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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Muckmaw1 on November 16, 2004, 10:03:33 AM
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All this tuff about Hip-Hop and Rap being prone to violence...Pfft.
Anyone ever get stabbed at the Oscars?
The emmies?
What about the nefarious Tony Awards?
Award Show violence: A growing threat in America
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - A fight broke out near the stage at the Vibe awards ceremony as rapper Snoop Dogg and producer Quincy Jones were preparing to honor Dr. Dre., and one person was stabbed, authorities and witnesses said.
Dozens of people sitting near the stage Monday inside a hangar at the Santa Monica Municipal Airport began shoving each other as the show wound down about 7:30 p.m., a photographer who covered the event for The Associated Press said.
News video showed chairs being thrown, punches flying, people chasing one another and some being restrained.
It was unclear if the stabbing preceded or followed the fight. The victim, a 26-year-old man, was taken to a hospital and was listed in stable condition.
No arrests were made.
Witness Frank Williams told KCAL-TV that Dr. Dre was involved in the brawl.
"I saw Dr. Dre fighting somebody," Williams said. "I don't know if he was fighting back. But there was a guy taken out basically bloodied."
Andrea Ferguson, employed by a public relations firm that worked with Vibe for the awards ceremony, called the incident a "disruption" but declined to provide details. She added the show was allowed to continue but it was halted for about five minutes.
Dr. Dre, who was scheduled to receive a Vibe Legend Award for his lifetime contributions to hip-hop, had not come on stage yet when the fight erupted. Jones and Snoop Dogg stood on stage without saying anything.
"My understanding is that it was somewhat chaotic in there," police Lt. Frank Fabrega said in a press conference following the fight.
About 1,000 people attended the event; some scurried for the exits when the melee began.
"It's really important that we don't take a negative incident like this and do away with the awards," Suge Knight told reporters.
The show was taped Monday and was expected to be broadcast Tuesday. R&B singer Usher led the awards with five nominations, followed by Alicia Keys, who has four nominations.
Vibe magazine focuses on urban culture and entertainment. The awards are voted on by music journalists and "regional tastemakers."
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"The Los Angeles Times, citing an unnamed associate of Dr. Dre, said the melee broke out as the acclaimed hip-hop producer was sitting at a front-row table waiting to receive the Vibe Legend Award. A man walked up to Dr. Dre's table and punched him, and Dr. Dre's bodyguards went after the man, the associate said. "
Let the BBS melee begin. :D
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You got some kinda problem with stabings at entertainment award shows?
excluding adult video awards of course.
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Racist!
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Gee Wiz - Gangster Rappers acting like ............................ Gangsters! Remarkable. :D
Wonder why he got punched in the first place - Someone give him the wrong gang hand signal? Nah - probably the usual - fought over a woman.
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Wouldnt be suprised if it involved Suge Knight in some way.
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Originally posted by Nefarious
Wouldnt be suprised if it involved Suge Knight in some way.
Is that how one spells, "Shug"?
I'm not "Off Da Hook," Yo.
Na-Mean?
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Originally posted by Muckmaw1
Is that how one spells, "Shug"?
I'm not "Off Da Hook," Yo.
Na-Mean?
Heck, I dont know how to spell it. I don't really care either.
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No arrests were made.
Only in L.A.
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Originally posted by Maniac
Racist!
No, it's Stereotyping. There is a difference.
Karaya
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Originally posted by Nefarious
Heck, I dont know how to spell it. I don't really care either.
A'ight.
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Let them kill each other.
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Originally posted by Steve
Let them kill each other.
Yep, I wanna see Celine Dion and Strisand get into a knife fight!
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Originally posted by VWE
Only in L.A.
In the past, gangster rap moguls have had LAPD officers and local law enforcement people on their payrolls.
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Only one got stabbed? they need to pass out hand grenades at the door.
lazs
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same problem in many professional sports...
you can take the boy outa the hood but ....
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Originally posted by Eagler
you can take the boy outa the hood but ....
That must be the PC version of the saying...;)
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SIGH
I agree with eagler those hockey games are violent...
