Stolen By White Motherfuckers: Russell Simmons
Let me start this shit off by saying that you motherfuckers need to read this site on the daily, nigga - because if you didn’t you wouldn’t hear the whole story. By now you know that Russell Simmons said some shit like he gonna ban certain words from hip hop, but whatever nigga. I already seen what happened to that nigga coming for miles and as tragic as the shit is, its a wrap. That nigga has been stolen by white motherfuckers, and there ain’t no telling who the fuck gone be next.
Ever since Reverend Al got that one scarecrow looking white motherfucker fired, there been some shit going on with people being mad cautious about what the fuck they say. Oh, you can’t call a bitch nappy. Oh, you can’t make fun of black people. Oh, you can’t go off on the sleepyheads - and it’s coming from all motherfucking angles.
I got a email from a nigga tellin me to be easy on them sleepyheads, and I realized that white motherfuckers are parasites. They swarm the fuck in without warning, steal a nigga, and replace they brains with some of that bitch-made white guilt.
So on the surface, Russell Simmons look like some kind of motherfucking freedom fighter, but all he doing is the bidding of a few white motherfuckers in the background. Banning Nigger and Bitch and Ho ain’t gonna do shit, but keep The Chronic off the motherfucking air in major markets. Then niggas stop listening, and the station flips to that faggot ass JACK shit.. and who gets paid?
White motherfucker fat cat parasite niggas. Keep an eye on it nigga. Capitalize on white guilt, but don’t let the shit inside your brain. One.
I’m hanging that “Evil Ass White Motherfuckers” photo up at work tomorrow. The guy on the right should be thinking about incarcerated black men if you really want to show the evil white motherfucker mindset.
True shit nigga, this shit needs to end. White motha fuckers monopolizing off of manipulation of the black man. They trying to end true music on the radio is what they trying to do. What’s happening to this white ran country when they motha fucking ban words from nigga’s vocabulary. While they ain’t got me on no strings, and they best not get any of you.
That nigga done already profited from “Bitch”, “Nigga” and “Ho” for like 20 years. Now he wanna ban that shit so that when he launches his Phat Farm Cardigans, he can push that shit on Oprah. Get out the house, nigga!
How can you defend or encourage the use of these words in music? I’m a middle school teacher in san francisco and i’m curious if you are around young, urban teens on a regular basis? if so, you’d be a fucking moron to pretend that there is no relationship to commercial hip-hop and low self-esteem or cultural self-perception. are you fucking crazy??
commerical hip-hop is not the only kind of music out there in the world. people are making money off it, blah blah blah, but at WHAT EXPENSE? why don’t these musicians give a rat’s ass about their own communities? the white male CEOs in charge of some of these record companies are NEVER going to truly care about how the music affects the most vulernable among us. so who has to care? the moral imperative is on the artists who typically come from that same community! fuck. it’s so obvious. how can you not see it?
singing about designer clothes and expensive watches and cars and bitches and hoes is all a bunch of bullshit. this is just commercial hip-hop. nothing more. and it has a horrible effect of the ideals and values and self-perceptions of kids. as a teacher, i’m fucking sick of dyson-like apologists for this shit. do you really want to make a legacy for yourself on defending the freakin’ n-word?
how many people have died or been abused and insulted in this country’s past in order for that word to disappear???
fuck!
and so what if simmons made the mistake or perpetuating the term in the past. is it so inconcievable to think that the man changed his mind? isn’t that considered personal growth? you know, being honest with oneself? a man is allowed to change his opinions. the entire progress of the world depends on this.
why assume that he’s some pansy for white people?
maybe his experiences in creating programs such as the Def Poetry Jam etc on HBO changed him? you know, actually seeing hip-hop related culture channeled into positivity??
i can’t believe that there are intelligent black and african-american voices who are actually making a legacy for themselves defending the n-word. totally ludicrious.
look at your community!!! it is in misery. beside from the people who are entertaining white people via dribbling or singing or dancing, the regular people are in a type of misery - at least in the bay area. is there anything else you can offer other than defending a bunch of consumerist crap in commercial hip-hop?
i’m sorry if i’m coming off angry or annoying - but truly, if you are around middle school kids - and these are incredible kids, and you see how powerless they are in the face of media, you would understand. defending this commercial media, if you TRULY care about the community seems impossible.
