Jackson Free Press

Apparently Mr. Kilpatrick's gotten himself in quite a quandry. Again something that has nothing to do particularly with his policy but all the same. Since he ran on a platform of being a child of the hip-hop generation, appearing on Detorit hip-hop stations and what not. Will they try to blame this latest debacle on hip-hop? funny editorial today on xxlmag.com. Check it out:

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116674

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I didn't read the whole article since the dude cusses like a sailor, but I did hear about "Text-Gate" last week. Definitely a Clinton flashback. Do you think he'll resign? He may end up in jail for perjury anyway.

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LatashaWillis

Date

2008-01-29T12:04:01-06:00

ID

116675

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You gotta read the whole post..He goes a little more indepth..it IS a hiphop website. but the writer has made some poignant observations on politics over the past months from a hiphop fans perspective. FYI..I dont think he should retire..Honestly dont think its a big deal. do ya think he was gonna admit to an affair in public and risk getting his stuff put on the curb LOL. Nothing at all to do with his works though. Power is one of the world's most powerful aphrodesiacs. more potent sometimes than money, huge box of spanish fly, or tray of oysters LOL. How about getting your OWN pager buddy WOW!!

Author

Kamikaze

Date

2008-01-29T12:16:07-06:00

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116676

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this just goes to show...a lot of times it's the cover-up that gets people in trouble, not the actual act itself. Better to be known as a womanizer than a liar, at least in the world of politics.

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eyerah

Date

2008-01-29T12:23:04-06:00

ID

116677

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L.W, the Chief of Staff/ girlfriend is resigning, as of this morning. And Kaze- I agree that the affair isn't a huge deal- but I'm not his wife. However the $8.4 MILLION the city is paying out due to the lawsuits is a HUGE EFFIN' Deal to the taxpayers of an already financially strapped city. If that was Frankie, I'd want his badge, errr cowboy hat, errr resignation.

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urbangypsy

Date

2008-01-29T12:28:55-06:00

ID

116678

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now THAT's the truth! For him to maybe have to resign because he lied about a personal issue is ridiculous. and the fact that they're harping on texts from 2003 is equally ridiculous. Folks MAKE these affairs by politicians salacious...

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Kamikaze

Date

2008-01-29T12:29:06-06:00

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116679

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Just a thought: What do you think the public reaction would be if Kilpatrick were a female foolin' around with a male staff member?

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LatashaWillis

Date

2008-01-29T12:44:59-06:00

ID

116680

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OMG!! Pandemonium!!! and the first folks to condemn her would be women! But I dont see the scenarios as different. I would have been equally indifferent either way.

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Kamikaze

Date

2008-01-29T12:56:57-06:00

ID

116681

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Kaze, I figured you would be indifferent. And yes, we women are a lot harder on each other than men could ever be.

Author

LatashaWillis

Date

2008-01-29T13:08:35-06:00

ID

116682

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Kaz, "Blame it on hip hop" So sorry to break this to you but "Hip-hop", the music idiom, is the creation of the hip hoppers The music idiom is neutral. It can neither sin or do good. The hip hoppers are human beings, therefore capable of sinning and doing good. So with that being established..... (you do agree with this statement I hope?) I have never liked that street (hip hop?) adage..."don't hate the playa, hate the game". Hey, in my opinion, there would be no game without the players. The game is neutral..the playas are human beings with the God given blessing of self determination and choice. Unlike the "bluesmen", who had limited choices and freedoms, the "hip hoppers" have almost unlimited opportunities for social and economic self improvement. It seems to me that they, the hip hop generation, just don't see the opportunities that are open to them. The immigrants, both legal and undocumented see the opportunities, but the hip hop generation doesn't. What I really don't like about hip hop/ gangsta rap (excuse me for lumping them together..as only a casual observer of the idiom, I find it hard to distinguish between the two) is that it appears to glorify depravity, disrespect ,idol worship(bling bling) and hopelesness ( violence as an acceptable answer) without expressing any counter balancing and redeeming redeeming values of hard work, self sacrifice, education, investments of time for future gratification. I admit that the hip hoppers are only telling it like it is, as they certainly should do as artists, but where are they attempting to use that same art to "uplift" those of their kind in dire straits and seemingly hopeless situations? Old school artists knew how to do this, and still sell records. All that being said, the hip hoppers are the children of the baby boomers and the baby boomers have let down the hip hoppers. So lets get to work

