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Posted by jimaveli, Mon Oct-03-22 06:31 PM
>https://twitter.com/Kurrco/status/1576982613859872768?s=20&t=eKS4PZLHO4pXWsGVDDzX4Q
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>https://twitter.com/Kurrco/status/1576987856014553088?s=20&t=frgdDOgIM9Jqf119orVXlQ
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>slavery was a choice-ass negro....

He really was a grand artist who accomplished and released a lot of good stuff. He rescued Common, helped validate Twista, made a mountain of good beats, and put out a rock solid set of albums before he started going off the rails with half-complete, borderline incoherent tomfoolery.

I'll forever think that he never 'recovered' from how things went just after the Taylor Swift situation. He got thrown away and was assumed to be screwed forever. That was his 'I'm not black, I'm OJ..........okayyyyy' moment. He found out quick af that he was for sure black and it for sure changed how his actions get covered, his fame was very fleeting, the music wasn't enough to rescue him from ridicule if he did some wild shit, no one gaf that his mama was dead even though he was Captain Mama's Boy, and even though any reasonable person knows damn well Beyonce should've won that award, that was NEVER gonna be a fair point to bring up after he hit the stage on Taylor. And Beyonce and Jay don't play their games that way so they weren't gonna say 'yeah, we know Single Ladies was the shit and nothing was fucking with it at all'. Hell, did The Dream even say anything? I don't remember if he did or not.

Now? I don't really like to fuck with any of this type of foolishness. It sucks that he's probably another one who will have to die before people look back AT HIS MAIN BODY OF MUSIC and say 'yeah, this stuff was pretty good, it meant a lot to the culture, and we're better for having it'. But he's made a habit of playing silly games after it was clear that his music alone wasn't enough for average people to give him the attention he apparently craves anymore so here we are. White Lives Matter on a shirt so he can get clicks, attention, and words written about it? 2022 fuck shit to the max.