Firstly, we've heard about how Len Brown wants to build unity as Mayor.
Yet his announcements as a Mayoral candidate have done the exact opposite. We've heard about how he wants Sue Bradford (Who has united 90%z of New Zealand against her) as his deputy, and now we've heard how Dick Hubbard announce how he is a part of Brown's gameplan as well. It's hard to imagine what a council with Sue Bradford in charge of social policy and Dick Hubbard is charge of finance would look like - because it's almost impossible to imagine a scenario that disastrous!
Secondly,the Dub-Dot-Dash blog has picked up on something. Len Brown fancies himself as a man of the youth - someone who professes a love of hip hop culture and who famously flashed rapper hand signals and made all sorts of unusual chants on stage at a music show.
Dub dot dash wonders if this is the same Len Brown who protested against famous American rapper "Ice T" coming to perform in Manukau around two years ago.
Said Len Brown back in 2007: "Why is Ice Cube coming to the Telstra Pacific Centre on 22 August this year? We don't want him. We don't need him. He is not welcome here,” said Brown. "Ice Cube brings a gangsta message to our community via his gangsta rap. This message promotes gangs, gang violence and drugs.” Brown then stated: "We don't want this in our homes. We don't want it on our streets.”
Yet the Hip Hop culture is full of this pathetic bravado about tough guys, gangs and more, and Brown has fed off this by flashing his gang hand symbols to try and look more like a rap star.
It adds more fuel to the fire that this guy is prepared to say anything to get elected. I would fear for the Queen City if a middle aged Labour lawyer from Otara cum rap star was in charge of the new Auckland.
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Note Mr Harawira indulges in the same pathetic bravado.
The mind boggels!
Boggles as well!
Whoops!
Adolf ... well at least Len Brown doesn't refer to Maori as 'Brown Motherf*****r Cannibals' .....
Dude, just because a musician is dark skinned doesn't make them "gangsta", not all hip hop is gangster music, not all of it embraces guns and violence etc.
While I disagree with brown's campaign against Ice Cube.. bloggers are just plain wrong when they try and compare any kiwi musicians in the hip hop scene (apart from the idiots who associated themselves with the Killer Bees) with any criminal types.
There is absolutely zero similarity between gangster rap and anything with any level of success in the kiwi hip hop scene.
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