This whole Kanye getting cancelled saga proves Matt504's point.

[Originalman]

Liking him and putting money in his pockets aren't mutually exclusive. Hell I liked Kanye. Therefore I put money in his pockets. I blew out a set of speakers on late registration twice. Bought college dropout, late registration, and graduation twice on CD because they got stolen from me. Bought 808s and my beautiful dark twisted fantasy. My car got stolen and I said fukk cd's. I had a good music t (dont know where it's at) shirt and still have 2 crooks n castles x good music t-shirts. Right around the time Kanye started fukking with Amber rose I stopped 'liking' him. But with an album or 2 I was still lining the nikkas pockets. Now I don't fukk with him as a person, I.e I don't like him and I will still rip all joints from 3rd party sites to ensure he don't get my money.

Yeah, black people buy his shoes and clothes and albums, but we aren't and weren't the ones keeping him afloat. White people go to the show's and tours and buy everything. I know white people with the stem player. They got money to not give a fukk.

Black people are smart. We might fukk with the beats and the raps but still have enough sense to say fukk him as a person.

Breh folks are dumb on social media. Anyone with a tenth of intelligence knows for Kanye to be this big, popular and rich he has to cross over to where most his fans are nonwhite.

Any time an artist gets this big globally most there fans ain't black Americans its like common sense. So I don't know why fools on here keep talking about Black American Fans. shyt I have worked all around the world and mothafukkas was playing Kanye music all over the globe. I was in clubs in China, Mexico, India and Europe. I was places where there were no black people and mothafukkas was singing and dancing to Kanye songs.

Its like these weirdo mothafukkas don't understand music is a global market and Kanye is a global artist. shyt like not knowing that most Beyonce fans ain't black americans.

Any time an artist gets this big globally most there fans ain't black Americans its like common sense. So I don't know why fools on here keep talking about Black American Fans. shyt I have worked all around the world and mothafukkas was playing Kanye music all over the globe. I was in clubs in China, Mexico, India and Europe. I was places where there were no black people and mothafukkas was singing and dancing to Kanye songs.

Its like these weirdo mothafukkas don't understand music is a global market and Kanye is a global artist. shyt like not knowing that most Beyonce fans ain't black americans.

 

[Originalman]

They constantly want to fight the symptoms not the cause of the problem. They have all the smoke for rappers but none for the white power structure, in fact a lot of the same ones raging at rappers and thugs can barley hide their sad true desires to be apart of that structure. These are the cats that would change their skin to white in a heartbeat if the technology exisTed.

But this always comes up whenever a black artist does wrong. Jokers talk about the artist but ignore that the label, media and and corporations provides the vehicle for the artists. I mean to the company the artists is a disposable asset that can be thrown in the trash and replaced. So you only make their job easier when the company is left off the hook so they can trash the artists and create another one.

If you gonna hold the artists accountable one would assume that you would hold the company accountable that the artists does business with correct?

But we all know that answer and it is that most these folks on social media all talk.

 

[Originalman]

You cant even critic the apartheid state of israel and their vile treatment of palestinian and disregard for human rights without being called an anti semite, anyone that does not two the line or bow down will be made a scape goat and a whipping boy. Thats the real warning from all of this.

Most folks don't realize how this is actually woven into their everyday life. If they don't maybe they need to look at the fine print on the contract they signed or accepted at their job. And who they don't allow you to boycott which can lead to your termination.

Or hell you can just look at who your tax dollars go to to train your local police force. They can think of that next time excessive force is used or a choke hold is used on an unarmed black civilian.

Or how about certain organizations who fund non progressive candidates to defeat progressive candidates in order to ensure that they don't push equal rights which could eventually lead to calling out how palestinians are treated.

I will give them a hint.

 

[Voice of Reason]

Folks seem not forget that we had a rich musical history before rap music came along.

 

[Frangala]

It never fails to amaze me seeing how ardently some of us will defend the worst depictions of "Black culture" and society as the norm

The overwhelming majority of whites in America are a bunch of backwoods, half-wit, meth-smoking, opioid-addicted trailer trash.

Yet, you will NEVER see Cletus, Bam-Bam, and Sally-Jo propped up in white society, let alone being held up in high regard as "real crackers" (to parallel the concept of "real nikkas").

This is because the movers and shakers in white society have actively shunned those people, going so far as to deem them "white trash" since the early 1900s.

The only time the broader white community gives them any acknowledgement is during election season when they need a republican in office.

This is so puzzling it deserves a case study.

 

[kevm3]

You cant even critic the apartheid state of israel and their vile treatment of palestinian and disregard for human rights without being called an anti semite, anyone that does not two the line or bow down will be made a scape goat and a whipping boy. Thats the real warning from all of this.

And that's the ultimate play here. Kanye is just a pawn that is being used to completely squelch any dissension towards the policies and actions of those who are in power.

People hate Kanye because of his past idiotic statements like Slavery was a choice, so he's the perfect pawn to use to showcase what happens if you have any disagreements and actually have the masses come into agreement with such actions. Instead of 'the government' exercising dictatorial powers, that same power simply moved to corporations and the private sector. If one owns all the platforms of communication and the majority of the economic institutions, you can simply punish people through the private sector and escape the provisions that limited 'government overreach'..

 

[kevm3]

Another angle on this is Paypal allegedly reinstituting the $2,500 fine for 'misinformation'. Whether that's true or not, the fact they tried to implement the clause in the first place is troubling and showcases what is going on.. Utilization of corporate power as an enforcement body to circumvent the limits of power imposed on the government. People cheering on the dismantling of Ye showcases how eagerly folks will be led into this future. Won't be long before you can be tossed in prisons owned by corporations.. oh wait the prison system is already privatized... or private, corporate owned mercenaries can be used to execute people for 'spreading misinformation' and engaging in 'thought crime'.