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FrankMickens

Date

2008-01-29T13:56:01-06:00

ID

116683

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Well C.O. *I* wasnt blaming this on hiphop and I dont think the writer of the piece was either. It was really alluding to the fact that Kwame is seen as the "hiphop" mayor because he grew up in this era, is a fan and consumer of the music, and has reached out prominently to the hiphop community(eminem particulary. detroit native). I surmised that some pundits would try to connect the two as they do everything else. We've had that hiphop debate SEVERAL times LOL.

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Kamikaze

Date

2008-01-29T15:24:02-06:00

ID

116684

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Kaze, Goldenae, I move we throw his sorry butt out of the fraternity for not being able to lie better than that about the affair. He should have said I don't recall anything, played crazy, fired the girlfriend sooner, told the wife pressure had caused him to lose his mind temporarly, asked for forgiveness and resigned with a little grace. He didn't learn jack from Bill "Big Pimping" Clinton on how to keep your affirs secret and stay out of jail. Smooth criminal if I ever saw one. At least for a minute! If he loves his wife he needs to talk to Congressman Vitter about how to handle the home situation. I'd like to be a fly on the wall when he finally has to break it down to the wife. He's probably more worried about that than the feds.

Author

Ray Carter

Date

2008-01-29T17:04:16-06:00

ID

116685

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I just read a comment on Black Amerca Web where Kwame, the hip hop mayor, said directly or indirectly, "I'm arrogant. I'm untouchable. I'm so untouchable that I can type out sext messages to my lover's city-issued pager -and later lie under oath about us being lovers." This likely ust may be the subtext of what he said. It's clear now that Kwame is a gansta rapping mayor, who is off the chain, and is hard core, to boot. I'll be shocked if he doesn't lose his law license over this, and she should. Maybe he'll go to slanging dope now after being run off as mayor, losing his law license and setting Detroit back even further. He must have been hitting the chronic when making some of his decisions about what to do in that crisis. That rap and hip hop are some bad stuff. A mind is a terrible thing to lose.

Author

Ray Carter

Date

2008-01-30T09:40:46-06:00

ID

116686

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People please go to the Detroit Free Press and see Thompson's latest cartoon of Mayor Kwame "Big Papa" Kilpatrick. It has Kwane smiling and saying to them if I'm not telling the truth this time may God strike me down. All the reporters are running like hell before lighting gets there. Like a true hip hop mayor Kwane is supposed to come clean at his church tonight, some time soon, or after lighting has stricken him. Thompson is funnier than Marshall Ramsey on this one.

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Ray Carter

Date

2008-01-30T10:02:36-06:00

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116687

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Frank Melton just emailed me laughting and said "that Kwame Kilpatrick situation is some funny sh1t to behold. I just saw the cartoon. How could a mayor run a circus-like administration like that?"

Author

Ray Carter

Date

2008-01-30T10:07:15-06:00

ID

116688

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America should stop making people feel like they have to be married in order to have a fulfilling life. Dude clearly shouldn't be married. But i'm sure he thought going into politics he should have a wife beside him. NOT. Just my little 2 cents. Everything else (lying about the relationship, etc) that happened is so typical and expected that it's not even worth discussing.

