Another overnight star is born on American Idol and it’s about time.
I can’t stand it when I am out somewhere and walking in front of me is some kid with their damn drawers down around their knees shuffling around.
Now a 62 year old United States Veteran from Atlanta Georgia, AI contestant by the name of “General Larry Platt” has officially registered his protest to the world and there is a worldwide movement to join General Larry in his protest.
“I have a horrible feeling that song could be a hit,” Simon Cowell said.
Platt was inspired to write the song when he saw a young man walking down the street with his pants hanging below his waist.
“He had his underwear showing. He was being disrespectful so I wanted to embarrass him,” explained Platt, a veteran of the civil rights movement who marched alongside Rev Martin Luther King.
“After all this work I did with Dr King – walking around with your pants on the ground? They’re going to have to get them up. I’m sorry.”
He is hoping to record Pants On The Ground as a single. “Some people tried to steal my song but tey can’t sing like me. I’m going to go around the world singing my song,” he said.
Pants on the Ground Lyrics:
Pants on the ground pants on the ground
Lookin like a fool with your pants on the ground
with the gold in your mouth, hat turned sideways, pants hit the ground,
call yourself a cool cat
lookin’ like a fool
Walking downtown with your pants on the ground
Get it up!
Hey, get your pants off the ground!
Lookin’ like a fool,
Walkin, talkin’ with ya pants on the ground
Get it up!
Hey, get your pants off the ground!
Lookin’ like a fool with your pants on the ground
Gold in the mouth, hat turned sideways
pants hit the ground,
call yourself a cool cat,
lookin’ like a fool,
walkin, talkin with ya pants on the ground
Boom, yea pants on the ground
lookin like a fool with your pants on the ground!
with ya gold in your mouth, hat turned sideways
pants hit the ground, call yourself a cool cat…
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I wonder ‘could the fool’ be a winner at 62?
Dang babies doing drugs…and it’s all because of peer pressure…and lack of good guidance.
Yet youth needs originality…to make ‘each one’ able to compete…most can’t or will never get a chance to join the pace.
Reminds me of pets…
Mine are spayed and/or run in neutral…and they love love…and want more than food to eat.
They just want a little TLC, and to play, and a nap and a place to sleep….for the most part they could curl up anyplace under the stars, as long as they got just enough ’substance’ to keep their little heart and yearning for more going.
Scary dang human monkeys just got hung up with a whole lotta’ wrap…
Language….
I’m just starting up…so don’t get me revved up!!!
Give me a horse and a buggy, and a banjo ‘or a violin’ anyday.
Same difference if you inspect their strings rather striking in fact.
That was both cute, and amazing, QV. How appropriate that he hails from Atlanta; to quote Bugs Bunny, you can meet so many fascinating people there! lol…Without posting a book, I’d like to relate a real life experience.
Several years ago, an oldies station in Atlanta would sponsor an “Oldies” show with artists from the 50’s and the 60’s. Of course, me and my g/f’s never missed them, and it would be almost a 24 hour event. We’d leave early in the morning to get there and get a good parking place, and then we’d go somewhere “culteral” during the morning and early afternoon so we wouldn’t feel guilty for acting the fool that evening.
On one of those trips, we took MARTA, the transit train and disembarked at Underground Atlanta (which is a whole nother world on weekends) As we were climbing the stairs out of the bowels of fantasia we were accosted by a young black man, about 25 years old, and he proceeded to charm all 8 of us ladies with his original poetry, and then acting a scene from Macbeth (it would have scared me to death if it had been nighttime!). Although he didn’t solicit anything, he did walk away from us with a hug and about $80 of our dollars.
On any given day you can see all sorts of characters. I hope I meet this dude down there one day, singing his song!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6uEMOeDZsA
Great story Carole. That sounds like a lot of fun. I hope you see him down there too. I read that he was honored with a “Larry Platt” day in Atlanta too.
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/fulltext/hr286.htm
Freida. I took that one post down. I think after you think about it, you will not want it up here on a public blog.
Removed by admin. Off Topic.
qv check your email and you will have your answer to why they wear their pants that way.
Thanks! That was too funny and probably too true
Don’t think I don’t notice ‘that box’ in the (near) upper right hand corner called “Chat.”
Your Answer sure has me curious to learn.
freida If qv wants to share she can
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Nice old house!
Thanks for sharing I would say, or rather type something…but thought ‘twice.’
“‘They’re standing on the corner and they can’t speak English.
I can’t even talk the way these people talk:
Why you ain’t,
Where you is,
What he drive,
Where he stay,
Where he work,
Who you be…
And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.
And then I heard the father talk..
Everybody knows it’s important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can’t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth
In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.
People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an Education, and now we’ve got these knuckleheads walking around.
The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.
These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids.
$500 sneakers for what?
And they won’t spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.
I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.
Where were you when he was 2?
Where were you when he was 12?
Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn’t know that he had a pistol?
And where is the father? Or who is his father?
People putting their clothes on backward:
Isn’t that a sign of something gone wrong?
People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn’t that a sign of something?
Isn’t it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?
What part of Africa did this come from??
We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don’t know a thing about Africa …..
I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American. That is totally stupid.
I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don’t have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany , Scotland , England , Ireland , or the Netherlands … The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa . So stop, already! ! !
With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap ……… and all of them are in jail.
Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person’s problem.
We have got to take the neighborhood back.
People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different ‘husbands’ — or men or whatever you call them now.
We have millionaire football players who cannot read.
We have million-dollar basketball players who can’t write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job.
Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.
We have to start holding each other to a higher standard….
We cannot blame the white people any longer.’”
Dr.. William Henry ‘Bill’ Cosby, Jr.., Ed..D.