Yesterday the Grammy nominations dropped and we saw everyone from Taylor Swift to Jay Z pick up a nod from the all powerful music awards show. But did anyone see this coming?

BEST RAP/SUNG COLLABORATION: LONELY ISLAND FT. T-PAIN “I’M ON A BOAT”

No, that ISN’T a typo. Are you not familiar with “I’m On a Boat”? Let me enlighten you.

The Spoof song about Rap excess featuring Rap’s excess king “T-Pain” (Dude wears a top hat and a chain that says “Big Ass Chain”) is now up against actual songs like Beyoncé & Kanye West “Ego”, Keri Hilson, Kanye West, & Ne-Yo “Knock You Down”, Jay-Z, Rihanna, & Kanye West “Run This Town”, T.I. & Justin Timberlake “Dead And Gone”…

So the question is, what does this say about the State of Hip Hop?

I hit up #TWITTER about this and received comments like “Thats my ‘ish!” (@Reetamac) and “Reasonable. And I hope they win.” (@spannerjaxs) but there was also outrage.

The question is, did the Grammy’s lose credibility, or did Rap lose it way before this? Another question “I” Was wondering was would the song have been nominated with out the participation of the Clown Prince #T-Pain? Did he give the song just enough credibility that it was a completely reasonable choice? Did he say anything on “I’m on a Boat” that was any more ridiculous than he has said on numerous other “Real” Rap songs?

“Poseidon, LOOK AT ME!”

“This is the Realist Shit I’ ever Wrote? Chillin’ in my Maybach”

“I’mma put my BMI all over your ASCAP, SHORTAY.”

At what point is the line drawn. If you can say “I’mma a flirt whether I’m in or out of town, thats why the call me Teddy Pinned-Her-Ass-Down” (Rapey Much?) and thats REAL then can we question “I’m on a Boat” seriously?

As one #Tweeter put it…

That’s the realest shit he ever wrote…

*Sidenote: I fully admit that whenever I am on some sort of floating object I will yell out “Posedon, Look at me” or “I ****D A MERMAID.” And will continue to do so…

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Listen, President Obama seems to be breaking hundreds of promises a day and we here at “This Week in Blackness” are tired of it. So we went and searched the web to find out about all the cast away hope the POTUS has been…er…CASTING AWAY.

Enter Politifact. You can now go and check, at any point in time

the current promises Obama is fulfilling, breaking or just hasnt gotten to yet. AND JUST AS THE GOP HAS LED US TO BELIEVE: HE’s BROKEN 7 PROMISES!

Wait…just 7? Really? I JUST KNEW he had to have gone back on any and everything he’s ever said. Just 7? Really? I expect at least 30 broken  simply because he’s a politician and have the stuff he said wasn’t really HIM saying.

7?

Really?

I don’t know what to do with all the faux rage I was storing.  I was planning a march. WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH ALL THESE PICKET SIGNS!

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Don’t know if you heard…

It seems that back in January 6 out of 10 Whites were big fan’s of President Obama. Now? Its some where around 39 percent. Obama was obviously waaay to Black for them.  He kept getting up and calling Hillary Clinton his “Secretary of my Bitches” and freestyling his White House Press conferences(When discussing debt he broke out into his Remix of Wayne’s smash hit “A Trilli, A Trilli”).  When asked about the whole Joe Wilson thing behind close doors he was quoted as saying “I wish a Nigga Would say dat shit in my face!” then he crip-walked.

Oh wait. None of that happened.

If you look closer at the poll for the most part the whole “White” thing goes along party lines. Although, if you are a Democrat and you don’t like Obama…you’re most likely white.

