Sports > Rap Music

20 Responses to “Sports > Rap Music”

1. Correct1 on November 30th, 2009 1:17 pm

   uh, i agree. especially nowadays

2. mr.murph on November 30th, 2009 1:44 pm

   what message are you trying to convey with these pics? is it that hip hop and basketball took a nosedive @ the same time for basically the same reasons?

3. Chris Faraone on November 30th, 2009 2:09 pm

   Sports are for morons.

4. Sleezy Trees on November 30th, 2009 2:15 pm

   same could be said for a lot of rap music chris..

   I’m saying put these two forms of entertainment side by side.. and which one matters more right now..

5. Martin Caballero on November 30th, 2009 3:00 pm

   just proves that whether its sports or hip-hop, old school is the way to go

6. Chris Faraone on November 30th, 2009 5:14 pm

   Trees –

   It could be said of rap music, but such an assertion would be woefully incorrect. Music – especially hip-hop – has societal implications. Sports are mere distractions for dummies.

7. Hmmm on November 30th, 2009 5:55 pm

   Hmm..don’t generalize now. I would argue that stanky legs, auto-tuning champagne, slapping hoes, Soulja Boy, Yup in my white tee, and all that jazz are distractions for dummies.

8. Sleezy Trees on November 30th, 2009 6:54 pm

   ^ ironically all of the things that are currently “entertaining” to me about hip hop..

9. Sleezy Trees on November 30th, 2009 6:54 pm

   Also Faraone – when’s the last time you won 15 large on a rap beef?

10. milly vanilly on November 30th, 2009 6:57 pm

    Say the Redskins were a Hip Hop group, they havent dropped a decent album since 92 but I still am a die hard fan, that shit wouldnt fly in the music world.

11. BIG D O on November 30th, 2009 6:58 pm

    What about sports = Hip-Hop??….

    some of my all-time fav. sports themed Hip-Hop jumpoffs:

    Main Source – A Friendly Game Of Baseball

    Onyx’s Video for “React”

    Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz’ video for “Uptown Baby (Deja Vu)”

12. Chris Faraone on December 1st, 2009 10:08 am

    Stanky legs?

13. Homeboy on December 1st, 2009 10:34 pm

    Sports have no societal implications?
    Louis-Schmeling? Google it if you’re ignorant.
    Jack Johnson?
    Jackie Robinson?
    Muhammad Ali?
    The fucking 1990 UNLV Runnin’ Rebels?
    Haven’t you ever seen an HBO Sports documentary yo?
    True, most sports fans are morons…but a great sporting contest has more drama than music.
    Big ups to Red Auerbach

14. Chris Faraone on December 1st, 2009 10:52 pm

    Homeboy –

    Those are pseudo-events (Google if you’re ignorant). They have no real importance on their own. Unfortunately, people tend to be influenced through third-party distractions. It doesn’t mean they’re relevant on their face just because dummies interpret them as such. Your post implies that minorities need(ed) athletics to move forward. Would be sad if it were true.

15. Homeboy on December 1st, 2009 11:20 pm

    All I’m saying is this: rap is great but the drama of an athletic contest is greater – because it is meritorious — hip hop at its best can come close but it’s not the same as a come from behind KO.
    No racial implications though – only you see those wheels within wheels. Now that’s sad.

16. Sleezy Trees on December 2nd, 2009 9:04 am

    Faraone — you’re telling me Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier or USA beating USSR in hockey in the 1984 Olympics had no real importance?

    How has rap moved society forward.. please tell me? If anything Rap music has ruined society.. haha.

17. Martín Caballero on December 2nd, 2009 10:09 am

    Faraone- high levels of haterade in your system have clouded your thoughts. Sports being distractions? Of course. Naturally. We all need something to distract us from the fact that we are alone in the universe and so forth. That’s not the point.

    The point is that even watching grown men chase a ball around on some grass for millions of dollars can provide moments of incredible emotion, beauty and dare I say genius.

    Just like listening to some rappers talk about all these people they’ve (never) killed and how they (won’t) shoot people for respect…can also somehow inspire great emotion. Most people who get Wu-Tang tattoos (ahem) don’t get em because they want to vouch for the “societal implications” of “Shame on a Nigga.”

    They do it because that shit has a deep meaning to them.

    It could be Maradona or Mobb Deep, a Jordan dunk or “Shook Ones Pt. II”

    Sounds like a bad college humanities essay, but its true.

18. Chris Faraone on December 2nd, 2009 11:14 am

    Secondary narcissism.

    Fucking losers.

    You’re all no better than UES yuppies.

19. schnitz on December 2nd, 2009 10:20 pm

    “How has rap moved society forward.. please tell me? If anything Rap music has ruined society.. haha”

    why the fuck are these comments on a hip-hop blog?

    the base of this argument (rebuttles included) is fucking retarded

    i’m slowly losing faith in JTTS

20. Bushes on December 5th, 2009 2:22 pm

    really going out on a “limb” with this comment trees. wow.
    god you are a loser…

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