When Rick Ross was in the news last week for being near death, I remembered this quote and didn’t feel a thing for him.

“I just, I gotta be honest with you. You know, she looking good. I’m spending so much money on her photo shoots. I gotta fuck a couple times.”

Why the hell would I care that female rappers aren’t getting signed to misogynistic, abusive record labels? Just so they can become even more controlled and exploited? The whole rap industry is a cesspool of abuse, let’s be real. Have you listened to the music from any of these artists, like come on.

Conservative Democrats getting elected in conservative districts where previously there were ultra-conservative (or just radical) Republicans is still a win. Voting with you sometimes is better than voting with you never.

Whoever approved that ad should be placed in an overhead bin.

Holy shit how tone def can you be? That being said, Punch Chris Brown

This easy hot take us embarrassing...do some research. Bluegrass, country, western, and modern folk are all largely based on European folk music traditions. Even the murder ballad largely associated with the blues has it’s roots in a UK folk tradition. Were all these forms of music eventually influenced by African…

No one wants to pay for your shitty instagram level of “art”, because no one cares about it, or else you’d already have been “discovered.”

Black people created every form of American music

That’s not true at all.

*shrug* And I’d say that that the Irish/Scotts/English folks who came across the water brought their music, which changed in topic and style, new vocal styles developed (thus beginning to separate from European folk music prior to adoption of early gospel and black folk music) and as they spread out and encountered…

People just repeat things they read in comments.

Seeing a black woman hate on Bruno Mars while using a Japanese handle that means “I love you” should be a textbook example of the word irony.

I hate that we’re even having this conversation. Miley Cirus and Taylor Swift and Demi Lovato and Katy Perry got away with actual appropriation. Miley might’ve been the worst offender in the history of mankind. She took from the culture, made it look like absolute trash, and then walked away from it when she got…

I had to go look up what pejorative meant.

Beyonce “borrows” choreography. (Some of these allegations are completely redic.)

I think Quincy Jones would strongly disagree with the statement in the video above that Michael Jackson was an original artist. From the Vulture interview:

“When he was finished doing his 20-years-long impression of an R&B singer, he became a “Man of the Woods” and distanced himself from black music like it was Janet Jackson’s left titty.”

This whole “Bruno Mars is an appropriator” thing is a tempest in a teacup IMHO. Does he steal bits & pieces from other people? Sure he does, but then again, who doesn’t? People say that Prince “stole” from Rick James & James Brown and maybe he did, but he also created something totally unique and different with the…

Social Justice Warriors are...something.