RIP The Source I once loved pt. 2080

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http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/10/17/army/index.html

It's not even so much them working with the army to recruit the "urban" audience, it's the way the Source guy talks about "delivering the audience" to the Army, like hip hop fans are cattle to be sold to the highest bidder. Yuck - I used to think the Source was a great magazine back in the day.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 17 October 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

haha! "I want them to say, 'The Army was here--the Army is cool!'"

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 17 October 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Yo the Army is off the chain, dog!

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 17 October 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"I want them to say, 'The Army was here--the Army is cool!'"

I'm sure you overhear that alot in the streets of Iraq these days!

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 17 October 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I suddenly get the mental image of some b-boy gangsta wannabe telling his drill seargent "Yo Yo Yo, Gee. Y'all gotta jus drop this yellin' and shit. Know what I'm sayin'? Just chill, dog. Chill like chilli willi. Aight?"

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Friday, 17 October 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I suddenly get the exact opposite mental image--some drill sgt. trying to ape hip-hop slang in order to be down. I can't even conjure the language but I can sure conjure the hand movements.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 17 October 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"PRIVATE! GET OVER HERE!!! WHEN I SAY POP A CAP IN THAT MAN'S ASS, YOU BETTER GODDAMN WELL POP A CAP IN THAT ASS - ON THE DOUBLE! NOW, INFANTRY, LET'S RIDE ON THESE MUHFUCKAS!"

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 17 October 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Matt Helgeson I kiss you

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 17 October 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"What is your major malfizzle?"

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 17 October 2003 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Round Out Tha' Tank

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 17 October 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

All you need to do is change the emphases slightly on the chorus of DMX's "Party Up" and you have a marching cadence. Try it!

― rob geary (rgeary), Friday, 17 October 2003 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Mystikal to thread!

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Saturday, 18 October 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

haha robin c to thread!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 18 October 2003 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)

mighty mighty D-Block to thread!

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 18 October 2003 06:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Canibus to ~~potato-peeling duty~~ thread!

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 18 October 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

that's right, I forgot Canibus joined up....a while back www.allhiphop.com had pix of him in camo with machine guns and night-vision goggles and stuff posing from basic training or something.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 18 October 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The military is teaming up with hip-hop bible the Source to recruit black urban kids with pimped-out Hummers and off-da-hook merchandise.

If the hummer actually DID roll into an urban neighborhood, it might be missing a few hubcaps by the end of the day: "Camoflage Kangols? Don't need the damn Army for that!"

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Saturday, 18 October 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

off-da-hook I can give or take. If it were off-da-chain, then it might be worth considering.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 18 October 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely all merchandise is off the hook? Unless it was stored on a shelf.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 18 October 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

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