Saturday November 19, 2005
The 'don’t let your ho go to the 7th floor' wrap-up
By now, the whole goddamned world has heard of the troubles Kyle has seen (the story was mentioned on Channel-7 morning news on Friday) since his original post about “Don’t Let Your Ho Go to The 7th Floor,” a song recorded by members of the Miami Hurricanes a couple of years ago. We mentioned it the other day, but a lot has happened since then, and we have a few observations to make:
- Kyle is 100% correct. When shit like this comes along, you blog it without hesitation. Whatever fault there may be lies with those who recorded the song.
- Speaking of which, there isn’t much fault there, either. the song to the song (yes, the link is still working) is no more misogynistic then many hip-hop classics, and is actually not too bad. It’s pretty funny, if you ask us (yes: no one asked us. the whole fucking blogosphere is an exercise in ‘no one asked us’).
- The Miamist writeup shows them for the biggest wuss-assed, broke-website-having, sports-fan-patronizing, and jealous bunch of punk-asses in town. “We’re hear [sic] to defend the Canes,” they leer. Defend them from what, exactly? Having something embarrassing be made public? Miamist seems jealous of all the attention – they claim disinterest, then feature their lame-o write up in their sidebar, trying to help themselves to the page views from the story while dismissing it. Hypocrites – ironic they are based out of the same school as Miamity. (Update: Maybe they’re mad about this . . .).
- Kyle pulled two posts from Miamity: the original post (google cache link), replaced by this, and his suicide note post of a couple of days later (which was pretty funny, and quote obviously a joke), replaced with the awesome kitten picture. Both replacements are entirely reasonable; one prompted by threats of death and ass-kicking, the other by threats of expulsion from school.
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wow, threats of expulsion from school. and they want to be an iv league school
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/boogie-down-productions/22963.html
I still can’t get over sending armed police officers to his room to fetch his ass to the dean’s office. The last thing a university should ever want is cops on the campus, and the worst way to approach a potential suicide is with a show of force. This is right out of Animal House. That dean is a dunce.
Hmmm. Don’t know where my previous posts have been going, but they’re not appearing anymore….
Check out this week’s Miami New Times. They reprinted 3 memos from Coach Coker regarding the song and the football program. Apparently they “are getting some serious interest from the best high school players in the country since that damn song showed up on the Radionet.”
Thanks Biscayne. Here is a link to the article.
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