Leyla:
I mean damn though, how long is these comments? Looks like those evil white motherfuckers stole another one.
Any damn way, that nigga was cakin off these motherfucking words and to a larger motherfucking part its those three words that got him this venue to make an announcement that any one give a fuck about. Personal growth? The only shit that grow was that niggas paper and now that he got enough he gonna rest on his niggalaurels.
Also don’t for a motherfucking minute talk shit on those rudius niggas. They white, but they some down ass niggas and if a few white motherfuckers gotta read this, I don’t give a good motherfucking gotdamn. Pay a nigga.
One.
Hell yeah Russell done blew up his wallet off so-called nigga shit. Now that ass wanna act like he running for office so he cleans up. Im the opposite of Chris Rock: I LOVE NIGGAS BUT HATE BLACK PEOPLE! Leave the word Nigga alone.
That’s what INTEGRATION does to a mothafucka: make them try to appease whitey and his mama just to belong. Russell, Diddy and them niggas wanna be in the club, and want thier products to sell.
This shit is about getting paid in a different way. That’s why they running around here tryna get niggas to vote by having all these rappers talk about VOTE or DIE, knowing that shit is HYPOCRITICAL like a mothafucka because half the rappers can’t vote no way due to FELONY RECORDS!
This shit is ill and backwards as KrissKross ‘nem pants. Fuck them and the political party they rode in on!
Mutwasze (the activist comedian)
Leyla: Normally, I ain’t gonna read some motherfucking essay in the comments, but I made two motherfucking exceptions in your case because you say you’re a teacher.
You’re missing the point of this site for real. You gotta start reading carefully because this particular post was written specially for you. If you’re getting all steamed about this, you gotta check yourself for some of that white guilt.
“look at your community!!! it is in misery. beside (sic) from the people who are entertaining white people… the regular people are in a type of misery”
Now I ain’t gonna call you a nappy-headed ho or something, but that’s just straight-up patronizing.
Also Leyla, to paraphrase Jules Winnfield, “Freedom of speech motherfucker, do you speak it?!?” It’s not a language but you get the point.
thank you for your responses. i will think about them. on first impression, i think they’re bullshit.
1) ok. is russell simmons EVER allowed to change his mind? which men are and are not? do you have list? can i get a copy?
2) you didn’t answer the question. how many masses of urban teens in low socio-economic areas, and youth of color, do you spend time with? been in a middle school or high school lately in these areas? do you give a flying fuck about how these kids perceive themselves as they grow up?
3) i am not claiming that getting rid of the “n-word” will liberate, uplift, or heal everyone and everything, but it will be good. it will be effective. it can’t hurt to get rid of it.
4) is your legacy as a black or african-american person going to be to defend the term “nigga”? IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT YOUR LEGACY TO BE?
5) to whomever called me patronizing - have you been to oakland or western addition in SF or bayview hunter’s point? am i supposed to pretend that there isn’t a lot of hurt and pain there? is that what i am supposed to do?
Attempting to ban the words “bitch” “ho” and “nigga” is like trying to tell an emo band not to wear black eyeliner or use the word “pain.”
Not gonna happen.
it is totally unlike asking an emo band to cease doing those things.
rampant use of eyeliner will never have the power to contribute to feelings of low-self-esteem and elements of cultural-nihilism and lack of self-respect among white kids or emo-listening kids.
sorry, eyeliner will not make white kids vulnerable. white kids have countless examples or models in front of them of how to be, how to speak, or how to behave.
african-american culture no longer has powerful leaders such as mlkjr. or malcolm x or whomever. instead, the most recognized faces and voices and, dare-i-say, leaders for the black community happen to be musicians. like it or not, these artists have immense power. should they be legally responsible for the effects of their music? HELL NO. are they morally and spiritually responsible for the effects? FUCK YES.
if you don’t think they can handle that moral and spiritual responsibility, then YOU are the one being patronizing and paternalistic as fuck.
the middle class white kid in virginia or newport beach or D.C. listening to bitches-and-hoes hip hop only has an aesthetic and impersonal relationship to the music. they’ll grow up, move on, go through college, have kids, etc etc and the music was just music. they were never eligible to be effected in the way that young youth of color are affected. for this latter group, the relationship to the music is NOT just an aesthetic relationship, it’s much more personal, cultural, and familial. the music defines blackness to an extent. it’s a collective experience.
people have freedom to sing about whatever the fuck they want, but with freedom comes responsibility. the white CEO is never going to care about the possibly destructive effects on poor kids. the moral imperative MUST be on the artist.
in the words of dead prez: “them labels are the slave ships. . .”
