They going for Rick Ross Money Protest at Reebok Headquarters

[George's Dilemma]

Here we go with the white priviledge bullshyt again..........

Like I've said numerous times on here Eminem annoys me nowadays before I get called a Stan........but for anyone to even imply Eminem had it easy and did not have this much criticism is a joke....and can't be taken seriously..















I hope your not one of those folks who think the only criticism was homophobic lines........day after day he was getting criticism for years.......had random WHITE WOMEN in the government like first lady Liz Cheney always bringing up his name for his "disgusting" lines about raping his own mother, other woman, and being too violent.

Over 90% of those people who always protested him were white.....

People don't remember............

Not gonna imply you're a stan, and even if you were that doesn't take away the validity of your argument breh even if I don't agree with it entirely. There's some differences between both cases. For one, Liz Cheney and dikk Cheney weren't exactly Mr.&Mrs.Popular in this country. I don't think either has ever had a positive approval rating in the country, much less the world. That said, Em had a cushion to fall back upon when it came to recieving any criticism from the likes of the Cheneys. Also, his popularity amongst whites was so ridiculously high that it mitigated any criticism he might have recieved from groups similar to those getting at Ross right now.

That was then, this is now. You're talking about a fat greasy niqqa that is marginally popular at best within HipHop right now. This dude has none of the benefits that Em had back then to fall upon when he rhymed flagrantly and offended certain segments of the population. This feminist group knows that, and this group is looking for a meal ticket to make themselves relevant politically. Basically a bunch of lionesses caught a baby elephant without the protection of the herd and they're looking to feast.

The worst part about all of this to me is, this is some random track on some random mixtape that most people that even listen to Hiphop have never heard. It really should be a non-factor, but again because of the Steubenville fiasco, and a lightweight special interests group looking to catapult themselves into the bigtime, it's now part of our discussion. At the end of the day it really is some phony moral outrage considering the larger context of entertainment that those same silly white women probably enjoy. Personally I think they all need to pop a molly with a cyanide capsule and their martini of choice.

 

[SunZoo]

Shut THE fukk up.

You're an Eminem fan. Where was this outrage when he has said things 100 times worse then this

the outrage from who? from me? or in general, if you're talking about in general, eminem caught plenty of flack from feminists.

if you're talking about me, was my post that you quoted an outrage? no, i simply said that you can't really spin the idea that what ross was talking about wasn't rape, you put something in a chick drink to impair her judgement so you can take her home and fukk...you're a rapist.

agree or disagree?

You killing me supporting this selective outrage. Rick Ross rapping about rape is not any worse then him rapping about slanging dope of murdering every nikka in a city

i'm not supporting "selective outrage" at all, i'm simply saying that in a time where there was just a HUGE controversy surrounding a group of young men on trial for rape, the "outrage" doesn't seem as selective.

it ain't like this was some needle in the haystack, the last big headline i can remember was date-rape related, nobody on CNN was combing the internet looking for rick ross songs/lyrics...it was big enough of a deal to the people who actually listened to the shyt to be getting discussed, eventually other people picked up on it from outside of the culture because the issue does not fit in that box.

Gotta call bullshyt...it's only more of a big deal because of selective faux moral outrage...people pick and choose when to get all sanctimonious over random sh!t...and this sounds like you trying to reason the absurdity of feeling any type of a way about this at all after decades of listening to, and even championing far worse instances of rape, etc.... @ this some contrived psychoanalysis of intent being the dividing line between acceptable and non-acceptable references to rape

You have people coming at kweli for "defending" ross when i'm essentially agreeing with him, Ross didn't get on the track with the intent to flesh out a rape fantasy, he wasn't trying to be shocking or sinister, so it's no need to exclude him from hip hop or pretend he's at the root cause of rape culture.

But i do think the fact that he seemed oblivious to how that sounded is important to examine, especially when within a week or two of this whole mess we have a group of young men getting convicted for not being able able to tell at which point a rape becomes a rape.

you couple that along with the fact that the internet/social media will get shyt viral quicker than ever is why it's a big deal.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Anyone think Reebock will drop him? I kind of doubt Ross is a big enough brand anymore to justify keeping him, they could just move to another rapper. Who knows.

 

[CashmereThoughts]

That matters?

You should already know the game by now.

Plus, Ross isn't making it EASY on himself either. Its not like they don't have a point.

They have the same point tipper gore and Delores Tucker had. "We're offended buy what you say so we want to stop your money" didn't really work back in the 90s but well see how it plays out nowadays

 

[DaPresident]

Sorry.


I just don't get ALL this attention for some "entertainer" Who cares what he says? So they pick and choose what to protest? So they just skip over the lyrics talkin about 100 rounds in the AR? Bricks all in his blood? Him SAYING he gets people killed (in the same song?)

But Rape. Oh RAPE.

Can't say that, that's crossing the line. People just NEED stuff to fight for, complain about

My thing is, just turn it off. You can turn it off when people getting their bodies riddled with bullets, in some movies they punch and hit women and kill kids (some violent movies) but Rape? Oh word, we have to pass petitions around.

I'm not trying to be insensitive, but goodness, nobody is FORCING you to listen. So you want to stop this man from ever making money again cuz of something he said. Yet Hollywood directors are able to put damn near ANYTHING in movies? Yeah, ok

miss me with that

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

They have the same point tipper gore and Delores Tucker had. "We're offended buy what you say so we want to stop your money" didn't really work back in the 90s but well see how it plays out nowadays

Well Ross has a right to say what he wants and they have a right to protest it.

