Hotpress: giving a voice to idiots

If you pick up Hotpress magazine today, you will find four pages on a 'rapper' from Limerick called Nailerz.

Nailerz likes knives. He likes stabbing people in the arse, "I like stabbing people in the arse." See? "I don't like shooting people at all. I like a fella coming into the courthouse and him not being able to sit down. When the judge says, 'All rise', he's the only man standing up; do you know what I mean? It's a funny buzz."

It's funny that he says he doesn't like shooting people, because Hotpress publish three pictures of him with a shot gun. Yes, the same type of weapon that has been used in the multiple murders in Limerick in recent times. Like, OMG, Nailerz is so cool.

He has 30 charges against him, and has been in prison twice. Robbery, drugs, those kind of cool rock and roll things, y'know?

Hotpress directs you to Nailerz Bebo page, where is the usual thickery that such morons advertise on their Bebo pages, but, surprise surprise, no songs. You see, Hotpress don't care that this person ISN'T EVEN A FUCKING MUSICIAN, they just want something controversial.

So you root around for a while and eventually find another Bebo page where his songs are. And they are the greatest fucking piles of shite, you'll ever listen to (in fact, maybe Hotpress didn't even.) It's the usual absolute crap that ten-year-olds could do. "My name is Nailerz, what's up?" Yo, flow tight, y'all. As if. He has five songs, it seems. Five songs these days warrants four pages in Hotpress. One is a 'skit' about going to beat someone up (it's called "Gay Music Skit") another is about his granny, the other one is called "My Name Is Nailerz" ("I'm going on a hit / To kill some cunts / Back through the back lanes / Pieces of their brains on my packies."), the other one is some stupid US-aping shite called 'Do Your Wack' and then some other one about getting shot / shooting people called 'This Is Where It Hurts'.

So Jason O'Toole interviews this little fucker, making him seem cooler to all of his mates, and their mates - Nailerz brags about his appearance in Hotpress on his Bebo page - gives him four pages in their national magazine glorifying his shitty attitude towards life at a time when shit heads like himself are terrorising the community in Limerick by shooting the shit out of each other.

That's REALLY SMART AND RESPONSIBLE *cough* MUSIC JOURNALISM there, Hotpress. Bravo.

Now, I have no problem enjoying a scumbag's music if it's brilliant. If they have been involved in crime, I find it hard to care, as long as the music is good enough. But this little shit is just another talentless thug who is using the genre of rap to big himself up and excuse his idiot behaviour (most of it is probably exaggerated, in fairness.)

Of course, Nailerz doesn't want to be THAT hard. He talks in conflicting terms - even though he loves violence - "My image is 'don't fuck with Nailerz'. Trying to make money. Selling drugs and trying to get out of it. And slagging people off to get it out of my system. Get all that stuff out of your system by biro. It's better than going to prison for 20 years for something stupid. Let them release their stress by paper, not by handguns and shooting people in the head." Oh, right, so that's why Hotpress decided to print a photo of him loading a shotgun, another pointing the barrel at the camera.

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