"Pause"

You're not a rap blogger, stop saying this.

Also, if you are a rap blogger, stop saying this.

Sarge: I'm sure this thread will turn out really well.

OTM

i don't get it

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pause

Is it like saying "rewind"?

After reading that definition I am still confused - what's a "homosexual comment"?

Because rap bloggers are the biggest goddamn homophobes on the fucking planet and live in constant fear of someone thinking they're gay for not screaming their heterosexuality in every fucking sentence.

What are these "rap bloggers"? (an old man asks).

so it's the rap verson of "That's what she said?"

whiney i think guys are gonna give it to you pretty hard in this thread

At least, "That's what she said" had the aura of "Hahaha I'm acting like an 8-year-old"

This is like grown men screaming, "YO, I'M NOT GAY, MAN FYI" when they say something.

And then indie rock bloggers pick it up as a way to make gay jokes that are a little more "politically correct" but still has the subtley of when when college freshmen start referring to black people as "homies"

Sorry if this is getting stantony.

I haven't heard this done in context, so you'll have to forgive me.

whiney i think guys are gonna give it to you pretty hard in this thread

― Shawty Lo Collier (some dude), Tuesday, April 7, 2009 1:56 PM (15 minutes ago)

pause

yeah, i think we all saw what he was doing, kevin, but thanks

yeah i've got the dumbest post in this thread i guess

i long for the good old days of n/h

yeah no homo/pause/ayo at this point is just like a subculture of this kinda thing: hey old folks answer me was there a time where unironically wholesome or vaguely sexualizable shit didnt get "that just sounds WRONG!" treatment

oh, wrinklepause

pause technology

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'wrinklepause' took me down an unpleasant lemon party-oriented train of thought for a second

'wrinklepause' took me down an unpleasant lemon party-oriented train of thought for a second

[' ']

thank you, Pleasant Pause

i feel like i fell into a vortex when i clicked on this thread

Just bending over backwards in order to help.

had I not seen this thread, that would've soared right over my head.

loool gus johnson

Why u blaming rap bloggers in general - just call them out by name. Afraid to say 'byron'? How does this compare w hipster runoff dropping 'fag' all the time.

Btw I agree w thread premise that this shit is largely lame but i'm not sure what else there is to say.

Altho per usual lol @ al and pp

Actually pause is way preferable to no homo cuz u can use it in a hetero context also - Btw whiney tell your mom I said hi no pause

im going to have to go over a lot of the posts in this thread

PAUSE

Boy that collie has a bushy tail, paws.

*applauds*

u can kinda see it on the right half of this:

http://i7.ebayimg.com/02/i/001/34/43/7353_1.JPG

(do ebay images work?)

http://www.colorantshistory.org/images/Paas_1940s_egg_colors_box.jpg

shd probably have paused b4 posting this thread tbf

used to stop the "aye-yo"'ing of a subject after a homosexual comment has been made.

The "aye-yo"ing of a subject?

that is the act of saying "ayo" in reference to the subject

oh man that mclovin/tracy morgan cover pissed me off and i couldn't decide if the whole ed staff are homophobes or if they were reeeeally stretching for street cred and also which would be worse

christopher mintz-pause

jordan did it seriously take you that cover to realize that compex is run by a bunch of smirky dickbags (pause)

haha complex

no but i thought they kept it to the internet at least

i feel like i fell into a vortex when i clicked on this thread

Yeah, I've never even heard of Complex magazine, wtf.

really this is an autogoon subthread but i guess whiney didn't think it was music-oriented enough to be on ILM

dpdee: should i say something in that thread about how ellis is ethan's stalker fag and ethan's become mine
dpdee: or just let this all slide
Alex in Baltimore: hahahahaha
Alex in Baltimore: i dunno that's a tough call
Alex in Baltimore: dangerous business
dpdee: its like provoking a snake
Alex in Baltimore: "pause"
Alex in Baltimore: "nullus"
dpdee: haha
Alex in Baltimore: "whatever the fuck they say"

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Tuesday, April 4, 2006 2:07 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i forgot about "nullus," that's probably the lamest variant of this whole trend

Yeah, I've never even heard of Complex magazine, wtf.

really?? it started appearing in my mailbox one day! no idea wtf i'd bought online or signed up for that caused them to send it to me. netflix maybe?

they heard you'd like to see tracy morgan and mclovin come together

what's the origin of nullus? i always read it on byron's site and knew what it meant but just chalked it up to "lol byron crawford"

yeah i think it's just another lame gag (pause) that he pounded into (pause) his readership's brains until other people started saying it.

http://www.pausepolice.com/

lil wayne was doing the top 10 whatevers on letterman and one of them was about how cute the jonas bros were, and he said "pause" right after...i think the audience laughed because they assumed he was reading a direction from the cue cards, and had someone not told me what it meant i would have assumed the same.

but apparently this thread is about "rap bloggers," whoever they are?

Wow and I thought saying "quote unquote" was lame and shit.

but apparently this thread is about "rap bloggers," whoever they are?

none of them to be found on this board, that's for sure

haha at this thread

ugh the worst example ever of this is in the new freshmen 10 xxl -- i guess every issue they do this thing where on the staff page, members of the ed staff answer a question and they put the answer next to their name or whatever -- and so the question this month is "which of the freshmen 10 are you most excited about?" and for one dude (the photo editor or something) it reads "Donnis, he seems like the most charismatic of the bunch (pause)" -- if you have to pause for praising someone for having charisma i think i'm getting out of the talking about rap game before it gets any worse

that was a good post jordan (pause)

i really didn't have a huge problem with no homo/nullus/pause thing when it was confined to people like byron crawford, noz, ilm and of course pitchfork reviews of dispet albums, but i think it's pretty disconcerting and depressing to see writers & editors bringing it into supposedly "professional" print magazines

like, how close are we from the magazine being officially renamed "XXL (pause)"

but hip hop writers use rap slang all the time - what's wrong using (pause) too. (pause)

you gonna tell em to stop using "heads" or "in a minute" too

i have a problem with rap writers co-opting the homophobic rap slang "(pause)" in the same way that i would have a problem if xxl changed their editorial policy to state that every female subject in the magazine be referred to as a "bitch" or a "ho"

yeah but that's not really the policy right now is it? you're kinda reading a lot into one guy's offhand comment on a staff comment page, a page where naturally the responses are going to be more casual/reflective of street use

http://www.complex.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/tracychriscover_large.jpg

i love the dichotomy of that cover featuring complex's never ending desire to use trendy rap slang & said slang being meticulously copy edited

but that is a pretty flaming cover

& dyao i'm sure if i read rap magazines more often than once every few months when i skim through them i would be able to find more examples of this

eh I just dunno why you're singling out this particular aspect of rap to be offended about

it has much more to do with journalism than it has to do with rap

http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/12/25-most-pause-worthy-childrens-toys/