Making it illegal to say those things however is another thing.

 

[George's Dilemma]

Anyone think Reebock will drop him? I kind of doubt Ross is a big enough brand anymore to justify keeping him, they could just move to another rapper. Who knows.

I was wondering the same. On one hand I don't think so because the demographic that Reebok is shooting for with a Ross campaign doesn't really care what SensitiveHipsterWhiteWomenInc. thinks about Ross' lyrics. On the other hand though, situations like this could snowball. The Steubenville situation was simply a local issue that was almost forgotten until groups like Anonymous and others got involved. Reebok could just be waiting to see if this protest and signature is the peak of the controversy or something that's here to stay until they remove the individual at the center of it. Failure to do so could harm their entire brand. I don't Reebok is as good as Nike either when it comes to turning a foul situation into profit.

 

[hex]

Sorry.
I just don't get ALL this attention for some "entertainer" Who cares what he says? So they pick and choose what to protest? So they just skip over the lyrics talkin about 100 rounds in the AR? Bricks all in his blood? Him SAYING he gets people killed (in the same song?)

But Rape. Oh RAPE.

Can't say that, that's crossing the line. People just NEED stuff to fight for, complain about

My thing is, just turn it off. You can turn it off when people getting their bodies riddled with bullets, in some movies they punch and hit women and kill kids (some violent movies) but Rape? Oh word, we have to pass petitions around.

I'm not trying to be insensitive, but goodness, nobody is FORCING you to listen. So you want to stop this man from ever making money again cuz of something he said. Yet Hollywood directors are able to put damn near ANYTHING in movies? Yeah, ok

miss me with that

Horrible logic. "Why are these people upset over rape, but not Ross talking about getting into shoot outs with the Coast Guard while transporting 100 bricks off the coast of Panama"....well, because nobody takes that shyt seriously.

And at the movie argument. Movies get banned, petitioned, or cut all the time. For violence, sex, rape, whatever. If you're asking "why?", well, because people can. If you have the freedom to create something other people have the freedom to protest against it. It is what it is.

Fred.

 

[drugxglory]

They was waiting on a rapper to say some shyt like that.

 

[Richard Wright]

Why is everyone such a p*ssy these days. You fukk with a nikka like ross u might end up with molly in your water. Its life

 

[Jack Don the G]

Sorry.


I just don't get ALL this attention for some "entertainer" Who cares what he says? So they pick and choose what to protest? So they just skip over the lyrics talkin about 100 rounds in the AR? Bricks all in his blood? Him SAYING he gets people killed (in the same song?)

But Rape. Oh RAPE.

Can't say that, that's crossing the line. People just NEED stuff to fight for, complain about

My thing is, just turn it off. You can turn it off when people getting their bodies riddled with bullets, in some movies they punch and hit women and kill kids (some violent movies) but Rape? Oh word, we have to pass petitions around.

I'm not trying to be insensitive, but goodness, nobody is FORCING you to listen. So you want to stop this man from ever making money again cuz of something he said. Yet Hollywood directors are able to put damn near ANYTHING in movies? Yeah, ok

miss me with that

Yeah this is just why we need people protesting and bring awareness about the rape culture.

Im not saying rape is worse then killing but every one knows killing is wrong, but to day to many people are being to soft about the idea about rape.

Like the rape vans in India, its not people going around killing random people its people going around raping them.

Its the idea that if a women dress a certain way or if she is drunk or under the influence of drugs its okey to have sex with them even tho they say no.

The faces of rape. - Imgur

 

[DaPresident]

Horrible logic. "Why are these people upset over rape, but not Ross talking about getting into shoot outs with the Coast Guard while transporting 100 bricks off the coast of Panama"....well, because nobody takes that shyt seriously.

And at the movie argument. Movies get banned, petitioned, or cut all the time. For violence, sex, rape, whatever. If you're asking "why?", well, because people can. If you have the freedom to create something other people have the freedom to protest against it. It is what it is.

Fred.

I feels ya cuz...

So to the bolded...nobody took that other stuff seriously, but the rape line SUPPOSED to be taken seriously...

For real dog, when i first heard it, I didn't say "oh snap, he probably do that" but I did say "damn, that nikka wrong for that one..." or "nikkas say ANYTHING these days"

none of what I said was supposed to be taken as if I don't care about rape victims, which I do had a close personal friend of mines raped on her prom night, but I honestly didn't take Ross' line serious...

I mean no more serious then when I hear him rap about Noriega owing him 100 favors...all I'm saying and was saying from jump is out of all the :ducktales: lines he and most other rappers rap, why are they singling out THIS one?


So anytime rappers or entertainers say anything about rape there's gonna be a protest? Forget them telling and sometimes ENCOURAGING our kids to Sling drugs, acquire wealth and dog females, or shoot up people we will ONLY protest the rape parts?...That's all I'm saying...don't be selective get em to change their WHOLE message or take EVERYTHING they say as entertainment

 

[Mike Otherz]

i actually support these feminists. they look more rational. if i were reebok i would definitely drop him. should be zero tolerance on this matter.

 

[No Homo]

This shyt is funny to me because its happening to Ross

 

[ROFL_GUY]

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