spooje beat me to it.
That would be why I have never heard them/of them. If a radio station I listened to played a hip hop song, that would be the last time I ever listened to that station.
tunes back in to 94.7
spooje: N.E.R.D. = No one Ever Really Dies. The name hip hop producers the Neptunes use when recording their own material.
The Neptunes, along with Timbaland are responsible for a vast amount of the pop music around today. Their most recent high-profile effort was on Justin Timberlake’s new album.
It stands for “No-one Ever Really Dies”, and is the recording name for the Neptunes, uber-producers of hip-hop at the moment (i.e. it’s the name they use when they release their own material, as opposed to producing someone else’s).
Hum. Everyone beat me to it. :smack: Serves me right for not refreshing, I guess.
GoogleNewsd “nerd iraq”, still have no idea who they are. But hey, whoever Pharrell Williams is, he’s got the Word.
Or something.
Dude. 
Ryan, honey, if this is the sort of thing that gets your Pit-thread-generating panties in a bunch, I think you need to set your Outrage Meter down a little lower, 'kay?
Out of the mouths of babes. This statement is so naive, it really stands out on it’s own. If this was about oil, we could’ve made a deal with Saddam where we are back to gas at 50 cents a gallon. IMHO. And oh yeah,donkey copulation, excrement, urination on the pope, whatever…
I wish I had a firm cite for this, but I was listening to Larry Elder this afternoon, and he read aloud a letter from Brad Pitt (to whom? I don’t know; that’s why I wish I had a cite) that said, in part, “Don’t listen to me; I’m just an actor. I have an opinion because I’m a citizen, but I don’t expect everyone to listen to it.”
So there’s at least one celebrity you can leave out when you’re lining them all up for a smack.
My stupid question of the day:
Do they know what ‘nerd’ means over here?
I love when right-wingers pick on people like Sean Penn and say “Who cares what he thinks? He’s just a dumb celebrity” and then talk about the informed and worldly views of say, Charlton Heston.
Much like the White House personally directing Vietnam, I shudder at the thought that celebrities would dictate the conduct of a war.
Tripler
Being a movie star doesn’t make you an expert in international politics.
spooje… I don’t know what you mean by “over here,” but they are American, the land of Revenge of the Nerds and the ensuing sequels.
I’m pretty sure they know what it means. Maybe they though it was amusing to name their hip-hop group N.E.R.D., considering the macho posturing the genre is famed for.