There’s plenty of people who’ve been “doing this” for quite a while who are absolutely terrible people so I always find it interesting when they use that as a defense.

Yep, all of the Chi knows about that habit. I remember someone actually wrote an article some years ago about R Kelly approaching her at it when she was younger.

He also lost the publishing rights - they basically took advantage of his illiteracy - to his songs some years ago; he confirmed this happened in that long-ass diatribe he released I think last year.

“But I was embarrassed by them - yes! - not just for their inappropriateness but also because I’d convinced our manager to allow us to attend during work hours and witnessed this too.”

I’d love to see which of the politicians supporting it in their policy proposals also supported HR 40. 

Totally used to being called a “racist” for pointing out racist behavior and mentalities. It never ceases to amaze me how much these people essentially associate their identities with the very myths this country was founded upon.

Unrelated note: someone said Spike Lee dressed like the “bizarro version of M. Bison” and…

There are plenty of community mores that vary by the respective groups that establish them. Also, Obama is literally not a part of the communities he often critiques. He’s a wealthy corporatist who’s spent an inordinate amount of time trying to arbitrate the appropriate standards by which lower-income Black folks…

R Kelly actually doesn’t get royalties for many of the songs he wrote because execs exploited his illiteracy and he signed off publishing rights to them.

Ayibobo! 

That’s wassup! Got close friends from NOLA.

It’s also okay to recognize that twerking as well as other elements of self-expression are part of an actual culture and not merely something always done for attention or #FFFFFF validation. He literally also claimed dudes wearing expensive chains were somehow insecure in themselves financially. The latter is peak…

Oh sure, I’m going to rely on the same rasclots who framed my close friends for crimes they didn’t commit, tried to arrest me as a so-called “armed robbery suspect” back when I went to my alma mater because dreadlocks and refused to remove their hand from their weapon while harassing me like they were Quickdraw McGraw…

I love that it was a full suit with a ballroom gown. Gives it a really androgynous feel. But yeah, this is totally some bull because you could probably see Prince wear the exact same thing and these fools would be going wild over it and talmbout how innovative he is. 

I don’t think I’ve laughed that hard in a hot min.

It’s one thing to criticize the objectification of Black women as well as unrealistic standards of masculinity in mainstream pop culture and another to blatantly ignore the roots of the dance in the Bounce scene in the very Queen of Twerking herself, Cheeky Blakk. Not to mention neither of these problems could exist…

THANK YOU! I definitely will check this out.

He clearly wasn’t taking over for the 99 and 2000.

I think I’m going to miss that dude. Had some of the best quips evar.

Yeah. I forget what talk show he was on when he was complaining about China some years back and then the host pointed out that one of the ties or something being worn was actually made at one of his shops.

This is also ironically despite him actually having businesses in China that make his products.