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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Update: Oxygen Cancels ‘Babies’ Mamas’

Rapper Shawty Lo is pictured with his 11 children and their 10 mothers in a short video promoting "All My Babies' Mamas." (screenshot)

Rapper Shawty Lo is pictured with his 11 children and their 10 mothers in a short video promoting “All My Babies’ Mamas.” (screenshot)

That didn’t take long.

The Oxygen Network has announced that it is canceling plans to air its one-hour reality special, “All My Babies’ Mamas.” The show about Carlos Walker, aka rapper Shawty Lo, his ten kids and their 11 mothers drew almost universal outrage.

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Sabrina Lamb, a New York author, launched an online petition to cancel the show, and garnered more than 37,000 signatures.

Lamb called the program “stereotypical, misogynistic, pornographic, demonic on every single level.” She said Oxygen was a network established to support young women, but instead it was exploiting them.

Oxygen refused to say whether the online pressure factored into its decision to pull the show, but said in a statement: “As part of our development process, we have reviewed casting and decided not to move forward with the special.”

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JWHGT6GSWIXBP552CYN5I44Q5Q Grey

    GOOD. don’t give this napoleonic moron ANY of the attention he so obviously craves AND take away that big fat paycheck he’d have been pulling for airing of show and royalties. make his useless ass and his harem of brain-dead whores WORK for a living to support their bastard children.

    • Pearlsmith81

      That’s nasty of u to say may God be with u both it don’t matter how many Kids he have u wrong for disrespecting them

  • Vance

    A good move by Oxygen.
    We don’t need some real time soap opera concerning a clan of inbreds.
    Get a condom buddy and a life.

    Don’t breed them because you don’t need them and cannot feed them.
    Go work for a living. More work and less screwing.

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