Kanye West at the Grammy's
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ABSOLUTELY |
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I think Beck deserved to win. I love his album and find it haunting, beautiful, and relaxing all at once. Beyonce is not an artist, she is a performer. And imo, her music and dance is horrid.
Btw, I thought Morning Phase was supposed to be a companion to his last album, not to something coming out next year. |
Anonymous
Well, now wait a minute. Some people use "thug" to mean "black person I'm afraid of." OK, that's kinda racist. Richard Sherman is not a thug. Kanye is not a thug. Suge Knight? Thug. Tupac? He coined the term in this context. Had it tattooed on his abs, FFS. Was it just a persona? I don't think so. He was a conspirator to murder. No stranger to gunplay in the streets (note how he died). People who think, and live, and in fact scream proudly, that violence is a means to an end? Not racist to call them thugs. Sorry. |
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Yes, but folks are calling Kanye (and other rappers, including 50 Cent) thugs. I find that distasteful. Just cop to it. It's an anonymous board, FFS. |
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Well, distasteful and breathtaking racism are different things.
Kanye is not a thug. .50 has certainly presented a thug persona, and says he had that past. Is he a thug anymore? Maybe not, but I'm not going to call racism on someone who is swayed by the persona that he held out to the world. Dre? Judgment call. I wouldn't have called him a thug. But beating up women, and defending it, doesn't put him on the wholesome side of the world. And "Bitches Ain't Shit" doesn't really give him the benefit of the doubt. |
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| Disgusting person |
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| There are 7 billion people on this planet for crying out loud. It's absolutely ridiculous to expect all of them to come to a consensus on anything - not about religion not about science not about child-rearing not about food and certainly not about who is/isn't a "thug". Arguing incessantly about who is/isn't a thug is pointless, senseless, and plain old stupid. Leave people to their opinions and live your life - the universe won't collapse nor will the sun go supernova if you can't convince a poster on DCUM to agree with your assessment of Kanye...geezus. |
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It's not about who is and isn't a thug. It's about crying "breathtaking racism" when you don't agree with someone. Some things are racist. Some aren't. Give it a rest. |
Anonymous
Yes give it a rest. Save for burning a cross on someone's lawn or spray-painting a swastika on someone's house there are very few blatant and obvious behaviors that constitute racism. Most behaviors, including some rapper running off at the mouth about who should/shouldn't have won a friggin Grammy, is debatable and truth be told - it's irrelevant. Who gives a shit?!!! Give it a rest +1. |
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He is a racist. And he is another glaring example of America's double standard when it comes to black racists:
-Kanye, Al Sharpton, and many others get away with repeated racist statements. But white people (like owners of sports teams or celebrity chefs) who make even a single offensive remark are savagely attacked on every level - even if they apologize. |
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| I dont even know who Beck is but damn he won. Dont shade his moment. Just because I'm not a fan of his it doesnt make his win any less valid. Beyonce's silence on this issue makes me like her less and less. |
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| Beyoncé is like one of the boy bands..over produced pop music. |
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Beyoncé and Jay-Z thought it was HYSTERICAL that Kanye went up on stage. Their reaction to it is all over the internet and I agree with PP that her silence on all of this is really speaking volumes.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z are total POS narcissists just like Kanye. |