{"id":2077490,"date":"2023-10-24T08:32:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T12:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-legend-calls-out-his-wannabe-gangster-son-you-grew-up-in-a-gated-community\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T08:40:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T12:40:08","slug":"nfl-legend-calls-out-his-wannabe-gangster-son-you-grew-up-in-a-gated-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-legend-calls-out-his-wannabe-gangster-son-you-grew-up-in-a-gated-community\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL legend calls out son: &#8216;You grew up in a gated community, not the streets&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnfl-legend-calls-out-his-wannabe-gangster-son-you-grew-up-in-a-gated-community%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2077490&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>NFL Legend Calls\u2062 Out His Wannabe \u2064Gangster\u200d Son: &#8216;You Grew Up in a Gated Community&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s no shortage of wannabe rappers who want to act like they\u2019ve lived the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kanyes-new-music-video-shows-him-burying-pete-davidson-alive\/\" title=\"Kanye\u2019s New Music Video Shows Him Burying Pete Davidson Alive\">thug life<\/a> \u2014 dealing drugs, handing out beat-downs, holding guns to\u2063 people\u2019s heads,\u2064 shenanigans like that.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we can debate the artistic\u200c merits of gangsta\u2062 rap <em>if<\/em>, of course, the background checks out. If you\u2019re the son of a well-remunerated Dallas Cowboys legend who grew up \u200bin luxury, not so much.<\/p>\n<p>However, that didn\u2019t stop Elijah Irvin, son of NFL Hall-of-Fame wide receiver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/michael-irvin-responds-to-trump-asking-nfl-players-for-pardon-recommendations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael \u2062Irvin<\/a>, from creating an alter-ego called \u201cTut \u200bTarantino.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tut \u2062Tarantino doesn\u2019t quite have the same\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-i-learned-at-the-aspen-ideas-reet-festival-sponsored-by-mastercard-paypal-and-prudential-in-partnership-with-bloomberg\/\" title=\"What I Learned at the Aspen Ideas RE$ET Festival Sponsored by Mastercard, PayPal, and Prudential in Partnership with Bloomberg\">skill level<\/a> \u2063at the rap game as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/quentin-tarantino-wont-bend-china-refuses-edit-film-appease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quentin<\/a> has at film-making, \u200dbut at\u2062 least he tries. Hard. A bit too hard,\u200b as his\u2063 father pointed out in an appearance on the Fox Sports 1 show\u200d \u201cUndisputed\u201d last week.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200dpanel \u2014 which included Irvin, former NFLer\u200b Keyshawn\u200c Johnson and \u2063(sigh) \u2063sports commentator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/horrific-nfl-injury-leaves-player-needing-cpr-controversial-sports-anchor-gives-worst-take-possible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skip Bayless<\/a> \u2014 were discussing the travails of NBA player Ja Morant, another thug-life fantast whose antics with the Memphis Grizzlies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-wild-sideline-incident-sees-nfl-hall-famer-square-off-nba-team-nba-superstars-dad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have drawn negative attention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, Morant is far from alone in this department, \u200csince Irvin pointed out that his son\u2064 raps and talks about \u201cthat old thug life, ghetto life, and all of\u200d that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just\u200c so we\u2019re clear what we\u2019re talking\u2063 about,\u200c here are the \u2064opening lyrics to \u201cM.O.B. Freestyle,\u201d released in 2017. (According to <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Tut-tarantino-mob-freestyle-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Genius Lyrics<\/a>, \u201cM.O.B.\u201d stands for \u201cMoney Over B****es,\u201d so we\u2019re clearly talking Lennon\/McCartney-level songwriting here.)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Gang wit me and I got \u200cthat thang wit me (gang)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Big blick i\u2019ma \u2064leave his\u200b face s***ty<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Car \u200bflying like a cape came wit it <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Stop trying boy \u2062I know you ain\u2019t wit it (boy you ain\u2019t)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Shots flying at\u2063 yo m********g fitted<\/em><br \/>\n<em>30 in my .45 bust till ain\u2019t\u2062 nun \u200din it (ha ha)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>New foreign it ain\u2019t m********g rented<\/em><br \/>\n<em>In a \u200ccoupe got a big\u2064 bag fill \u2062my\u2064 bricks in it<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In \u200bshort, he has a gun and a fast foreign car that isn\u2019t rented but bought, and he\u2019s going to be filling bricks full\u2063 of cocaine inside it, presumably for \u200dsale. Later in the song he talks about abusing cough syrup and his romantic priorities:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>She told me she don\u2019t understand<\/em><br \/>\n<em>She said\u200c I am the man she said she love me<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I said I\u2019m in love \u2064with the bands<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And popping them xans and sippin this muddy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Again, \u2063translation: She\u2019s in love with him,\u200d but he\u2019s in love with money and abusing prescription drugs,\u200b namely Xanax and codeine. And this is actually the cleaner stuff in the ditty.