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Gorilla Zoe Angers Parents In Dallas; Preps New Single 
Published Sunday, March 08, 2009 3:57 PM
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By Roman Wolfe

Atlanta’s Gorilla Zoe has landed in hot water with parents of a Dallas middle school, due to a controversial poster featuring the rapper.

 

Gorilla Zoe appeared at Pearl C. Anderson Junior High School on Friday (March 6), where he delivered a positive message to the school’s 10 and 11-year-old students.

 

After his motivational speech to students, posters were handed out featuring Gorilla Zoe surrounded by a stack of money, while smoking a cigar, sipping a drink and brandishing a gun.

 

A number of parents expressed outrage at the posters their children were sent home with and questioned the message Gorilla Zoe was trying to send.

 

Gorilla Zoe is currently preparing to release his sophomore album Don’t Feed The Animals, which has already produced the hit single “Lost” and is due in stores March 17th.

 

The rapper recently shot a video for “What It Is,” featuring Rick Ross.


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Gorilla Zoe Angers Parents In Dallas; Preps New Single | Eight Mile Road said:

March 8, 2009 4:15 PM
 

MRGODBYROAD said:

DAMN ZOE........
March 8, 2009 5:14 PM
 

Gorilla Zoe Angers Parents In Dallas; Preps New Single | rap.urmuzik.com said:

March 8, 2009 5:29 PM
 

MissDallasTx214 said:

I heard about this and I could understand why the parents were upset, if it had been my child(ren) I too would've been offended because the last thing these kids need is someone glamorizing the lifestyle of a rapper. I heard the message was nice but those posters left a lot of parents upset and I blame the school, not him. Those children are the prinicpal and teachers responsibilty for 7-8 hrs and they should've gone over all that before Zoe even arrived at the school.
March 8, 2009 5:34 PM
 

T-ROC said:

Not a parent......so i can't comment. It would be irrelevant if i did.
March 8, 2009 6:01 PM
 

KY-Classic said:

FUCK RAP!!!!!...IT IS KILLIN OUR COMMUNITY!!!!....FUCK ALL THESE NIGGAS THAT GOT OR ARE TRYIN TO GET DEALS...RECORD COMPANIES ARE LIKE SLAVE MASTERS....U AINT GETTIN PUT ON LESS YOU PROMOTE DRUGS, SEX, AND VIOLENCE....MEMBER WHEN WE HAD CATS LIKE BRAND NUBIAN, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, BAHAMADIA, QUEEN (before she sold out), TRIBE CALLED QUEST...ETC..POSITIVE RAPPERS GET NO LOVE NO MORE.....PEACE TO LITTLE BROTHER!!!!!
March 8, 2009 6:02 PM
 

MadeMan3000 said:

Dumb ni99az, and I'm black so I can say it damn ur stuuuuupid Zoe!
March 8, 2009 6:04 PM
 

jamaal453 said:

dum ass ...and i was feeling this dude
March 8, 2009 7:37 PM
 

FRESH-SHAUN said:

dummy
March 8, 2009 7:40 PM
 

MAINE MAN said:

Doesn't suprise me!....If you ain't living what your preaching to your audience then stay the fuck away... Especially from children.

Translation: Nobody wants to hear how many bricks you have and what you sold. It will be something else if your music had concepts, meaning, and a story line. Its cool to rap about your past life, but make sure your positive concepts outweigh your negative.
March 8, 2009 8:24 PM
 

TRUTHFROMDABOOT said:

Hood Nigga!
March 8, 2009 10:22 PM
 

TRUTHFROMDABOOT said:

@ Miss dallas
100% Co-sign
March 8, 2009 11:00 PM
 

STICKIEFINGAZ said:

damn man...I give props for zo going to speak to the kids...but that poster is not a good look homie...you gotta be smarter than that?! That poster don't make no sense fam...real talk

Marvelous Marc
March 8, 2009 11:03 PM
 

STICKIEFINGAZ said:

damn man...I give props for zo going to speak to the kids...but that poster is not a good look homie...you gotta be smarter than that?! That poster don't make no sense fam...real talk

Marvelous Marc
March 8, 2009 11:02 PM
 

STICKIEFINGAZ said:

to Miss DAllas,

I just read what you said. And I agree, the school should def have screened all the materials being passed out...they dropped the ball.

