Being from Memphis.....
I must say that it is been very controversial issue having the TRIPLE (666) SIX (not Three six, fellow Memphians know the real) Mafia representing Memphis on a world wide stage. Memphis is a very image conscious (being that it was the place were Dr. King was assassinated and Memphis, Egypt being the city of the Dead, etc.). When they announced the winner, I thought, Oh Lord!!! What will they do back home? Triple Six actually cleaned up the song (even moreso than a radio edit) and some people in Memphis think that they censored themselves for the "Stuffy white conservatives" of the academy as someone posted earlier (though I agree with the stuffy and white part, I don't think there are many conservatives in Hollywood), more than they would for the black ghetto youth of Memphis who are their target audience (but not the chief consumers, mind you, who are middle class white teen suburbanites). Do we celebrate these black young "entrepreneuers" from Memphis, or do we decry the celebration of misogyny, exploitation, self degradation and vice of the infamous Memphis Pimp image? After all, Terrance Howard went on Jay Leno recently and proclaimed to the nation that M.E.M.P.H.I.S really stood for Making Easy Money Pimpin' H-'s In Style.
Blackwatch!!!!!!
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