Thursday, January 22, 2004

The Hip Hop Action Summit is happening in Houston during super-bowl week. It's meant to promote positivity, blah blah blah. This year's theme is "Taking Back Responsibility: Youth, Economic and Political Empowerment."

A journalist with the alt weekly Houston Press has a good time with a PR rep for the event. Kind of like shooting fish in a barrel but well done all the same:

Q. It's "So die, muthafuckas, die muthafuckas, die, die / I ain't no muthafuckin' good guy, dog / And I don't give no good-guy damn about none of y'all." The empowerment, then, is in the repetition of "muthafucka," which is representative of what?

A. You'd have to ask Scarface that, he's the one that wrote the lyric…Are you actually -- is this on the record?

Q. Here's one from Master P--

A. You don't have to go through reading the lyrics of the artists…I can't speak to what the intentions are of the various artists.

Q. So you can't tell me what "I piss on your porch / Shit in your house" means?

A. I sure cannot.