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Australia3818 Posts
Ever find a sentence on Wikipedia that makes you laugh because of how blatantly bad it is? Or how biased it is? Or how someone with a firm opinion has come along and deneutralised the very nature of information?!
I often find funny sentences on Wikipedia...here is one today, I randomly got to the Wikipedia entry for rapper 'Ice Cube'Ice Cube Wikipedia Entryand saw this:
O'Shea Jackson (born September 2, 1969), better known by his stage name Ice Cube, is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and rapper.
Regarded as one of the greatest hip hop artists of all time,he began his career as a founding member of the rap group N.W.A, and later launched a successful solo career in music and cinema. In 1992, he married Kimberly Woodruff, with whom he has four children. From the mid-1990s onwards, Cube focused on acting, and his musical output has slowed down considerably. He remains one of the most visible West Coast rappers, having helped originate gangsta rap. He is particularly well-known for his incendiary raps on political topics, social relations and ethnic discrimination, particularly the mistreatment of African Americans.
Yeah so this section essentially:
Regarded as one of the greatest hip hop artists of all time,he began his career as a founding member of the rap group N.W.A, and later launched a successful solo career in music and cinema. In 1992, he married Kimberly Woodruff, with whom he has four children.
The person writing this part of the entry must really be a 16 year old semi-retarded kid who shells out most of his existence in a small and damp smelly room, spouting out shit for all of the world to see via Wikipedia.
It's laughable, he is regarded as one of the greatest hip hop artists in the history of the entire universe up to this point...and beyond. Then it goes on to say that he launched a successful career in music and cinema. I thought he had already achieved a successful career in music...but uhh whatever. He also was one of the founders of gangsta rap. He seems like the most influential rapper the world has ever seen. I think the flaw here, I don't know just how influential he is. I don't feel the need to drop to my knees in worship when I see him acting in fine movies like 'Friday' and so forth. He doesn't seem like the godliest manly influential forefather of the universe, to look upon him does not turn him to stone.
So why so much fucking reverence in your textular inflections? You biased fucking asshat of a kid.
Any other sentences that make you laugh?
  
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Australia3818 Posts
Ps.
His occupations (in no order):
Rapper, Los Angeles Lakers correspondent for Team 1260, Record producer, Actor, Screenwriter, Film Director, Film producer
This is many occupation yes? He can do anything,he is the greatest living man of all time.
(I even typoed the same as the article! OMFG!)
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haha
ice cube is an alright guy
i like his acting
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Australia3818 Posts
On November 05 2008 01:41 Sfydjklm wrote:
why the hate, dawg?
This is the internet...don't you understand? It's serious fucking business. Holy shit man, we have to be careful out here. We're safe here in the alleyways of Teamliquid, but if our information was as biased as some of the information on Wikipedia is we would all be doomed.
Especially with something terribly as important as bias on a gangsta rappers Wikipedia page.
THIS SHIT MUST BE STOPPED!
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that is the point of wikipedia: someone like you can correct it. become a poster. I have a couple of friends who do it regularly, cutting out crap like that.
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waaaait is icecube that guy from that excruciatingly bad law & order spinoff called special victims unit or something
because that guy is fucking terrible lol
edit: oh wait no that was ice T I think, too bad
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On November 05 2008 02:07 betaben wrote:
that is the point of wikipedia: someone like you can correct it. become a poster. I have a couple of friends who do it regularly, cutting out crap like that.
...and then someone else putting it back in.
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On November 05 2008 01:52 Smurg wrote:This is the internet...don't you understand? It's serious fucking business. Holy shit man, we have to be careful out here. We're safe here in the alleyways of Teamliquid, but if our information was as biased as some of the information on Wikipedia is we would all be doomed. Especially with something terribly as important as bias on a gangsta rappers Wikipedia page. THIS SHIT MUST BE STOPPED!
LOL I GET IT YOU'RE LIKE PARODYING YOURSELF WELL THATS PRETTY RETARDED.
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I see how you're trying to be ironic etc but it seems like a pretty stupid/pointless thing to be trying to make a point of
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Actually if you look at the rap/hip-hop scene, Ice Cube really is one of the greatest. He was one of the pioneers of gangsta rap, which is pretty much the most popular garbage genre out there.
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imo NWA is better than 99% of rap
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The other day i was looking up something regarding either chemistry or discrete optimization and someone put the name Michael Shaw 100+ times at the bottom of the page.
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South Africa4316 Posts
Ice Cube, and NWA, are really quite influential. Perhaps Ice Cube isn't considered to be one of the most influential artists, but he's high up on that list, so I don't think that statement is completely wrong. Remember, NWA was like 1988 or something which is way before hip hop became mainstream, so pretty much any artist known from that time was very influential.
Also, the article doesn't say he successfully launched a music career, it said he successfully launched a solo music carreer. And while the quality of his acting is up for debate, the fact that he is a successful actor can't really be debated looking at this filmography.
I dunno, that part of the article seems ok to me.
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Hmm along with Dre Eazy and MC Ren he is the creator of gangsta rap. Thats pretty influential imo. He has released some of the most successful hip hop albums in his career and is actually really talented. N.W.A. was a group which was pretty much unprecedented and when they hit the scene they changed the face of rap music forever. Even now people are still talking gangster this, my car that, life is hard and so forth. All of those themes were emphasized by N.W.A. and remain prominent today.
Besides I fucking love Friday 
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United States17042 Posts
On November 05 2008 04:19 Not_Computer wrote:
The other day i was looking up something regarding either chemistry or discrete optimization and someone put the name Michael Shaw 100+ times at the bottom of the page.
You could have fixed it. It's wikipedia 
Ice Cube is a ton more influential than say...soulja boy. I keep telling 8th graders that they should try to be like him (He dropped out of 8th grade, and recorded his youtube video, which turned into the number one hit single).
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