Pepsi, Anyone?

Pepsi, Anyone?

Personally, I’ve never understood how anyone can classify rap crap “music” as music.

Whether “performed” by Eminem or Ludacris, to my unsophisticated ears, it more closely resembles a cacophony of foul, brutal, misogynistic lyrics amidst gross thumping sounds. Same goes for “rap dancing,” the chief function of which seems to be frenetic exercise through contortions.

Now a whole new–at least to me–form of dancing, step, “a historically black art form of rhythmic stepping and clapping,” has made the entertainment–and competition–scene and Coca-Cola/Sprite recently sponsored the first national “Sprite Step Off” contest.

Based on the controversy that erupted following last Saturday’s event in Atlanta, it may be the last national “Sprite Step Off” contest.

“A YouTube video of the winning performance by a group of white Zeta Tau Alphas from the University of Arkansas generated hundreds of comments, some of them inflammatory” so the people at Coke were in a quandary.

Do they stick to their guns and award the $100,000 in scholarships to the winning white sorority team or bow to the internet uproar protesting their success over black teams, or not?

Easy call, no? . . .

(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1529)