Marvelous Marc
March 8, 2009 11:04 PM
 

Dee.I.Pee said:

Sounds like the DISD,I'm glad I graduated outside the DISD.
March 9, 2009 12:30 AM
 

G9L said:

Damn he must of LOST his mind lol

mad corny i know
March 9, 2009 1:07 AM
 

Young BRINK! said:

It seems like he didnt want to leave the kids empty handed, so he gave them the only 'fan-stuff' he had.

He probably knew not to give them cd's (which would be an obvious offense), & figured that the posters were the most harmless.

Gotta keep in mind, rappers dont keep a box of 8X10's with them at all times, so I kinda understand...

Thats a safe explanation, unless he just didnt give a fuck! lol

http://myspace.com/youngbrink1
March 9, 2009 4:10 AM
 

KleptoLEI said:

WHO...?
March 9, 2009 8:31 AM
 

OnDeckMeno said:

Okay woe! Make up your mind, either you do or you don't.
March 9, 2009 8:34 AM
 

baltimoreson3000 said:

@KY..I was with u homey til u said Queen sold out....why is it that when rappers start doing well outside of the rap game its considered selling out...
March 9, 2009 8:40 AM
 

mu$h da great said:

I can't call it....on one hand zoe probably should have thought twice about giveing out those posters to those middle schoolers on the other hand why is the school inviteing zoe (who's lyrics & lyrical content are geared towards adults ) to the school to speak to some children? I respect his effort to do something positive, but its like okay what does this nigga usually rap about lol..... don't get it twisted I like zoes music though....
March 9, 2009 9:24 AM
 

mu$h da great said:

I mean even if it wasn't depicted in the poster, its still in his lyrics...... so they expect those kids to listen to his message but not his music.....? not knocking zoe @ all but that jus didn't make sense to me on the schools part.they probably got the niggas cd @ home anyway but maybe they should have found somebody more appropriate for there age level if it was gone be a issue....

 
March 9, 2009 9:34 AM
 

Hoeyuno said:


KleptoLEI said:
WHO...?

.....cosign that holmes
March 9, 2009 9:45 AM
 

Haughville said:

DISD at its finest! straight fuck ups!! they didnt give a fuck what the kids were getting until some of the parents said something....DISD figured fuck'em, the kids that go to the school hear and see the shit zoe rappin' bout all the time cause the school in south dallas....that shit wouldnt happen in the burbs.....like miss dallas said, that shit would'a been screened.
March 9, 2009 10:54 AM
 

TRU C-WALKA said:

i guess sum people just blind 2 da fact of real life, you can give a positive message all day loc, but if u finish it with a negative vibe whut do u think the people an media an da community is gonna remember!! ZOE an OFFICER RICCY need 2 get real with it, there's no hate here but yelling itz deeper than rap don't make u street certified homie. thatz like me going 2 a school telling youngsta's that gangbangin is not the way to live and it'z a quicc way to jail or death, then 20 min. later i'm down the blocc hitting niccaz up with gang signs an shooting off rounds @ rivals, c'mon cuzz some of these rap niccaz are confused!! WESTCOAST ALL DAY!!
March 9, 2009 11:23 AM
 

SMALLZSPACE said:

March 9, 2009 12:46 PM
 

usversesthem said:

Zoe is my dude.  He should've picked a different poster tho lol.

Us...check out the blog
March 9, 2009 1:19 PM
 

Samson09 said:

March 9, 2009 1:25 PM
 

EST said:

I feel you Maine Man but seriously even if his lyrics represent what he's done I know personally I'm completely tired of dudes rapping about guns, bricks, money, violence and crime. None of them are saying anything that hasn't been already said. I find it straight boring and he should have known better to hand out an ignorant poster to anybody, kid or adult. Zoe go back to the drawing board and come back with something original.
March 9, 2009 1:29 PM
 

D75215Town said:

Shout out to pearl c and Sunny South Dallas.
What Zoe did was stupid. These children are already in the hood
so he should have tried to follow up his message with something clean. DISD graduate here!!!
March 11, 2009 10:38 AM
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