One of my students is turning 14 today. I’m going to use this occasion to buy him a used copy of Mos Def’s Black on Both Sides. you know, an album that is actually about something, an album that doesn’t just perpetuate commercialism or violence of self-hatred, or a complete lack of respect for women, mothers, sisters, etc.
sorry, one more thing, the “n” word is ALREADY edited out of songs on commercial radio. it was edited out before russell simmons or bill cosby or don imus or al sharpton made a peep about anything.
the stuff on the radio will never have the power to compare to artists such as Common, Mos Def, Jill Scott, etc…
Sure, not everyone is going to be as brilliant a writer as Mos Def
(example: “Hip-hop–Ad space for liquor”)
but is it too much to ask for to just the most vulnerable in the community in mind? is that really that much of a drag?
to just KEEP the most vulnerable in the community in mind..
(kids!)
Leyl a: If you gotta vent, then you go ahead, but it looks like you’re just saying the same thing over and over. Comments like this:
“how many people have died or been abused and insulted in this country’s past in order for that word to disappear???”
…really make me think you’re missing the point (it wasn’t the word they died for).
And since when is culture a reflection of the music? It’s the other way around.
Damn Leyla–thanks for the dissertation.
1) ok. is russell simmons EVER allowed to change his mind? which men are and are not? do you have list? can i get a copy? NO, HE’S NOT ALLOWED TO CHANGE HIS MIND FOR POLITICALLY EXPEDIENT REASONS WHICH IS ALL HIS ACTIONS ARE ABOUT.
2) you didn’t answer the question. how many masses of urban teens in low socio-economic areas, and youth of color, do you spend time with? been in a middle school or high school lately in these areas? do you give a flying fuck about how these kids perceive themselves as they grow up? BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, GOT THE T-SHIRT. AND WENT BACK THERE AND THE SHIT’S STILL THE SAME. NEXT.
3) i am not claiming that getting rid of the “n-word” will liberate, uplift, or heal everyone and everything, but it will be good. it will be effective. it can’t hurt to get rid of it. NO GETTING RID OF THE N-WORD WILL NOT LIBERATE/UPLIFT/HEAL. HOWEVER, GETTING RID OF THE SYTEM OF WHITE SUPREMACY WILL. THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE A MEETING ON THAT THIS WEEKEND WHERE I LIVE. I’LL REPORT BACK.
4) is your legacy as a black or african-american person going to be to defend the term “nigga”? IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT YOUR LEGACY TO BE?……………YES, OH YES!
5) to whomever called me patronizing - have you been to oakland or western addition in SF or bayview hunter’s point? am i supposed to pretend that there isn’t a lot of hurt and pain there? is that what i am supposed to do?
YES, BEEN TO OAKLAND. GUESS WHAT? IT’S JUST LIKE DALLAS. NOTHING SPECIAL.
Help one lil nigga child and be happy Leyla. Be the change and all that other fake aphoristic shit the liberals chant to get mothafuckas to eat more granola bars.
If you respond, please make it 200 or words or less. And show yo work on a separate sheet of paper.
Damn Leyla. Yo must be a school teacher, you say some boring ass shit. Just got one question: White people hear “Nigga” and they just brush it off and go and play waterpolo with Tyler. Black people hear “Nigga” and they run to the corner, chicken and forty in hand, and look for that Nigga Pookie from around the block (who owe them $4.75) and bust 25 caps in his ass?
Nigga please! Get out the house, Nigga! That’s some patronizing bullshit.
PS. Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common, Dead Prez etc…ALL SAY NIGGA!
The rest of y’all is some down ass niggas though.
Word!
yes, but those artists actually make music about something other than designer watches. but their songs are longer than 3 minutes so must of them aren’t on the radio anyway, nor do they cater to the commerical music that most stations crave. you’re obviously right, though, they do use the word. i don’t know what to say about that..i’m confused.. i guess it seems like they do SO MUCH MORE in their music than just degrade, though. it goes beyond that, tone-wise.
i apologize for the venting & length. will try to be as concise as possible.
