http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22376865
PepsiCo is in a bit of trouble after hosting a certain Mountain Dew commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar-lxqYMrOY) on it's website. They took it down after numerous complaints of racism and sexism, but thanks to helpful youtube trolls this is not likely to disappear anytime soon.
Star, i know you already hate Pepsi enough as it is, but this ought to make you shake your head in disappointment. :lol:
Sorry, the commercial's been removed. I can't see what it was all about. :S
EDIT: Okay, I've seen part of it on Cnn.com... and apparently, this is what happens when you hand creative control of a commercial over to a Hip Hop Artist. =_= It almost sounds like it was done by one of those "Gangsta" assholes and not a true rapper as Will Smith used to be - more like Tupac or something.
This is not going to help the Hip Hop community score any points, that's for dayum sure. Then again, I *like* Mountain Dew and that's not going to help them either; I just don't like Pepsi itself. =/
I'll admit that this opinion is based off of a news report rather than the commercial itself, but yeah... that seems a bit too much. They couldn't have had a bunch of goats in the line up instead?
To be fair to it, I guess that it could potentially be seen as a jab at police using racial profiling instead of racism itself. But there was still way too little thought put into using something like that as an ad.