Popularly categorized as “Deathmatch Wrestling,” GCW’s no holds-barred wrestling features shattered glass, barbed wire, falls from high places, and lots of blood.
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GCW show titles such as “2 Cups Stuffed,” “Hit Em’ Up,”“To Live and Die In LA,” “Code of the Streets,” “400 Degreez” “The Block is Hot,” and “Slime Language” are all overt references to hip-hop culture, ironically sanitized and repackaged to present their form of professional wrestling. By itself, this seems relatively innocuous, right? However, a cursory look at recent events begin to highlight a disturbing trend in presentation of their product.Ī frightening pattern of cultural appropriation is emerging. The artwork harkens back to ‘Bling Bling,’ with a diamond-encrusted GCW chain and logo.
I bring this up because Game Changer Wrestling (GCW), one of the most successful independent wrestling promotions in the US, has named their latest wrestling show after the seminal album. While ‘Bling Bling’ was taking over the radio, being added to Webster’s Dictionary, and changing the lives of everyone involved in the record ( minus Turk), here was Baby outlining in plain language that all this money talk came with a very human price, one that went ignored as fans flashed their fake gold teeth and waved invisible Rolexes into the sky. Signature triggaman drums and an infectious hook combine for an almost comical lack of fiduciary responsibility as B.G, Mannie Fresh, and Juvenile rap about “candy-coated helicopters” and having “the price of a mansion around my neck and wrist.” The line that caught my attention, however, was Baby “Birdman” Williams’, who sneers, “Heart full of anger cuz n***a I don’t give a fuck” in between promises of having sex with all the listener’s hoes and describing his own jewelry. B.G, real name Noel Dorsey, as a 12 year old drug dealer, emerged from heroin addiction, his father’s murder, and multiple arrests to become a platinum rapper on a national tour by the age of 18 thanks to one word repeated twice: “Bling Bling.”Įveryone remembers “ Bling Bling,” right? The song, produced by Mannie Fresh, is generally accepted as the seminal record of 1999. Songs such as “Trigga Play,” “Made Man,” and “Uptown My Home” are the closest you can get to the infamous UPT projects without the creeping paranoia, drug sales, death, and sounds of gunfire that helped make New Orleans the murder capital of the world throughout the late 90’s. When rapper B.G dropped his major label debut, “Chopper City in Da Ghetto” in 1999, he introduced the world to a different side of New Orleans far beyond the syrupy hand grenades, powdered beignets, and general debauchery that defines the Big Easy’s culture for the droves of tourists swarming the French Quarter. B.G, “Hard Times” - Chopper City In Da Ghetto.“I done done it all from jacking and slanging, n -, trust that / Stealing cars, snorting dope, getting bust at / Never going to school, all kind of bulls - / Calling my momma in, I got her looking unfit,” “What’s In A Name? The Tanning of GCW Wrestling”
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