Ball Boy Of The Week: Sean Kingston

We’re not sure who said it first, but our December cover artist Jim Jones said it best: “Respect my mind, or respect my grind.” And we agree. Even if you don’t like a certain artist or their music, if they’re doing their thing'somehow selling records and getting that guest spot money, you should at least respect the fact that they’re out there grinding. It’s only right… right? We suppose, but some artists make it hard to root for them. Like, say, Sean Kingston.

For the first installment of the our Ball Boy of the Week column, we chose the Jamaican rap/”reggae” artist responsible for one of the most annoyingly infectious hits of late, “Beautiful Girls.” Now, we had no problem with dude, we were happy he was getting his shine on, and even kinda liked that song he did with Juelz. But all that success must have went to dude’s head, ’cause lately he’s been acting a damn fool. Don’t believe us? Read on to see 5 reasons why Sean Kingston is our Ball Boy of the Week…

5. HE WAS ON MTV’S SUPER SWEET 16 18
All press is good press, but damn. The public hated all those spoiled, stuck up, ungrateful chicks so much that MTV made a show called “Exiled” where some of the former Sweet 16 girls go around the world to basically learn how the other half lives. Why the hell would you choose to associate yourself with them? Maybe Seamn should be exiled, somewhere far far away from here.
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4. HE REMADE HIS DEBUT SINGLE INTO “BOLLYWOOD GIRLS”

“Beautiful Girls” was suspect enough when it was first released. We thought we’d never hear it again after he moved on to his second and third singles, but no, Sean went for that international gwap by remixing that shit into “Bollywood Girl.” We understand you wanna be worldwide and all, Sean, but you could have at least made a new song with, say, an actual Indian person.
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3. HE REALLY THINKS HE’S A CEO

We get it'he went platinum, so now, according to the rap handbook, he gets his own labels with his own artists and all that. Great. But just because you pull a dude off Myspace into the studio with you, and your brother answers your cell phone and answers your emails, that doesn’t make you a CEO. Holler back when I.Y.A.Z., the first artist from T.I.M.E. (Time Is Money Entertainment), moves some units. Remember, even Mike Jones has a label.
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2. HE BUYS RETARDED JEWELRY

At a time when the economy is in the shitter, rappers are getting robbed for their jewels like it was the '80s. We found it odd that Sean would by so much jewelry (in addition to the crib and super cars)'hopefully li’l big homie put some money in the bank in case that next album flops. Or in case he gets Yung Berg’d. Wait…didn’t that already happen? If you ask Sean, he didn’t get robbed for his crayon box chain'he sent it through Fed Ex and just forgot to insure it. Riiiight…
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1. HIS VIDEO BLOG IS HORRIBLE

For the most part, video blogs are hit and miss for rappers. They’re supposed to show us another side of the rapper that we don’t usually see through music or in the videos. When they’re good, like Soulja Boy’s, we tend to ease up on the hate. But when they’re bad, like Sean Kingston’s, it just reminds us of why we don’t fuck with the artist in the first place. Take for instance the Vlog posted above. This dude really said “they don’t have internet in China”! And then he said that “no one in the world has a Blackberry Bold,” in the worst rendition of “Swagger Like Us” EVER. Poor kid. Someone needs to take his video camera away.