Why do rappers hold their bollocks?

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Well?

― whatever (boglogger), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

They are from the UK?

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

No, Australia.

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 21:00 (twenty years ago)

didn't richard pryor answer this question?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 21:00 (twenty years ago)

cause suge knight stole everything else they had?

― Dr J Bowman (Dr J Bowman), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

I always thought bollocks meant "shit," but now I'm thinking it means "balls." Am I right?

― Stop playing with your junk, Wednesday, 11 January 2006 21:33 (twenty years ago)

it means behind.

― Stephen C (ihope), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

"Disc jockeys" are so named after Jockey brand underwear and jock straps.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Because nobody else will.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:09 (twenty years ago)

if you want something done right...do it yourself

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:11 (twenty years ago)

righto guvnah

― $@#!$!, Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:11 (twenty years ago)

It's easy to laugh now if you're too young to remember the big Boogie Down Productions Knackers Falling Off disaster of '88.

― Excelsior Syndrum (noodle vague), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Because when they hold each others bollocks, it makes the audience uncomfortable.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:31 (twenty years ago)

Kiss my black ass.

― Dan (The Correct Answer) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:33 (twenty years ago)

haha

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

No, that was the big Niggaz With Attitude Kiss My Black Ass disaster of '89.

― Excelsior Syndrum (noodle vague), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:35 (twenty years ago)

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 23:18 (twenty years ago)

Sandra Bullock, occasionally gorgeous.

― Stephen C (ihope), Thursday, 12 January 2006 00:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.famouslocations.com/images/movies/net_.jpg

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 12 January 2006 01:09 (twenty years ago)

What the fuck is wrong with her NOSE in that reggae dancing pic?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 12 January 2006 02:57 (twenty years ago)

I mean, yeah, I see that there's a strand of hair across it, but why is it pink above and brown below?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 12 January 2006 02:59 (twenty years ago)

you just bought yourself a free mention on the "ILX quotes taken out of context" thread

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 12 January 2006 03:00 (twenty years ago)

Fair's fair, I guess.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 12 January 2006 03:06 (twenty years ago)

Still, her nose looks FUUUUUUCKED UP!

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 12 January 2006 03:10 (twenty years ago)

Back on topic.

LL Cool J: "There's a lot of people who aren't rappers who hold their [bollocks]"

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Thursday, 12 January 2006 03:17 (twenty years ago)

"There's a lot of people who aren't rappers who hold their bollocks" is not a relevant or satisfactory answer to "Why do rappers hold their bollocks?", though. "There's a lot of rappers who hold other parts of their body" wouldn't be either.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 12 January 2006 03:21 (twenty years ago)

it's to hold up their pants

― Peter Densmore (pbnmyj), Thursday, 12 January 2006 05:45 (twenty years ago)

but why do their pants keep falling down, even when they wear belts with them?

― whatever (boglogger), Thursday, 12 January 2006 10:26 (twenty years ago)

Because their belts are loose.

Another Q: Why are the kidz wearing their jeans that low, like they're virtually down? Alice was worried about James' at the Busted gig "They're going to fall down soon!" She enthused.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 12 January 2006 10:36 (twenty years ago)

so you can see they don't have skid marks in their underwear?

― whatever (boglogger), Thursday, 12 January 2006 10:44 (twenty years ago)

or cos pulling their trousers up all the time means they don't have to keep holding their sandras

― whatever (boglogger), Thursday, 12 January 2006 10:45 (twenty years ago)

well, didn't Michael Jackson start it all ?

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 12 January 2006 15:56 (twenty years ago)

well, he may have started the instantaneous crotch-grab, but I think the rapper crotch-hold is much different; one, because it holds their pants up, two, because it makes it easier to swagger and look a bit more disgruntled, three, because rapping is an unnerving activity; it helps to have a form/feeling of security near-by, and four, because any good rapper will weave raunchy innuendo into his flow so it's good to have a bypass from the crotch to the head just in case something like indigestion were to hamper the sharing of ideas.

― Peter Densmore (pbnmyj), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:44 (twenty years ago)

They got that from the Italians, I think.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 13 January 2006 01:37 (twenty years ago)

What better time for a cancer check then on stage in front of a live audience?

― LoneNut, Friday, 13 January 2006 07:02 (twenty years ago)

Thier dying for a piss to much GIN 'n' Juice

― lewis (lewis), Friday, 13 January 2006 08:08 (twenty years ago)

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― ◙◙, Friday, 13 January 2006 09:20 (twenty years ago)

Because they don't want us to see their vaginas....

― SoulManJ, Friday, 13 January 2006 09:56 (twenty years ago)

well, maybe rockers would do it too if they didn't have their guitars, bass, drums etc. !
speaking of which, i remember a quote by lennon saying he would feel naked without his guitar on stage so maybe if hadn't have one, the beatles would have started the crotch holding thing...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 13 January 2006 10:07 (twenty years ago)

Maybe it's some sort of cultural manifestation of a castration complex:

The castration complex is closely associated with the Oedipus complex, according to Freud: "the reaction to the threats against the child aimed at putting a stop to his early sexual activities and attributed to his father" (Introductory Lectures 15.208) . The young child with primitive desires, in coming face to face with the laws and conventions of society (including the prohibitions against incest and murder), will tend to align prohibition with castration (something that is sometimes reinforced by parents if they warn against, for example, masturbation by saying that the child will in some way be punished bodily, eg. by going blind).

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 13 January 2006 10:25 (twenty years ago)

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