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Irwin manager takes aim at US rapper
Monday Oct 23 18:32 AEST
Steve Irwin's manager John Stainton has hit out at a US rapper for using a reference to the Crocodile Hunter's death to attack a rival.
Ras Kass has maintained his long-running feud with fellow gangster rapper The Game by using an Irwin-inspired slur in his new song "Gayme Over".
During the track, Kass takes aim at The Game with the line "You're the waste of LA ... you the Crocodile Hunter, I am the stingray".
Mr Irwin died after being stabbed in the chest with a stingray barb on the Great Barrier Reef on September 4.
"I just find it a bit sad that people have to stoop to that," Mr Stainton said.
"It is disappointing. I can't understand the point of it. There are other references they can make that will put the point across.
"I just think it is a pity that people do have to use Steve or anyone who has died in tragic circumstances ... as a form of entertainment."
Mr Stainton also condemned emails and internet pictures that make light of Mr Irwin's death.
"The fact that people have gone to the trouble of doing those sort of photographs I just find it really distasteful," he said.
"Dummied up photos, all the things that are happening around the world associated with Steve's tragedy - I just can't understand it to be honest.
"I don't ever go to the web fortunately. I don't give time to that."
Irwin manager takes aim at US rapper
Monday Oct 23 18:32 AEST
Steve Irwin's manager John Stainton has hit out at a US rapper for using a reference to the Crocodile Hunter's death to attack a rival.
Ras Kass has maintained his long-running feud with fellow gangster rapper The Game by using an Irwin-inspired slur in his new song "Gayme Over".
During the track, Kass takes aim at The Game with the line "You're the waste of LA ... you the Crocodile Hunter, I am the stingray".
Mr Irwin died after being stabbed in the chest with a stingray barb on the Great Barrier Reef on September 4.
"I just find it a bit sad that people have to stoop to that," Mr Stainton said.
"It is disappointing. I can't understand the point of it. There are other references they can make that will put the point across.
"I just think it is a pity that people do have to use Steve or anyone who has died in tragic circumstances ... as a form of entertainment."
Mr Stainton also condemned emails and internet pictures that make light of Mr Irwin's death.
"The fact that people have gone to the trouble of doing those sort of photographs I just find it really distasteful," he said.
"Dummied up photos, all the things that are happening around the world associated with Steve's tragedy - I just can't understand it to be honest.
"I don't ever go to the web fortunately. I don't give time to that."