S1Ws on close protection duty for Public Enemy circa 1990
Reading The Onion and came upon this article about the S1Ws from Public Enemy getting called back into active duty. Man, this war in Iraq is tearing this country apart. Here's a snippet:
"I got a letter from the P.E. the other day," said James Bomb, 46, also a former S1W. "I opened it, and read it, and said they were suckers. They want me for their army or whatever? Picture me giving a damn—I said 'Never.'"
-All I wanted to do was watch and see what Prince did. So I did not even turn on the TV all day until 2-3 minutes before halftime.
Fireworks start popping off at the stadium. My daughter looks up from her dolls and asks whats going on. I tell her that Prince is coming on. She then asks "..if he's the prince then where's his crown?" Damn kids...I don't answer her.
The show handlers unleash the 'crowd' to rush the stage. This sweating mass of humanity have about 100 ft to run across until they make it to the stage. One camera shows a delirious middle aged white chick rushing past. Uhhh...c'mon beeyotch, this shows gonna last 10 minutes then your ass is gonna be escorted straight to the Joe Robbie Stadium loading docks where they will 'release the hounds ' in five minutes unless your ticket-less ass gets the fuck on out. Is your life so devoid of joy that this glimpse of Prince's crotch is worth that?
There are two of Prince's hoes dancing around him starting with the opening song of 'Let's Go Crazy". They are dressed in black, puffy, boa-like jackets and black pirate, thigh boots. They are dancing WAAAAAAYYYYYYY too close to Prince. Even dancing in front of him. WTF? And they dancing not all sensous and sexual like Princes hoes usually do, they are dancing all Tina Turner crazy and shit, like they are at church, getting possessed by the Holy Spirit or some shit at the afternoon service of the Airport Boulevard First Church of the Savior. Then there's some other black bitch hanging off to the side, dressed in a white cat-suit with a fucked up round topped helmet, singing back-up, gyrating by herself. Whose fucking idea was those three beeyotches? When the fuck did Prince need a back-up singer?
Prince plays some shit I don't know in the middle of the set. A marching band comes out. This really piques my daughters interest especially when those fools start glowing in the dark. She's all up in it now. I hope Prince doesn't do some crazy shit and then I got to lie to my daughter to cover it up.
Then Prince changes guitars to the one pictured, I know that the last song is coming-which one is it? Purple Rain. He starts tearing it up on the guitar. The stupid dancers disappear. Prince is where he should be, by himself onstage-unless he's got some nekkid chicks thrusting their breastes and/or crotches up on him like the old days. Today is not that day. But this makes it all worth it. He tears that biatch up and shows everyone why he's the fucking Man.
When he's done with the song what does he do with the guitar? Ta if you don't know your a biotch.
Aight, the last part saved the entire set for Prince. And the games still sucked donkey scrotum, just like I thought. See ya next year beeyotches.
Since the Superbowl is upon us, its time to talk halftime entertainment obviously, because the game is going to suck the sweat off a donkey's scrotum. This year Prince will be performing. Everyone has their impressions of Prince: Androgenous She-man Jheri-curled-Lace Be-decked charlatan Nevertheless, true motherfuckers know that Prince is one of the biggest pimps/guitarists/artists in the last 20 years of music. I don't think anyone will deny that the motherfucker has got nine-lives like freaking cat. You don't start recording back in the 70s and still be relevent almost 30 years later. And no one doubts Prince's hedonistic lifestyle, his straight craziness-just look at the motherfucker, he's liable to lick you up the side of face or give you the stinkeye with his freakish eyes and perfectly trimmed facial hair. David Chappelle and Charlie Murphy did a sketch about crazy Prince from the 80s. Don't pull a muscle laughing.
When I heard NWA's album "Staight Outta Compton" back in 1988, that shit blew my mind. Where the fuck did this shit come from? Who the hell were these guys. Why are they so fucking angry? Where can I get this shit?
Of course there were thug-ass dudes that you heard about, but no one ever talked about them except if one of your mark-ass friends bragged about a gangster they knew or had one as a relative. I remember Cheo Brown, in elementary school, talking about Crips and Bloods in hushed tones in the cafeteria, like he was scared a thug was going to rise up out of a steaming pot of creamed gruel and fuck him up on the spot.
Naw, this NWA shit was straight eerie because it real. These dudes weren't dressed-up, jheri-curled(except of Ice Cube and Eazy-E, but hey-they hid their shit under a hat), high-top faded, S-curled pretty boys, dancing and shit. They were angry motherfuckers, and they spent the entire video running from the police and making menacing trigger-pulling gestures at the camera. They resonated with me because they looked just like the black dudes you saw when you rolled thru shitty parts of town; thru the ghettos that everyone avoided (like Martin Luther King Blvd in any city in the US). I got the feeling that they were talking about crazy, real shit that happened all the time in that mythical city of Compton, where only gangsters lived and everyone wore LA Kings and LA Raiders gear day or night, 365 days a year. Had everyone ever heard of Compton before NWA? I hadn't, and I was hooked. So if you never heard of Compton before and watched the video for Staight Outta Compton, you would think that Compton was in Beirut or some shit. Normal shit didn't happen in Compton-you could stand there all day and watch groups of gangsters running away from groups of cops. I hit up YouTube to jog my memory and found this shit
NWA was a fucking paradigm shift in rap. Oh yeah there were MCs before that spit about the 'hood and shit. But did they crack $bank$ like NWA did? Did they freak out American society like NWA did? NWA grabbed America by the both sides of it's head, slapped it around and made America look. Look at the ghettos, the destitution, the crime. And these dudes didn't give a fuck. They were laughing all the way to the bank when all those white suburban kids were buying their album by the millions. And me too. And literal army of imitators have followed them, all claiming some other ghetto as worse or even more fucked up than Compton. Neighborhoods in New Orleans, East St. Louis, Detroit, New York, any urban area in the US practically-all bullshit. You motherfuckers are all beeyotches trying to ride the nutsack of NWA and Compton.
Check this shit out by folk singer Nina Gordon. She fucking sings Ice-Cube's part like it was fucking Simon & Garfunkle or some shit. And to her credit she fucking kills it. No bullshit, props to her for keeping it real. Natalie Merchant ain't got shit on her.
Watching this video again, I know all you people remember your feelings when you heard/saw it for the first time. What did you feel? Revulsion? Shock? Agreement? Or did you bob your head at the beats, the scratching and the reckless rhymes by Ice Cube and Eazy-E (fuck MC Ren, that B-Team shithead)
The cops in the video are fucking comical. White, mustachioed, mulleted, ready to fuck a nigga up in a heartbeat. Lounging around in vacant lots around Compton, polishing their batons, and ready to roll in a moments notice to round up "the element".
When Eazy-E is rapping, watch when he's in the storm drain. If you look up and behind him, there are hundreds of motherfuckers lining the upper rails looking down on him. Brilliant. That's straight subversive imagery if I ever saw it. Like they have some sort of following and Eazy-E is one of the high priest or some shit.
S1Ws on close protection duty for Public Enemy circa 1990
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