1) i know that no one died or struggled only over a word. of course not. BUT, perpetuating the word cannot help anything. out of respect to people who struggled, it might just kinda be nice to get rid of the fucking word for a variety of reasons. i don’t have to explain these reasons again. i agree, i am repeating myself.
2) is there anything that non-whites can do TODAY, even in the face of white supremacy and white dominance, to make their own communities better? (not that this effort, whatever it would look like, would absolve whites of their own responsibilities in confronting their own privilege…)
one last thing: those artists are also brilliant and talented and well-versed enough to create compelling music without relying on the sensationalism and degradation of a word subconsciously rooted in self-hatred.
well, i can’t imagine Dead Prez not using it, i guess. but hey, they should consider not using it.
Damn Don’t y’all realize what Leyla is trying to say?
I know this site is suppose to be for fun and all but sometimes you gotta step back and examine your self or aptly put; you gotta cup your hands and smell your own breath.
We’re being used, from little kids to grown men all looking up to 50 Cent, thats terrible y’all and we gotta do better than that. White People don’t care what the fuck rappers do, have any of you ever been to a Cd listening review and see White Executives bopping their heads as a city laced with every denigrating word to a black person is played as music while the monkey ass negro sits there waiting to be paid for that mess?
I can go on and on about this but it will never be done in a national effort. We all need to evaluate ourselves and then define who we truly are.
culture & music = inter-related.
music doesn’t only reflect, it perpetuates.
media molds [consciousness], raises [kids], shapes [thinking].
(ain’t called the 4th estate for nothin)
nigga please.
ya feel me?
Before I say anything, I’ll tell you I’m white, so if you want to discount everything I say because of that, so be it.
I have to say I agree with most of what Leyla is saying, and with what the Rev. Sharpton has been saying in the wake of the Imus scandal. The African American community obviously still faces legal, economic and social oppression from white society, but that is not to say that blacks have no responsibility for amending the ills plaguing their population. Gangsta rap artists, video producers, and their promoters are setting a terrible example for black youth, glorifying greed, violence, needless and conspicuous consumption, and disrespect for women, each other, and humanity in general. Not to mention the fact that they reinforce negative stereotypes about blacks, potentially increasing discrimination. As long as that kind of music keeps selling, major music labels will keep pouring money into promoting and distributing it. It is important that black leaders come out against such degrading material, and that blacks vote against it with their wallets.
As I see it, the “N” word has been co-opted by the black community to such an extent that it is synonymous with “man” or “person” when spoken by an African American, and is socially off-limits for whites. Continuing to use it in casual conversation and music doesn’t really degrade blacks, but it does create a social wedge between blacks and whites by creating a language barrier that whites aren’t allowed to cross. White people shouldn’t be using the “N” word, but when black people use it around whites (and in the media), it inhibits friendly dialog. The words “bitch” and “ho”, however retain all of their derogatory connotation, and their common use in commercial hip-hop to degrade all women is intolerable.
Language barriers obviously extend far beyond a few words. Blacks who speak in “the King’s English” rather than “black dialect” are often accused by their peers of “acting white” or having sold out, while whites who prefer to speak in “black dialect” are generally viewed as fakes by both blacks and whites. All of this tends to make communication between blacks and whites somewhat uncomfortable, and leads to social segregation. Personally, I think everyone needs to recognize that language is dynamic, that the same person can use different dialects in different settings, and it shouldn’t have a negative bearing on their character.
whitey speaks, class is the crucial thing. class divisions are the most powerful element here. social segeration is not caused by black or african-american individuals electing to use the term “nigga.”
the word could be banished from hip-hop and economic and social segregation might still occur. the encouragement to morally and spiritually “ban” the n-word had nothing to do with white people or with relations between white and black people. i could care less if the n-word makes white people uncomfortable.
it’s about the EFFECT of it on the black community, itself. that’s the issue. i don’t care about appeasing tipper gore or lynn cheney or whomever, and i could care less if they deem the term distasteful. black and white relations is a whole other topic. and personally. a topic that is more of a distraction to progress and healing within the black community. that’s the main goal, i think.
perhaps i shouldn’t be so opinionated on the issue as an iranian-american. i don’t mean to offend.
