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2016-02-16 Home Front: Culture Wars
Kanye West To White People: '€˜Please Don't Comment On Black Music'
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Posted by Besoeker 2016-02-16 05:13|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top

#1 Wotta maroon!!

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2016-02-16 06:42||   2016-02-16 06:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Every group of people, anywhere in the world, almost certainly have ancestors who were enslaved. The difference is, most of us have moved off the plantation and embraced being free, adult men.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2016-02-16 07:55||   2016-02-16 07:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Does he have a quota of stupid shit to say every day?
Posted by chris 2016-02-16 08:03||   2016-02-16 08:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Panic in the community having become the 2d minority after Hispanics and sensing the erosion of all that power and privilege garnered in the last four decades? Power in segregation, even self segregation, rather than integrating like the Asians.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-02-16 09:21||   2016-02-16 09:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Fuck you, you racist fuck.

Please be bankrupt and stupid somewhere else.
Posted by DarthVader 2016-02-16 11:23||   2016-02-16 11:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Just because rap is the only English word pronounced with a silent 'C' is no reason to get testy, KW.
Posted by Mugsy Glink 2016-02-16 11:51||   2016-02-16 11:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Slaves as ancestors? This guy lives in a mansion in overwhelmingly white Calabasas with Kim Kardashian. Gimme a frickin' break. Then compare his music with that of Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson or Nat King Cole.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-02-16 12:23||   2016-02-16 12:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't comment on Charles or Cole or Robinson music, but blast Wests crap all you want because, unlike the others, his black noise is not music.
Posted by Glenmore 2016-02-16 12:53||   2016-02-16 12:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Total blackout of black music in the music press may not help sales much. Yeah Pandora will tell you about similar songs but they have a narrow range of stuff.
Posted by rjschwarz 2016-02-16 12:55||   2016-02-16 12:55|| Front Page Top

#10 I won't comment on your music as long as you don't take white people's money.
Posted by gorb 2016-02-16 13:19||   2016-02-16 13:19|| Front Page Top

#11 Re: #8 #9

and let's not forget Duke, Count and Louie.
Posted by AlanC 2016-02-16 13:21||   2016-02-16 13:21|| Front Page Top

#12 OK, I will comment. Duke, Count, Louie, Robinson, Charles and Cole were all great musicians. If you really wanna get out there so was Jimi Hendrix. So were Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick just so I don't get accused of being sexist. There has been a great deal of music composed and performed by black musicians. West just doesn't happen to be one of them. I admit I don't go out of my way to listen to him but recently at a convenience store they had him on the radio. Repetitive and annoying are the adjectives that come to mind. I hope I'm not just an old fogey I fear it's an indication of a society in decline.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-02-16 14:44||   2016-02-16 14:44|| Front Page Top

#13 Thanks for the reminder- just went on youtube and cued up Frank Stokes, Memphis blues from the 20's. Wonderful stuff.
Posted by Grunter 2016-02-16 14:53||   2016-02-16 14:53|| Front Page Top

#14 Who?

Isn't he some no-talent black guy who's famous because he's married to/shacked up with some no-talent white woman?

At least he said "please." /sarc

Kenny, I don't comment on that trash you convince gullible people is music, because I don't listen to it. I'd rather keep my hearing, my money, and my sanity.
Posted by Barbara 2016-02-16 16:41||   2016-02-16 16:41|| Front Page Top

#15 Hazel Scott. One of the best ever jazz pianists.
Posted by Steve White 2016-02-16 17:45||   2016-02-16 17:45|| Front Page Top

#16 Flip the subject and object and Kanye would make the KKK proud.
Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-02-16 19:03||   2016-02-16 19:03|| Front Page Top

#17 We aren't Kanye; we are talking about your music.
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-02-16 19:54||   2016-02-16 19:54|| Front Page Top

#18 Please don't use technology invented by Europeans or Asians to make or distribute your music.

And while you're at it, stop using English and start using West African dialects in your raps.

Cultural appropriation!
Posted by charger 2016-02-16 20:43||   2016-02-16 20:43|| Front Page Top

#19 First, hip-hoppers riffed off Apache,
Then tunes got all digi and scratchy.
Now 'Merica's duty
Is shakin' her booty,
But music is more than what's catchy.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-02-16 22:07||   2016-02-16 22:07|| Front Page Top

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