Florida man arrested for singing rap song, police say

Apparently, it contained several naughty words, and he was reportedly doing it within earshot of kiddies. Their mom called the po-po, and the police hauled him off.

And yet P. Diddy is still a free man ...

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Comments

[Mark D]

Any white guy singing gansta rap should be put in jail anyway.

Which reminds me of something I want to say to one of the kids in my neighborhood:

Sorry to break it to you, Toby, but while you may enjoy listening the musical stylings of Tupac, you cannot relate to it. Again, enjoy it, but don't act as if you understand it -- after all, the closest thing you were to a gang is the Boy Scouts.

What'd you do, a drive-by knot tying? I can just see it ...

You creep up in your mom's Caravan, lean out the window, and do a double clove hitch, showing those Webloes from Pack 145 that you ain't jokin'.

So please ... stop. Just. Stop. It.

Some day I'm going to have one too many beers and talk to that boy ...

[noneposted]

hmmm..i don't like the idea of being put in jail for saying curse words. I smell the ACLU lurking on this one.

[Searching]

but it is for the children...

[Nick]

Any white guy singing gansta rap should be put in jail anyway. - Mark D

FINALLY! We agree. ;-)

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

Mark D you are an wrong. I am 75% white and grew up in a poor and tough neighborhoods.
I dislike the phony wangstas in the suburbs but I also dislike the wangstas that are black,NEVER experienced the ghetto but act like they have (Larry JOhnson for example).
Maybe city folks should not be allowed to listen to country music either.
So much for freedom of speech.
let's jail all the yuppie wannabes wearing ear rings and running down getting tribal ink on their fake muscles to show everyone how "tough" they are.
Damn the socialism.

[kmb]

If the idiot cop hasn't yet heard of the First Amendment....

And why isn't that mother teaching her kids about the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights?

Rap is crap, IMO, but idiots have a right to speak, too.

[onetime]

you can get fake muscles?

[T-Bone]

Free speech doesn't mean you can go using profanity in front of a bunch of kiddos... specially if momma is around. He's probably lucky she didnt beat the shiz out of em.

Free speech goes out when you become a public nuisance and disturb the peace...

[Otto Parts]

Hey, kmb, if you have young kids, where do they go to school? I want to catch him at the bus stop tell him his dad is a piece of ##$#, *&&^sucking, no-account mother@$#@#$, with $%$% for brains. Because that's the free speech the founding fathers were probably thinking of when they put the 1st Amendment together. You passed 8th grade Civics with a C+, and now all the sudden you're John-freaking-Locke. shut up.

[kmb]

Troll away, otto idiot, troll away.

[noneposted]

Catching kids at the bus stop and defaming their father is very different than singing rap lyrics in ear distance of a popmpous soccer mom. I bet if the founding fathers were alive today, they would hate soccer moms.

[Mark D]

Some of you may want to get your Sarcas-O-Meters re-calibrated.

Sheesh ...

**considers using emoticons more often**

[noneposted]

hahahahah Mark D. I loved your white rap. :)

[T. Jefferson]

"Rap is crap, IMO, but idiots have a right to speak, too."

That was the general idea of the first amendment.

[Mr. Spock]

" I want to catch him at the bus stop tell him his dad is a piece of ##$#, *&&^sucking, no-account mother@$#@#$, with $%$% for brains."

I doubt if the kid is as foul as you,Otto!

Your kids are going to hear it sooner or later if not already.

I sense too much anger in you.

[T. Jefferson]

"I bet if the founding fathers were alive today, they would hate soccer moms."

Posted by: noneposted

If the founding fathers were alive today, the US Constitution would still be protected and treasured.

[Nivek9]

The fact of the matter is, if the founding fathers were alive today they would be really, really, really old.

And that's pretty much how I feel about this news article. Mildly humorous perhaps but not worth paying much attention to.

[Rap is wack!]

Wigger, Please!

[Quad Kings]

Mark D's post 'be' funny.
Agreed, Nivek9, and T-bone.

[carl lee spats]

These idiot rappers are ruining this country with their hateful lyrics, I say lockem all up!

[Otto Parts]

Sorry I didn't throw the *sarcasm* warning on there. Point being, as T-Bone pointed out, you can't drop profanity just anywhere and then go hide behind the 1st Amendment. Just get a little miffed when someone calls a cop an "idiot" because he does his job and tries to keep losers like this from spewing trash out his hole in front of kids. Would you seriously want guys like this tossing out F-bombs and the N-word in front of your kid? The cop did the right thing. Sorry I offended thee, kmb.

[Arto]

YOUR PRESIDENT SAID THE "F" WORD ON NATIONAL TV
YOUR PRESIDENT DISPLAYED SADAM SONS DEAD BODIES ON NATIONAL TV
YOUR PRESIDENT BLEW UP THE IRAQI PEOPLE ON TV
YOUR PRESIDENT COMMITED CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
WE YELL DEMOCRACY TO OTHER COUNTRIES, BUT THEY SEE THAT WE CAN NOT LEAD BY EXAMPLE.
THE WORLD RESPECT RAP MUSIC, MORE THAN THEY DO GEORGE BUSH
AND YET YOU IDIOTS WANT TO DEBATE ISSUES ON RAP MUSIC?

[CJ]

Honestly, what's with all the oxymoronism here. Rap and music? The two words go together like Military and Intelligence.

[cml]

Rap music is so far off of the Bell Curve for what has been accepted as normal, it ventures into the realm of screaming "Fire!" in a theater.

The concept of "Free Speech" in the constitution had as its implicit social contract the premise, that "Free Speech" would not cause harm. Just my thought.

That said, Rap/Hip-Hop/MTV/BET culture, glorfies violence, death, beating women, boozing, drugging, prison loving and negativity in general.

You don't get trampled immediately in the theater, but that cancer gets us all eventually.

Mostly the White community is too scared to say anything, and the Black community...?

If Thomas Paine were alive he would be very old indeed - and wondering why noone alive has any common sense.

[Togetherchese]

Looks like we've got a bunch of stand up comedians in here.

Mostly the White community is too scared to say anything, and the Black community...?

Posted by: cml | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 05:48 AM

Wow!!! Ignorance is bliss. Rap wouldn’t be the multi billion dollar empire it is if the industry leaders (white males) or the consumers (mostly white suburban teenagers) weren’t funding it.

[Ni]

Sorry the above was me.

[I Know]

Arlo needs to chill and turn the caps off. Don't blame everybody else on here for YOUR president's foreign policy. Its a crime blog, not world peace and hunger.

This fool got what he deserved acting like a thug in front of children. People who think this is a free speech issue need to look at the real issue. The freedom to be free of idiotic behaviors such as this loser.

The rights of the peaceful should always outweigh the rights of the annoying.

This is still a democracy. If the majority of people don't want to be annoyed by offensive behaviors, then so it shall be. Its time for the silent majority to stop allowing the vocal minority to run this place.

[k]

You can't put Tupac in the same league as all rap. He was a poet, with some of his songs set to (beats) rap music. If you don't know that, you haven't listened Mark D. Tupac's message goes beyond gangsta rap. That's like saying all country music is redneck and that blacks can't identify with any of it. Some music just touches your soul, and Tupac had that ability. That aside - people shouldn't be arrested for singing words that are heard everyday on the street.

[spicolli]

The duffus dick should have been arrested just for looking so stupid.

[Mark D]

k--
Once again, it was a joke.

And if you notice, I never said Tupac or any type of rap music was bad or wrong, probably because I have quite a bit of it on my iPod.

The point was that white suburban folks (myself included) can't relate to the music. Enjoy it? Sure. But not truly relate.