Post by Admin on Nov 25, 2016 17:41:25 GMT -8
This was a masterpiece of an album. Damn good - hip hop at its finest in the early 2000s!
I'm reading the Wikipedia page for the album, and this stuck out to me:
While this may have built up anticipation for the album, another more serious obstacle reared its head when the entertainment network BET (Black Entertainment Television) refused to play the group's video for the single, "Lovin' It", allegedly because they deemed it "too intelligent".[1][2] Michael Lewellen, a publicist and program director for BET, responded, "It's not true, not in that context. BET reserves the right to show or not to show music videos of any type based on the network's own standards and decision-making processes."[3] In a portion of the video, the group lightly pokes fun at the different stylistic aspects of hip hop subgenres such as "gangsta", "backpack", "earthy" and "icy". The rest of it sees them performing to a zealous crowd.[1]
This is exactly why BET is owned by White people now.