Monday night was the much anticipated first “”Clash of the Boroughs”, which the Brooklyn Nets won in overtime 96-89.So many great story lines emerged from this game. The Knicks lost but still run New York. The Nets still haven’t figured out a cheer. OMG JERRY STACKHOUSE. Jay-Z loves camo pants.
But there was one particular story I wanted to focus on; Frank Isola being a dumb ass.
The halftime performer for this historic night was none other than Richard Walters aka Slick Rick the Ruler aka MC Ricky D. I wasn’t there, but I knew this thanks to my Twitter, which was also how I knew that he sloppily made it through “Hey Young World”, “Mona Lisa” and “Children’s Story” before getting booed off stage.
A lot of people came to his defense that night, not for his performance, but thanks to Knicks beat writer Frank Isola talking about what he knows not:
Now, I’m positive Frank didn’t think he’d cause a bit of a mini firestorm what that tweet, but the internet can be an unpredictable lady. Hundreds of people responded, even getting the attention of one Trill OG:
But I’m sure that doesn’t matter because Frank Isola probably doesn’t know who Bun B is either. Smart people would have just stopped there. Frank doesn’t stop there, check out his Slick Rick timeline for the rest of the night:
Look, the performance wasn’t good by any means, take a look for yourself. I can’t say it was really his fault, because the beats for all three tracks he did were going way too fast. No he didn’t stop and try to have them fix the problem with the player because he was a halftime performer not hosting a concert. But I get it. People come to games to be entertained. They boo when their teams play bad, and they boo when entertainers don’t perform well. And I don’t expect people to know Rick’s music well enough to know the beat was off. But a poor grade on your paper doesn’t mean you’re a bad student. A poor game from Carmelo doesn’t mean he’s a bad player. A bad performance by Slick Rick doesn’t mean he’s a bad performer. And a dumb tweet from Frank Isola doesn’t mean he’s dumb. But it wasn’t just a dumb tweet. It was his continued outpouring of ignorance that makes leads me to believe he’s an idiot. It was a comment on Twitter. It’s not a big deal. Just drop it. Or apologize and move on. Or learn how to use Google so things like this don’t happen. But no, people on Twitter called you a hip-hop ignorant cracker and told you to kill yourself (a summation of replies to Frank’s tweets, not my own words) so naturally you felt a little defensive.
Dude, sometimes you’ve just got to take the loss. Name dropping “your guy” Rick Ross Mr. Ross won’t make anyone believe you remotely know anything about hip-hop, apparently not even “your guy”.
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