She breaks down about Bill Cosby, Black Culture and how Media brought down an Icon. Says They are trying to Erase Black People PLEASE WATCH It's Heartbreaking She Breaks down twice!
Kav - yeah, you might want to direct us to the specific time's in this nearly 50 min interview you're trying to highlight.
She's an interesting one. Once in a while she'll pop up with a comment that's pointed, funny and relevant and then, at others, she says the stupidest things and refuses to acknowledge her fallibility - see her insistence that her consistent use of the word "fag" to insult detractors is okay because, according to her, the word actually means misogynist. Not sure she'd feel the same way about a white gay man using the "n" word and deciding he gets to redefine its meaning.
All that said, her new album is really fantastic - may be my favorite of the year.
I think "anti-gay" might be a touch reductive, but while her music is a sophisticated genre-bending affair, her public commentary is often... less than sophisticated. She's falling back on outdated and ****ing offensive epithets to insult people she doesn't care for - sometimes gay, sometimes not. She apologies one minute and then the next uses the slur again and refuses to acknowledge its real meaning. I mean, claiming that "f*ggot" doesn't refer to gay men, but to "misogynists" is just dumb. If you're trying to make the point that there is more misogyny in the gay community than some people wish to acknowledge - a valid point - doing so by using THAT word repeatedly is just plain dumb.
PJ - I say this with all due respect, but I think you might be the wrong... demo?
She IS self-important, as are many hip-hop artists, but she's far from untalented. Her new album - her first full-length - is a sophisticated, stylish, genre-bending affair with some of the sharpest and smartest flow I've heard in a while and a slyly, bewitching singing voice to go with it. It's on a lot of 'best of' lists for 2014 for a reason.
She's also, on occasion, spoken quite eloquently and pointedly about issues of race, cultural appropriation, gender and class - not to mention rapped/sung about them. THAT'S what makes her Twitter rants so disappointing. If she were just some untalented hack like Nicki Minaj, it would be much easier to dismiss her outright.
I keep hoping she'll evolve on this one. Especially since she's an out bi woman herself.
I have had the theme to The Cosby Show stuck in my head for weeks. It's usually an early to mid series one. Often it's that funky first season. It's occasionally that beezy, majestic, Caribbean-flavored one. It is NEVER that acapella one.
Often the theme that plays in my head is accompanied by images of Bill Cosby mugging and surreptitiously drugging these women's drinks that smash cut to him raping them while they are unconscious.
I watched a lot of that linked video and man, I just can't stand the free and copious use of the word "bitch." But then again, work puts me right in the middle of dance clubs (because I don't teach at a college) and there are currently some songs where the refrains are "Get out the way bitch" over and over and another with "Bitch bitch bitch bitch" and it's like, damn, this post-feminist world is SO misogynist.
The orchestral/tropical season 5 opening is now my fav, but when I was a kid that final season version seemed so cool. I, uh, may have performed a tightly choreographed dance sequence to that final season theme music at my elementary school talent show. I can neither confirm nor deny that.