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CMU Beef Of The Week #128: DMX v Google
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 21 September 2012
The BBC website recently published an article asking the question: “Is it possible to quit Google?” The conclusion was that living a life where you didn’t interact with the company’s products at all was close to impossible.
Of course, the three people the BBC used as examples of those who had tried to break away from Google were heavy internet users. The conclusion of the piece might have been quite different had DMX been asked to contribute. For starters, the question would need to be amended slightly to take into account the fact that the rapper isn’t entirely sure what Google is.
To be fair, DMX has been busy with other projects since the advent of the internet, like rapping, being in prison, and becoming a church deacon, amongst other things. There were some drugs too. You know, he’s had a lot on.
So, when Vanessa Denis from US radio station Power 105.1FM asked him if he ever Googled himself, he had to admit that he hadn’t quite had time to get around to that yet. “I don’t even know how to use the internet”, the rapper confessed. “I don’t wanna learn. It’s scary. There’s too much stuff”.
While he was eventually convinced to type the letters D, M and X into Google, he still complained that the whole process was “confusing”, adding that “computer words are funny … just get a regular word, what the fuck is a Google? That doesn’t even make sense, that’s like something you’d call a baby”.
Actually, he makes a reasonable point there. And with one internet word tackled, he took on another. “That’s a funny word: Blog. Why is it called a blog? What does that mean, blog? What is it short for… blogeration? Why not just call it ‘writing on the internet’?”
Actually, I think getting someone to look at the internet with fresh eyes isn’t a bad idea. DMX should be made Head Of Internet Rebranding. Once we’ve renamed Google and blogs, let’s move onto spam. What kind of a name is ‘spam’?
