Gerry Ryan's anti-rap rant this morning

[ho chi feen]

Yeah, I know, I know... but I only heard it because it's what came on when my radio alarm woke me up this morning.

Basically, he went off on one when he said that Russel Simmons had said he wanted to release some rap with no bad language, so there would be no 'radio' and 'unclean' versions. He went on to say this would be impossible, as rap music is evil, nasty, woman-hating, homophobic, racist (or anti-white at least), crime-glorifying, blahdeeblah. Then came out with an extraordinary rant about 'niggah' this, 'niggah' that, but you can't ever say 'niggah' if you're white, how rap music segregates communities, pits Hispanics against blacks, and blacks against white, demeans black culture and black people. You get the idea...

Jesus wept. What a monumentally egostical tosser, what a complete and utter cunt.

I was moved enough to send the fat sack of shit this email.

From: xxxxxx xxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxx@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tue 24/04/2007 10:24
To: Gerry Ryan Show
Subject: Hip Hop

Gerry, Gerry, Gerry, Gerry, Gerry....

Where to even begin with your (presumably) well-intentioned but
(indisputably) ill-informed little rant about rap music? When was the
last time you even listened to a rap record? Specifically with regard
to the type of rap music you chose to refer to, are you even aware of
the target audience for this rather intellectually challenged,
fantastical form of rap which the record companies have decided that
the people wish to hear? Who buys this sort of dirge?

White Suburban kids, perhaps? Kids who wear baggy clothes and live
out their fantasies through music, whilst living out their cosseted,
segregated existance? Your own kids, even?

Criminality and criminal fantasy sells. One only has to look at the most common male choices for top films, dominated as they are by Goodfellas, Ther Godfather, Scarface, and so forth. The columns and columns written about John Gotti, book after book coupled with silver screen tributes to the Krays, Games like Grand Theft Auto. None of this is necessarily bad per sé- the darker side of life has always held an appeal, right back to the renaissance and further still.

You clearly have little or no knowledge of hip-hop culture and its origins.

For every pretender like Fiddy Cent and his lyrically challenged
cohort, you have true colossuses like Rakim, De La Soul, Guru, Common, A Tribe Called Quest, Jurassic 5, De La Soul and The Roots who preach
a different message. Record sales and longevity suggest that their
message will still be heard long after the record companies'
pretenders' careers have expired. You only have to look at the shelf-
life of the garbage pushed on us by the majors to see that this is
the case, fly-by-night after fly-by-night, barely distinguishable
from the last. Fiddy's been around for almost 4 years now, and will
be doing well if the public has kept interest for another 1. In the
meantime, the giants of the game, the rappers who command real
respect will doing the same thing they've always done- street music
with a message.

Shame on you for tarring the whole industry with the same brush, C
Dolores Tucker would have been proud. It's akin to calling all Irish
god-awful because of Westlife and the Corrs.

If anyone asks if you if know anything about rap music, or 'black culture', just say 'No, Sir'.

But don't let me disturb your rather cosy, facile, and simplistic presumptions!

xxxxxx xxxxxxx

Fuckers emailed me back and asked if I wanted to go on air? What, as if wasting the time it took to right that email wasn't enough, I'd have to waste more talking with the douchebage?

FFS.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Fuckers emailed me back and asked if I wanted to go on air? What, as if wasting the time it took to right that email wasn't enough, I'd have to waste more talking with the douchebage?

FFS.

Do it ho chi - do it!!

 

[ho chi feen]

Do it ho chi - do it!!

I wouldn't want to give the man the credibility he so clearly craves.

 

[Matlock]

Only heard the end of it.

Nicely constructed email though mr Feen.

Kudos!

 

[STEVIEG]

ha ha unreal!

Nice one Ho Chi!

 

[crossan]

jesus wept is right. silly man.

nice work with the email...
but alas, he will always remain the silly egotistical clown shoe that he always was.

 

[bricktop]

Gerry Ryan?? *snigger*

 

[oootini]

you're just chicken to go on the radio.

 

[ho chi feen]

you're just chicken to go on the radio.

Believe me, going on the radio was the last thing I had in mind when I sent it off.

 

[EL TORO]

Should have gone on air fella. I once had it out with Prendeville on air, twas the making of me!