![]() ![]() He may wear the trappings of hip-hop fame – the girls, the gold, the jargon – but he preaches tolerance and kindness.įunny how? With his manic capering and pulpit urgency, Williams reminds me more of James Brown than any rapper. Williams, however, though he is as sharp as Rock and as morally upstanding ( in principle, if not in practice ), is also deeply immersed enough in ghetto lore to be able to reprove it from the inside. Rock installed a milestone in comedy, and in America, when he delivered his "black people vs niggers" routine in 1996. Sometimes hip-hop's bombast, full-bloodedness and questionable ethics have been present, too.īut so has self-criticism. In different ways, Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Jamie Foxx, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Kevin Hart, Mike Epps and Eddie Griffin have all made it their business to describe the experience – self-confidently at last – of being black as opposed to white in America. ![]() ![]() For as long as there's been hip-hop music, it's had a counterpart in comedy. "I'm only calling you bitches," he explains to the women in the audience, "because I don't know your names individually." Is that an excuse? Or a refusal to make one? You are entitled, if you wish, to dismiss him out of hand right there.īut Williams is interesting. The set-up: Right from the beginning, Katt Williams clears something up. ![]()
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