nina gordon - "straight outta compton"

Mash-up artists should, by logic of the outrage of this cover, be completely railed as offensive then, because they often misappropriate gangsta culture by ripping the lyrics from their intended musical content and put them over non-gangsta contexts. Fuckers.

Mash-up artists should be completely railed as offensive because they're so fucking boring.

Fleetwood Mac are an offense unto themselves, I fail to see how DMX could ruin it for them.

I just strongly disliked the way they portrayed the group's musical progression in the film.

If you play it too straight then people accuse you of "not having any right to sing it, because you can't feel the emotions/connect with the meaning/understand the song" and if you be funny and ironic then you're not giving the fucking touchstone the respect it deserves.

Fuck sacred cows, it sounds nice, get over it people.
(That goes for Nina's Compton and Frente's BLT)

Fuck sacred cows, it sounds nice, get over it people.

No. It doesn't. It sounds mediocre and bland.

You realize you're quoting a key line in the miserable 70s TV movie Superdome. (Which I only know thanks to MST3K.)

ha ha ha, Frente did Got Your Money tonight on their reunion tour. (chorus only, and an interpolation. but still!)

If Nina Gordon had done a half-assed, disrespectful version of Bob Marley a lot more enlightened, liberal white people would be upset.

those white girls sure should know their place, and not disrespect any men.

I find it very funny that people are up in arms about Nina's 'language' on this when probably everyone on this thread (inc. me) owns a rap album with the word 'faggot' used unironically, and either doesn't care about it or actively defends it. I would think that in terms of offence Nina saying 'nigger' is similar to Ghostface saying 'faggot' (I have no problem with either).

carry on.

Ah, yes. "Well, that's sexist!!!!" My reference was to Nina Gordon - not because she was the one who covered NWA, but because she is my stand-in for all white women on Earth. When I think 'woman,' I think 'washed-up alt-rock star.'

I find it very funny that people are up in arms about Nina's 'language'
Good thing I didn't refer to her 'language,' eh?

If Nina Gordon had showed even a tiny amount of passion for or interest in her source material, even if her song sucked, OK. But she didn't. She went for the cheap, lazy gag that's been done a million times before. And she purposely chose a genre, act and a song that continues to merit laughter and derision from her fan demographic, material and context laden with racial overtones.

It's not my fault she opened herself up to questions of unconscious racism. Maybe if her version wasn't stilted and boring, it wouldn't have come up.

Nobody gets up in arms when someone does a lazy cover of a rock song. Why is NWA entitled to more "respect" just because they're a hiphop group?

I'm pissed when my time gets wasted if it sucks.

The singer out of Veruca Salt has a fan demographic? Fuck!

(This post brought to you by a scratched-up, unplayable copy of The Cooler and a fucking headache.)

Can we get a remix with two other gals taking Ren and Eazy-E's lyrics? Someone way up there gave Nellie McKay a shout, that'd work for one of 'em.

Why is NWA entitled to more "respect" just because they're a hiphop group?
Strawman. No one said they're deserving of "more 'respect'" - respect, period.

What's unhealthy is all these exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!

Maybe she's got a new album coming out or was dropped by her label and is looking for another one.

"Nina Gordon, who?", many of us would've said previously. Now we've all gotten a big 300+ post reminder that she exists. Her work here is done.

"Nina Gordon, who?", many of us would've said previously. Now we've all gotten a big 300+ post reminder that she exists

i'm sure that argument will weigh a lot with sony.

This video just reinforces how ridiculous and over-the-top the lyrics are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6D5xpCgETk

That's actually pretty funny.

The police in the video are more YMCA than LAPD.