By City Boyzrus

September 16, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

I would like to see an award catagory for best gansta rap. To distinguish the different flavors of relaying information to the masses. It would give a platform to Plies,Jeezy,T.I.,Shawty lo,Ice Cube,Scarface, etc.

By ESR

September 16, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

Thanks for the heads -up, we now to avoid that area on that night. What is the latest on betting in Vegas? Who do they think will get shot and killed as opposed to who will be wounded and/or maimed for life and who will just come out with a superficial bullet wound.

By v racer

September 16, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

Is there a coorelation between the headline that announced “crime is on the rise in Atlanta” and the one that tells us “BET Hip Hop Awards Coming to Atlanta”? I believe so.

By james

September 16, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

@ ESR

I will make sure i’m not on north atlanta where the child molesters and PCP users are ;)

By DBone

September 16, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this

Where are the female artist? It is a shame that the only women in hip hop are the video “vixens”.

By v racer

September 16, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this

Poor Obama, he’s sure to lose local votes in the aftermath of the hip hop award show mayhem, and as ESR points out, some supports will die.

By WestSider

September 16, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

james…might want to brush up on the use of prepositions…in three-dimensional space the proper term is ‘in’

By ESR

September 16, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

It’s NOT North Fulton making the crime figures go up, is it James? I am sure Clayton Co., SW DeKalb and some parts of Fulton had nothing to do with the spike in violent crimes in Atlanta. That’s all Atlanta needs for a good public relations campaign, more murderes this year so let’s bring the Hip Hop Awards here that glorify violence. What a bright idea. Can we bring Freaknik back; I miss the hootchie-coohie mama’s dancing on the interstates and the trffic nightmares all because some ghettoazz thugs want to party. How many Yo Obama shout-outs will we hear that night? About a million. We all know who makes the crime rates go up, but bad elected offcials here just don’t get it.

By Geez

September 16, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

Sonia, knowing full well the reaction you’re going to get, why on earth do you guys continue to turn write-ups like these into public discussions? You know exactly what I’m talking about.

By DDIRRTYY D

September 16, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

lil Wayne, T.i. & Young Jeezy! Those r the REAL deal. Plies And all those other wanna B’s wont beat none of the Above!!!! Thats right i Said IT.

By Im@much2handle

September 16, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

FIRST AND FORMOST

*OBABMA FOR PRESIDENT

*IM HAPPY THE AWARDS ARE COMING BACK TO ATLANTA>GENERATES BUSINESS FOR THIS SLOW AZZ ECONOMY, NOT OT MENTION ALL THE TALENT FLOCKS TO THE “A”

*OBAMA DONT WORRY, GA WILL BE A BLUE STATE ONE DAY REGARDLESS OF WHAT RACIST AZZ NEWT GINGRICH SAYS>HE AINT NO DANG BODY>IDIOT<

SEPTEMBER 30TH IS NATIONAL BLUE DAY, PLZ SUPPORT OBAMA BY WAERING BLUE, IMSURE THE COLOR OFFSETS YOUR EYES*LOL

*P.S THANKS FOR THE HEADS UP TO AVOID THAT AREA NEAR THE CIVIC CENTER

By Who Cares

September 16, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

How long will Kanya cry this time about his mama? Oh mamamamamamamamam oh mamamamamammamamam boo-hoo ohmamamamammama. What a punk.

By conrad

September 16, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

ESR, YOU JUST MAD BECAUSE THE KU KLUX KLAN CONVENTION IS NOT COMING TO TOWN BUDDY. HA HA HA !!!!

By chavous

September 16, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

The BET award show should be a great event. It may even provide a different reality than what “vracer”, “esr”, and “mark” have seen on FOX news all their life.

I’ll be at the event, and if some choose not to be in the area, that’ll provide me with some peace.

By sickofthefooliness

September 16, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

Geez, I agree 100% with you. people in the ajc like sonja seem to get some sort of sick pleasure of putting up blogs that they know will start some sort of racial tention. Find something productive to discuss, its a shame that so many people are out of work but they hire people like this that show they have no educational skills what so ever. Hip Hop is what is what it is like it or not, not need for a blog.

By Doug Perry

September 16, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this

Have you’ll ever been to a rock & roll concert lately, it twice as,bad but don’t get the same negative media coverage,I wonder why!

By That guy

September 16, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

What cares, that was not called for. The man’s mother passed away, have some respect. I know Kanye can be a cry baby, but come on.

By Drew

September 16, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this

Will they be handing out bullet proof vests for downtown visitors that day/night?

By Jessie

September 16, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

These blogs are a golden invitation for racist bigots like Mark to come out of the wood work. In this forum,people like him can spew venon without recourse. Please AJC, refrain from giving people like that an outlet in future. Let’s have a blog about gas prices,weather,even bird watching. Stop putting out the racist welcome mat.

By dmoney

September 16, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this

ohhhh, so this is where the white people are…

By dmoney

September 16, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

ohhhh, so this is where the white people are. and it’s north AVE, not north atlanta. if you’re gonna try and be funny, at least know your landmarks.

By T

September 16, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this

If this is not the type of music that you enjoy, please enlighten us with the type of music you think is worth while.

Oh, I can’t stand Plies he sounds retarded. Lil Wayne is the best so far.

By T

September 16, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

If this is not the type of music that you enjoy, please enlighten us with the type of music you think is worth while.

I don’t think any of the artists above have one song with an african beat. Interesting observation though.

By Diddy

September 16, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

I can’t wait to throw my steaming hot Depends up on stage when Kanye comes out.

