Shizlansky
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What’s the problem?
kid_khameleon
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I laughed at this dumb horse shit
This is hilarious. And to be fair, it's mostly just playing on the idea of adding the 'Five Grains' to their yogurt or pudding or rice or whatever, and appealing to young people by using Luniz.
I think to really be mad about it, you'd probably have to ask blacks in the UK, since this is a product being sold in the UK by a German company.
The 'Five Grains' btw, have a fascinating position in Chinese history:
The sense of holiness or sacredness regarding the Five Grains proceeds from their traditional ascription to the saintly rulers credited for creating China's civilization. They were seen not merely as five crops chosen from many options but as the source permitting agrarian society and civilization itself. "Squandering the Five Grains" was seen as a sin worthy of torment in Diyu, the Chinese hell.
As the position of emperor was seen as an embodiment of this society, one's behavior towards the Five Grains could take on political meaning: as a protest against the overthrow of the Shang Dynasty by the Zhou, Boyi and Shuqi ostentatiously refused to eat the Five Grains. Such rejections of the grains for political reasons underwent a complex development into the concept of bigu, the esoteric Taoist practice of achieving immortality by avoiding certain foods.
Oh, and if you're gonna be mad, be mad at the Chief Marketing Officer, Michael Inpong. This guy:
I think to really be mad about it, you'd probably have to ask blacks in the UK, since this is a product being sold in the UK by a German company.
The 'Five Grains' btw, have a fascinating position in Chinese history:
The sense of holiness or sacredness regarding the Five Grains proceeds from their traditional ascription to the saintly rulers credited for creating China's civilization. They were seen not merely as five crops chosen from many options but as the source permitting agrarian society and civilization itself. "Squandering the Five Grains" was seen as a sin worthy of torment in Diyu, the Chinese hell.
As the position of emperor was seen as an embodiment of this society, one's behavior towards the Five Grains could take on political meaning: as a protest against the overthrow of the Shang Dynasty by the Zhou, Boyi and Shuqi ostentatiously refused to eat the Five Grains. Such rejections of the grains for political reasons underwent a complex development into the concept of bigu, the esoteric Taoist practice of achieving immortality by avoiding certain foods.
Oh, and if you're gonna be mad, be mad at the Chief Marketing Officer, Michael Inpong. This guy:
King Ghidorah
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We are the highest spending power in the country, of course we gonna get shit like this "aimed" at our audience.
Colin$mackabi$h
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It would be less funny if the bears acted like any other race
Busta Carmichael
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7figz;c-10088807 said:
Met Yukmouth back in 2010, he told me that they dont get royalties for I got 5 on it or the first album.
Only show money. They didn't get a penny for the record sales either.
He was 17-16 when he signed the contract and didn't read it. One of the first ones to get jerked by the industry.
konceptjones
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Busta Carmichael ;c-10088814 said:
one of the first???
"We had a fucked up contract but we signed it/and dropped the hip-hop album Criminal Minded" - KRS-ONE
a lot of cats from the 80's ain't gettin nary a dime from their early work.
Valentinez A. Kaiser
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Busta Carmichael ;c-10088814 said:
damn shame.....I was gonna say if Luniz eating off this (pun intended), then get that money, but they're not
konceptjones
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Busta Carmichael ;c-10088814 said:
also worth mentioning that if they didn't recoup the money the label sank into the project then it makes sense that they didn't see a dime for it. The prolly signed over their publishing rights for the record too.
