THE KANYE MAGA CONTROVERSY CONTINUES.
NO
CHANCE THE RAPPER IS ACTUALLY APOLOGIZING FOR DEFENDING THE
RAPPER AFTER TRUMP THANKED CHANCE.
BASICALLY IF YOU DO NOT
REMEMBER, KANYE TWEETED HIS SUPPORT FOR DONALD TRUMP.
HE
TWEETED OUT A MAGA HAT THAT WAS SIGNED AND HE SAID THAT THEY
BOTH HAVE DRAGON ENERGY.
AND HATED ON OBAMA.
NOW CHANCE THE RAPPER TWEETED OUT:
MY BIGGEST ISSUE WITH TRUMP BESIDES THE BIGOTRY IN THE BS
THAT HE SPEWS IS THAT HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT PROPER NOUNS ARE.
DECADES DOES NOT NEED TO BE CAPITALIZED.
CONTINUING.
HE LITERALLY JUST NAMED ALL OF THE BLACK PEOPLE HE
KNOWS.
THESE ARE THE THREE BLACK PEOPLE I THINK LIKE ME SO
THIS IS MY BLACK FRIEND THAT I CAN NOW ASSOCIATE MYSELF WITH SO
THAT WHEN YOU CALL ME A RACIST, I CAN BRING UP THEIR NAMES.
THAT IS WHAT HE IS DOING IN THIS TWEET.
SOMEONE DID ACTUALLY PICK UP THE PHONE AND TALK TO KANYE
ABOUT IT, AND THAT PERSON IS JOHN LEGEND.
HE TEXTED KANYE AFTER
THE TWEET DEBACLE AND HE SAYS:
HE POSTED THIS TO TWITTER AND JOHN LEGEND RESPONDED SAYING:
IT IS THE BEST RESPONSE EVER.
CHANCE ALSO TALKED ABOUT THE
FACT THAT HE WOULD NOT SUPPORT A LOT OF TRUMPS POLICIES, ONE OF
THE THINGS HE WAS SAYING BECAUSE IVANKA TRUMP, DONALD TRUMP
JUNIOR ALSO APPRECIATED WHAT THEY RECEIVED AS SUPPORT
AND DONALD TRUMP JUNIOR THANKED CHANCE AND WROTE THIS TWEET:
THAT IS NOT STEREOTYPICAL RACIST AT ALL.
HE WAS TRYING TO SAY COJONES, WHICH IS SEXIST IN ITSELF,
I AM SORRY, I DO NOT KNOW TRUMP'S SPEECH.
IT WAS SEXIST AND RACIST AT THE SAME TIME, ALL IN
140 CHARACTERS.
IT WAS SADLY IMPRESSIVE.
WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS CONTROVERSY?
I GET SO ANGRY.
FIRST OF ALL, PEOPLE OF COLOR THAT WERE
TWEETING KANYE AND SAYING FINALLY, BLACK PEOPLE WAKING UP,
YOU KNOW, IT IS SO FUNNY TO ME, SEE RACIST WHITE PEOPLE LOVE
A GOOD SELLOUT AND THEY ENJOY TO HEAR SOMEBODY SUPPORT THEIR
AGENDA THAT STATES THAT PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE LESS THAN, LAZY,
THEY DO NOT WANT TO WORK, THEY DO NOT WANT TO PULL THEMSELVES
UP BY THE BOOTSTRAPS.
IT IS SO EASY TO TELL SOMEBODY TO DO THAT
WHEN YOU ARE WEARING STEEL BOOTS WITH IRON STRAPS AND YOU ARE
TELLING SOMEONE WITH NO SHOES ON THE PULL THEMSELVES UP SO IT
THIS IS ME OFF.
I WONDER WHAT DO THESE WHITE PEOPLE WHO LOVE
KANYE NOW SAID ABOUT KANYE WHEN HE DID HIS TAYLOR SWIFT THING?
I GUARANTEE IF YOU GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE TWEETS --
LOOK AT WHEN HE TALKED ABOUT BUSH.
EXACTLY.
WHEN HE SAID, NOW THE MEME IS REVERSED.
NOW
KANYE DOESN'T LIKE BLACK PEOPLE BUT MY GREATER POINT IS, THAT IS
WHY I HATE CELEBRITY CULTURE.
WHAT WE CARE ABOUT WHAT KANYE WEST THINKS SO MUCH?
HE IS SO DISCONNECTED, HE IS TWEETING ABOUT HOW MUCH HE LOVES
HIS TESLA AND SAYING, DO I LOOK LIKE I AM IN THE SUNKEN PLACE
WHILE THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO DO NOT HAVE FOOD FOR
THEIR CHILDREN OR HEALTHCARE.
