Originally, I was going to write some long rant about how everyone is overreacting to the freestyle rap “attempt” by incoming OU freshman Josh Jarboe. In it, I was going to complain about the people that want Jarboe kicked off the team. You know, the boring white stale people from Oklahoma who are shocked that a young African-American male from the bad part of Atlanta raps about guns, shooting people, and bitches. You know, the people who have never listened to “gangsta rap” and don’t know that the rapper generally gives a glamorized narrative of a street life filled with guns, gangs and drugs. The people that don’t understand that this doesn’t appear to be premeditated”“that he was simply freestyling”“meaning he came up with this stuff off the top of his head, and in the process, threw out all those boring rap cliches that 90% of the players on the football team listen to each and everyday.
No. I wasn’t going to write about that stuff at all. I figured it would be more fun to to try transcribe his rap into a spoken word poem you might hear some hipster recite at open mike night at Galileo. Enjoy:
Hey.
Back in the thing once again. Everybody know me? My chest you already know says
C
H
A
O
P
I’m tatted up. I shoot your ass, yeah, like you be halo. Halo got a fine bitch that looks like she J-Lo. Take my shirt off and I be tatted up like I’m fabled. Shoot you in the head and you might be dead with a
Halo.
So hold on don’t beg for your life. And hold on, don’t ask please.
Hold on…
It’s me, Jarboe, and my nigga Steve recording this thing on this mother fucking camera. You don’t really want it. Like your ass on the camera, like a counter, I fuck around with my tools on the counter.
Counter.
Nigga best believe I’m from Atlanta, (from Atlanta) where they tote guns and tote AKs
(and AKs) and then got dreads and low cut fades. And low cut fades.
And everybody know I say “A”
and everything I say in the mother fucking place knock a mother fucking ass in his mother fucking place
Had a gun
Now i’m in Oklahoma,
Nigga I grauduated from school
so you know I got my diploma
Nigga get hit, I put his ass in a coma.
Got a fine bitch and her name is Sonya, her name is Sonya. Bitch I keep it real. Dread head, went red, and I got a grill. Dragging hos from United states all the way to Brazil. If she like a barbeque, I put my meat up on her grill
Damn!
I keep it real.
Rock black label, I’ll shoot your ass up like a damn pool table.
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Why does Bobby keep getting these stupid thugs? This guy will be nothing more than trouble and has about as much chance of graduating as Pacboy Jones does of staying out of trouble and Brittney Spears winning mother of the year.
But Bobby cares more about losing BCS games than getting players of character.
Just another fine, young model citizen doing gangsta WRAP in Norman, OK…what the hell is wrong with that…he just may make it through one season…maybe
Oh, please. OU isn’t even near the Top 10 of The Fulmer Cup.
S T U P I D..
Hope this guy goes to class and learns something. It’s obvious he needs it.
I think he came to Oklahoma to get his diploma, then he can shoot me in the head and put me in a coma.
As an old white guy, I can’t even begin to understand this stuff.
If life imitates art, this could make all past OU transgressions look like a parking ticket. I sure hope not. I’m an obvious OU fan and am a season ticket holder of many years. However, I’m still amazed at how far they’re willing to go just to try to get an edge. They better put a full time monitor on this kid.
Thank goodness that for every Josh Jarboe, there’s at least one Adrian Peterson whose recent picture shows him joyfully handing out autographed footballs to kids at Viking training camp.
Watch out Outkast, there’s a new rapper from the ATL!
Dear Boring Stale White People,
Get over it…
PS It could have been worse – he could have been singing Toby Keith
Dear Boring Stale White People,
Get over it…
PS It could have been worse – he could have been singing Toby Keith
This THUG will only go to class to get with cleetchasers.
Halo is a video game where you shoot people. Fabled is another video game.
People who think he’s rapping about shooting real people are too old, probably too white, missing the point and a host of other things I won’t get into here.
Bottom Line: Move on. Nothing to see here.
This is so three days ago. Yeah, I dunno.
Oh no! You mean OU has a player who starred in a stereotypically bad YouTube video?! Circle up the wagons! If we’re not careful, he may try to actually write bad poetry! Oh wait…There’s no issue here.
what does chaop mean?
I believe that’s
C
H
A
M
P
RELEASED…Good luck on your c-RAP career
yeah, I guess it’s more like
C
H
U
M
P
now. I’m sure there’s a roster spot at Florida State, though.
http://newsok.com/jarboe-dismissed-from-ou-football-team/article/3277788/?tm=1217613797
I’m pretty sure, he wasn’t figuratively referring to figurative killing. But, really? People who were okay with Jarboe being admitted to OU after being arrested for bringing guns to school are supposed to freak out because now he’s rapping about guns? If you ask me, this is an improvement. At least there were no real weapons this time.
is there anything more cartoonish than a black guy with dreads and tattoos rhyming like a dyslexic tourettes patient to a buddy’s cell phone camera? it’s like he was sent from central casting to play the role of “guy you wouldn’t hire.”
