Crown J in Atlanta, presumably to learn how to play where the players play.

Spokesman for FUBU, naturally.

Above all else this blog has always been on the vanguard of pop culture news *cough*, having broken news of the Wonder Girls and Jewelry's comeback, and has been your number one source for Crown J news. One of my two earlier posts on "Crown J," the ubiquitous hip-hop star now more famous for appearing on "We're Married (우리결혼했어요)" than for his music career, is among the top Google results when people search for him. Because of that I continue to get tons of hits per day looking for information on him, and my most-recent posting on him is the second-most commented post on my page. He's back in the news, I guess, having travelled to Atlanta to shoot his latest video. HT to "Troll_Bait" for this information. There's a small "trailer," I guess for some video or other on that "All Kpop" site. Nigga think he hard but he ain't shit, be all shoppin n shit.

It goes without saying that he's still a douche, although I felt like saying it anyway. Yes, his job is to entertain people, and through his act he does it fairly successfully. My objection is, and always has been, to providing entertainment by cheapening our language and our culture to make a few bucks. I don't see how it's any different than if I were to return to the US and play up my connections to East Asia by squinting my eyes and saying "ching-chong." He tries to pass off his few years in Los Angeles as an authentic representation of American or hip-hop culture, and if you catch some of the episodes of "We're Married" you'll routinely see him explaining how to do things "American style" or "Atlanta style."

America's hip-hop culture is a mess and is driven by imposters, it's true, so it's not like Crown J is alone in being ridiculous. I'm surprised people can look at and listen to people like Soulja Boy, Lil' Wayne, Juvenille, Master P, et al, with a straight face. It's a sad state of affairs when TIME and Rolling Stone herald Lil' Wayne as a genius. I'm not sure what is really worse: playing up an inauthentic gansta image like Crown J and countless American acts do, or actually representing it in the music. It's not as if the black community needs any more of those role models. Not only shouldn't a Korean be playing up any pretend connection he has to that community, given the mutual dislike Koreans and blacks have in the States, but that aspect of American quote-unquote culture really oughtn't be used for entertainment purposes anyway.

Anyway, you can read my two other posts on Crown J below:
* "Crown J is still a douche."
* "A."