Black Eyed (Peas)
So yesterday the interweb was just one big drama filled school playground.
Perez Hilton, the infamous gossip blogger, was up here in Toronto at the Much Music Video Awards. He ran into the Black Eyed Peas, who apparently, aren’t too impressed with Mr Hilton constantly talking shit about them on his site. Will.I.Am told Perez not to write about them anymore and Perez decided to go off on one telling Mr Am he has no respect for him and calling him a ‘fucking f****t.’
Outside the club where this happened, Perez allegedly got knocked the hell out by Will.I.Am’s manager. He took to Twitter, putting out cries for help, asking people to alert the police and saying he’d just been assaulted by Will.I.Am. I know we live in a hyper-internet driven society, but correct me if I’m wrong, isn’t the correct way to contact the police to dial 911? Or do the police actually sit around checking their Twitter every 20 seconds for emergencies?
Come Monday morning, Perez had put this video on his site giving his ‘statement’ of what happened. If you have a spare 11 minutes, feel free to watch it. There are some Oscar-worthy tears at the end, if you can stomach the 10 other minutes of whining.
Here’s my thing: while I do honestly think there is no excuse for violence, I feel that if you make the conscious decision to call someone a ‘fucking f****t,’ you pretty much deserve to be knocked the fuck out. Furthermore, as a gay man, how can Perez honestly justify the use of a hate term that has dogged the gay community for years? This is a man who is trying to put himself at the forefront of the No H8 campaign. Good on ya for setting the whole movement back 50 years there Perez. Nice job.
So while yes, being punched in the eye a few times is a little extreme, on the other hand, it seems like fairly sweet karma for a man who makes his living shitting on other people on a daily basis. He can’t honestly have felt that it would never come back to bite him in the ass (or cold clock him in the eye) at some point. It’s fine to say ‘it’s all in good fun’ when you’re sitting behind your computer screen, but once you step out, life gets real.
And I guess we all now know that Will.I.Am is willing to open up a can of whoop ass when necessary (or, you know, get his manager to do it).
Moral of the story: Karma is a motherbitch.
