Do We Give Celebs That Behave Badly a Pass?

Tonight on Saturday After Dark on 91.7 FM WLFR.
DO WE GIVE CELEBS A PASS?
Can I Find Someone To Admit.....
R.Kelly's nick name should at least be CAN'T GET RIGHT and he really should be doing jail time.

Why do we sugar coat behavior cause people have hit records?

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With Raymond Tyler and Author Turkessa Lee.

 

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Poor Excuses By DJ Troubleman

People that actually take the time to read this will fall into three categories.

a. Some Will Be Offended and question whether "I am really down." (For the record, maybe you should offended and I am really down.)

b. Others will think I spend too much time, concerned with celebrity stuff. (For The Record...I am pretty balanced....it's the people that don't make hit records that I am concerned about being stalked by R. Kelly, or driving down the street when some random Dallas Cowboy comes down the other side of the road high out of their mind in a car that go from zero to one hundred. I want to make sure MY NIECE has her head screwed on straight when some pervert at a record company whats her to "do something strange for some change" and promises her a chance to DJ a party.

c. The other group is like me and will get this.

 

D. The group I care the least about are the one's that will get all upset and didn't take the time to read this far.

There was a time when I let a lot of  "FOOLISHNESS" slip in my personal life, with people I hung out with and with celebs.

I used to co-sign a lot of  dumb things.

 

Surprisingly enough when it comes to people like Charley Sheen that basically get blasted but don't hurt anyone but themselves I  still tend to give them a pass and pray that they find a way to enjoy their fame without causing their early demise.

However, when DJ Scott La Rock was murdered and I saw the turn around that KRS One made from gangster music, it started me to start growing up.

To paraphrase what Tupac would say years after La Rock's death "Gangster Rap Wasn't Saving Nobody."

So that's when I started to draw lines for myself. I started looking at culture with a critical eye.

I can't tell you how to live.

I write poetry that makes what I hope are powerful cases for some ideas on how to bring peace and order to one's life.

What I can say is this.

SOMETIMES PEOPLE OF COLOR REALLY EMBARRASS ME.
In the Trial Of R. Kelly episode of The Boondock's , Huey asked what I had been asking for a while.

"WHAT HAPPENED TO BARE MINIMUMS PEOPLE?"

We can debate forever as to the guilt needed to convict a R. Kelly, a Chris Brown, a Jay Z and others.

Somethings the jury should be set on like the fact that we all (myself included) need to be ashamed that we gave R. Kelly a pass for his relationship with a 14 year old Aaliyah. Somebody close to this young woman should have set that man straight PERIOD.

However, even after the whole Aaliyah mess, when Kelly came up on charges of STATUTORY RAPE again...there were people I talked to that actually blamed the victims for his behavior.

I can't tell you WHY people give passes to MILLIONAIRES to make songs that encourage Black Children to shoot, kill, prostitute and sell dope to each other? I have no clue why, when what is criminal behavior is alleged we get mad at the folks that want to examine and ask why and how? I don't know why not beating on a woman or not using illegal drugs is corny?

If you know the answers? Please share.

This is what I do know.

I am ashamed that R. Kelly's next CD will be gold and that people that look like my niece, my aunts, my mother will make it so and with out question blast it from their car stereo. I know that I pray I find the magic arrangement of words that will let my loved ones know that even if they choose to consume a diet of messed up lyrics, they shouldn't live by them. Lastly, I know this. That when the next person of any race decides that hit records, reality tv or pro sports contracts place them above the laws of man, science, nature and GOD, I will be praying for the innocent people in their path.

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DJ Troubleman Spins Classic Rock and Soul and has played in many of the casinos in Atlantic City.

He is available for parties and special events this summer!

609-453-8851

 

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