<\/p>\n<p>For all I \u200bknow, Elijah Irvin really has \u2063a\u200d fast foreign car that is not rented. \u2063He didn\u2019t get it \u200cbecause he\u2019s\u200c \u201cfilling his bricks\u201d with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cocaine-raccoons-blame-attacks-harshing-liberal-utopia-portlands-vibe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bolivian marching powder<\/a>, however. He got it because his daddy is rich, instead \u2014 and daddy wasn\u2019t unwilling to point that out on air in a discussion about the\u2062 company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-hip-hop-culture-not-racism-real-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that Morant<\/a> is keeping.<\/p>\n<p>Watch it here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI got \u2062a son. He raps. His rap name is Tut Tarantino,\u201d Irvin\u2064 said in\u200d the midst of \u2064the conversation about Morant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you ever listen to some of his raps. I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh \u200cmy God.\u2019 Where does\u200d this come from, son? You grew up\u2063 in a gated community your whole \u2062life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he\u2019s rapping my life. \u2018Cause we romanticize and fantasize \u200cabout that\u2063 ol\u2019 thug life, ghetto life, \u2064and all of \u200bthat stuff \u2014 \u2063when we used to work to get away from it. Now, we\u2019ve gotten to a place \u2064somehow where we\u2019re running back towards it. In the music, in everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s \u200bgot \u2063to sting Irvin <em>fils<\/em> more is that Irvin\u2019s comments on his son\u2019s rapping got \u200dmore attention on social media than \u201cTut Tarantino\u201d has gotten via rapping.<\/p>\n<p>Only two songs on Elijah\u2019s 2018 album \u201cTarantino World\u201d\u200c have gotten more than 10,000 \u2063listens on \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/2cQOpOMGyT57CyBTtYc0lk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>.\u2064 To put this into perspective, \u200bit has roughly the same number of listens <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/prince-harry-meghan-mocked-grifters-executive-spotify\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the streaming service<\/a> as a 2002 album by virtually unknown Malaysian indie band <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/6KwuPIBL4krqxXcJtLdpDT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Force Vomit<\/a> called \u201cGive it \u2062Up for the Trustfund Rockers\u201d\u2062 \u2014 the only thing I could quickly find in my library that roughly approximates the popularity profile of \u201cTarantino World.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how \u2062bad and\/or unknown he is for\u200b his talent, anyway \u200b\u2014 and it\u2019s unclear how many of those listens \u200ccame after this clip \u2064went viral:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Michael Irvin \u200bwent on live tv &#038; says his son \u201ctut Tarantino\u201d is lying in all his raps  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou grew up in a\u200b gated community\u201d \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6LmjcOMygV\">pic.twitter.com\/6LmjcOMygV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SAY CHEESE!  (@SaycheeseDGTL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SaycheeseDGTL\/status\/1715835413137440873?\">October 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Michael \u200dIrvin going on live tv &#038; \u200csaying\u200c his son \u201ctut\u200c Tarantino\u201d is lying in all his raps\u2063 is the best\u200b thing of \u200b2023 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou grew up in a gated community\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sL84595kqe\">pic.twitter.com\/sL84595kqe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shannonnn sharpes Burner (PARODY Account) (@shannonsharpeee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shannonsharpeee\/status\/1715552611867541630?\">October 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tut Tarantino at home like\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xG5imMbWPQ\">pic.twitter.com\/xG5imMbWPQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dee  (@kingdee_11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kingdee_11\/status\/1715851250560819561?\">October 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">*Tut\u200b Tarantino watching his dad expose \u200bhim on national TV \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CRcCgEOwKd\">pic.twitter.com\/CRcCgEOwKd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 8BitPips (@8Bit_Pips)\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/8Bit_Pips\/status\/1715581523041075371?\">October 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tut Tarantino seeing this: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nn49ZA6EQy\">pic.twitter.com\/Nn49ZA6EQy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u00df\u00f8lt (@CryftBolt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CryftBolt\/status\/1715557619962872240?