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hockey and fighting have always gone together (don't agree with it but it is a fact)
fighting and baseball? fights and basketball? fights and football- more so than the other two but not as much as there is today.. fights and "music" (term used lightly in this case) award show - never
sorry - facts r facts
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So fighting is exceptable in hockey but not any other team sport.
Got it!!!
Now as for this fake award show, some folks just dont know how to act in public but I assure you this isnt a representation of the vast majority. It just saddens me that it gives folks like you and others on this board fuel to add to the nonsense.
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Originally posted by jamusta
So fighting is exceptable in hockey but not any other team sport.
Got it!!!
Now as for this fake award show, some folks just dont know how to act in public but I assure you this isnt a representation of the vast majority. It just saddens me that it gives folks like you and others on this board fuel to add to the nonsense.
Sure does not put a positive spin on the Hip-Hop community, no matter how you slice it.
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the one hing that gets me is that this is not just a fight, it involves a STABBING. That is att he very least demanding of an investigation, not a "no arrests were made".
So... as far as I am concerned it shows more of the type of people that are involved in this nonsense and less about their race.
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Originally posted by Bodhi
That is att he very least demanding of an investigation, not a "no arrests were made".
LOS ANGELES TIMES
November 17, 2004
Rapper Named in Stabbing
- An entertainer is sought in the attack at the Vibe music awards Monday.
By Wendy Thermos and Geoff Boucher, Times Staff Writers
Santa Monica police named a young rap entertainer Tuesday as the suspect in a stabbing during a melee at the Vibe music awards.
David Darnell Brown, 23, was sought in the attack Monday night on Jimmy James Johnson, 26, of Los Angeles, who remained in stable condition Tuesday, police said.
Brown is better known to rap fans as Young Buck, a member of the G Unit, a rap collective that has been among the hottest names in pop music. In August, he stepped from the G Unit ranks to release his own album.
Santa Monica Police Lt. Frank Fabrega said that Brown's last known address was in Nashville and that the performer had been arrested several times there for minor offenses.
Police said chaos erupted at the hip-hop ceremony in a hangar at Santa Monica Airport after Johnson approached rap pioneer Dr. Dre at a front table, asked for an autograph and then punched him in the face.
A tape being made for broadcast on UPN showed that as security personnel tried to move the attacker away, several people nearby started throwing chairs and a shoving match began rippling through the audience of about 1,000.
According to police, one of three men seen holding knives in the video was Brown, who then lunged at Johnson's upper body.
As police officers summoned reinforcements, the stabbing suspect slipped away. The second annual award show was halted while officers from Santa Monica and neighboring cities swarmed the building and used Mace to quell the crowd. Officers said order returned quickly and the award ceremony finished up.
Fabrega said detectives were trying to identify the two others brandishing knives. He asked anyone with information on the suspects to call police at (310) 458-8451.
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This is why Punk Rock doesn't have an awards show :p
-Sik
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No one is trying to put a positive spin on the hip-hop community. Very little rap songs have anything to do with being positive. Most rappers are studio gangsters and would get their *** whipped if it werent for the huge posse. Hip hop lost it self in all this madness that it is today when people forgot that it is just a form of music and not a lifestyle.
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"You still listen to Rap? It's all just marketing now."
-- Quote from Big*****'s son to Anthony Junior in the Sopranos.
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I have never heard an entire rap thingie... that is good tho I suppose because even a tiny bit of it makes me want to hurt someone.
lazs
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Originally posted by lazs2
I have never heard an entire rap thingie... that is good tho I suppose because even a tiny bit of it makes me want to hurt someone.
lazs
That's funny Lazs, since becoming a member and taking the time to familiarize myself with people based on their posts, I've always imagined you to be quite the hip hop aficianado.
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Originally posted by Neubob
That's funny Lazs, since becoming a member and taking the time to familiarize myself with people based on their posts, I've always imagined you to be quite the hip hop aficianado.
Lazs is a Kraftwerk fan I think.
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is hip hop like rap?
lazs