I was sitting in a restaurant one time and overheard an Asian dude at the table next to me telling his buddies that he was offered a job by NASA, so he was moving to DC and would have to quit the band. One of his white friends started bitching, saying that the job at NASA would always be there and that the band was just taking off, so he should stick with them and not “sell out.” He whined that they’ll never be young again, now’s the time to live your dreams, blah, blah, blah. Now, everyone knows that if that white guy was offered even a third of what NASA offered his Asian friend, he would’ve been gone. No conversation about the band, no time contemplating selling out. Just a one-way ticket to DC on the first plane available.
Similarly, Chuck D was on the Tavis Smiley Show talking about how the powers that be were trying to undermine Public Enemy by turning Flavor Flav into a modern day minstrel (at 14:08). Fine. But then, just a few months later, Chuck D is part of the minstrel show, introducing Flav at his Comedy Central Roast. What the fuck? I guess, as long as they’re waving a check in your face, the powers that be aren’t so bad.
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WELL THE THING IS THE POWERS THAT BE KNO THAT FLAVOR FLAV ARE HERE TO STAY AND HE IS THE PRESIDENT NOW SO I DON’T NO WHY THE GREAT BIZ MARKIE AND CHUK D WOULD TRY TO SAY HE’S BAD BECUZ WHEN I WAS FINISHED AT THE TRADING DISK TODAY WE JOKED ABOUT BOND INDENTURES AND THERE ARE NO BLACKS THERE SO I SAYD THAT THE REAL PUBLIC ENEMY IS THAT FLAVOR FLAV IS THE PRESIDENT NOW BUT NO ONE LAFFED SO YOU NO THAT IF THE WHITE PEOPLE THAT SELL THE REAL $$$ DON’T LAFF THAN CHUCK D CULD BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT I SAID LOL AND THE CHINESE ARE RUNNING THE SPACE PROGRAM OF COARSE SO WAT THAT’S BETTER THAN FLAVOR FLAV RUNNIN SPACE BUT HE HAD SEX WITH ROCKY’S RUSSIAN GIRLFRIEND SO I THINK HE’S A GOOD PRESIDENT.
02.23.09 at 9:23 pm
Do you mean the powers “that” be?
02.23.09 at 9:31 pm
black people will do anything for money. plus they love to rape white women.
02.23.09 at 9:39 pm
WOW GAVIN! YOU TOLD THEM!
02.23.09 at 10:56 pm
i want to sell out first, like just focus my effort on coming up with a way to make a shitload of money and then just ride out on it financing my “projects”
02.23.09 at 11:20 pm
chuck d did a lecture at my school and i’ve come to conclusion that he is 100% full of shit. surprise surprise
02.23.09 at 11:57 pm
If only he’d had the good sense to die in a plane crash in 1993 or so.
02.24.09 at 12:34 am
chuck d most likely did the roast as a favor to a friend. It’s not like he guested on flavor of love
02.24.09 at 1:10 am
this happened like, what, seven decades ago?
02.24.09 at 1:24 am
I would sell my kidney to b part of an asian band that only performed in space.
02.24.09 at 1:55 am
^ also, indian bitches have to sell their kidneys just to pay of their dowry’s.no japanese space jams included.
02.24.09 at 2:00 am
good to see chuck still wears a nice, tight fitted hat with bent brim. not like these young pups with their oversized novelty hats, straight brim, tilted to the side.
professor grif can suck a fat kosher sausage
02.24.09 at 3:37 am
the thinking on this site is so stuck going back and forth in the dark ages that I might just have to start masturbating to kill the time.
02.24.09 at 4:12 am
that black panther, militant, organized black dude shit is dope. Especially when they’ve got coordinated dances and artfully done protest propaganda. I’ve always loved that shit.
02.24.09 at 4:45 am
What does bring Asian have to do with anything? Rasict.
You could have made a joke about fortune cookies in orbit or something to tie it together.
02.24.09 at 9:37 am
we all know asians can’t work at nasa, everyone would be too afraid of getting pee-pee in their coke to launch any space shuttles
02.24.09 at 10:59 am
the minute that public enemy allowed p. diddy to do a cover of one of their classics was the exact point in time they sold out.
02.24.09 at 11:20 am
I think it’s very generous of Chuck to give ZERO credit to white people in identifying the origins of rock and roll. Thank you Chuck. And what a revelation! You’re telling us that people all over the world struggle, honkies included? Hang on. White people get sad? White people have complex emotions? DEEP.
What a fucking CUNT!
02.24.09 at 12:15 pm
all rappers are phony. Get rich and stop keeping it real fer fuckssakes. Just balls to the walll sell out, be like Ice Cube and get happy.
02.24.09 at 12:16 pm
My friend works in television and he told me the S1Ws tried out for “So You Think You Can Dance?”
02.24.09 at 12:17 pm
chuck says right at the beginning of the interview that he promised to do that as a favor for flav and that they actually prerecorded it and edited it in later. it’s very apparent in both the interview and the bit with flav that his heart ain’t in it. get off his nuts gavin. i thought you were a pretty smart and perceptive guy, but then you don’t pay attention to something simple like this.
02.24.09 at 2:28 pm
Gavin and whatshisname, Kyle, love to find instances of people selling out. I don’t know why. I don’t think Gavin is a sell out though Kyle is a business major.
02.24.09 at 4:52 pm
Yeah, why don’t we just start a site dedicated to eggplant fap, no sellout there. You lead the way, vegan jules.
02.26.09 at 2:19 am
[...] We’ve already gone over this: People who accuse others of “selling out” are just pissed that no one’s waving a check in their faces. These whiners are simply bitter hacks. If you do something really well, someone should come along and give you a bag full of money because, well, you’re really fucking good at something. Nice job. [...]
01.15.10 at 5:17 pm
[...] We’ve already gone over this: People who accuse others of “selling out” are just pissed that no one’s waving a check in their faces. These whiners are simply bitter hacks. If you do something really well, someone should come along and give you a bag full of money because, well, you’re really fucking good at something. Nice job. [...]
01.15.10 at 6:55 pm
[...] We’ve already gone over this: People who accuse others of “selling out” are just pissed that no one’s waving a check in their faces. These whiners are simply bitter hacks. If you do something really well, someone should come along and give you a bag full of money because, well, you’re really fucking good at something. Nice job. [...]
02.09.12 at 5:50 pm