\">October 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, just for the record: From what I can glean from the three songs that I listened\u2063 to (\u201cM.O.B. Freestyle,\u201d \u201cTarantino\u2062 S***\u201d and\u200c \u201cPoppin&#8217;\u201d), Force Vomit is significantly more talented than Tut \u2063Tarantino.<\/p>\n<p>Let that sink in.<\/p>\n<p>For \u200ca taste of it, here\u2019s \u2063a 2019\u200d video of Tarantino\u2019s \u201cHit Pt. 2.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\">\n<\/div>\n<p>And, despite all the advantages he has by being born to a man\u200d who could more than afford to live in virtually any gated community he wished, Elijah Irvin has decided to push a rap \u200cpersona that embraces a culture of crime, drug use and violence.<\/p>\n<p>Nor is this the first time his dad \u2062has called him out; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibe.com\/news\/entertainment\/michael-irvin-calls-cap-son-tut-tarantinos-gangster-rap-persona-1234804777\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vibe<\/a>, in a 2019 appearance on\u200c the \u201cDan Patrick Show,\u201d Michael Irvin had\u200b similar things to say: \u201cHe raps about some of the hardest stuff in \u200bthe \u200cworld,\u201d Irvin said at the time. \u201cI\u2062 say to \u200bhim, \u2018Son, you grew \u2062up in a 20,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-legend-calls-out-his-wannabe-gangster-son-you-grew-up-in-a-gated-community\/\" title=\"NFL legend calls out son: 'You grew up in a gated community, not the streets'\">000 square-square-foot gated community<\/a>! Where does this \u2062stuff come from?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simple: It\u2062 comes from a pop culture elite that values these\u200c things.<\/p>\n<p>For rap artists in general \u2014 and black rap artists in particular \u2014 brutality, substance abuse and a rap sheet aren\u2019t considered deterrents to a successful career, they\u2019re considered\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rapper-arrested-murder-charge-police-hear-new-song\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resum\u00e9-builders<\/a>. Those attributes serve to signify that you\u2019re \u201creal.\u201d Until, of\u2063 course, you end up behind bars for a\u2062 lengthy stretch. \u2063Then, until \u2064you\u2019re out, and the media execs will just \u2064have to \u2063rely on your old material to get \u2063them through.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is \u2014 since this is most of the world\u2019s introduction to \u201cTut Tarantino\u201d \u2014 rapping isn\u2019t going to be the\u200b way Elijah Irvin makes his mark on the world. Indeed, one only hopes a bit of\u2064 well-deserved value-shaming from an \u200bembarrassed-but-famous\u2063 father convinces \u200dhim not to throw away \u200bthe advantages of growing up in a gated community with family around you \u2014 a place far removed from\u200d the kind of squalid, empty, dead-end existence Elijah embraces in his music.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>A Note from Our Founder:<\/h3>\n<p>Every morning, we at The\u200d Western Journal wake up and pursue our mission of giving you the important information you need about what\u2019s happening in America.<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t do that without your help.<\/p>\n<p>America has \u200dbeen\u200d on the receiving end of false narratives. The purpose of these false narratives is to make you feel powerless. 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Brown<br \/>\nFounder of The Western Journal<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How does Todd Tarantino maintain\u200c a balance between his feelings towards his son&#8217;s success and the importance of being\u200c authentic in the industry<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Not just saying I\u2019m a former NFL guy, there\u2019s no one in our league \u2062ever who lived that Todd Tarantino. If anybody grew up with me, \u200bthey\u2019d say so big, \u200cbig strikeout\u2064 against the big Toot, Tom Tarantino he grew up in a gated community his\u2063 own dad got money. Been making money\u2026 so trust me, ain\u2019t no M.O.B. before the opening of \u2062showin&#8217;\u200d some\u2064 of\u2026 you ain\u2019t live that\u2064 up. \u200dTrust\u2064 me, it wasn\u2019t\u2064 there.\u2063 You \u200c was in the suburbs, you was \u2062running around having \u200bfun there. You went to nice nice schools,\u200c driving \u2064nice cars, got nice bikes.  Yeah, you\u200b don\u2019t know nothing \u2064bout that, so how you live rappin\u2019 that stuff?\u200d  But rapping he rapping it like he really lived up. He really lived up this \u200dM.O.B. lifestyle, and it \u200djust disappoints me a\u200c little bit but I\u2019m completely out the box. \u2064I\u2019m\u2063 sayin\u2019 I\u2019m dad \u200cand don\u2019t take it my son. He\u2019s the best in my life. \u200dBut we gotta keep it real.\u201d\u2063<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are countless aspiring rappers who pretend to have experienced the thug life &#8211; selling drugs, inflicting violence, brandishing guns, and engaging in such antics. We can discuss the artistic value of gangsta rap, but only if their background verifies their claims. Unless you&#8217;re born into a wealthy family, it&#8217;s hard to believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":2077491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2077490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2077491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}