Comments on: Gin and Juice: Hip-Hoppers on steroids?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:11:20 +0000

well i think he needs jesus in his life just like every one else in this word jeuse well help u with any prob…you have just open ur heart and ask for forgiveness and he well nomatter what jesus died for u and me to leave to day as we are but all he want is for every one to surve him and stop sining…the times are coming to an end so ask for forgivenss now befor its to late just read this…..dear lord i know im a sinor and im here to day to ask for forgivenss i open my heart to u and ask u to fill me with ur love in all the name praise n glory amen…i am only 17 and i changed my life around i was always about partin and doing all that bad stuff then i gave it all up cause i relized the world dnt got nuthin to offer for me nomore and jesus set me free from everything so i hope u do the same and make a good choice rem…gods marryed to the back slider and he loves you

By: Luis PJ

Luis PJ — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:38:00 +0000

So the health of other is no one to care about?

By: RP

RP — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:32:45 +0000

Katy, no one’s been accused of breaking the law yet. At least they weren’t in the Times-Union article. There are legitimate reasons to take steroids or human growth hormone and it is possible to get them legally. Hell, Cortaid contains a steroid! Why do you think it thins out your skin?
For all we know Mary has excema and the steroid prescription was just extra strength hydrocortisone.
There’s no reason to care until someone accuses them of breaking the law or abusing the drugs they’re taking. I seriously doubt that Mary, Tyler, or Wyclef fall into either group.

By: BPage

BPage — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:23:37 +0000

Gary, I totally don’t get your indifference. I suppose you don’t care if a musician is shooting heroin, either. Look, drugs are bad for the user, bad for the kids (yeah, yeah, sorry to play the “role model” card but there’s some truth to it), and usually bad for the music. I don’t see how steroids are much different, and your blase attitude just bums me out.
There’s something else about steroids, too: it’s so… phony. It’s cheating– even when it’s not associasted with sports. Something about these rappers pumping up on steroids instead of doing the hard work to bulk up for real is just pathetic. We make fun of over-botoxed celebs– from my vantage point, ‘roided up rock stars are even more pathetically vain. And your willingness to look the other way on their bad behaivor only makes things worse.

By: Ep Sato

Ep Sato — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:55:10 +0000

Pish posh, the rapper who’s juiced up is LL Cool J. He disapeared one winter a skinny kid with a kangol and returned the next spring looking like a heavyweight boxer (this is when he released “mama said knock you out”). Yet he’s never explained where the muscles came from. At one point he actually said to a reporter “would you believe I was born with this body”? Uhh, no.

By: nathan

nathan — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:14:01 +0000

Clearly in Fiddy’s case, the steroids don’t improve the quality of music.

By: Rasha

Rasha — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:57:08 +0000

This makes no sense. Timbaland and 50…maybe? But Mary J and Tyler Perry? I can’t see those two doing drugs.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:56:32 +0000

Throw ‘em all in jail, make them give their money back, erase their names from all the Billboard lists, make them give back their Grammys, look at all the aspiring kids who are using them now because they want to be successful hip-hoppers… oh, wait, its only a problem if its baseball players. (sorry, sore subject, especially with the circus going on in Washington DC today.) Meanwhile, can anyone give me a legitimate explanation of the American Gladiators’ workout routines?

By: Katy

Katy — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:15:07 +0000

Bad role model or not, I think the issue is breaking the law. In which case, yeah, I DO care.

By: Celimene

Celimene — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:20:27 +0000

Some of the comments on the Times site claimed that Mary J. Blige could have used ‘roids to help her vocal cords. Her style of singing is really rough on the throat, and possibly it helped her get through touring while still keeping her sound intact. *shrug*
In any case, it’s no different than Keith “I’ll Outlive the Nuclear Holocaust Along with Roaches” Richards and his well-pickled insides. Sure, they’re bad role models for kids… but really, how many people in Hollywood could be called good role models? More of the same. Meh.