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| -Obits- |
| Da Timez holdin' it down on the obituary tip, yo! |
| 2007-12-05 |
| James Taranto, "Best of the Web" Today's New York Times carries an obituary for Chad Butler, who "was found dead in a hotel room in West Hollywood, Calif., yesterday morning. No cause was immediately announced." Who was Chad Butler? The headline of the Times obit actually uses his stage name: "Pimp C, Southern Hip-Hop Rapper, Dies at 33." The obit is unwittingly hilarious, because the Times's Pimp C formed [a group called] UGK with his partner, Bun B, in the late 1980s in Port Arthur, Tex. The group's first nationally distributed album, "Too Hard to Swallow," was released in 1992. The next year a song from the album was included on the soundtrack to the film "Menace II Society." Called "Pocket Full of Stones," it matched vivid lyrics about the crack-cocaine trade with a leisurely but tough-sounding beat that became the group's trademark. "Entanglements with the law" is a Times euphemism for a prison sentence for aggravated assault (the obit doesn't mention the circumstances, but apparently he brandished a gun during an argument with a woman at a shopping mall). The Times also reports that "in a much discussed piece for the Southern hip-hop magazine Ozone, he managed to offend the entire city of Atlanta; he later apologized." The entire city of Atlanta could not be reached for comment. ". . . the Times's dignified writing style is so out of place in describing the subculture of gangsta rap." WORD to that! |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #5 Um, mods - your call, of course, but I read USN's comment before it got sinktrapped and thought it was a perfect imitation of the average NYC "liberal" Park Avenue Times |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-12-05 20:56 |
| #4 agreed with SteveS - a might unnecessary, but WTF? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-12-05 18:29 |
| #3 That was offensive? Just asking, since we are all guests here. When I was a kid, that would have been considered a polite form and still shows up in the NAACP. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-12-05 18:25 |
| #2 "Oh look, Muffy. According to the Times, one of those singing colored boys appears to have expired." all fixed now. |
| Posted by: USN,Ret. 2007-12-05 16:28 |
| #1 Yeah, I'm sure your average Times reader has a friggin clue who this guy is (or was)... Oh look, Muffy. According to the Times, one of those black rap fellows appears to have expired... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-12-05 16:11 |