I am the author of the editorial, "Pimp or Wimp?: Why Black Rappers Glorify the Pimp Mentality," where the above quoted text was taken from. I would just like to clarify a few things. I originally contributed this article to www.GlobalBlackNews.com, where it was published in 2003 (not in a blog, as the above writer states).

I am a woman writer (not a "he"). I am also a poet, published author, educator and performance artist. If you would like to learn more about my work, please visit my website.

This is an interesting comment about the 3-6 Mafia's Academy award last night. I got it off of one of those Black BLOGS. http://AfricanAmericanOpinion.com

It appears three 6 mafia, has what writer, poet, author, educator and performance artist DuEwa M. Frazier wrote back in 2003, "Hollywood appeal, which makes them mainstream, highly marketable in a society which worships the almighty dollar and tells us that the American dream is possible, "by any means necessary", and so some of our brothers rhyme, style and profile in the process to take part in the so-called American dream".

I agree with DuEwa M. Frazier when he wrote "No one in mainstream media, in Hollywood, in the music industry is disapproving of the pimp mentality in rap music today. Why? Because record executives, movie producers, and others who control the art, yet don’t create it, are the ones who make money off of our rap artist’s ignorance."

When DuEwa M. Frazier wrote in 2003 that "the foreparents of today’s Black male, platinum rap recording artists, would roll over in their graves if they knew of the irresponsible glamorization of sexual manipulation and misrepresentation of Black women, Black on Black violence, substance abuse and overall worship of money and material gain, in the name of pimping, which these rappers perpetuate". He was so on point. It really comes down to what DuEwa M. Frazier wrote in the last paragraph of his article, "If Black rappers ever want to reclaim their true identity as modern day Kings, heirs to greatness beyond pimping, the first thing which needs to be done, is for them to shed the weak notion that the pimp mentality gives value to Black manhood."

Yes, DuEwa M. Frazier, your words ring clear today, "So it seems rappers sell their souls to the highest bidder, forgetting that their own ancestors were once pimped, as their language, culture, spirit, land, pride, dignity and families were stolen from them. Slave masters oppressed and divided the Black family in many ways, one devastating way, was by using the Black man as a male buck, forcing him to mate, over and over with other females slaves. Slave masters would in turn have several female women pregnant at once and their children, born into slavery, would be used to work fields and any other labor , in order to bring in a higher monetary gain for the slave masters and their families. The white slave master was the first American pimp."

With the Rap Group, Three 6 Mafia, making history as the first rap group to gain an Academy Award for a "pimp song" at the Academy Awards, who is really getting pimped?

AfricanAmericanOpinion.com