G-Unit sleaze Tony Yayo earned himself a scant 10 days of community service for his part in harassing the son of the Game's manager. Turns out it wasn't Yayo who assaulted the boy after all; that was his pal Lowell Fletcher, who earned himself a nine-month sentence. Because real men don't slap 14-year-olds. They mean mug while their buddies do the slapping. [Billboard]
Speaking of classy Tony Yayo, a new twist in his pending court case—alledging that the G-Unit rapper manhandled the teenage son of one of the Game's crew—has a witness coming forward and claiming that Yayo actually kept his hands to himself:
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One of the reasons debates about the harmful effects of music are as rewarding and productive as yelling at your fellow motorists on the freeway is because, well, musicians are stupid. Even the good ones, or maybe especially the good ones. And so, because they are stupid, they have a hard time making cogent counter-arguments to the people who want music to be less violent or offensive or pseudo-Satanic. All musicians can do in response is throw out vague notions about the First Amendment or go with the old "you don't have to listen to it."
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