Recently G-Unit's Southern general Young Buck came through to spit fire for the debut of AOL Music's 16 Bars. As you'll see in the video, he came prepared -- but so were we. It was only a day after Oprah Winfrey's (who is also from Tennessee, Buck's hometown) now legendary hip-hop round table with Russel Simmons, Kevin Liles, Ben Chavis and Common vs. Stanley Crouch, Jason Whitlock, et al. So After Buck was finished with his verse, I asked him what he thought about the big O and the allegations that his G-Unit partner Tony Yayo got physical with Jimmy "Henchman" Rosemond's 14-year-old son. Lets just say that after a few minutes I believed that he was ready to 'Buck the World.'
Technorati ProfileHow do you feel about the current movement to censor hip hop?
"I just think that at the end of the day it can't be no individual that voices about any artists' things that they say in their music because they haven't walked in our pair of shoes of any of these individual artists. You can't control a thing as big as hip hop and try to make it the way that you want it or the way that any individual may want it. You gotta allow hip hop to take its course, good and bad. That's the nature of hip hop. You gotta let it be.
I think when you start putting people in pocket that are pretty much going against the negativity of it, or the harsh words out of it, things of that nature, you're taking the game to a whole 'nother level. So it's nothing wrong with them getting together, as long as they're coming up with tactics to stop bootlegging or something like that. Don't come together to migrate on trying to censorship these artists or nothing like that, or protest a certain crew, or anything like that. Come together because we dealing with situations in hip hop that's affecting the game financially more than us having to think about censoring somebody. You think censoring is going to help the financial aspect of hip hop? No, it's gonna take more from it.
So, at the end of the day I think it's just about people not allowing some of these people that have nothing to do with the hip hop world getting in and putting the influence on them to change the strategy that they followed for so many years. Anything that works, eventually it comes a time when the road gets bumpy. But if you ain't strong enough to hold onto the horse when that m---r is going over a rocky road, then you shouldn't be going over that m---r in the first place....
Can't nobody give criticism to no artists, or nobody that you ain't never put their shoes on. How can you tell this man that's speaking on what's going on in the projects that he can't say that when you ain't never experienced a day in living in them m----r -- including Oprah Winfrey! Oprah Winfrey is from my city, she graduated with my mother. She's always been a black white woman, all her life. I see her father everyday on Cleveland Street, at a barbershop. Her father owns a barbershop. She graduated with my mother from TSU, from Tennessee State University. Her character is known throughout my city, throughout the older people; they already know what type of situation it is.
I have no respect for Oprah Winfrey because she has no respect for the hip hop world, good or bad. Because there's plenty other artists that don't even push a negative line that don't even sat on her show. And they've probably surpassed some of the people she's sitting down. I mean, she'll have a child rapist and all kind of people like that sitting in front of the show, but she couldn't have a person, successful from the ghetto standing there and ask him questions. But she'll have a child rapist and ask him why did you do this to this child, and things of that nature.
Like I said, her father is from my city, he still has the hood thing. His barbershop is right on Cleveland Street in the middle of the ghetto. But as far as Oprah Winfrey, there's never been a respect throughout Tennessee for her, not from the ghetto perspective. 'Cause like I said, her father's there, but she's never even played a part in our city."
Tell me the truth Buck, did Yayo put his hands on Jimmy Henchman's son?
I could tell you 135% that it's not true, as far as Yayo's involvement in the situation with him putting his hands on Jimmy Henchman's son. He didn't do that. I know that for a fact. Now, me speaking in general, I would say that any man that put his hands on a child is not right. I'm not saying that to say that my homeboy Yayo is guilty, by any fashion. And I know for a fact that he didn't do it, but I think we know that natural rule as men, the way that goes. And outside of that, s-t happens. But sometimes there be so much tension surrounding a crew like G-Unit, that when something like that happens we automatically did it.
