Oh boy. On the surface, it looks like a respectable enough series of tweets where a young artist is standing up for herself. But in the larger context of her racist remarks, she's just an asshole with a platform. Being ignorant would have been a bit understandable. Implying she's aware of history, privilege, etc. and…

Like why are we even talking about hip-hop, she does pop-rap?

"Slow news week."

It's not always easy to discern real narcissism from the battle-hardened attitude hip hop requires, but I think you're 100% on the mark here. She doesn't give a fuck to an extent that's really beyond all reason.

its the most magical time of year and be it a slow news week...

like what if she was actually thoughtful tho

uhhh, kimonos are awesome and kinja is, as always, probably the first circle of hell, but really? This is the article you're leaving this totally inane and frivolous comment on?

Check the Rhime is my aspirational hip hop karaoke jam.

Side eye. I give it to you.

Well, it's like she says in her song "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got until it gets old and cranky".

There was plenty of bubblegum pop in the 1960s, and there's plenty of music beyond what's played on the radio now.

I'm also from a Caribbean island (Jamaica) and I hate this concept too. I thought it was a lot less widespread but apparently most people believe that if you live in the Caribbean you either live in a gully or are constantly beach bound. It's vexing.

How about "I'm all for enjoying what you've earned, but beyond a certain point displays of conspicuous consumption are just garish reminders of the way the rollback of progressive taxation leads to an ever greater concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, who then use their vast economic resources to tilt the…

Here.

Normalizing relations and having an extradition treaty are two different things. We have normal relations with other countries that we don't have extradition treaties with so this is not an automatic thing.

I've also noticed an uptick in the number of articles written specifically by/about WoC, which I hope is the beginning of a change of pace around here.

It's my understanding that they would have loved to have her speak to the students but that she could not bring cameras to film for an upcoming reality show/docu-series/whatever people are calling those shows these days that she was filming to help launch her album. The film crew was not allowed given the headache it…

espoused one of the most important of feminist tenets: self-esteem, the permission to feel good

"2014's anthem was Minaj's "Flawless" remix which, even not considering the epoch-defining Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie sample, espoused one of the most important of feminist tenets, the one that overrides everything else on The Pinkprint: self-esteem, the permission to feel good."

Unless - according to the song - you're a…

The singles have kind of sucked though, right?