YOU THINK THAT KANYE WEST CAN RELATE TO WHAT YOU ARE
GOING THROUGH, HE HAS ANY CONCEPT OF WHAT IT IS TO BE IN
THE
STRUGGLE RIGHT NOW?
AND THAT IS WHAT BOTHERS ME THE MOST.
KANYE WEST IS NOT MY
LEADER.
PEOPLE OF COLOR HAVE TO STOP ASSUMING LEADERSHIP BECAUSE
THEY HAVE FAME AND WE HAVE TO REBUKE IT WHEN THEY DO THAT.
JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE OF COLOR IS FAMOUS AND MAKES A STATEMENT
ABOUT POLITICS DOES NOT MAKE THEM A REFLECTION OF ALL PEOPLE
OF COLOR.
THIS ONE RIGHT HERE HAS A PHD.
WHY IS KANYE WEST SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF HER?
IT IS A GOOD POINT.
I'VE NEVER HAD KANYE WEST SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF ME.
I
WILL SAY THAT I AGREE WITH YOUR POINT AROUND THE CULT AROUND
CELEBRITY, THE CULTURE THAT WE HAVE AROUND IT AND ACTUALLY,
JOHN LEGEND HAD SOME POINTS
ABOUT THAT, WHAT'S MY PART, ASKING THE QUESTION WHY CAN'T
WE SEPARATE THE ARTIST FROM THE WAY THAT WE UPHOLD THEM.
WHY DO WE EXPECT THE ARTIST TO HAVE THIS GENIUS MESSAGE
COMPONENT?
THAT IS ACTUALLY A LOT TO EXPECT THE ARTIST TO SPEAK BEYOND
THE ART THEY HAVE EXPRESSED AND HAVE A POLITICAL FRAMEWORK.
WE WENT WHOLE BUNCH OF AN ENGAGEMENT.
I THINK WHAT IS WORTH
NOTING THOUGH IS THAT JOHN LEGEND DID AFFIRM THAT FOR
KANYE.
HE SAID YOU ARE THE GREATEST ARTIST OF OUR
GENERATION AND AGAIN, I THINK THIS IS WHAT KANYE HAS BEEN
GETTING SO HE IS BUYING INTO THE HEIGHT AND ALSO BUYING INTO THE
HYPE OF THE FACT THAT HE IS ALLEGEDLY THE PERSON WHO IS
FILTER LIST, THE FREETHINKER.
HE IS THE ONE IN 2005 THAT
CALLED OUT GEORGE W. BUSH ON THE TELETHON, SAID GEORGE BUSH
DOESN'T LIKE BLACK PEOPLE BUT WHAT I THINK HE ACTUALLY IS IS
CONSISTENTLY PROVOCATIVE.
I DON'T THINK THAT HE IS
CONSISTENT BEING A TRUE TELLER OR A GENIUS OR A FREETHINKER.
I
THINK HE CONSTANTLY WANTS TO BE PROVOCATIVE TO GET A RESPONSE
FROM FOLKS AND THAT IS A VERY CLEAR WAY FOR HIM TO MAINTAIN
HIS RELEVANCY IN THE PRESS.
MARRYING ONE OF THE CARDASSIANS
IS A CLEAR PATHWAY TO THAT AND WHY HE SEES ANY SORT OF
CONNECTION THROUGH THE DRAGON ENERGY OF TRUMP IS BECAUSE THEY
BOTH ARE THAT.
THERE'LL SHOW MEN, SHOW BOATERS AND WHAT THEY
ARE REALLY PEDDLING IS THEIR PERSONA AND THEY ARE PEDDLING
NOTHING ELSE AND EVERYTHING BEYOND THAT IS QUITE EMPTY.
I'M
SORRY I WENT ON THIS KANYE RANT BUT I TO FEEL REALLY WARMISH
WHEN WE UPHOLD ARTISTS AND CELEBRITIES TO THIS PEDESTAL
WHERE THEY HAVE TO BE IMMACULATE BECAUSE FIRST OF ALL, I DO NOT
GET MY POLITICS FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE PRODUCED SINGLES ARE ART.
I AND FOR MYSELF AND EDUCATE MYSELF ABOUT WHAT AN ISSUE IS,
WHAT THE POLICY IS ABOUT.
EVERY THE POLICIES AND I THINK THAT
HAS BEEN THE PROBLEM OF WHY WE ARE DEMOCRACY IS AT A POINT
WHERE WE ARE IN JEOPARDY BECAUSE WHEN WE DON'T INFORM OURSELVES
HER SELF EDUCATE WE RELY ON OTHERS AND ESPECIALLY ART
SESSION WITH LIBERTY CULTURE, WE RELY ON THEM TO DO THE WORK AND
I WANT TO ADD, I SAID THIS BEFORE, I DO KNOW WANT TO BASH
ON KANYE BECAUSE I ACTUALLY FELT BAD FOR HIM.