So of course we shall hear cries of  ”Black people rubber stamping everything Obama does” which…well.. is true…for SOME Black people. Sorry to break this to you folks, but with the guy walking into office with the shit storm a’la Dubya to deal with, a lot of Negroes (and some White’s alike) aren’t so quick to condemn the man. Especially with him being all historic n’ shit. I don’t know if you were aware of that whole historic thing. Sort of a big deal for some people…

I, on the other hand, do NOT rubber stamp President Obama. I also don’t ride on him to get those cool “I’m my own thinker!” points. He does some things I don’t like. I say it. He does somethings I don’t quite understand. I say it. What I DON’T do is throw the man under a bus at the first sign of trouble.  I will have plenty of time to RANT at the dude come…I dunno…around 2011? Right when he has to gear up? I’ll have a much better understanding of what the ‘eff he’s done…right OR wrong. #BreathePeoeple

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Dear R. Kelly,

I wasn’t in a very good mood…I mean I’m regularly not in a good mood (check out this site and videos, that guy’s not in a good mood) but this…this video…this shit right here…right here? HILARIOUS. I laughed right before my righteous indignation kicked in. For those not initiated, please, for the love of God, take a listen to this…

“Girl You make me wanna get you Pregnant” lay your body down

“Now usually i leave the club with a girl who has  a man,
and take her to hotel just for a one night stand.
See Im a p playa so i tryin’ to take her on no date,
but much like my Patron, Man I’m just trying to take it  straight.”

I… I… Where do I start…? This is like Roman Polanski making a movie about sexin’(verb) barely legal girls. It’s not ILLEGAL for him to sex barely legal girls, but it would be in terrible taste considering his…ahem..situation. Kellz just doesn’t care. This is an amazing example of shiny and bedazzled ignorance. Thats right, he took his regular day old ignorance and had bling added to it. Kellz thought “This just ain’t ignant enough, I want this shit to sparkle in the sunlight.”

Now you may say “Elon, this is a LOVE song. He wants to be with this girl!” Yes, he realized that right after he met this girl with unbelievable booty…oh and she was also a CUTIE. (See? It Rhymed. Kells is back to RHYMING. After his attempts in the “Closet” and “Real Talk” I thought he gave up on that.) Why is Tyreese in this song? Hasn’t he raped my good taste enough by being in BOTH Transformers movies? No he’s trying to coerce women with promises of fame? And THE DREAM? THE DREAM? The Dream is were Carbs go to die. He’s a lightskinneded bag of diabetes. He’s one step above Sean Kingston and he’s talking about getting chicks PREGNANT? And for the love of all things holy will SOMEONE revoke Robin Thicke’s Black Card?  He’s gone too far. TOO FAR MAN!

I’m done…possibly with this plane of existence.

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The big political story coming out of Atlanta for virtually EVERY “news” source seems to be the current Mayoral race between Mary Norwood and Kasim Reed.  Is it their controversial policies that are garnering nation wide coverage? Nope. Its the whole Negro V. White Lady thing.

“The race is between City Councilwoman Mary Norwood, who is white, and former state Sen. Kasim Reed, who is black. Norwood won 46% of the vote on Nov. 3rd, but needed 50% to win outright. Reed, who pulled in 36%, split the black vote in a crowded field of other African-American candidates.”

Well we know who voted for the WHITE WOMAN right? Cause if we know anything WE KNOW BROTHA’S BE VOTIN’ FOR THE WHITE LADY! (Elon Dodges imaginary punch from Hillary Clinton.) It’s going to be an interesting battle in Atlanta according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution

“The path to victory for Atlanta’s next mayor is clear, even if the candidates don’t want to say it. It’s about race. … This week’s mayoral election showed that decades after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. urged that people not be judged by the color of their skin, blacks and whites in his hometown are voting along racial lines.”

Yes, because its THAT simple.  It’s not about the social and political identity for one of the preeminant Black cities in the country, its about a lack of growth as a people.  I’m absolutely for voting for the most qualified(Guess who’s never voted for Sharpton? “This Guy”) but to ignore the the racial issues that create this “discussion” would be foolish.

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Somali Pirates Capture Oil Tanker On Route to New Orleans

The resurgence of Pirates isn’t the biggest of news items these days (its been happening for a while) but the fact that they are not only trying these crazy stunts, they’re PULLING IT OFF.

“NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali pirates have struck again, seizing an oil tanker loaded with $20 million in crude that was headed from Saudi Arabia to the United States, naval authorities said Monday.”

Do you realize they don’t have that much technology OR money? These attacks are beig won by sheer balls. I have to admit I wouldn’t be prepared for a Pirate attack. The whole time I’d wonder to myself…”is this a gag? This has to be a gag right? Who the hell ‘Pirates”(verb) son?”

And then I would be shot.

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Margaret Cho Sounds off on White House Party Crashers.

Now If “I” were to make commentary about the now infamous White House Party crash and that obviously this is the power of Whiteness, I’d be accused of being super sensitive about race and possibly I need to calm the eff down. How about if an Asian throws it out there? Margaret Cho, an industry vet weighed in on the crashers this weekend on her blog.

“I am convinced those people got into that white house state dinner because they are white. I attended a state dinner during the Clinton administration and they did such a thorough background check before I was even allowed to RSVP that I was coming I thought they were going to ask me for a stool sample – we are talking DEEP BACKGROUND – and I am fucking famous. And I was fucking famous then. White people always look more INVITED than non white people.” – Margaret Cho

SEE! It’s not just me! Thats an incredibly solid point. SHE IS FAMOUS. And lets be honest, a Black couple just ain’t, absolutely, positively AIN’T (Yes, I chose AIN’T)  getting into the White House with out an invite. I don’t care if they had the dangerous look of Wayne Brady, it’s just not happening. Hell, I don’t think WAYNE BRADY HIMSELF is getting in there. Of course the crazy right-wingers somehow blame Obama for this ridiculousness.

“How can Obama protect this country when he can’t even protect the White House?” – AngryMom80

Yeah. That was a real tweet. People are THAT stupid. If that’s “Real America” you can count me out. I’ll stay over in fake America or Unpatriotic America where dumb shit like the above is called “Dumb Shit” and not re-tweeted through out the web as if its some sort of amazingly wise gospel.

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Jesse Ventura Appears on Larry King about Obama and Afghanistan…

Because…um…we care about Jesse Ventura says about…anything? I’m confused. Even more confusing, is that its being advertised as if anyone should give a rats ass about what Mr. Ventura’s opinion is about ANYTHING. Unless he’s going to break down the brand new “Smackdown Vs. Raw 2010″ game for my XBox360 I’m going to skip this. Oh, Oh, if he and Arnold Schwartzenegger decide to raid a village in the middle east with Dolph Lundgren, then I’ll care about that too. THATS interesting. This? Not so much.

Source: Larry King Live Showpage 11.30.09

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Remember back in Episode 2 of Season 2 of “This Week in Blackness“? Remember when I made that completely off hand comment about Twitter being gangsta? Yeah, that was silly. Ridiculous even. What wanna-be gangsta’s would ACTUALLY be on Twitter and tweet ridiculously dumb shit that could later be used against them?

“The city’s street gangs are becoming tweet gangs.

Manhattan’s young thugs have turned to Twitter, and the cops who track them are fast behind, the Daily News has learned.

It’s old-school crime meets new technology: attacks being plotted – and thwarted – 140 characters at a time.” – The Daily News

Um, has “The Wire” taught young punks anything? On that show they didnt even use cell phones for more than a few weeks and these dumbasses are tweeting whats going down? Besides the fact that they shouldn’t be in gangs planning to beat up people, if you are going to ACTIVELY work to be violent, can you at least not be stupid about it?

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You thought I was kidding didn’t you. You thought I was going to be like “well not REALLY…” BUT NO! It’s true! The 9/12 March on Washington, the protest that keeps on giving, had a performance by RAPPERS. But not just any ol’ rappers. Some of the most HORRENDOUS rappers I’ve heard in a while! Man! That’s awesome guys. If terrible rap is a criteria for “Freedom™” I think Gucci Mane will be the hottest rapper alive when Palin gets elected.

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