Author

Queen601

Date

2008-01-30T12:55:18-06:00

ID

116689

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Major Big Dog Kilpatrick is now saying he worked out problems about his rumored cavorting with other women years ago with his wife. I wonder how he did that yet was still able to get out the house alone afterward. I don't know personally, but I hear once caught, even if supposely forgiven, you're then confined to the house for the rest of your life, and you can't go out alone any more, even if you got one of those big ass jobs that requires it. I also heard that once caught, you get blamed and criticized for everthing. A friend of mines who accidentally cheated on his wife and got caught told me that his wife snubbed his toe entering the house one time, and told him "I wouldn't have hurt my toe if you hadn't been sleeping with that _____. The friend finally gave up and just left the relationship, but before he left, he said he was eating one time and carelessly wasted some of the bar-b-que sauce on his shirt to have the wife go off and say, "you would know how to eat properly if you hadn't been with that _____. Kwame must have at least married well if he can still get out the house alone. No wonder he's supposed to come clean at the church. I bet she told him this time he gotta be reborn or born again then confess all his sins to the church. I can't believe the baller is dumb enough to agree to that, and personally, I think it's cruel and unusual to have to stand there confessing it all when you know you need to keep some of that stuff secret else probably not be able to make it back home. I wish the brother well and hope the preacher will intervene thereby telling him to confess to the Lord and not the congregation. Looks like a pimp is about to go down. Kaze will the rap nation give him a memorial service or something to commemorate his formerly spent time at the top of the game?

Author

Ray Carter

Date

2008-01-30T13:12:55-06:00

ID

116690

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This story just won't die. Mayor Big Sexy's supporters and detractors marched this evening in support of the mayor staying and resigning. The chants to resign were drowned out by chants of "we love you mayor, don't resign." Upon closer look, a reporter retorted, "the crowd asking him to stay are all women. Could they be some of his ____?" Synonym for women, that is, in the hip-hop world!

Author

Ray Carter

Date

2008-01-30T16:01:14-06:00

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116691

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Ray Carter....you are just tooooooo much!

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Queen601

Date

2008-01-30T16:48:33-06:00

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116692

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Thanks, Queen. Frank, a few other friends and I are having dinner together this evening. Frank further said that boy in Detroit should be run off for a making a spectacle of the mayor's office. He went on to say the citizens deserve so much better.

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Ray Carter

Date

2008-01-30T17:32:23-06:00

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116693

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Big ups to Mayor Player who showed up at church last night and apologized to his wife, children, supporters and detractors. He showed he's a real G, right Kaze? Bigger ups goes to his wife though, an amzing and marvelous women. Her speech on Tom Joyner this morning was moving. She should be cloned and every man should have a wonderful woman just like her, should a crisis arrives in their relationship. The greatest thing Kwame ever did was find his wife. The price of gas for the myor's car and entourage as well as other expenses for the major's doing business for the city are going to go down substantially as he won't be able to go anywhere now but to church and work. One of his friends called me last night saying Kwame had messed up things for all of them. They can't go anywhere now either. Once your boy is caught all the women assume the friends are tipping too. How sad! Reminds me of the time one of my friends got caught. He was the only one of us who had a basketball goal at his house. After that we didn't have anywhere to play ball, we soon all got fat and we had to feign not being as bigger friend with him as we used to be. We were worried about fallout too. Its hard out here for a pimp!

Author

Ray Carter

Date

2008-01-31T09:32:08-06:00

ID

116694

Comment

Indeed, all ya can do is own up..suck it up..and hope you have a good woman by your side..

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Kamikaze

Date

2008-01-31T09:47:01-06:00

ID

116695

Comment

You said foul balls. Love the double entendre.

Author

emilyb

Date

2008-01-31T10:35:21-06:00

ID

116696

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Kaze, the Hip Hop Mayor, Kwame "Sexy Chocolate" Kilpatrick, has now been busted for a second woman. It turned out he needed some sexual healing at the Martin Luther King speaking enagagement he went on recently. I guess Kwame "has 99 problems but a b___ ain't one." Who was the famous rapper who gave us these immortal words, Kaze? I tell you Kaze before it's all said and done, Kwame is going to have his wife checking his drawers every night when he gets in from work. Pimping ain't easy but it shold is sleazy.

