Comments on: Kanye West, What The Hell Is Wrong With You?

By: Melodi

Melodi — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:02:39 +0000

I doubt that anyone (let alone Bush) could have come up with a better way to handle Katrina. Katrina was a failure of the LOCAL, STATE, AND REGIONAL government before it was even in Bush’s lap my friends. Therefore, a heck of a lot of people must not care about black people- including other black people.

By: Lana

Lana — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:38:26 +0000

Thank you, Angry. Very well said!

By: Melinda Bishop

Melinda Bishop — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:39:05 +0000

I like Kanye, but he needs to tone it down a bit.

Taylor Swift and Beyonce are both talented young women. His actions were out of line.

By: C

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:04:14 +0000

In all fairness, not all bigotry is from whites. I prefer to call Kanye inconsiderate and rude for his behaviour the other night, and Serena acted a fool. Race should be left out of it though, I agree.

By: Saladin

Saladin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:39:53 +0000

I know, I know, I exaggerate… My beef is less with Kanye’s *decent* skills and more with the sad fact that he *is* one of the best out there right now. If this were, say, 1992 he’d be considered strictly mid-list. But in the post-Mystikal age he’s ‘brilliant.’

Somewhere tonight a single tear is rolling down Rakim’s cheek :P

By: The Angry Black Woman

The Angry Black Woman — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:13:33 +0000

I disagree. i think Kanye’s music is quite good. His lyrics are often funny or insightful just as much as they are stupid and crazy. But at least there’s a balance. and he knows how to put together a good beat.

By: Saladin

Saladin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:24:19 +0000

Take one mediocre-as-hell pop star…err, excuse me ‘rapper,’ who gets praised over and over and over again as the saving grace of hip hop for making records that don’t quite suck as hard as Ludacris and passes for ‘conscious’ for saying the most obvious shit (really? George Bush doesn’t care about Black people? no way!)

Add one awards show celebrating a corporate music culture in which disrespecting women is somehow considered ‘authentically urban’ and/or ‘keeping it real’ even though the records are all distributed and ok’d by rich old white men, and even when the ‘realness’ is being brought by rich ex-Degrassi stars raised by white people in the Toronto suburbs.

Simmer slowly over the funeral pyre of real hip-hop. Serves 1 billion.

By: embee

embee — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:18:37 +0000

To Laila: “…People were less upset about Obama called a liar”…? Are u kidding me? Not sure where you live and whom u hang with, but there is much lingering upset at that despicable show of (I believe) racist-infused disrespect in my Minneapolis community and among my peers and workmates.

By: MissZ87

MissZ87 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:22:07 +0000

@lala…I have to second that notion. His behavior was deplorable, but it still isn’t all that serious. Obama is probably the most disrespected president EVER!

By: Lala

Lala — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:15:25 +0000

Leave Ye alone it ain’t that deep. People were less upset about Obama called a liar. It was MTV who cares?