Bow Wow And "The Price Of Lame," And Did Ludacris Get Somebody Fired?
Wednesday. 1.3.07 8:41 am
It’s looking like all the hype and publicity from the Bow Wow machine isn’t helping much in the eyes of music critics. Brett Johnson, an Associated Press writer, has blasted Bow Wow’s —Shad Gregory Moss’s— new album saying:
The production, handled mainly by Bow Wow's mentor, Jermaine Dupri, is often as tired as his lines. The strident, piano-driven "Give It to You" recalls a hard-bumping G-Unit throwaway beat while the serpentine synths of "Don't Know 'Bout That" is cookie-cutter snap music. Such missteps are curious signs that as Bow Wow grows older, he's not getting much wiser.
Though, I kinda agree with homeboi about the album, I’m still hoping that Bow Wow can still pull in an audience and sell records. You know I keep it real always, and I have to admit that I wasn’t a fan of “Shorty Like Mine,” and if I’m going to be honest. I couldn’t listen through his entire new album, The Price of Fame. However, in Bow Wow’s defense I will say: He’s making music for a much younger audience. No adult pass the age of 23 should be listening to Bow Wow and be anticipating a “wow” (no pun intended) effect. Shorty is a tenny bopper rapper, making teeny bopper music. I’m curious to see what he’s going to do on the charts. Are the females still with him? No matter how you feel about him the in the rap game he’s still doing better then Lil Romeo.
I read this online at Kansascity.com. It’s a story on how "Ludacris" the work place can get from time to time. I didn’t write this particular article, but it still interesting as hell. Check it out!
There are ludicrous cases and then there are Ludacris ones. A former compensation manager at Sprint Nextel Corp. says she was fired because she hired the Grammy-winning rap singer to entertain employees, supposedly without first obtaining permission of her boss.
Elizabeth Henry says she was asked to arrange a contest to reward Sprint’s top call center employees. The workers said they wanted a minority entertainer at the reward event. Henry hit on a “Rock Star” theme for the event, which was to be held in Las Vegas, and her boss approved, according to the lawsuit filed last week in federal court in Kansas City, Kan.
She said her boss green-lighted two entertainers, rappers Ludacris and LL Cool J. Eventually Henry secured Ludacris.
But after another employee allegedly told her boss that “she must be into the black thing” because Ludacris was retained, her boss became concerned, according to the lawsuit.
Henry told her boss that Ludacris would perform according to “PG-13 standards” but if she was still concerned, Henry could get another performer. She reminded her that call center employees wanted an African-American entertainer.
Her boss allegedly responded that any black performer would be controversial. Henry, who is white, called the remark discriminatory.
Henry was later interrogated in a secured room for close to five hours by the defendant’s corporate security officers, the suit alleges. At the end of the interrogation, the suit continues, the officers concluded no wrongdoing on the plaintiff’s behalf and the plaintiff received no reprimand stemming from this custody and interrogation.
After that, planning for the event was handed over to Sprint’s events marketing team. Later that same day, she alleges, her boss told her she was fired.
Damn and I thought I had a bad day.
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