Nixon’s son writes rap music, dad disavows lyrics
The Columbia Missourian did an interesting feature yesterday on Jay Nixon’s eldest son, 19-year-old MU student Jeremiah “Jer” Nixon, who writes and records rap music.
According to the Missourian, the music uses profanity, references violence and refers to women as “hos.” Jer Nixon is quoted as saying the music is “98 percent parody” and should not be taken seriously.
The young Nixon recorded with a group of friends who called themselves B.A.L.L.S in high school, and one track had 3,306 plays on the group’s MySpace page, according to the article.
The Missourian is produced by journalism students and as the article was being fact-checked, the article says the music began disappearing from the MySpace pages and YouTube.
Oren Shur, Nixon’s spokesman, is quoted as saying: “Jay loves his son, but certainly some of the lyrics in these rap songs show some poor judgment.”
Jer Nixon then added an apology for the “poor taste” of some of the lyrics.
Asked about the flap this morning, Zac Wright, a spokesman for the Democratic Party, said: “I think families are off-limits” in campaigns.
As part of this rap group, I was raised a republican by a republican who ran as a republican. We as a group were joking and none of the things said were serious. We made it as a joke and thought that the music was funny. For us to act like “ho” is not an everyday vocabulary word of todays youth is ridiculous. I guess we all have horrible parents. Get control of yourselves. If Jer would have got a girl pregnant (like Palins daughter) I would understand. I guess this makes Palin a horrible parent. Your kids make deciscions outside of you.
The conservative out look that most of you show must come from Bill O’rielly. Times are changing the way people talk is changing. Dont look down on Jay because is son uses todays vocabulary in a song. It is rap and Jer is a normal kid. His dad just so happens to be running for gov.