Leyla, I’m not suggesting that blacks using the “N” word is THE cause for social segregation, but rather that it is ONE (relatively minor) contributing factor. As you said, class divisions are the most powerful factor. One of the most obvious signifiers of “class” is dialect, and the use of the “N” word is part of “black” dialect, which is usually viewed as being “low-class” or ignorant by whites. (That perception is, of course, often false, as many intelligent, well educated black people use “black” dialect conversationally.) I don’t see how black-white relations can be removed from the equation when discussing progress in the black community, since so many of the problems are related to economic and social opportunities in american culture at large.
To my mind, having a dialect exclusive to the black community is problematic because it creates a communications barrier. It acts to create segregation, and that prevents the formation of social networks between blacks and whites which will be crucial for blacks to advance socially, politically, and economically.
Y’all done gone completely off the topic. This post was about that nigga Russel Simmons and how he trying to stop niggas from saying nigga. Incidentally this shit comes when rap sales is dropping steadily like some Paris Hilton draws. That nigga is a business man. Furthermore, who has had more influence on shaping the Hip Hop culture? I aint disagreeing with what you niggas is saying, I just got a problem with the hypocrisy in that nigga Russel Simmons. My other criticism is that y’all seem to be implying that niggas is so stupid that they whole lifestyle is derived from a fiddy cent video. Who are the biggest consumers or Rap Music? It aint niggas- it’s pasty faced white teens. So the music affects black people but not white people? Nigga please!
look at white american women and their body issues. the media is just as powerful in shaping that consciousness. and no one is calling those women “stupid.”
this is the age of media. it’s not about being stupid. it’s about society realizing the power of these institutions and then dialoging to keep them in check. i don’t believe in legal censorship, again.
i sort of understand, from reading your post - if “nigga” is used so often and so constantly and to refer to most anyone, friend or foe, then it’s rampant use renders it meaningless, and thus people who use it are “in the know” - they get it.
but, do kids? do they get it? i wonder. i’m not certain that the term is contributing or reaffirming both latent and obvious historic sentiments of [taught] self-hatred. i don’t even fucking know anymore.
who am i to pretend i know what is going on in the psyche of an 11-year old black kid?
i do know this - the term “black” bothers me.
james baldwin: “I’m only black because YOU think you’re white.”
but again, who the hell am i to be so bothered?!
T Money -
So Russell Simmons has made himself rich selling music packed to the gills with derogatory language, and you’re saying now that he’s losing money on it, he’s reconsidering his position, and this is hypocritical. Maybe. Maybe he is just following the green. Or maybe he’s actually had a change of heart, and agrees with what sharpton, and others are saying. I don’t see anybody calling Al Sharpton a pawn of the white man. (And if you are, I suggest you tell him that. I think he’d beg to differ.) I think a man has the right to change his mind, as long as he admits that what he was doing before was wrong and takes appropriate steps to make amends. Maybe getting rid of the “N” word and “bitch” and “ho” will make Simmons more money. And will hip hop really suffer, aesthetically, or in any other way, from the removal of those words? I doubt it.
“I don’t see anybody calling Al Sharpton a pawn of the white man. (And if you are, I suggest you tell him that. I think he’d beg to differ.)”
Yeah I bet he would. Man, if this is whitey speaking, I gotta find a different race.
Although this thread has deviated somewhat from the topic it’s still a thoughtful discussion and all sides, regardless of syntax, are still expressing real observations and opinions. But many of the threads on this site quickly break down into racist name-calling and open threats. I don’t watch much American TV and I don’t live in the US so I can’t always see it, but when I read the comments on the other NiggaKnow topics I get the feeling that deep racial hatred is still going strong. It seems, however, that while the “black” users are having a laugh in those threads, the white antagonists are genuinely bloody-minded racists who fantasize about your DEATH.
Never mind the thinly disguised white power structure that disingenuously wears the mantle of “free speech” so they can sell more CDs, that tilts news reporting to create a fear of everything that’s not white (artificially villifying the global majority), that reduces non-whites to easily recognized caricatures… the message that NiggaKnow has caught (and is constantly pointing out) is that white is right and it’s not just the power structure that’s pushing it… that’s the sentiment ON THE GROUND.