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By: Reecie on 4/27/2007 12:45PM
What a moron! He needs to go back to school and repeat every English class from kindergarten on up. Also, why is he just repeating other things other rappers have said about Oprah. As far his comments that Oprah wouldn't put a positive person from Hip Hop on his stage...that's just flat out untrue...Common was on her show representing the Hip Hop community so she was definitely being nice compared to the clowns she could've put on there and ripped apart.
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By: Janice on 4/28/2007 8:00AM
Well I must give the young man his props for taking illiteracy to a whole new level. I'm embarrassed! I'm not an Oprah fan so I won't say anything about her, but he shouldn't have said anything either! Now I feel what Bill Cosby feels after listening to him demolish the english language, I didn't realize that there really is a whole new language out here, but I don't think you call this ebonics!
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By: WPearson on 4/27/2007 1:27PM
Young Buck it sure looks like u might be out of luck... So busy worry about you pocket u could care about our community or our young people Now it's our turn to show all the provide negative images to our community how much we care about them.
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By: WPearson on 4/27/2007 1:27PM
Janice I agree...Young Buck you needs to know that this is not about Oprah... This is about women all over the world. Bringing back hope for our children. What u said make absolutley no-sense so now u have to take the good with the bad and realized yes things are about to change.
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By: BklynBandette on 4/27/2007 1:27PM
He's an embarassment and disgrace to what true HipHop means.
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By: Ron on 4/27/2007 1:53PM
I WISHED oprah had one of the "clowns" that blogger Reecie referenced on stage. It made no sense to me that they bashed all the gangsta rappers and did not have one of them on the show to defend themselves? I want to know if any of them were invited and if so -- why did they decline? Common was dubbed "the good rapper" so why bother having him on stage? Why not any just one rapper in question there? Russel Simmons is not a rapper -- WHAT A JOKE!
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By: catalina on 4/27/2007 2:29PM
Oprah did the right think not inviting stupid people
to her show to get on national tv and act like a fool's
the need to understand the damage they are doing to this
young kid, stop been ignorant
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By: stilsexy on 5/01/2007 8:46AM
Most rappers dont know how to speak in a public forum or
any other place.For the most part you cant understand the rap.They should take some of that bling,bling and by
some English classes.
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By: Sylvia on 5/01/2007 8:53AM
Oh my God. The ignorance is overwhelming. This child wasn't born when African Americans couldn't go downtown; when they were raped and strung up on trees; when they were called niggas as part of ritual; when old dirty ignorant evil white men dressed in sheets pulled daddys from their beds and shot them in the woods because they were Black; when a young man from Chicago visiting a family member down south was beaten, draged and weighted down and tossed in the river because he was a Black teenager. What ignorance, what disrespect, what disregard for the future of Black children. While all of this madness was going on, Black children were taught to excel, because that was the way out. They were instructed to be better, that's why there was so many inventors, scientists, doctors, engineers.............. Today our children are taking off their clothes, shaking their butts and actually going through the motions of sexual and lude conduct on television, whike Black men get paid. Oprah is correct; Bill Cosby is correct; and we are correct....................you ignorant, nasty, greedy, criminals should be made to pay for the lost of two generations of Black children. Children who followed the lead of rappers like you and sold drugs, participated in promiscuity behavior, continued the trend to rap garbage while yoou went to bank. You are the modern day pimps who need to be dealt with. You go Oprah......continue to feed the hungry, uplift the downtrotten and not give a forum to those idiots who accuse you of not doing anything for your city, when in fact you've given to the world. Since it's his city................maybe he can give something by going home and shutting his ignorant mouth. Today is a good day to try hooked on phonics.
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By: renee on 5/01/2007 8:54AM
PLEASE, THIS ISSUE HAS GOTTEN SO OLD AND TIRED,IF THE RAPPERS DID HALF OF WHAT OPRAH HAS DONE FOR THE PEOPLE THEN THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO TALK, HIS MOM GRADUATED FROM WHERE HE SHOULD NOT EVEN HAVE MENTIONED THAT NOT THE WAY HE SOUNDS. THEN HE TRIED TO BLAST TONY YAYO THEN ATE HIS WORDS COWARD.
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