Who would shoot a perfectly good pool table?
It’s ok.. Big game Bob is handling the ‘non issue’ internally.
Not so internally anymore.
Dismissed from team. Probably good riddance.
I’m sure the little guy will land on his feet somewhere. As the #13 draft pick, some school is desperate enough to snatch him up. I’m glad I won’t be seeing him (or his AKs…AKs) in Norman.
I hear they need “high quality characters” at Sam Houston State…
ZING!!
Now his chances of becoming a Rhodes Scholar are highly jeopardized…
Will this open up a scholarship for a kicker?
Josh has been dismissed from OU! Darn it! Gosh, I was trying to find what auto dealership in Norman he was to be employed at; I was going to drop by and exchange some rap ideas and lyrics with him. Well, not as great of loss for OU as it is for the “mile of cars” showcase.
And what is nigga? Some type of food or beverage perhaps?
Well, at least now he’ll have something new to rap about…
Bye-Bye Mo-fo.
Though his rhymes weren’t profoundly lyrical
The reaction to this video was a bit hysterical.
White people over do stuff too much!Josh is a good kid ask any normal black person have they ever freestyled and ask them about what they spoke about! Atlanta is a rap oriented city for black kids! Shaq is a police and he raps about stuff like that white people these days are so scared of every little thing dealing with guns, or girls! Please just grow some balls
I think people have blown this waaaaayyyyyy out of proportion! O.k. I understand that he was charged with weapons possession and if you have a problem with Josh being at OU in the first place I can understand. The way I see it is that he was allowed to come to OU and was put on a short leash I am fine with that I wouldn’t expect anything less. my problem is the fact that he was let go over a stupid youtube video that he probably never thought would ever be seen by anyone else except possibly some teammates. Even if Josh knew this was going on youtube it’s not really that bad considering most of the rap I’ve listened to in my time. I understand it’s in bad taste considering his previous run in with the law, but it’s quite tame for the most part. Look at it is a pitiful attempt at a lame rap. I could barely understand half of what he said. I can guarantee on every campus in the United States there are thousands of lame-o videos such as this one. If you don’t listen to rap like this I promise your kids are.
maybe big game bob could recruit the hip-hopapottamus or the rhyme-noceros to anchor the offensive line.
Stereotype….how dare anyone assume he is anything other than a rightwing conserative honor role student. Just because he looks like the guy who shot Doughboy doesn’t mean he couldn’t be the next poster boy for OU football if he caught enough passes. It’s not about how you look, act, what you say, or even you arrest record….”We play for Championships!”
The Evil League of Evil
Is watching so beware
The grade that you receive
Will be your last we swear
So make the Bad Horse gleeful
Or he’ll make you his mare”¦.
Get saddled up
There’s no recourse
It’s Hi-Ho Silver
Signed Bad Horse
Alright, I’m black n from Oklahoma…Go SOONERS!…but homeboy already has a charge. I’m all for talent, etc but come on now, why even put up with someone who doesn’t give a d***? I believe in being real and keepin it real but @ what cost? Get over the glamorized views of thuggin it…real thugs aren’t on the football field or rappin. Joshua had a real opportunity 2 be some1 positive 4 his community now look where he’s at. He’s young, maybe he’ll learn from this…grow up n correct your ignorance, go 2 a JC n maybe another big school will pick u up.
Amazing. Some comments are actually defending a man (young, albeit) that has an illegal weapons charge and then “raps” about using it. Wow. Most all commenters were ready to hang a jackass commissioner who was against homosexuality and did some other unscroooopyouless things. I wonder where and what the line is these days. As for me, I think they both got what they deserved.
Dude should do hard time for that lame ass rapping. Enjoy the moronic thugzzz life. Glad he won’t be in my town.
There’s a photo of Josh and Jenna Plumley on The Dirty.
http://www.thedirty.com/?p=38211
bad rap such crap go home mo fo.peace out.
Hook, Rinehart was villainized because he was elected to represent us, and his representation of us was that of a homophobic redneck. Not considering myself to be a homophobic redneck, I considered his representation of me to be mistaken.
Jarboe, on the other hand, was given a scholarship to catch passes. To suggest he was recruited to represent the University of Oklahoma as an outstanding citizen was thrown out when they allowed him to enroll in classes despite being arrested for bringing a REAL gun to school. Now, I have trouble understanding how that wasn’t bad enough to get him kicked out of school, but being a bad rapper was. I’d prefer to believe that the rap video made them investigate and find out that Jarboe had a gun on campus (or something else suggesting he was up to no good) than to believe he was kicked off for spouting awful rap cliches (badly) into a cell phone camera.
Clark,
I think we’re on the same page. I think the culimination of a gun at school and then a diddy about using it probably did him in. Culimination of disliking a group of people and making a comic book about it probably did him in.
They both got what they deserved.
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