Don Imus is going back on the air, and, relatively speaking, there has been precious little outcry about it. Well, you know what? Nelly is pissed. And he has a lot to say about it. A lot
“We jumped the gun, and we don’t think before we move,” Nelly said. “Right when Imus did that, instead of everybody getting all riled up and pulling him off the air, [we could have said,] ‘Wait a minute, y’all. Hold up before we pull him off the air. Let’s get what we can get out of the situation; because they do it to us every time. Let’s think about this; this guy is a moneymaker.’ It’s obvious [MSNBC] didn’t want him off the air, because the incident had happened two weeks beforehand, [and] they were trying to find out where it was going before they let him go. So, what can we get out of this? The guy is a moneymaker. How about we fine both of them? Let’s fine both of them $50 million over the next five years; $10 million a year. …
“Let’s start the Don Imus Nappy Negro College Fund,” Nelly continued. “And then for the next five years, we’re sending brothers and sisters to college off his mistake. And let’s hope he does it again next year! So we can get 100 million. Let’s provoke him! Somebody call up there and piss him off. But again, us jumping to conclusions, because you got so many people wanting to claim the glory off of it, wanting to step in front of the camera, we got shook out of our 40 acres and a mule again. We missed it again! It was right there! Do I think he should’ve been fired? Hell no! Stand up, let’s dock him. We could’ve built schools. We could have built rec centers off of that. We could have gone to college. We missed it. Now we got him fired. What did that do? It don’t matter, he’s rich. What is he going to do, go home, take a vacation, lay up, watch a little TV, then get a bigger deal on a satellite-radio station? [Ed. note: Imus is reportedly expected to return to radio, New York City’s WABC-AM, December 3.] Now he’s even bigger because now black folks know who he is. Now we’re tempted to tune in just to hear if he’s gonna say some other dumb stuff. Now he’s even bigger. All we did was blow him up.”
Somewhere, somehow that infamous video for “Tip Drill” fits into this discourse. I’ll lt Nelly figure that one out.
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I must be contact high because I kind of thought that made some of that made valid sense. This from the guy who ordered me to take off all my clothes because it was getting hot in here. Yes, I must have sniffed too much work glue.
‘I said it must be your ass because it ain’t you face I need a…’
God he’s stupid.
I do love that he’s standing next to one of my fav GAY pornstars holding underwear though. Definetely the pic of the day.
Who cares. Nelly is a Nut
Nappy Negro College Fund? Hahaha! I can’t call Nelly stupid on this one. It’s a rant, not a well thought out dissertation. I, too, feel like people jumped all over the Imus situation, made him incredibly more famous than he ever was, and made him incredibly richer than he was. So what did Blacks get? A victory that only lasted, what, a couple months?
Why COULDN’T someone have figured out a way for him to actually LOSE money, lose the limelight? I don’t know. For all his rambling, Nelly makes a point.
“Why COULDN’T someone have figured out a way for him to actually LOSE money, lose the limelight? I don’t know.”
B/c all too often is seems like black ppl talk a good one, but we rarely put thought into things. I mean, we are quick to get on TV and pop off at the mouth, but when is there ever thought behind it? Action behind it? We need leaders who are less concerned with their conks and publicity and more concerned with their ppl.
I don’t care WHO said it, Nelly’s right. An opportunity was missed.
He’s right, though I’m not particularly fond of the messenger.
bmd, if by “we,” you mean Jesse and Al, then yes.
So the women of Spelman should have gotten a scholarship fund out of him, then? He can act on his own words retroactively!