Comments on: After internet-fame, police investigating possible abuse of 9yo child rapper in sex/drug-filled videos

By: MarlboroTestMonkey7

MarlboroTestMonkey7 — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:30:00 +0000

Also asumming college is really on his (parents) horizon

By: benher

benher — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 04:50:00 +0000

The parents lost my support when they named him “Small Feces.”

By: benher

benher — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 04:49:00 +0000

I’d say that’s pretty a-parent

By: James Penrose

James Penrose — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:28:00 +0000

”$7500 a show pays for a good college. ”
Assuming the kid is getting dollar one of it.

By: jarrodhenry

jarrodhenry — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:50:00 +0000

Honestly, yes.
Just as it’d surprise me if people who blamed the Beatles for their drug use, or Truman Capote for becoming serial killers, or John Grisham for becoming a corrupt attorney, or any one else for “acting.”

The father says he’s acting. The kid’s school says he’s a well adjusted fourth grader. The kid’s friends say he’s a good kid. The family has no history of drug abuse or alcohol or even police reports.
Honestly, if this kid were white and were going on some TV sitcom , nobody would be raising this fuss.. and there ARE histories of THAT being abusive where even the directors would physically discipline the actors for messing up.

By: Bradley Robinson

Bradley Robinson — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:38:00 +0000

Would it surprise you if he was? Or if his ‘stage act’ inspired one of his troubled fans?

By: jarrodhenry

jarrodhenry — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:14:00 +0000

$7500 a show pays for a good college.

Do you really think all these rappers are doing hookers and blow? Do you really think this kid is? Okay, some of them do have the “thug life” thing, but a large number more of them are just using that as part of a stage act.

Come on. Do you really think this kid is getting cocaine?

By: badbcky

badbcky — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:36:00 +0000

Xeni, thank you for this article. I’ve idly wondered for a long time why, in a world where the legal working age is 14 in most states, the entertainment industry (and the kids’ parents) are getting away with putting their kids to work to make money for them.

I’m curious as to how it is different from sending them to work in a factory, besides the obvious answer of there being MUCH more profit in it.

I’m not saying they should ban all kids from working in the entertainment industry, ever, I’m just saying that when child star after child star dies or becomes a messed-up addict for life, I’m bewildered that we don’t examine the environments that involvement in the entertainment industry exposes them to a little more closely.

By: geth

geth — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:34:00 +0000

Teaching children to treat women like meat = bad.

By: Gerald Mander

Gerald Mander — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:04:00 +0000

I look forward to your recommendation that Kick Ass be removed from shelves.

By: Gerald Mander

Gerald Mander — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:03:00 +0000

My point is that Chloe Grace Moretz was not much older than that when she was killing men onscreen and using some astonishing language. Is it child exploitation if it’s a rapper on a stage but not an actor or in a movie?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:31:00 +0000

And that makes it all okey-dokey when they’re dead at 18. They’re children. They aren’t given free rein in everything because they don’t have the cognitive ability and experience to make choices that lead to survival and long-term happiness. The adults who have custody of them are supposed to do that for them, not whore them out for cash.

By: Sasha K-S

Sasha K-S — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:02:00 +0000

I think that most 9 year olds would kill to be ‘exploited’ like this…

By: nettdata

nettdata — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:24:00 +0000

The truth is an ultimate defense.

By: Philboyd Studge

Philboyd Studge — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:20:00 +0000

Never fear, he’s really just a giant spider in a diaper and shower cap.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:40:00 +0000

We don’t talk about that incident.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:37:00 +0000

> I got 99 problems, but a parent ‘aint one.

By: Bradley Robinson

Bradley Robinson — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:47:00 +0000

Did I miss the part about exploitation, or are we just going with implied exploitation because of his tender age?

If anything, this child has exploited the questionable lifestyle of his father to his advantage.

Seems pretty symbiotic.

By: schlocktober

schlocktober — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:41:00 +0000

Damn, stole my stage name.

By: Max

Max — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:02:00 +0000

Hilarious.

Wait, this isn’t from The Onion ?

By: Bradley Robinson

Bradley Robinson — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:52:00 +0000

We already kicked that horse to death in a previous installment sponsored by one Mark Frauenfelder.

By: Bradley Robinson

Bradley Robinson — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:47:00 +0000

I didn’t think I’d ever fondly reminisce about the days of Kris Kross.

Upon learning of Lil Poopy, I can safely say that I was mistaken.

By: Xeni Jardin

Xeni Jardin — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:45:00 +0000

Dude. He’s a 9 year old child. But maybe you think it’s okay for adults to exploit 9-year-olds like this.

By: PhosPhorious

PhosPhorious — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:05:00 +0000

Violence Good, Sex Bad?

By: Jeremy Sweeney

Jeremy Sweeney — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:00:00 +0000

the comments are the best part.

By: Grahamers2002

Grahamers2002 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:33:00 +0000

I forget. Where was the part where she was spanking sexually-posed, almost nude grown men while those men drape themselves all over her?

By: Bobby Johnson

Bobby Johnson — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:32:00 +0000

Agreed. The level of pearl clutching implied by this story is embarrassing.

By: Gerald Mander

Gerald Mander — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:15:00 +0000

Interesting that nobody did this when Chloe Grace Moretz played the foul-mouthed head stomper in Kick Ass. Oh, wait, she was just acting, and Lil Poopy is fuh reelz….

By: upso

upso — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:10:00 +0000

i was such a spaz when i was 9. good lord if i had access to cocaine at that age i would have lost my mind.

By: SamSam

SamSam — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:10:00 +0000

I would imagine being called “Lil Poopy” ranks pretty high on the list of potential abuses…