Is that really a comment by jay-z? I mean the real jay-z?

Its really sad if it is - all the mispelled wurds!

What is rap anyway, once you strip away all the moon-june-spoon misogeny? Its not poetry. Its not art or music.

It is a corporate commodity no different than the Partridge Family, The Bay City Rollers etc

The one percent of it that’s made by people serious about art - we never get to hear because the thug pablum of jay-z and snarly dogg drown it out.

What is a “Jigga”?  If I say that in public, will I be OK?  The “dude that made a million blah blah” has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that his early, sudden, and apparently sodden, success, and the other “musicians” of a similar ilk,  don’t know how to behave properly in public.  Of course it would take a Frenchman to place quality in consumption, over the kind of grossly excessive, common, and abusive use of a drink invented to be used in a totally dissimilar fashion.  He made a business decision which only enhances his product:  he doesn’t need the money from “Jiggas?” swilling from the bottle and spraying it and buying it in huge quantities because they CAN.  I don’t see a lot of sharing of their booty (using the word to mean “goods”) with the common Jiggas, who could surely use a drink.  I’m from New Orleans.  Send your Cristal THERE.  And really, people: we’ll all be dead from Global Warming in something like 5 years, so save your Cristal, and go out and do something important: SAVE THE PLANET, because your jigga-limo-gold chain-lifestyle won’t mean dick when we’re all on fire and there’s no food. I guess you can stay on the pipe and ignore it, but it’s real, and your fat bank balance won’t be able to buy you ANYWHERE to run, unless you be on de Love Boat with Rummy and Cheney.  Good Luck with that!

That’s right Jay…Boycott the hell out of that Cristal. I hope sales go down so far, they dont find them for at least 2-3 years!

Now, this is the kind of life-absurdity-affirming news I happen to need while taking a break from being steeped in Truth-Out articles on the bombing of Iran, which I am reading to put my own-living-on-Permanent-Disability (under $8k a year) into perspective. 

When I was working during college (before any of these Rappers or Paris’s or Lindsey’s even registered on any screen at all, assuming they were roaming the astral somewhere waiting to party), I was a “floor sales” person at a fancy uptown liquor store.  The boss, who favored Schlitz after hours, had a tiny, tennis-playing French wife who schooled us all in saying: (Ecouter y repete!) “May I suggest ze LOUIS ROEDERER?”  Of course, I did a stand-out impersonation of this silly, insufferable bitch, which always slayed the stoners.

How ignorant of me not to realize zat ze Louis Roederer people make ze Cristal, which everyone swigs out of the bottle, sprays one another with, then licks it off (if we’re talking Paris and her similar slut-bunny-ilk).  Who knew?  I always thought ze Louis Roederer was pricey enough.

It’s pretty moronic to claim that Hip hop artist don’t push their product to the to the kids (or the Masses).  Why do you think they have publicists, marketing teams or the media machine to promote their albums, lifestyles, movies, etc?  They create the demand and the 10 to 30 year olds follow.

This is all comes down to business or marketing 101 and not about race.  In the business world we call it: PRODUCT POSITIONING.  Cristal position their brand as a drink for the classy elite. Does hip hop deseve to be categorized as classy elite?  I think not. 

Hip Hop glorifies a life filled with meaningless sex, violence and drugs.  All of sudden, Jay-Z is surprised companies like Cristal want to disassociate themselves from this lifestyle? For almost the past 10 years, Jay-Z and the hip hop world has been stuffing down our throats their material and violent images. I don’t think pulling the cheesy racist card will work this time around.

Should Cristal be critized for not wanting to be associated with a group who promotes violence or Misogyny? I don’t blame them at all.  And the same goes for White trash, country music drunks as well.

Hip hop artist’s dont push anything on to kids, the white ceo’s, and clown artists (clown artists being anything BET or MTV) do.  Kids are told not to listen to hip hop music, so naturally they want to.  Hip hop bring millions to high price liquor, this is a huge mistake by Cristal.  This would not be a issue if Jayz were courty music.  I here country music talking about drink all the F-ing time, and most american parents would not object to their kids listing to Hank Williams Jr.

PS Frankster;
Hip Hop is much much deeper than 15 minutes!!  Just remember this Hip hop music is country music performed by inner city african americans!

As we all know, the hip hop lifestyle is represented through images relating to Money, Cars, Thugs, slutty women, etc.  Why should a premium product, like Cristal champagne, want to be a associated with such a lifestyle?  It’s pretty hypocritical to see Jay-Z and the hip hop community to be shocked from such remarks, especially when they work so hard to reinforce such a negative image.  Moreover, The CEO’s comment should not even be considered racist because most people who   buy hip hop albums (white middle America) can’t afford a bottle of Cristal anyways.  The same can be said for African-Americans, who are economically disadvantaged (on avergage)to white Americans.  Plus, apart from most celebrities, most people who go to hip-hop clubs can’t afford a bottle of Cristal, unless their a Drug Dealer or someone with a means of illegitimate income.  Cristal is marketed to be drinked in a socialite atmosphere.  And I don’t think the hip-hop lifestyle was included wtihin that campaign.

yeah right, the mere suggestion of Jigga speaking out about abuse goes against everything he stands for—the dude that made a million before he ever had a single out; how do you think he pulled that one off?

Isn’t it about time for Hip Hop’s 15 minutes to be up, anyway?  Let’s move on, America.  Please.