[Peace-discuss] Hip-hop billboards

[Ricky Baldwin]

This is very helpful information, Carl, but I don't
think the mockery has been, nor the tempers.

My two cents-
Ricky 
--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>
wrote:

> The shadowy MOR (Master of Opposition Research) for
> the 2002 Green party
> congressional campaign has come out of retirement to
> aid the working group
> for the Discernment of Inappropriate Satire
> Situations (DISS).
> 
> His/her report follows:
> 
> 	"I called Adams Outdoor Advertising, which owns all
> the billboards
> in town. The secretary couldn't tell me anything
> about the signs, but gave
> me the cell phone number and voicemail for Rick
> Mills, the sales manager..
> 	"Rick Mills called back from Adams. He says the
> billboards are
> part of a 3-phase teaser campaign. The next two
> phases should reveal more
> about the advertiser. Unfortunately, the contract
> prohibits him from
> revealing more. When the weather allows, the new
> billboards will come out.
> He is not prepared to reveal much more, but says you
> can contact him
> directly at Adams Outdoor Advertising...
> 	"I hope this helps...
> 	"'Information is the currency of Democracy' -
> Thomas Jefferson."
> 	
> Update: some information on the client,
> 
> --from Chambana Community:
> 
> 	"Didn't anyone watch the Channel 3 news yesterday
> [12/30]? The
> 6:00 news has a whole segment on this.
> 	"Apparently the sign were put up by a new hip
> hop/rap group that
> is going to use the signs as advertising and a way
> to get people talking.
> Yes, there is going to be a series of them.
> Allegedly, the one that was
> vandalized was done so by people paid to do so."
> 
> --and from U-C Hip-Hop Congress:
> 
> 	"Easy hip hoppers....this isn't what you think.
> 	"So some guy from WCIA Ch. 3 News in Champaign
> called me yesterday
> asking about the billboards and if anyone from UC
> Hip Hop was down in
> Champaign and knew anything about them..... I didn't
> know if anyone was,
> or if they knew about it, I just knew that Debbie
> (DJ Su) had painted on a
> few of them.
> 	"So I call Debbie, and then we three-way the news
> station... I
> stayed on the line, despite knowing jack about this
> shit (I figured a.)
> I'd find out and b.) if that reporter tried any evil
> reporter spin on this
> graffiti story I'd pimp slap him...well.. er..
> through the phone, you
> know?
> 	"So apparently, Up A Notch Records (don't ask, I
> have no idea who
> they are and if they will or will not put out your
> album, ha!) and Adams
> Outdoor Advertising Company (or Agency or Ltd. or
> Firm or whatever
> corporate jargon) are doing this campaign.
> 	"The billboards say 'Hip Hop Rots Your Brain' and
> it looks like
> whomever wrote it did so in earnest....however...
> the master plan was for
> the billboards to be vandalized.
> 	"The ad group contacted UC Hip Hop looking for
> artists (DJ Su,
> Mos, some others) and they worked on the billboards
> finals week and the
> week before I believe.
> 	"The ad group said 'do whatever you want to these.'
> For example,
> on of her billboards, DJ Su crossed out 'Rots' and
> painted 'Frees'
> above... you know? So basically, it LOOKS like this
> great back and forth
> between people of warring beliefs, but it's actually
> playing on our
> beliefs that someone WOULD actually put up a
> billboard saying 'Hip Hop
> Rots Your Brain.'
> 	"In summation (ha!), it's a damn good marketing
> scheme. I'm not
> sure how well it worked, however, because nobody
> seems to know a damn
> thing about Up-A-Notch Records, which may or may not
> be based in Champaign
> County and/or hyphenated. Maybe their next ad will
> be something that
> brings it all together... like how some prescription
> pills have their
> first commercials and you don't know WHAT the hell
> the pills do, you just
> see people on swings and daisies and what not...and
> some nice voice
> talking about Zepocatran, and then a few weeks later
> you find out it's
> about complications involved with anal leakage or
> some nonsense like
> that....you know?
> 	"That's what I can tell you all, from the best of
> my
> knowledge.......
> 	"spread the word, my talking birds
> 	"peace"
> 
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