Contrast this with his reaction to T-Pain's cover of War Pigs
Edit: link to T-Pain's live cover
Edit2: Alt Link
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2024
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It really is an awesome cover.
Amusingly enough the Onion article mentions this.
It's The Hard Times. They put out good stuff too 😉
Holy fuck, every member of that band truly understood the assignment. That guitarist and drummer though… that was amazing. Thank you for posting this, my day is better for having watched it.
...damn. That was great.
35-years ago, I never thought I would see a popular rapper and his band belt out such a faithful rendition. And a crowd of black people rolling with it! Wild times!
Hey you just cost me an hour
Worth. Every. Second.
His cover of Tennessee Whiskey is worth the price of admission. The rest is just gravy
That was sick, thanks.
Saw T-pain live once unexpectedly, absolutely awesome dude and performer.
Holy shit that blew me away. Thanks for sharing!
Nice, thanks for sharing the cover itself! It really is a delight
My favorite solo is always the "aight I'm just gonna leave you to it, bye" solo lmao
What the fuck did you just call The Prince of Darkness? What the fuck? Fuck you!
"My husband was recording gold records while you were still wanking it to the cover of sports illustrated magazine."
--Sharon Osbourne.
But this is true haha
Exactly, this should be on /c/[email protected], or one of the other Not The Onions.
The Hard Times is satire, literally the same thing as The Onion but another publication. This is the place for it.
The story is true though, it's not satire.
Lots of satire is based on true events, that doesn’t make the article itself true. There is no music scholar “Aiden Lawrence”, the quotes from that person are made up.
Metalhead Tony Garcia is also made up to illustrate the joke. The true part is that Ozzy Osbourne tweeted with a good take. The reactions to it are fake to illustrate the authors joke, which is that an old rock legend having a good take on a rap artist is rare.
Yeah it has a funny headline but is 100% accurate. T-Pain’s cover is awesome and he shared the tweet:
Legendary rapper T-Pain had a completely different experience with Osbourne on X (formerly Twitter) earlier this year.
“I sang on a cover of ‘War Pigs’ at The Sun Rose and Ozzy tweeted at me saying it was the best cover he had ever seen and wishes we had called him. Hell, I wish I had his phone number. I would have loved to share the stage with him,” said T-Pain. “But I’ll admit when I first saw he had tweeted at me I full expected a racist rant, but it couldn’t have been further from the truth. Ozzy is a real one.”
I don't think either of you understand the point of the article. The subject being satirized in this article are people who use hip hop/rap criticism as a racist dog whistle. Not Ozzy Osbourne. They're using an accurate headline based on a real news item about him in order to satirize racism because his reason for denying use of his song subverts the trope of the "old guy who hates rap for racist reasons." So no, it doesn't belong in c/nottheonion. It's 100% satire and was posted exactly where it belongs.
Ok
"At press time, Osbourne was contacted by phone for further comment but we couldn’t understand a word he said."