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Len Brown – Hypocrite

by Whaleoil on November 17, 2009

hat tip No Minister via Dub-Dot-Dash

Len Brown in 2007 railed against hip hop star Ice-T aka Ice Cube coming to New Zealand. Yet he professes a love for hip hop and even tries his own hand at it.

It seems that Len Brown is keen to be seen embracing a Gangsta culture when he thinks it will get him votes.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/MikeEnz Michael Mikee Earley

    Dude, just because a musician is dark skinned doesn't make them "gangsta", not all hip hop is gangster music, not all of it embraces guns and violence etc.

    While I disagree with brown's campaign against Ice Cube.. bloggers are just plain wrong when they try and compare any kiwi musicians in the hip hop scene (apart from the idiots who associated themselves with the Killer Bees) with any criminal types.

    There is absolutely zero similarity between gangster rap and anything with any level of success in the kiwi hip hop scene.

  • http://twitter.com/HornyKitten @HornyKitten

    And Ice Cube is one of the better ones…..at least he actually went on to do things beyond Gangster rap (starring in the critically acclaimed Three Kings and writing his own, very successful, series of movies), not to mention raising a family of four kids. If Len Brown actually knew anything at all about Hip Hop and/or Ice Cube, or was down with the "yoof" in any way at all it's hard to know why he would try to get Ice Cube to cancel. At least John Banks doesn't pretend to be something he isn't.

  • Mediatruth

    I’m interested in Len Brown giving a whopping pay rise to his CEO. Seems a bit excessive to be handing out $35,000 pay rises with the councils about to all be wound up.

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10609724

    Rape hay while the sun still shines I guess.

  • Snitch

    I liked the lyrics that went "and my heart is beating".

  • Adolf Fiinkensein

    Question:Do black thirteen year olds get to vote in local government elections?

    Answer:I'm told they do. They steal your voting papers from your letterbox and take them around to the Head Bro for completion.