STFU Award - Week of 8/5/07 - Al Sharpton

Don Imus must be somewhere laughing his ass off! While he's at home counting his money and plotting a comeback to radio, Al Sharpton is staging rallies across 20 U.S. cities. No, not protest anything of importance like the four kids that were gunned down execution style in New Jersey, the five year-old kid shot in the head by a police officer trying to shoot a snake out of a tree, or even the pointless war in Iraq. Nope, he much rather focus on the war on RAP lyrics. That's right, the permed crusader comes to save the world from the real problem that has plagued us for years, RAP lyrics! I mean of course we all know Hip-Hop and its horrific lyrics are responsible for the nearly 200,000 unaccounted for weapons in Iraq. I don't have to tell you how those explicit bastards made the U.S. spend $15 billion on bottled water last year alone. No, you already knew that, so why would I have to mention that it funded dogfighting, shipped drugs into the country, manufactured guns and distributed them throughout the black community, rose the price of gas (while simultaneously helping gasoline companies to earn record profits...now that's what I call positive carry!), called Katrina survivors "refugees" while ignoring them, killed over 30 Virginia Tech students, made KKKramer and Don Imus go on racist tantrums, and made Lil Wayne #1 on MTV's Hottest MCs list?? Okay, okay maybe the sarcasm goes too far with that last catastrophe but the shit had to be said lol.

Anyway, I think you get the point that I was trying to make about there being much more important issues that are challenging our country than explicit RAP lyrics. Plus, if I'm not mistaken, didn't we fight this battle already?? Isn't that why they locked up my cousin Charles Freeman for selling 2 Live Crew's As Nasty As They Wanna Be October 20, 1990 (yep that was my cousin lol)?? Isn't it the reason for the Parental Advisory sticker and the clean versions of albums?? If you didn't know, the key word in parental advisory is... DING DING! You guess it, PARENTAL ADVISORY! Not artist advisory and sure as hell not record label advisory. And if you think for a second that these labels are gonna throw there money out of the window in an effort to clean up Hip-Hop you're sadly mistaken. NEWSFLASH: they don't care about Hip-Hop either, they are a business and a business is in the business of making money! That's what it all comes down to anyway... oh you thought Big Al's rallies made MSNBC fired Imus?? NOPE! I can guarantee (since they originally planned to suspend his show) you if those big named sponsors didn't drop out, he'd still be on live today. Now he's somewhere chilling, laughing at how his childish remarks has black people fighting ourselves... isn't that just wonderful?

Well I say all of that to say this:

Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr., STFU!