negro pleez!!!
"Just seeing the way they performed, it kind of broke my heart thoughâ - terrance howard (speaking about three six mafia's oscar performance of "it's hard out there on a pimp" at the oscars)
NEGRO PLEEZ!!! HOW COME IT WASN'T BREAKING YOUR HEART WHEN YOU WERE SINGING IT IN THE MOVIE?
I guess what disappoints me about Terrance's statement is that he threw Three Six Mafia under the bus when he didn't have to. I totally understand and agree with his decision not to perform the song at the Oscars. It would have been redundant, and a bad look for him, and us. Was it a bad look for us when Three Six Mafia performed it? Mos def, but that's not the point. The point is, he used that song as a vehicle to deliver a performance that garnered him mad kudos. And he embraced those kudos whole heartedly. How can you embrace that song and performance for your benefit, but then distance yourself from it, when the guys who created it perform it? To me, it was unbrotherly. And Terrance comes off as if he's trying to prove to hollywood that that song is beneath him. I just don't understand why he believes it's "art" to embrace pimpin' for a movie, but it's not "art", it's "heartbreaking" when Three Six Mafia embraces pimpin' for a song. On a certain level, for me, seeing Terrance's portrayal of a pimp held up as great acting, was just as "heartbreaking" as Three Six Mafia's performance. So for him to turn around and criticize them is mad hypocritical. How can he diss Three Six Mafia's expression, while standing proudly by his? If that image was so "hearbreaking", he wouldn't have taken the role of a pimp in the first place. But he did, $$$$$$$$$, ching-ching. So I have no problem saying NEGRO PLEEZ!
posted by hardCore at 10:00 PM
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I know you heard that supposedly the A-List Af-Am hollywood types told Terrence not to perform at the Oscars cuz it would be a bad look for his career. No one told this to ole girl though (Taraji). If this is true, it kind of pisses me off.
I agree with Terrences "right" to say that and without even seeing the performance I can almost agree with him. It's all about context.
Eye C you felt a need to expound so I shall take the opportunity to do so as well. As I stated in our convo the other day, it's a different animal altogether. Howard's performance was in the context of a character portrait of a struggling pimp who at no time did you ever see as anything other than a character. He was in a role in a movie.
Now we all "know" differently. But the whole Hip Hop "condition" is based around the predicate of "keeping it real" and in doing so when 3 Six Mafia performs it's hard out here for a pimp and their two most recent offerings to the world are Stay Fly and Popping My Collar both extolling the virtues of the pimp....well it's just different and I feel dude. I would have cringed too. I'm at the Oscar's and whitey is all around and these brothas are on stage giving whitey exactly what they want. As far as they are concerned They prolly thought Crunchy Black was Flavor Flav and he was continuing his syndicated coon show at the awards show validating their poor opinion of us black folks. I cringed a couple of times in watching Hustle and Flow because it was an immitation of life and it was done well. I would have cringed and dealt with a little heart break my self if I saw 3 Six Mafia performing at the Oscars because it would have been an "interpretation" of life that would have concerned me more at that time.
Just being trill
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