There was a strange news item in my newspaper today,
something about a
deceased rap singer. One Sonny Santiago, known as 'Uno' on stage, died
in a crash and was buried in a cemetery that, uh, doesn't like rap
music any more than I do. It seems that Uno's relatives wanted to post
the lyrics of one of Uno's songs on the headstone, and did so without
permission of the cemetery. Trouble is, the lyrics are filthy, filled
with the profanity on which that kind of "music" thrives.
Why do rap singers not only not sing (they talk, and much of the time
with profanity) their songs, and adopt inane nicknames like Uno, Ice
Cube, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, Snoop Dog and the rest of the idiotic stage
names? It could be that it's because most have not one iota of talent
and need as much distraction from that fact as possible in order to
garner attention. Hmmm I wonder if Celene Dion ever considered calling
herself 'Loud Ho' or Taylor Swift suggested renaming herself as 'TS
Bitter'. I guess not, since they have talent and can actually sing a
song without offending and are not ignorant thug wanna be types as so
many rappers are.
Back to Uno. The cemetery denied the family request to go filthy,
explaining that it might be inappropriate for the visitors of the
cemetery who don't share a love of filthy rap. Just imagine someone's
Aunt Gertie reaching down to place flowers on her recently deceased
husband's grave and reading an Uno diatribe to his "filthy bitch" or
whatever illiterate ramble line comprises his best lyric. Gertie might
have a stroke right next to her hubby's grave.
Well, after being told the vulgarity could not be posted Uno's grieving
family decided to go with one of Uno's non profanity laced lyrics, one
of the few they could find in Uno's works. Trouble is, they also added
a 3-foot by 8-foot decoration made from mulch and rocks shaped like the
number 1 (which is the English equivalent for the Spanish word 'Uno').
Yep! The family has been asked to remove that as well, as it violates
the cemetery rules about good taste. It seems that when a rapper dies,
bad taste endures in the behavior of the the family survivors.
So far Uno's mom has complied with the requests to normalize Uno's
grave, but she isn't happy about it. "We want to be with him. It's not
fair", declared Uno's mom. I have the feeling that if mom and family
die anytime soon, that cemetery won't want a literal reuniting of them
with Uno on its grounds.
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