KNOW THERE WAS
THIS HUGE TAILSPIN AFTER HIS MOTHER PASSED AWAY FROM A RELIEF
FLUKE PLASTIC SURGERY ACCIDENTS IN I BELIEVE 2007 AND THERE WAS
JUST THIS DESCENDING TO THE SUNKEN PLACE AND SO YEAH, MORE
COMMENTS ON CHANCE AS WELL BECAUSE I THINK HE DID NOT KNOW
WHAT HE WAS GETTING INTO AND I DO AGREE THAT ALL BLACK FOLKS
DON'T HAVE TO BE DEMOCRATS BUT THE PUT IN THE CONTEXT OF TRYING
TO DEFEND KANYE IN TRUMP IS NOT THE BEST.
I THINK YOU MAKE A REALLY GOOD POINT.
I THINK IT MAKES
SENSE THAT HE WOULD ALIGN HIMSELF TO BE PROVOCATIVE.
THEY'RE BOTH MEGALOMANIACS AND THAT IS WHY HE SEES THE DRAGON
ENERGY PROBABLY IN TRUMP AS WELL.
I DO THINK THOUGH THAT I
AGREE WITH YOU TO SOME EXTENT.
A AGREE WITH BOTH OF YOU TO SOME
EXTENT THAT WE DO HAVE A WEIRD SICK CULTURE THAT REALLY
IDOLIZES, WE LITERALLY CALL THEM IDOLS, THESE CELEBRITIES AND WE
TAKE WHAT THEY SAY AS A TENANT TO LIVE OUR LIVES.
WHAT THEY
EAT, HOW THEY WORK OUT, HOW THEY VOTE HOW THEY DO EVERYTHING.
WHAT THEY WEAR, DOWN TO WHAT KIND OF SEX THEY HAVE, WHATEVER
IT IS.
WE PAY ATTENTION SO CLOSELY AND WANT TO EMULATE SO
MUCH OF AND I DO THINK THERE'S SOMETHING VERY PERVERSE ABOUT
THAT BUT THE FLIPSIDE OF THAT IS, WE ARE IN THE SOCIETY NOW
AND IF YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH THAT PLATFORM YOU NEED TO
RECOGNIZE THAT AND HAVE ACCOUNTABILITY AND WAY AND
HOW YOU SAY IT.
I WILL ADD TO THEIR CELEBRITIES OUT THERE WHO HAVE
RECOGNIZE THAT AND UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY HAVE A PLATFORM WHERE
THEY CAN AMPLIFY MESSAGES THAT NEED TO BE CHANNELED OUT TO A
BIGGER AUDIENCE AND I WILL SOUND OUT ROSARIO DAWSON AND MATT
MCCOURY WHO POSTED SUCH AN AMAZING MEDIUM ARTICLE ABOUT
STANDING UP AGAINST NYPD ABUSE OF POWER AND LAPD ABUSE OF POWER
AS WELL SO THERE FOLKS THAT ARE DOING THAT BUT THEY ALSO
RECOGNIZE THAT THEY ARE PART OF THE MOVEMENT.
THEY DON'T REPRESENT THE MOVEMENT AND THAT IS WHAT I
REALLY LOVE ABOUT THE KIND OF ACTIVISM WORK THEY DO.
MATT LITERALLY WENT TO NEW YORK AND STOOD IN PROTEST AND
GOT ARRESTED.
ALSO, DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE.
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO
SELL PRODUCTS ICON IT HAS A PROBLEM COMING OUT.
A FEW YEARS
AGO KANYE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE SYSTEMIC RACISM THAT WOULD NOT
ALLOW HIM TO DO WHAT HE WANTED TO DO WITH HIS SHOE COMPANY.
LOOK AT THIS WAY INTERVIEW AND HOW BLACK PEOPLE WILL NEVER, ARE
NOT ALLOWED TO GO TO THESE LIMITS AND NOW IT IS YOU CAN DO
WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO BECAUSE HE GOT THE SHOES.
I THINK A LOT
OF THEM, SHANIA TWAIN WHOSE TOUR WASN'T DOING THAT WELL AND ALL
OF A SUDDEN SAID THAT SHE WOULD'VE VOTED FOR TRUMP.
THEY
ARE LOOKING AT THE ROSANNA FACT THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT
ROSANNE.
ROSANNE IS A PRO-TRUMP SUPPORTER, DID HER TV SHOW 18
MILLION PEOPLE WATCHED.
THEY ARE TRYING TO SELL ALBUMS.
YOU
DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEIR MOTIVATION IS AND WHILE YOU ARE
FALLING FOR IT, THEY ARE LIVING THEIR BEST LIVES.