My EBT!
Re: My EBT!
Mine or his?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: My EBT!
A Brooklyn rapper is drawing heat from conservative bloggers upset over a YouTube video of him rhyming about trying to use his sister's food-stamps card to buy weed and beer.
Stanley Lafleur, 24, has been called "lazy," a "leech" and the epitome of someone pimping the system since his video went viral.
In the video, Lafleur, in a leather jacket and Yankee cap, struts from a bodega to a fast-food joint swiping a government-issued Electronic Benefit Transfer card to pay for mostly candy and chips.
Rapping to a heavy beat, he even tries to used the EBT card to buy pot and beer.
"I'm never going hungry, swiping all day y'all. Sandwiches, chips, a big box of Oreos. Cereal, Kix, but I couldn't buy a 40, dog?" he waxes poetically, dancing through store aisles and up to the counter at a McDonald's.
"I wish I could buy some weed with my EBT but the drug dealer fronted me," raps Lafleur.
The video went viral and left right-wing bloggers peeved after conservative Matt Drudge posted it earlier this week on his website, Drudgereport.com.
The Conservative TreeHouse blog accused Lafleur of "celebrating the pure coolness of any and all things gotten for nothing."
The Conservativepost.com blog wrote the "video glorifies welfare." Columnist Ben Shapiro, on his popular conservative website Town Hall, described Lafleur as "the sort of leech who is bankrupting our society."
But Lafleur said people are misinterpreting his video, which has garnered nearly 280,000 views.
"I couldn't believe people are hating on me like I'm rubbing the benefit card in the face of taxpayers. They don't get it," Lafleur told the Daily News. "My video is a parody."
Sounding like a conservative himself, Lafleur explained the video is a reflection of EBT abuses he's witnessed.
"That's the whole point of my video and that's what I'm trying to stop. There's a lot of people who really need help but aren't getting it while too many are abusing the system," said the self-described "Mr. EBT."
Jermaine Gomes, who produced the video, said he was shocked by the uproar.
"It's an overnight sensation," said Gomes, who appeared with Lafleur on FOX Business Network this week in an attempt to clear the air.
"It's just amazing that some people don't get it," Gomes said. "They think it's seriously some dumb guy just using his EBT card."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... z1Z0AqHzmG
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: My EBT!
I think this one is a hella lot worse, WARNING EXPLICIT NSFW;