trade, etc, etc, etc.?
even if people believe in the whole heirarchy of race thing (which i wholeheartedly do NOT), isn't it crucial to bring up the whole internalized racism thing, where part of the hate is jealousy? i think that these folks get the backlash from the very folks that they should be hitting home hardest with because they are getting PAID. they get raked over the coals for things that other more influencial people just get away red handed with, and for what? that's why white people just let us to our own devices, because they don't even have to kill us anymore, they're got us so programmed into killing eachother and bringing eachother down that they can just sit back and create more millions basing network tv reality shows on us and making sicker profits because we've provided the free entertainment and we've paid to subscribe for it too. talk about outsourcing and selling back finished products.
why can't we support our own? why can't we be inspired by folks who are more successful than us at any given moment? because if we don't, how can we expect to see any of our own successes if we're too indoctrinated in hate to recognize the love when it comes our way?
if i am not entitled to use the crab bucket reference, then i'll take oysters, as in, the world is mine and i'm about to EAT it. everyone else is invited to come along, but my greyhound (equalizer of people, by the 3rd day, everyone smells the same, bad) is leaving soon, tie your apron on tight, it's gonna be a bumpy ride.
