You lost the majority of readers when you used the word “rhetorical.”

Seems to me that half of the response against the NY Post comment was the fact that the comment/criticism of Jay-Z, including the reference to the N word, was made by somebody who is not African-American. For clarity sake, I am not commenting on the validity/veracity of his comment and its subject matter, just noting that perhaps this is why there has been so much backlash against it.

Said differently: if the same comment was made by an African-American man or woman (let’s go with man to keep apples to apples), would there be the same backlash here?

Again, not commenting on the issue itself, asking about whether the context is playing a part in the response.

smh

I agree with the point of his criticism, but as a modest proposal, this excerpt falls flat. But then a lot of sports *cough*hacks*cough* don’t seem too well-read.

Lyrics that abuse the “N” word and refer to women as “bitches & hoes” are not my favorite. But I support the right of entertainers and other business people to lawfully seek success in our free-market society.

This discussion is definitely worth pursuing.

“Look at how many people Cash has killed or hurt in his songs.” (Note the italics.) Do you read comments or just skim through them?

Cash shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. He also took a shot of cocaine and he shot his woman down (and called her a “bad bitch” in the same song). Later on, he tied Delia to a chair, shot her in the side, then finding “hard to watch her suffer,” shot her again, and she died.

All in songs, of course, just like the people Jay-Z killed in his songs. Seems a valid argument to me.

“I killed a man in Reno, just to watch him die. ”

That’s one example of him singing in the first person about a prisoner doing hard time and how lonely it becomes.

Please give us your numerous examples of where he hurt or killed someone. You won’t find it. Or where he offended someone.

Do you even no Cash’s music? If you really did, you wouldn’t have even made this comment

As a black woman, I feel that this statement couldn’t have been more true. There is absolutely nothing inherently racist about what he said. Mishnick did a great job of throwing a staple of Jay-Z’s success right back at him. Well done Mushnick!

For the record I don’t like being referred to as a bitch or a hoe, and I damn sure don’t like any man that continues to perpetuate the message that it is okay.

He’s taking Jay-Z’s artistic brand, which is at the center of his success and the basis for his ability to do business, and applying it to a sports team co-owned by Jay-Z. In so doing he does a pretty straightforward job of pointing out that a whole lot of big brands are aligning themselves with an artist whose body of work is about drug dealing, killing, bragging about using women as sex toys and helping keep the N-word alive.

He just does it very artistically to expensive beats so it’s all good?

When I think of The Black Album, which is one of my favorite hip hop albums up until the filler material at the end, the first thing that comes to mind are lyrics about shooting people for real cause he’s not a movie director and bitches not being his problem.

This is the guy that said hip hop did more for race relations than the Civil Rights movement?

Look how many people Johnny Cash has killed or hurt in his songs but his career doesn’t get dumbed down to that.

For the record I don’t like the design of the new logo and I defintely think Jay-Z could have done better but this guy made stupid statement and that’s that..

America still is a very racist place and the internet shines the light on that more, reading all the ignorant stuff on these blogs and sites..

By the way I don’t hide behind fake pen names ….

Have anyone of you heard the Jay-Z feat Eminem called “Renegade.”

” Do you fools. Listen to music or. Do you just skim. Through it?”

P.S. I really like hip-hop.