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who gets fuckin pissed whenever espn has on some rapper to give their "knowledge" and opinion? Just today they had on snoop dogg for absolutely no purpose but to comment on the top 10 NBA plays of the year as they were showing them. And recently they've had on lil wayne and bow wow on First & 10. WHY?!?!?! These dumbfucks don't know any more than the average fan. Watching them on espn is ALMOST as annoying as watching stephen a smith.
dude,
lil wayne is da shit! Weezy MOTHA FUCKA :lol
The problem is they get corny guys on there who usually want to promote some whack project they are working on while ESPN wants to attract more of the casual sports fan by whatever means necessary.
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Originally Posted by CubanSucks
I completely agree with you
It was annoying and pointless - especially with all that ebonics crap he was throwing around and the announcers loving him for it
I'm just glad it didn't last long
bizzle dizzle po pop dabble dobble my nephew
what did snoop do with your nephew!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by the_worlds_finest
I didn't see this, but don't be dissin Snoop. Guy is a major NBA fan and can actually ball a little bit (at least for a skinny, chronic-smokin due he can :lol ).
Who cares anyway? A lot of fans around here understand the game better than many of the actual presenters on ESPN, so what's the difference?
If only he was a basketball fan, it would be great to have Simon Cowell as a color commentator LOL
I guess it's just the fact that I recognize how all the black espn commentators and anchors all of a sudden become "ghetto" and how it's all just a quest for ratings while they try to play it off like they are doing us a favor and these rappers are all universally loved.Quote:
Originally Posted by RuffnReadyOzStyle
Piddidipoops at hoops
I don't mind the usage of slanguage (I hate the word ebonics myself) on these programs or even the anchor-folk loosening up a bit, as long as it's not overdone and clownish. But I'd rather them make time for more important segments with more informative guests than Snoop, Wayne, Bow Wow, (Fill In The Blank With Another Whack Act).Quote:
Originally Posted by CubanSucks
We should ask Michael Jackson who is going to win the championship lol.
Exaaaaaaaaaactly. :toastQuote:
Originally Posted by spursfan1000
Ever since the mid-90s, the NBA and other major sports have thrown out the "love of the game" and entered the love of entertainment. Yes sports is supposed to be entertaining to watch, not network "entertainment". It's all about $$$$$$ and ratings, and not longer about the X's and O's in sports. That is long past. ESPN and other networks are all about the "James", "Bryants", "Wades", etc. They care nothing about the actual game...just the drama that is brought before us. That's just the way things have gone for society. Look at all the ridiculous network shows on titled, "Who wants to be a ....................", etc. Look at MTV and VH1, that has gone down the drain with shows that make no sense. It's no longer an audiences's world, it's all about the $$$$$$ and ratings for their own good.
If you all disagree...oh well.
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Originally Posted by iilluzioN
If you're into that bullshit music.
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Originally Posted by raspsa
Wayne has a blog on ESPN... He's at least a huge sports fan, he watches everything, and he has a pretty decent opinion on most of it. He's just too thrown in the game to be on TV bein serious like that tho... but the blog is good
Bow Wow was a joke, he was the average annoying fan that doesn't know shit but trys to sound like they know everything... not sure why he was on there.
Snoop was cool, it was a one time deal for an end of the season recap... and it was all about the new ESPN studio in LA, they've been promoting that like crazy... although I'm not sure why that's something that needs to be promoted.
It's all about the entertainment man. Yeah some of it doesn't really go well sometimes, but thats just how it is.
I read the interview in the Rolling Stones magazine with Lil Wayne and the guy is really into sports. It talks about how he had been pushing to have that blog with ESPN for a longtime, and ESPN just blew him off. Ofcourse now that he is mega famous they started ringing him up. Further the interview explained how he was a workaholic in the Studio. Thats one thing he did religiously everyday. The interviewer asked him if there was anything else he liked, hobbies, ect. He was telling Lil Wayne that at some point he would get tired of making music, and Wayne could only reply saying how he Loves sports and watches ESPN all the time.
If i hadn't have read the article I probably would have been absolutely siding with the OP. And It would be different if they got some Hollywood yuppies that don't know shit about sports, but this guy sounds like he follows it pretty seriously. And like I said in the end its all about the entertainment factor.
Kinda reminds me of an even more insane example of people caring too much about what M.C.s think... when CNN interviewed Ja Rule to get his opinion after 9-11. Like we needed Ja Rule to make sense of it all. "I'm so confused right now, where's Ja!?!" -Dave Chapeezy
The act of wanting input from the most ridiculous celebrities is simply just a microcosm of what is wrong with today's society.Quote:
Originally Posted by CubanSucks
I'd rather listen to Snoop in-studio than Nancy Lieberman on the sideline.
espn had an entire show debating who was the nbas "torch bearer" lebron or kobe- whatever the hell that means
thats the definition of talking about nothing
its worse than when a conservative talkradio hosts goes on and on about how this nation is too politically correct
zero substance
the same network who during the 2005 holiday season had a 4 week, 20 part series in which they proclaimed the 05 usc trojans the greatest college football team of all time
its hilaRRious and thats why we watch
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Originally Posted by NewJerSpur
Thanky, thanky. I've learned to just turn the channel rather than get heated over it. Actually, before I came on to this site yeasterday, I woke up a bit dazed in the middle of Snoop being on ESPN and promptly went back to sleep....I thought the whole thing was a dream until I was reminded it actually happenend via this thread. :lol
I'd rather listen to snoop than listen to people who are actually supposed to know shit sound like morons. And who cares about the ebonics? Get over yourself.
The Hip Hop industry is mighty jacked up from a creative standpoint and start on that decline in the mid-late '90s IMO, but everything comes back around. No comment on the Grammy's.
I would actually like to own that....simply for comedic value.Quote:
Originally Posted by mookie2001
Yeah..everything past the mid 90's is basically garbage. The early 90's is probably an era of rap music we will never see again. East/West coast both were pumping out some ground breaking stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by NewJerSpur
AAAAAAAAAmen. The problem is, the stuff is out there but it needs a platform to be seen/heard. Everything comes down to the media outlets that push this stuff, which is oddly enough kind of how this thread originated, lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by benefactor
Sometimes RAP is good for the Spurs! :)
http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/38183/09parker.jpg
Why is his name red and black instead of silver and black....no loyalty. :depressed
The grammy one is pretty much correct...but that's with every genre pretty much.Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnnySixString
As for as the second one goes...I bet Rakim is better lyrically than almost anybody you like from any other genre.
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Originally Posted by ATXSPUR
Nice sig as well....hubba, hubba. :hat
"""From the inner city to the suburbs, the street poet.Quote:
Originally Posted by ATXSPUR
The most jiggiest kid with words, and peeps know it.
They've read about it and heard, plus t.v. show it.
So how do I reserve my swerve? I low pro it.
Now there eager to know just how deep the flow get.
I don't know yet, sometime the flow be so wet.""
""I ain't no joke, I use to let the mic smoke
Now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke
When i'm gone I wrote this song cuz I won't let
Nobody press up and mess up to seen I set
I like to stand in a crowd and watch the people wonder damn
Bu think about it then you'll understand
I'm just an addict addicted to music
Maybe it's a habit, I gotta use it
Even if it's jazz or the quiet storm
I hook a beat up convert it in a hip-hop form"""
:lmao