Sure, “Soulja Boy says something stupid” is sorta dog-bites-man news at this point, but this quote he gave to Toure last week while being interviewed for a BET show kind of goes above and beyond the Gob Bluthisms dude has been dropping up to this point. OK, it doesn’t go “sort of” above and beyond–it makes you want to lock this kid in a room with a book. Any book.
Then came Soulja Boy Tell Em. I asked him, “What historical figure do you most hate?” He was stumped. I said, “Others have said Hitler, bin Laden, the slave masters…” He said, “Oh wait! Hold up! Shout out to the slave masters! Without them we’d still be in Africa.”
My jaw, at this point, was on the ground.”We wouldn’t be here,” he continued, having no idea how far in it he’d stepped, “to get this ice and tattoos.”
See what I mean about books? Even The Pet Goat would do at this point. Even if quotes like these are some super-inane “keeping his name in the press while his album gets pushed back for the 24th time” tactic.
A Rapper Salutes The Slave Trade [The Daily Beast; HT Jess]
Now, hold on. Soulja Boy might have unearthed some evidence that the slave masters were actually concerned citizens, disgusted enough with the African slave trade to shepherd them to the United States under the guise of “working the fields.” Sort of like Schindler’s List.
Or maybe he has a low-double-digit IQ. You decide.
*headdesk*
I’m going to pretend this never happened.
Why me cranky? Why, him - d’oh!
Wait wait wait. He isn’t glad he’s here because he has a successful career, or lives in the ‘land of the free’, or anything, but because he has ‘ice and tattoos’? Go slave trade!
He makes me so glad that music is not nearly as lucrative as it once was.
Better save that money, kid.
I can’t wait for the “Shout out to the slave masters!” dance
Wow. Between this and the Segway shit (which I had not seen), I guess I’m officially a hater now.
Christ.
“I mean, is the guy in the $5,000 necklace going to care about slavery? COME ON!”
somebody just hit him in the mouth, already.
“See, back in the day when there were slaves and stuff, we was forced to work in the hot sun all day, hatless. I mean, not even a babushka.”
“Word. Heads totally exposed to the sun.”
“So when the slaves got back from the fields, they was too tired to revolt against they masters. So what we’re sayin’ now is: Yo, we got some hats now, muh-fuckas.”
@Silverfuture:
NWH…in the house.
What a great flick. Too many classic lines to quote.
@Chris Molanphy: @Maura Johnston: LOLz to both of you.
@Maura Johnston:
Especially if he’s rocking that ice and courting all the ladies [with all teases weeded out of course] in “F**k City!”