Posted by MS:

Yes the hip hop community should be applauded for their contributions to society. Are you kidding? I happen to love hip hop and not have a real problem with it, but a good majority of those guys not only make it impossible for youth to see what it takes to succeed in society, but they promote violence, thuggery, exploit women, and are just plain bad people.

You can give your examples of positive role models, but the negatives outweigh the positives

Hip hop is a culture and whatever hip hop stars promote is demanded by social groups from where they get paid.
It is not like Hip Hop is shaping the society but all the way around.
A lot of politicians want people to be brain washed to unlimited extend and hip hop helps a lot to do this and create the stereotype for politicians to run with.
They get free pass to run public with promoting violence, sex, drags , crime, etc but Progressive Rock groups are censored out from TV and radio only because they are politically incorrect and are pointing at government and establishment blunders, corruption, and neglect to people they are getting paid from…

Posted by Nalod:

Posted by kam77:

God forbid he be hip-hop. Congrats on outing yourself as an arse.

For Marbury, he has 11 years of being very private, hip hop, surley, and self centered

In retrospect it was a bad choice of words, but I stand by the intent of the rest of it.

Posted by EnySpree:

Posted by Nalod:

Posted by kam77:

God forbid he be hip-hop. Congrats on outing yourself as an arse.

For Marbury, he has 11 years of being very private, hip hop, surley, and self centered

In retrospect it was a bad choice of words, but I stand by the intent of the rest of it.

I was thinking the same thing. Hip-hop was the only thing you guys got out of the guys post?

If hip-hop wasn't there what would the opinion be?

The opinion would be that this is another post picking on Marbury's characteristics. Other than being described as 'surly', what was so negative about the description? He has been private (whats wrong with that) hip-hop (please) surly (a negative) and self-centered (common trait among those with a self).

Barry Bonds is surly. Kobe Bryant is self-centered. KRS-One is hip-hop. All of them are private. All of them do pretty well for themselves. So these adjectives are neither instructive nor helpful.

I'd rather see someone say... Marbury is not a pure passer and takes too many jumpshots... because at least there's a basketball angle we can discuss. Talking about someone's personality leads to nothing constructive.

I did like how Nalod began his post, talking about explaining Benefit of the Doubt. I applaud that.

[Edited by - kam77 on 07-23-2007 12:51 PM]

Posted by BasketballJones:

I hope Marbury continues giving those entertaining interviews.

Posted by fishmike:

I think its fair to say Marbury's personality (or lack there of) has contributed to his inability to win games in the NBA. Several prominant teammates of his have said so point blank.