When I was a young boy, my mama told me not to play with matches. She taught me that if you play with fire, you’ll surely get burned.
Well, someone needs to tell this theory to MTV. The revolutionary music channel decided to put Drake and Rihanna right next to each other, with Chris Brown sitting just a few seats away at this year’s VMAs. If you remember, Chris and Drake were the center of a major altercation in a New York nightclub, where bottles flew and heads got cracked! While there won’t be any bottles at the MTV Video Music Awards, that does not mean there won’t be drama. In fact, rumors flew that MTV actually wants something to pop off, thinking that their ratings will go through the roof.
That’s just bullshit, and possibly some of the most irresponsible thinking I’ve ever heard of. It’s irresponsible because in 1996, MTV tried to play up the East Coast/West Coast Beef between Tupac and Biggie.
During Pac’s last interview on MTV, he called the media company out for perpetuating a beef, allowing the masses to find out something most people otherwise would have known nothing about.
While I don’t quite agree with the fact that no one would have found out, I agree with Tupac urging MTV to report more responsibly.
Pac said:
“We are not even coming out here on some East Coast West Coast, we got beef with the people we got beef with, but we can go anywhere in the country.”
MTV: If you see Puffy and Biggie, do you have anything to say to them at all?
“Even if we saw them, we are business men we are not animals… We are here as business men to enjoy and support the video music awards fro MTV because they support us,” Pac continues.
“People are really making too much out of it than it is… The east coast west coast thing is something that the journalists are making to get paid off of it, so it can drag out. They are perpetuating it so it can be drama.
Which I still love MTV but when it all goes down, don’t look at me and Biggie and be like why is there a big east coast west coast war when you’re shooting this to 300 countries telling them about an east coast west war that they would never know exist. So that’s where information becomes a problem.
We’ll try to be better role models and y’all try to stop putting that drama out there. You got a lot of power and a lot responsibility. We both do! We both need to exercise greater restraint.”
MTV obviously learned nothing. When it comes to beef, we all need to recognize that while it’s fun and entertaining to watch, people’s lives are involved.
I’m not trying to compare Drake and Chris Brown to Pac and Biggie, but if we don’t learn from our mistakes then we will never advance. For gosh sakes, hoping there’s drama could land Chris Brown in jail for 5 years.
To play a part in instigating “drama” makes us believe MTV wanted Kanye to snatch Taylor Swift’s mic. It makes me believe that they encouraged Lil Mama to run up on stage, and it makes me think they served Eminem a face full of Sacha Baron Cohen booty. That’s just wrong.
So while we can hope cooler heads will prevail, we can’t be certain when people with a tremendous amount of power, play puppet master and pull strings to cause drama. When this happens I can only think of the wise words from Rodney King: “Can’t we all just get along?”
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