>he's a popular young hip hop star. that's why he's being
>interviewed in the first place. that's good you don't care
>about his political opinions or any other rapper's as well. i
>guess someone would ask to see whether he's "informed" or not.
>why did everyone go into an uproar about Young Thug?

He's popular, so he should be asked about politics?

The Olsen Twins were popular. Who ever asked them about politics?

Why should popular people be expected to be "informed" about areas outside of their expertise? Are popular astrophysicists asked to comment on sports?

>respectability? they should speak on whatever they wanna speak
>on. rappers rap, they use words. wouldn't it be kind of weird
>if they didn't really have anything to say or weren't
>opinionated?

I'm not saying it's weird for them to have opinions. I'm saying it's weird to ask them about their political opinions, outside of their music. Wouldn't it be weird for rappers not to have food preferences? Yet, how many interviewers ask rappers what their favorite foods are?

>i definitely agree with you on that one point. most interviews >should be centered around the artists music and what not anyway.

That was the point of my entire original post.

>well being hyper-literate could mean he has lots of money. i
>read somewhere that in 1990, if you made less than 5,000
>dollars, you were considered illiterate. so that might mean he
>makes a whole lotta money.

Huh? No. That's likely not what the interviewer meant at all.


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