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not call you should you Turner has been
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bad mouthed by this Hollywood Ike Turner
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I grew up where ik Turner was an icon in
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our neighborhood because he always
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stopped with his homeboy brought fries
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and hamburgers and cokes and would sit
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there and talk to us youngsters for two
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three hours at a time telling us to stay
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straight focus on school get a decent
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career together act like you've got some
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sense treat women with respect and treat
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your communities with respect Tina
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Turner drove around in a matching
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rollsroyce and if you made the bad
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mistake of confusing the two vehicles
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she had rolled the window down cuss you
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out spit at you tell you you weren't
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worth a goddamn and she would treat you
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like dir how else would I do that okay
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fine one particular anecdote personal
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ear uh ears heard went to a picnic
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family style picnic not picnic barbecue
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four houses down from where the Turners
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live Ike was down doing his gardening he
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put his Tri down wiped his hands over
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came over and talked to the young men
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including me we all played football for
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dorsy high ask us how the team was doing
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talk stuff to us told us to be in school
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he went back that witch Tina Turner came
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out the door started cussing at him he
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started talking to her saying please
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there are children around stop that she
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wasn't mad at him about a woman she was
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mad at him because he had a writer's
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block on a song they were working on she
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wound up coming out and hitting him as
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hard as she could it looked like with
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one of these heavy cast iron head
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rapes we thought she' done him some
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serious harm yeah we saw that I saw her
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when she was standing in line at Ralph's
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Market on kensaw Boulevard at the
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railroad tracks there were four little
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high school girls went to dorsy I was in
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college a senior at the time Tina was
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sitting standing in front of them one of
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them got the nerve Tina turned around
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and called her a sleazy greasy
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don't ever talk to me unless I give you
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permission the girls started crying
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that's why I don't have any respect for
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that woman because Hollywood sat there
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and tried to run a game on Ike Ike and
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his new wife were in front of me for two
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arbitration proceedings you know what
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for because they had a foundation to
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help out Abused Women what it was about
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is if the woman signed a contract they
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would give her money to escape from the
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abuse if she went back she owed a repay
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payment on what was a alone if she left
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it was a gift that's what it was about
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because ik Turner was a upstanding man
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and that sleazy heer oh and I don't want
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even talk about what she used to do when
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she was a pimp in Memphis and when I got
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here back in the early 70s and I started
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getting clients who were scared of that
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person because she was a gorilla pimp
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yeah let's talk about that that's how I
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can talk about a real man who stopped
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every time he got over and over and
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would talk to all of the young boys in
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the hood about being straight getting
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your studies together paying attention
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to being Crime Free and listening to
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your parents and being something in life
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that ass Will Smith doing that unmanly
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BS and I support a person that help
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myself and a lot of other black boys
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become men and deal with listening to
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what he was telling us about manhood and
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respect and I saw him act with respect
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and I saw that witch that Hollywood made
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into a prototype for a feminist mad
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woman act exactly the opposite that's
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why I have respect for I
