Idolator
It's buried underneath a bunch of news items about Rihanna's Cover Girl endorsement deal, but Vibe.com has one of the skeevier stories we've read all week: Apparently, while in the middle of reporting a story on Atlanta rap group Crime Mob ("Knuck If You Buck"), Vibe discovered that group member Killa C pleaded guilty to charges of child molestation last December; after a reporter pressed the label for details, Killa C was dropped from the band, just a few weeks before the release of its sophomore album, Hated On Mostly.
Now Killa's group members are distancing themselves online: Last week, the MySpace page belong to Mobber Diamond had a "Free Killa C!" picture, though that appears to have been removed. And while the rapper still appears on the group's official site, we're guessing that Killa will be killed when it's revamped for the new album. And since Hated On was likely to be positioned as the group's breakthrough, the Lil Jon-founded label BME Recordings—a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Records—is now stuck with some of the worst pre-release publicity imaginable. Maybe that's why, just a few days after the potentially damaging Vibe story went online, a new distraction ploy Crime Mob track wound up on the web..
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well you can't be 'Crim Mob' without crimes, he was just branching out yo! MTV Cribs style.
I'll just get this out of the way now...
Crime Mob is for the children.
Say what you will about Crime Mob, but their track sampling Haddaway's "What is Love" will be burning up Hype Machine in a week or so.
a musician is someone with talent. a street thug who can maybe sort of rhyme in a rudimentary form of the english language is still a street thug.
don't get me wrong, musicians can go ahead and do whatever drugs and that they feel like doing- that's fine. charlie parker was a heroin addict. but he was also charlie fucking parker.
do you think people who listen to crime mob secretly listen to good music? you know, at home alone, throw on some al green or stevie wonder? something that's worth a shit?
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