“I Know.. Let’s Parody 175,000 People Dying”
If you haven't been following the Tsunami Song scandal, catch up with some of these links. The gist of it is that the morning show in for Hot 97, New York's number 1 hip-hop station, thought it would be a great idea to make a parody song about the worst catastrophe any living person has witnessed.
Not only do they make light of the tragedy, ohhh but they thought they'd throw some racism in too. Using words like “chinamen” and “chink”. Damn.. thats some funny stuff.
Hey Miss Jones and Hot 97… you want some publicity? Well you've got more than you can handle coming to you from the blogosphere and the rest of the internet.
A couple of days ago, Jin posted a response to the Tsunami Song. Its friggen great so definatly check it out.
Today, the entire morning show was taken off of the air. Sponsers have pulled ads, and this entire thing could destroy the entire station. Whoever recoreded the track, wrote it, performed in it, or pressed play should all feel like the turd they are for not thinking once that “hey.. hmmm.. man, this is pretty shitty of us.”
Here's an excerpt
..All at once you could hear the screaming ch*nks and no one was safe from the wave there were africans drowning, little chinamen swept away you could hear god laughing, “swim you b*tches swim”
So now you're screwed, it's the Tsunami
you better run or kiss your ass away, go find your mommy
I just saw her float by, a tree went through her head
and now the children will be sold to child slavery…
Hot damn, I just can't stop laughing.
Oh and I've heard better production work from kids on their iMacs using Garageband.
Thanks to HipHopMusic.com for a bunch of these links and the Gnutella network for keeping around proof of the tsunami song, something Hot 97 wishes would go away…fast.
Links:
Tsunami Song
Hot 97's Weak Apology
Jin's Response
Hot 97 Suspends Morning Show