If it makes you feel better Jay-Z is part Filipino.
Long time lurker.
----- Original Message -----
From: Elson Trinidad <elson@westworld.com>
Date: Friday, August 10, 2001 2:31 am
Subject: Re: RES is Chinese?
> At 06:27 PM 8/9/01 -0700, John Book wrote:
>
> >Foxy Brown is part Filipino, but we don't see "Pork Gisantes"
> tattooed on
> >her belly in Old English lettering.
>
> Actually she isn't (it's a huge urban legend in the Filipino
> community
> spread by misinterpretation (Nas saying that she was) and rumor
> (let's just
> say Filipinos adapted their own form of Hispanic "chisme"), her
> family is
> West Indian - Trinidadian to be specific ...she even cleared it up
> in a
> recent interview...I'm Filipino myself, so these things show up on
> my radar
> screen...)
>
> Elson
>
> - 30 -
> : . elson trinidad, los angeles, california, usa
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> trinity.org and
> www.mp3.com/etrinity
>
>
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