The poorly hidden agenda, and the one that HipHop culture is promoting (knowingly or un-), is the elimination of black Americans. For white institutions (like the police and military) to engage in the wholesale genocide of black Americans would be an unspeakable horror which the world would condemn (and be powerless to stop/cheer privately). It would also be very expensive. But if white America can get their “enemy” to not only buy their own weapons and bullets but then do the deed for them, well it’s a win-win for the people in charge. It’s the underpinning of the British model of empire.
This website can exist because of rights that were hard-won but it’s still a protected minority, shouting from behind the wall. That the tools of your own destruction are being lobbed over the wall is something you’re not supposed to (or refuse to) recognize.
I believe Leyla’s suggestion that white kids will grow up and shed HipHop’s influence is mistaken. HipHop affects the way black people see themselves but it is also affecting the way a whole generation of white people (the next tier of the power structure) sees black people. And that generation (or the one after it) may not respect the wall any more.
I wish you all the best.
Sleepy heads, whitey? wtf? why all the racism? I love black people and this website makes me sad. Come on guys.
my question for this board is this… how is black people talking shit about white people any different than white people talking shit about black people.. It isnt!!! Black People are just as racisist and closed mineded as white people.. the only difference is black people have a chip on their shoulders because they feel they are owed somthing for somthing that happend to their great great grandfathers…no while i do say the african american race hasnt got a fair shake in this country since day one i can also say that they do nothing to change the situations of their community. stereotypes exist for a reason, and i dont see very many people in the african american community trying to change these sterotypes.but what it boils down to is we are all humans we are in this shit together and if everyone could take a second and remove their heads from their asses and look around they would see we are all fucked up. we have a government who doesnt care about anyone unless they are rich. we have people who cant find jobs because there are no jobs to be had. we have souless motherfuckers selling drugs and guns to kids. and there are just as many poor white people who dont have shit as there are poor black people who dont have shit. the Man doesnt see any color but green and all poor people look the same to him. you are ignorent if you think that only black people in this country struggle. and if you think that corporate america or the government cares about anyone then you are also ignorent they only care about bleeding all of us dry then moving on to our children when they cant suck anymore from us..and the reason there is racial tension is because all people arent treated equally.. and that isnt one group or anothers fault is is everyones fault.and blaming the white man for your downfall is a tired and played out excuse. if people quit trying to pass the blame on others and stopped acting like they are owed some shit just for being born a certian skin tone then we could make progress in this country.
First things, first you all a bunch of dumb niggas, every last one of ya. white niggas black niggas brown niggas etc except leyla, bitch go home. seriously bitch, drive back to walnut creek. oh you wanna know why? THIS DISCUSSION IS ABOUT “WHITE PEOPLE STEALING RUSSELL SIMMONS” its barely serious, if you cant do teach so obviously bitch yo ass couldn’t learn so you teach, but you ain’t good enough to teach at Happy Cracker Elementary in Lone Asian-White Valley is ya? Nigga. No im not callin you nigga, i wouldnt complement your narrow cunted inorant self. sure you make some interesting points-go to a fucking anthropology class if you give a shit and leave us alone ho. See the problem with Don Imus is that he don’t even know what a nap is, but just like a 2 year old in a diaper (ok somebody need to do this:check his frothy hairy polarbear ass and see if he got diapers for old white hoes; Leyla looks like a job for you) Anyways having said all this real shit. Russell Simmins has beeeeen white just like Eminem has beeen Black. Who cares? Do you really want R.S.? Do we wanna give up Em? I don’t think so, one nation under hip-hop and we done got the better hand. -Wet Cracker in Richmond.
“Keep an eye on it nigga. Capitalize on white guilt, but don’t let the shit inside your brain.”
and THIS is what i’ve been saying all along…
play the game…
just don’t get all caught up in the incidental moves of the mere pawn
Listen to skiznot’s post. Why do African Americans blame all of their problems on white people? Why is it that blacks account for only 12 percent of the U.S. population, but 44 percent of all prisoners in the United States are black? Stop blaming white people for all of your problems because you cannot take any accountability for your actions. You are not even the largest minority anymore. Hispanics come to the U.S. and manage to get jobs and support their families. The thing is, they have only been drastically immigrating to the country in the past two decades. Stop hurting your own race by pointing the finger at everyone else for your problems.
You are all getting trolled. Partyhard, compatriot.