The Ozone Awards.... Please tell me this is a joke

[Baka Sama]

Just got off work to catch the end of the Ozone Awards. Im fucking speechless. I seriously cant begin to come up with a way of explaining how ghetto, unorganized, and shameful this whole "awards" show is... We have got to do better. Please, do it for the kids... :-/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykggkvGFk_4

[Farzam]

What am I watching?

[BustedS13]

what the fuck is that? and why is it being shot with a handicam?

[Baka Sama]

Its a hip-hop (I use that term very loosely) awards show for ozone magazine. I think its like the 1st or 2nd year they did it. It was painful to watch but for some reason I couldnt turn away, like two ugly lesbians making out.

[DreamN]

wow... can anyone translate pls? I'm pretty sure they were trying to communicate.

[spitfire7]

i HATE the rappers from the south. its only a few that i can listen to, but to hear DIRTYsouth music on the radio here in cali discusts me to the point that i didnt hook up my radio antenna. i hate that Slur Deleted music. i love hiphop. i feel sorry for the youth that thinks that shit is music. its just a trick to put desperate youth in jail. all they see is money, hoes, cars, and, ice. next thing u know is there sellin dope, or doing any thing for fast money. then here comes the pigs, and ur off to jail. young black youth please dont be inspired by these ignorant jigga-boos.

[Phlip]

I would like to speak as a black man from the south, and BEG that we not all be placed into this pigeonhole.
Several members have spoken to me in person and on the phone and I would DARE any one of them to say that we all sound like these fucking idiots.

[spitfire7]

im sorry for the language that ive been using please forgive me. my views remain the same, but how can i make our ideas about hiphop and the culture it represents positive if im using words that offend others. PHLIP i dont know u, but i know ur style. its many cali heads that view hiphop by its content not by its location. here if u say NC Lil Brother comes to mind, then 9th, Justice League. it might be some zero content rappers from your parts, but we havnt heard of them. all i know it that NC got that heat.

[Pank]

i think he stopped taking you seriously when you boiled his entire race down to "jiggaboo"

[bamaboy]

I watched some of that and I was in total shock. I can't believe that some of those people actually act like that and then expect to be taken seriously. I was very surprised to Chamillionaire, Lloyd, and Freeway there. I would think that those guys have a career big enough to not need to associate themselves with that. That was a very sad example of music in the south.

Don't forget about Outkast, Ceelo, Scarface, Goodie Mob, Eightball and MJG, Timbaland, The Neptunes, T.I., Ludacris, UGK, , and so many more I can't think of right this minute. The south isn't necessarily a reflection of this simple minded ass shaking ignorant club music that's coming out from Atlanta right now.

and to spitfire......watch your mouth, using those type of words only make you look as ignorant as the people you are refering to.

[spitfire7]

i think he stopped taking you seriously when you boiled his entire race down to "jiggaboo"

im a 33 year old blackman. im didnt mean to disrespect my entire race by sain that. its just the way that the media promotes the most ignorant representation of the culture that i love the most. im gonna start watchin what i type., and um ... i feel ya bamaboy.

[DRavenS13]

I've come to understand that every race has it's own separate population to be ashamed of. I'm Mexican, and there's that percentage that act like they don't know how to be normal ppl.

I'm a normal person that sees no color lines, and that understands this concept. Believe me when I say that I don't judge a whole race by one person. I know there are good people of any color or creed. There's one race that is all their own and no matter what you do or say, they will always be there. Its called the race of STUPID PEOPLE.

[eastcoastS14]

hahah I fucking hate hurricane chris.....god forbid some intelligent rap went mainstream, common and some Nas is about the only one out there right now....the only decent hip hop here is played on college radio from 10-2 seriously all this ay bay bay...supa soak that hoe shit has to go....its not even music, Im mixed and grew up in a pretty diverse place, but I go to college with a lot of kids who grew up with no black people around them or in their schools, even my girlfriend was like that and I hate to think that the impression they get of black people would come from TV cause between music videos and a lot of other stuff Ive seen on TV they seem to only glorify stereotypes which is a real shame

[DRavenS13]

Stereotypes are the worst. Stereotypes make my race out to be a bunch of border-hoppers that suck the life out of the social service system, and stand out in front of Home Depot all day looking for work.

[Phlip]

im sorry for the language that ive been using please forgive me. my views remain the same, but how can i make our ideas about hiphop and the culture it represents positive if im using words that offend others. PHLIP i dont know u, but i know ur style. its many cali heads that view hiphop by its content not by its location. here if u say NC Lil Brother comes to mind, then 9th, Justice League. it might be some zero content rappers from your parts, but we havnt heard of them. all i know it that NC got that heat.
You're right, you DON'T know me... I am well aware of the hip hop scene in my state, given that I m trying to get on making beats. Funny thing about you mentioning Little Brother as well, seeing as how Phonte and I are from the same city, went to rivaling high schools and joke about that fact quite often trading messages on MySpace and when I make it to a show.
I have met 9th Wonder in person several times, real cool cat.
Fact, here is that you pigeonholed NC backwards there, homie... It so happens that the most of hip hop coming from here is independent and progressive, more along the lines of LB and the Justus League than like the states OTHER representative Petey Pablo. Only those on the outside looking in make assumptions to the contrary.
Equally funny thing is thast the thread starter, he is ALSO a black man living down south. I don't know a terrible lot about him and I don't THINK we have met unless he was at one of the Atlanta 240SX owners meets I have been to. Don't even know his first name, but the existence of a thread like this speaks to how closely related our lines of thinking are, and I like that.
Stereotypes are the worst. Stereotypes make my race out to be a bunch of border-hoppers that suck the life out of the social service system, and stand out in front of Home Depot all day looking for work.
Lisa, I got your email, I will respond when it is not almost 5am, I promise.