By Vanmiller

September 16, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

I think the real reason Kanya cries is because he don’t know who his daddy be.

By Jessie

September 16, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

It takes a real man to hide behind a computer monitor and degrade people based on skin color. I’m so impressed Mark. You’ve accomplished something here, way to go. Now, may I suggest that you openly express your feelings in public. I respctfully request that you walk into the BET awards and explain to everyone in attentdance exactly how you feel about the black community. I’ve love to see that happen. Alas, it’s won’t Cowards never show their faces.

By dave

September 16, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this

I bet there is a poll around the ajc offices on how long it takes before people start bashing each other… anonymously. This city is just plain sad.

By V Rock

September 16, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this

I’m a little out of the hip hop genre, but is the picture at the top of Pookie or WWE’s Bad Buckwheat?

By NRR

September 16, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

ESR, have you ever thought about moving?? If you don’t like it..leave. Sounds like this is not the city for you…In case you haven’t noticed, Atlanta is heavily populated with African-Americans. You may need to try Idaho, somewhere you’d feel more comfortable. Maybe then you won’t have to worry about the crime rate increase…oh I forgot, then you’d be bothered with meth heads and child molesters! Face reality…racist!!

By What the ...

September 16, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

Yet another reason for me and mine to be moving 4500 miles out of “New Detroit”, aka Atlanta, ATL, the ATL, the dirty south, etc…

This city has degraded below the level of acceptability. This is news? How can a “world class city” newspaper call this crap news? Who the f**k cares? Oh, that’s right, I forgot about all those folks living in S. DeKalb, S. Fulton, and the West End. Silly me, I didn’t realize they read the newspaper, I just thought they played basketball and watched rap videos.

By Murder Mania

September 16, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

Is there a place to bet which will have brought more crime - The BET Awards or the NBA All Star game a few years ago?

By That guy

September 16, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this

Okay What the…, you and your family have a safe trip.

By J

September 16, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this

Ghostface Killah for president that man should win every award big doe rehab is nice. Matter of fact all that WU-SH## is hot. Can’t wait for the new RZA album. GFK check em out only has one below average album and thats 4 real.

Phishscale is too good peace.

By Surprise

September 16, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

What a surprise….no other city would wnat to host this thug event!!!!!!!!!!

Did Atlanta win or lose something to host this event????

BTW - a great mug shot for the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce travel guide and tourist destination brochure!!!!

By Cant Wait

September 16, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this

Ahhh, the sounds of loud bass thumping endlessly all night long up and down along Peachtree after the event. Note to self: Make sure I have my ear plugs on hand.

By T.I.

September 16, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

I gotta make sure my boys don’t mess up the gun pick-up again before the event.

By Thinking About It

September 16, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

Yep,just another reason for the thug culture to slid out into the streets and show off their “bling” and how to hold a gun sideways and look real badazz with their pants down around their ankles.It is a known fact that wearing pants that you have to hold up with one hand is a throw back to prison time,where by letting your backside be exposed meant you were available for a little “back door action”…Does that mean that all of the droopy pants thugs are just scared to come out of the closet and admit that they would rather make it with a man instead of a woman????

By ESR

September 16, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this

OK, white trash owms the meth problem but go to your local GBI sex offender websites and see who is doing the sexual prditor thing, it’s baout 50-50- black and white. Plenty and I mean plenty of black men are on the site for having unlawful sex with a person under the aage of 13. Now sexual preditor teachers banging 8th grade boys, that’s a white woman’s thing…..sick ones.

By Thinking About It

September 16, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this

All of these comments remind me of the old joke “Why did California get all of the earthquakes and Atlanta got the BETA Awards and Feaknick and so much black crime????? California had first Choice!!!!”

By dont bite me bro

September 16, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this

Mary J fights dogs.

By truthfully

September 16, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

Clearly the entire KKK reads these blogs…

By mejustme

September 16, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

GW Bush is the biggest criminal on the planet- he should host the BET awards - along with- Rush “pill popper” Limbaugh and Bill” sexual harassment” O’Reilly

White folks are the serial killers, child molesters, freaks and weird-o’s but blacks always get associated with crime- the petty crimes that blacks do pale in comparisons to whites.

By ROTFLMAO

September 16, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

Sniff sniff….poor white people. Didn’t the census just recently report you all will be the minority here in the US in less than 40 years? Run where you must…say whatever you want to say about Blacks but soon you won’t have a voice or anywhere to run. Read the Bible..The last will be first and the first will be last. You already had your time…Vengeance is mine and it is so sweet. You guys brought us here and look what happened. So I’ll just sit here all back of the bus “Like Rosa had to do” and enjoy your bitterness.

By Yung Bullit Gunn Fan

September 16, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

Where’s Yung Bullit Gunn on the list? His rhymes are the freshest!

By summerhill ga

September 16, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this

Young Jezzy for Hustler of the Year Award…

By Murder Mania

September 16, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this

ROTFLMAO

In forty years white people maybe a minority, but African Americans will be 3rd. Learn to Spanish because hip hop will be replace with Mexican Hat Dance songs.

By summerhill ga

September 16, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this

Producer of the Year-Toomp

By Captain Midnight

September 16, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this

C’mon people, whites are not going to be a minority.They say that if the illegal invasion continues that whites will no longer be over 50% of the population.They would still be the majority percentage of the population even at say 40%. Nice try though.

By Mike D

September 16, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this

I I saw some one that looked like the guy at the top of the blog, I would call my local Johns Creek police department to come get him.

By Captain Midnight

September 16, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this

ROTFLMAO,such anger man..get a job.