Jill Murray
The recent rash of interviews leading up to the release of Get Rich or Die Trying has given me the opportunity to read and discover for myself a genuine personal dislike of $0.50.
I really don’t like that guy.
But more than 50, the person I really don’t like is Cindy Pearlman of the Chicago Sun times, who used the phrase “shot in the face” no fewer than three times in one article, including the following sentence.
“You can see the scar a few inches from his lips, where he was shot in the face, but it’s fading.”
(How many faces does the man have? Where are his other lips located? Is his whole head fading, or just his face, or just his lips?)
And who more importantly asked him the following question.
“With all the shootings in the rap world, do you worry about dying young?”
Translation: As a black man in a racist America, isn’t your largest fear still that of being assaulted by a fellow black entertainer?
When John Lennon was shot, did anyone blame the music? When Phil Spector allegedly shot somebody, did anyone blame the music?
NO! They blamed psychos and drugs.
Why then, in an interview where your once-a-crack-dealer, now-a-pap-dealer subject talks about the crime artists commit when they forget that art is just business, and argues that they should just stick to business and forget art, do you go and blame the art for what comes down to business shootings?
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