Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Rapping Fire Fighter on fire over lyrics

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Struggling artist beware, your rhymes may come back to hunt you and get you fired from your day job!

A Philadephia firefighter who raps as a hobby on the side was suspended due to his lyrics directed toward the police. Cal Akbar( Rodney Jean Jacques) was suspended at Engine Company 9 in the Mount Airy section of Philadephia, according to Executive Chief Daniel A. Williams. Arkbar, who also served in the army started an enormous outrage after his lyrics were exposed on the internet to promote his new album. In the song Arkbar rapped calling the police "pigs" and turning them into "bacon bits," according to allhiphop.com

The Local Fraternal Order of Police members demanded that he give an apology by April 22nd, however when no response came in, the president of the FOP demanded he be fired ASAP. Akbar is still on administrative leave. Below is a video Akbar did for the Philly Fired Dept. in 2005. According to a source Cal Akbar is remorseful and claims that he did not post the song.



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