I can't believe my ears. On NBC's hurricane relief concert, rapper Kanye West goes off on a tirade saying things like "George Bush doesn't care about black people" and "he's giving the army permission to shoot us". Nice. Mike Myers looked at him with despair, as if he couldn't believe what he was hearing on a TV telethon trying to raise money. Unbelievable. Is Kanye looking to incite a race riot in this country? Totally irresponsible.
I believe Kanye's exact words were "George Bush hates black people." It's all just so sad Obviously West himself is full of despair. Anyway, take five minutes away from BS if you haven't already and go donate
With all you could choose from over the past couple days, you have the time and energy to be indignant over this? That's telling.
I think a popular rapper inciting a race riot on a telethon designed to raise funds for people in distress is something to be indignant about. Who knows how many countless people he ticked off that otherwise might've donated, not to mention pouring gas on race relations in this country.
What's really sad is that Kanye is right. Bush doesn't care about Black people. This isn't news to anyone who's been paying attention.
I guess that some people can't handle the truth. After all, this is the same man who allowed his people to deliberatly try and disenfranchise hundred of thousand of blacks in order to make sure he won Florida in 2000. Kanye West is my hero.
Well, I'm not surprised a candy SS rapper from upper middle class America is your hero, but your facts (or lack thereof) on the 2000 election are without merit. But, you appear to be someone influenced by jingo liberalism.
Kanye West...50 Cent...Britney...Coldplay...all are probably normal suburb folks from the Midwest. They were probably approached by some record company exec with armloads of data on what "hipsters" want to listen to. They were given money, a story about their background and how they broke into the music biz and voila they become stars from the streets of Harlem or the club scene of London.
Kanye West's father was a professor and Kanye is college educated himself. He should know better than to talk with his SS, but what does he care as long as he can dupe poor black and white folks into thinking he's from the hood so they'll buy his albums. He's an SS clown.
Kanye West is actually a pretty honest guy. You'll never hear him claim to be thug, hear about him dealing drugs etc. I'm pretty sure you're right he was middle class growing up, but he doesn't pretend to be anything else. And his music has sounded the same since before he was famous.
you could not be more wrong, maybe try to learn the first thing about a topic before you lecture us on it kanye and coldplay do not belong a manufactured pop star list with britney and plug nickel - he does the production and the rapping and the writing, and has also produced instant classics for other artists (example: "you dont know my name" by alicia keys) geez, so so wrong... so so completely and utterly wrong [chandler bing]could you BE more wrong?![/chandler bing]
Have you seen the way Kanye dresses? No one from the hood dresses like Kanye. He's not trying to fool anybody.
So what? He forfeits his blackness and right to speak out, then? Even if he wasn't multi-platinum selling Kanye West, but just some normal black dude, he could have three degrees and a nice job, and still get pulled over by the police on account of nothing, still get looked at askance by well-intentioned, well-meaning people like me, even, because we have a serious race problem in this country that isn't going away.
We have a serious race problem in this country because of ass clowns like him making irresponsible comments...on a CHARITY show.
You never listened then. And George Bush doesn't like Black people. He also doesn't like poor * people. * - people who are not multimillionaires or billionaires.
If we had our priorities - not just race, but social in general - sorted out in the first place, we wouldn't need to aid those folks on the street (and gratify ourselves) with a charity show right now.