Lauren London claims that she was misquoted in King magazine interview!

"Last week when I wrote about Lauren London’s preference for thugs
who blow away convenience workers, I didn’t know she had already
responded to the criticism surrounding her remarks in a recent KING
magazine interview.

In the KING article, London is quoted as saying,

I love guys who are street. I won’t even give soft guys a chance.
Menace II Society is my shit! Caine was like my first crush. Actually,
O-Dog was my true dream guy. I was in love with him, from that opening
scene where he pops the convenience-store worker. He had me from that
gunshot [laughs]. He was ’hood, and I loved that.

During a red carpet interview with TheWeekendGamer, London claims the
writer used creative editing and “said a lot of things that were false.”

Not for one second do I believe London’s claims.

For one thing, she didn’t come out and flatly deny making those
statements. Instead she says “the questions being asked weren’t the
questions being asked over the phone.” Okay, fair enough. But the
interviewer asked London about the statements she made, not the
questions that were being asked. Notice how she conveniently
sidestepped the question while admitting she loves “Menace II Society”
and “Gone With the Wind”..

It is standard operating procedure among journalists to change the
sequence of questions in an interview to make the interview flow
better. Some writers may even edit their own questions for clarity. But
it is rare for a writer to edit the interviewee’s answers. It’s one
thing for London to say the writer changed the questions being asked.
But that was not in contention.

Therefore, Lauren, we don’t believe you, hon. We think you are trying
to save face by backtracking and putting the blame on the writer. But
we’re pretty sure the writer has you on tape or at least made very good
notes of what you said.

Anyway, the reactions to London’s statements were swift and angry. Not
so much at London for being young and dumb, but at Sgt. Willie Pete for
grouping all black women in the same barrel: “Don’t try to paint all
Black women with the same brush because black men would be the first to
howl at the moon if we tried to say that they were all like the
characters in Menace II Society,” says g-e-m2001 over at What about Our
Daughters blog.

Sgt. Willie's infamous reply rant to Lauren London!