<![CDATA[Idolator: mea culpas]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Idolator: mea culpas]]> http://idolator.com/tag/mea culpas http://idolator.com/tag/mea culpas <![CDATA[Soulja Boy On His Shout Out To The Slavemasters: "I've Made A Huge Mistake"]]> The YouTube-spawned MC Soulja Boy caused a bit of a stir when word got out that he was giving props to slavemasters of yore, since without them he wouldn't be here "to get his ice and tattoos." Not all that surprising, given his Gob Bluth-like behavior of late, but it still left a bit of an appalling aftertaste in peoples' mouths. Well, he just wants to let you know that he was totally kidding! Or being sarcastic! Or just not understanding the "tough" questions posed to him by the hip-hop journalist Toure.

"Man basically what happened that day, I was at BET filming the last episode of Rap City and then the Touré dude asked me if I wanted to do an interview with him and I said no. I had seen the interview with Bow Wow and Omarion and he was like roasting them or whatever and it turned out to be bad. I was like, I'm straight, I don't want to do an interview with you. Then, my management was like if he's good we can do an interview with him...for promotion or whatever...I was just joking. Most of the questions he was asking me wasn't making no sense. Like, he was asking me how I wanted to die and asking me all these questions so I thought he was joking with me. I didn't really take it seriously. Basically it was sarcasm that got blown out of proportion."

If you really wanted to get your point across, Soulja, you could have just answered with a "come on."

See? Works every time!

EXCLUSIVE: Soulja Boy Talks Slave Comments [StreetCred]
Gob's suits [YouTube]
Earlier: Soulja Boy Totally OK With The Slave Trade, Since He Was Able To Score Some Sweet Tattoos As A Result

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http://idolator.com/5078938/soulja-boy-on-his-shout-out-to-the-slavemasters-ive-made-a-huge-mistake http://idolator.com/5078938/soulja-boy-on-his-shout-out-to-the-slavemasters-ive-made-a-huge-mistake Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:53:00 EST Maura Johnston http://idolator.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5078938&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[Maxim To The Black Crowes: "Sorry About That Sorta-Bad Review"]]> Maxim has extended a virtual olive branch in the direction of the Black Crowes, after the magazine copped to running a middling review of the band's new album Warpaint before its reviewer even had a chance to listen to more than one song off it. "It is Maxim's editorial policy to assign star ratings only to those albums that have been heard in their entirety," editorial director James Kaminsky said in a statement on Tuesday. "Unfortunately, that policy was not followed in the March 2008 issue of our magazine and we apologize to our readers." Apparently the writer of the review isn't going to face any disciplinary action, but the "educated guess" policy outlined by a still-unnamed Maxim staffer in an e-mail to the Crowes' label last week is probably being erased from the magazine's stylebook right now. [AP / Photo: AP]

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http://idolator.com/361060/maxim-to-the-black-crowes-sorry-about-that-sorta+bad-review http://idolator.com/361060/maxim-to-the-black-crowes-sorry-about-that-sorta+bad-review Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:15:30 EST Maura Johnston http://idolator.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=361060&view=rss&microfeed=true