Author

Ray Carter

Date

2008-02-01T16:22:20-06:00

ID

116697

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Sex at a Martin Luther King speaking engagement? Oh, dear lord. The honorable mayor's pickup lines must have been brutal ("The moral arc of the universe isn't the only thing that's long, baby!")...

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Tom Head

Date

2008-02-01T16:42:12-06:00

ID

116698

Comment

Kilpatrick, Beatty Charged With 12 Counts, Including Perjury

Author

LatashaWillis

Date

2008-03-24T09:52:32-06:00

ID

132434

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Kaze, Mayor Sexy, Sexy, aka Kwame Kilpatrick, has now been arrested and released on bond for going gansta-mayor on a deputy trying to serve a subpoena on one of his friends. According to my sources, he screamed, "Frank Melton ain't got sh1t on me," as he committed the offenses of cursing out and shoving one deputy into another deputy who was there trying to subpoena a friend of Kwame. I bet he thought he was on the football field again at Florida A&M again. Brother, can you talk to the dude and let him know the gig is up, and he's about to get his moma, Congresswoman Kilpatrick, unelected and himself put in jail and disbarred? Unless both judges turn out to be a couple of his hoes, he's in big trouble with the old and new stuff. I thought our big brothers taught us better sense than he's showing.

Author

Walt

Date

2008-07-25T14:04:16-06:00

ID

132917

Comment

Kaze, the hip hop player, Mayor Kilpatrick graduated to being locked up in jail tday. He was out on bond and violated the conditions of it by travelling to Canada. I hope he wasn't trying to get with one of his hos! He and Frank are racing to the jail house and since Kwame is younger and faster, he won. He will be soon charged with a felony for shoving an officer. This is besides his other problems that got him in trouble in the first place.

Author

Walt

Date

2008-08-07T17:04:33-06:00

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132921

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Sounds like Kilpatrick is in self-destruct mode. Why in the world was he in Canada?

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LatashaWillis

Date

2008-08-07T20:44:51-06:00

ID

132923

Comment

Kilpatrick said he was in Canada for city business.

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Tim S

Date

2008-08-08T04:57:26-06:00

ID

132930

Comment

City business? He didn't have anyone that could go for him on his behalf? Something stinks here, and it ain't my feet.

Author

LatashaWillis

Date

2008-08-08T10:48:51-06:00

ID

135467

Comment

Kaze, in case you didn't hear, our brother Kwame Kilpatrick, an Alpha man with great potential and mayor of Detroit, blew it all. He's now resigning in disgrace before getting run off, owing a million dollar fine, and will be disbarred from the practice of law. He finally met one tackler or running back he couldn't knock down or stop. All over tail and lying about it. Nall, it was more than that. It was obstreperouness. Hip-hop hooray. A story of man who tried to gain mo' ground by being lo' down. Or was it by being a hoe down.

Author

Walt

Date

2008-09-08T11:42:19-06:00

ID

135468

Comment

Mitch Albons has a good story or opinion in the Detroit Free Press telling Kwame to "Keep on Walking." I wish I could post or paste here, but I'm too dumb. My work on this story is finished. I was hopeful the boy (Kwame) would go out with some grace and sense. You know what I'm saying, un-hip-hop-like. He and Frank Melton hardly have any of that, it appears.

Author

Walt

Date

2008-09-08T12:12:43-06:00

ID

135473

Comment

What does "un-hip-hop like" mean, Walt?

Author

Queen601

Date

2008-09-08T14:10:54-06:00

ID

135474

Comment

I don't have a clue, Queen. I regretted writing it as soon as it left me. Poor choice of words for sure. Fifty Cents would probably break me off a little something for saying it. I meant give in before you're done in. Change or make ammends before you're harmed beyond easy or any repair. He has a wife and children and I was hoping he would try to save all he could for their sakes.

Author

Walt

Date

2008-09-08T14:16:47-06:00