It was immediately clear the police had fucked up royally but holy shit what a worthless bunch of highly armed cowards.

Even if an investigation finds the cops did nothing, it won’t matter. Words no longer have meaning. Truth no longer has meaning. People are going to believe what they want to believe regardless of facts that prove them wrong.

The way they say he was “contained” is so bizarre.  He was contained....in a roomful of children he was killing.

they should have banned his family because (1) the two kids seem like they’d show up just to start shit, and (2) Jada definitely played a part in that assault and she should also be held accountable to some degree. But a 10 year ban from a dopey awards show for committing a felony that the whole fucking world saw…

I hope the broadcast continues, but that they stop trying to make it “for everyone.” IMO, it should lean in to movies, and appeal to people who really like filmmaking and everything that goes into that (writing, makeup, wardrobe, production design, score, etc.).

Lot of “whataboutism” going on in this article that in no way actually addressed the assault Smith committed on live television and the response by the organization hosting the show, about which this article is ostensibly titled.

“Then there are the ethics and morals of using a $6 million dollar home for “housing and studio space” for the Black Joy Creators Fellowship, which are shaky at best. The NYMag report points out that the fellowship was touted as a a place of providing “recording resources and dedicated space for Black creatives to…

I’ll admit it: I want to believe in the Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson love saga. Sure, we’ve been cynical about the realness of their love because Hollywood is a big fat lie and all the world’s a stage. But perhaps there’s something... a morsel of real, earnest love here. And if there’s not, well, these two are…

But can she get up from her ass and work?

Will Smith saying “I think I deserve more time than everyone else” definitely does perfectly embody both these kinds of awards shows, and him personally.

Used to be. Like a decade ago. Much less so nowadays.

And how is “Y” short for ANY of that? Not a single Y to be found in any of those awful names. Is it because of the irony of their son (XY chromosomes) being nicknamed X and their daughter (XX chromosomes) being nicknamed Y?

Tom Cruise’s marriages were more authentic than this ‘relationship’.

Grimes likes to have fun with the press—recall that trolling show of reading The Communist Manifesto for the paps—so it seems likely that she knows exactly what she’s doing with this whole secret baby/new girlfriend twofer.

Well said. Jay Z treats his daughter as a promotional tool. For contrast, see Trent Reznor. He’s got like like 4 kids, but you’d have to try really fucking hard to find any pictures of them online.

If she doesn’t want to be scrutinized perhaps her parents shouldn’t force her into the media spotlight for cheap publicity to further their own careers and build her ‘brand’?

THIS.
(Or as if those crap wages are all that they, or their job is worth in this economy. Because sooooo many of those jobs become pretty da*n essential the second they are not being done. See: 2020...)

This is amazing to me because I didn’t know Grimes did anything in secret. I thought everything she did was publicity.

I’m so fucking sick of people saying no one wants to work. People want to work, they just don’t want to work for crap wages and to be treated like they are as dispensible as the dirt on the bottom of Kim’s Louboutin.  

These people are so detached from the average existence, their entire frame of reference is skewed and they don’t even realize it.