Master P: “I Hope The 13-Year-Olds Of The World Can Forgive Me”
As part of his ongoing public self-flagellation for making zillions upon zillions of dollars corrupting ear, eye, and blingholes of America’s best and brightest, Master P took a trip to a North Carolina middle school to personally apologize to the kids for his lyrical misdeeds:
Not only did Miller hand out advice, he also expressed regret for the tone of his earlier work. Master P is one of a number of rap artists who have pledged to clean up their rhymes, launching a label that will feature similarly clean performers.
Its first release is “Hip Hop History,” which Miller made with his son Romeo, who stars on his own Nickelodeon series.
“Y’all know I started off on the wrong track,” Miller said. “The most important thing I’ve done with my life is clean my act up. I’m sorry for making the music that I made without thinking about y’all.”
I know anyone is entitled to switch their style up–or to flip from pandering to one market to another–and yet whenever I read a story about P’s long, arduous, lonely road to earning the respect of junior high teachers everywhere, I can’t help but hear the practical, almost PBS-grade life lessons contained in the legendary “Ghetto D” floating through my head.
Master P Visits N.C. Middle School [Yahoo via AP]