Shop Boyz, the group behind the new joint, “Party Like A Rock Star” spoke on their rise to fame, telling the crowd how they came up from the projects of Atlanta, curb serving and trappin’, before finally putting their talents together and making music. Now they are certified rock stars.
One of the journalists started to pull their card, stressing the whole rock star gimmick thing. At first the Shop Boyz didn’t seem to even hear what was being said to them, but the reporter mentioned it again, asking them who were their rock influences, and pressing them on the fact that the song is basically a gimmick. They handled the question… well.. like a rock star, with a safe answer and exit sage left. In fact, many of the artists seemed to do that when the hard questions came out.
Many were asked their thoughts on the whole Imus/Hip-Hop thing and misogyny in rap music, most of them returned by basically giving the safe answers without getting into the whole thing and getting the hell outta dodge.
Comments like “I never say that word in MY house for real”, or “We use that word as a show of love and respect” or “We flipped it and use it how we want to use it” also were repeated. I don’t know if I blamed some of the artist, especially when they have the N or B words, in the middle of the hooks of their song of the moment. That and the fact that every one is so ultra sensitive about lyrics in hip-hop. Imagine that.
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