Chance the Rapper calls out Miley's racism at the VMAs

August 31st, 2015, 05:33 am

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Chance the Rapper calls out Miley's racism at the VMAs

These skits <
— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) August 31, 2015

The dreads <
— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) August 31, 2015

I think shorty said "my real mammy" <
— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) August 31, 2015

"Mammy" pic.twitter.com/kuwgo2lsNm
— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) August 31, 2015

White squad...
— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) August 31, 2015

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Tagged: award show - mtv vmas, miley cyrus, music / musician, music / musician (rap and hip-hop), race / racism

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she's trash.

seriously. i love how sex-positive she is and all that, but her being racist af ruins her for me entirely.

I feel the same way. She's a good reminder of the importance of intersectional feminism.

and the sad thing is, in her mind she is so progressive and so enlightened that it makes it impossible for her to actually listen and absorb and take things on board. like with the Nicki situation she really showed her ass with all the "I KNOW THE STATISTICS" bullshit while talking over people and on something she had to right to speak on. she's completely blind to her own racism because that's something she's "totally against" in theory but she's so full of herself that she continues to fuck up on a regular basis because she thinks she deserves some kind of free pass for being so wise and informed. she feels she's evolved beyond the need to be sensitive of others and acknowledge the huge amount of privilege she has

idek what i'm trying to say here but basically she's an oblivious offensive embarrasing mess

basically she's so deep into believing her own exceptional enlightenment that she refuses to acknowledge the presence of her ignorance because it contradicts her idea of self.

A+

This. Sadly I know someone like this irl.
Just because they know a person of color, a trans person, a gay person and so on doesn't mean it's okay to use harmful slurs, like come the hell on. One would think that knowing someone who goes through terrible racist shit would be more sensitive to the issues but I guess not. >>;

i don't think she's being intentionally offensive. she's ignorant but i don't see her as a racist, she grew up in hollywood where no one has ever questioned her actions. even at the height of her cultural appropriation kanye and every other rapper was praising her and accepting her with open arms

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The more someone makes sex positivity their hill to die on, the more I become convinced they probably have zero interest in the much, much bigger issues at hand. I'm not against sex positive feminism inherently and I think sex positivity is a big part of women's rights, but it's also "trendy" feminism.

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Get her.

MTV Callout Awards 2015

lol

lmao basically

excuse u she was black once

...and got bored and moved onto the next trendy tumblr high shit for shock value

i am so sick of this parasite

That's why I can't get by her. Nothing seems genuine. Give it two years and she'll be on the next persona.

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god i cannot WAIT until she gets bored of us. maybe being afraid of nicki will scare her back into her cave or something

She's the embodiment of all the try hard kids on tumblr, trying to prove how edgy and chill they are.
She really doesn't give a fuck, ok? Did you hear her? She doesn't care? You need prove? Here's her boob. Now she's smoking pot!!!!1 Now, she's taking her clothes off, y'all! Drag queens on stage!!!

Blah.

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this is so embarrassing

But Mike Will worked on her new EP... and is on M5. There are songs with both Mike and TFL working on the same track. She keeps incorporating all her influences. 23 went multiplatinum but whatever.

She's so fucking corny.

omg i forgot about this song and how all the white girls i used to be friends would blast it on repeat. it sounds like kreayshawn.

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Yessssssss Chance

i like miley i wish she was smarter

Yeah. But i'm nottttt holding my breath.

is it just me, or does it seem more prevalent that high profiled black celebs are starting to be a bit more vocal when stuff like this happens? or I guess just POCs in general? or is that just an allusion that has probably stemmed from the #blacklivesmatter movement?

either way, it seems to be more publicized, which is great.

No TOTALLY. I have never ever seen white feminism/racism called out in a public sphere among high profiled celebrities like it is now… this is surreal

it's definitely not just you

It's just you. Black celebs used to actually be MORE vocal about these issues.

could you explain this a lil' more

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oop tell em

It's both?

Black celebs were more vocal, got quiet, and now they're opening up again.

Black celebs are more pissed now because a lot of them are ~new money and have friends/family that have been affected by police brutality. It's kind of like Rodney King, Biggie/Tupac all over again but for the Social Media generation.

No, it's not just you! I'm LIVING for it! Granted, like pantless_deacon said, they were MORE vocal in years past, but they're coming back around again, slowly but surely.

EXPOSE HA

FINISH HA

god damn i'm FULL. what a shitshow.

It's about to be just like 2013 here with Miley! I'm just dying because that Jimmy Kemmel post where folks were kissing her ass again was only TWO DAYS AGO! Tides turn quick around here!

people wanted to get excited when she was talking about being genderless or w/e but those of us that care about black people never wavered

people were praising her because she was talking against taylor and nicki too. mess.

she needs to go

damn she really called him a mammy?

yep, she said "my real mammy, snoop"

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it might be a southern thing? although I hear granny usually

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she calls her grandma mammy but i didnt see the award show so idk the context

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She said that's her real mammy(her gandma in the skit) with snoop

no. she has called her grandma mammy since she was born and her mammy was in the skit with snoop. thats literally who she was talking about. do your research y'all

HER GRANDMOTHER.
MAMMIE CYRUS.
This goes back all the way to 2008 and way before.

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i just went back and watched it and she didnt.

she was thanking the people who were in the skit her. grandma mammie (who she called "the real mammie"), snoop & her pet pig (who she called the p, i, double g)

no, she didn't call him that. it was her real grandma mammie in the skit (as people said above)

She was talking about the video we had just seen where her grandma cooked something with her laser rainbow eyes and when it was over, she said something like "thanks to my real Mammy (her real grandma and), Snoop" but the way she said it made it sound like she called Snoop her Mammy.

this whole show felt racist to me, idk how to describe it. from miley's awful comments to macklemore's all-black dance crew, the making light of police brutality by fat amy. taylor swift continued white mediocrity. it seemed really overt.

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agreed...like it felt blatantly racist

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Especially Rebel Wilson's little sketch. I was like she can't be this much of an idiot.

how was the sketch?

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my mom and i looked at each other like... is she really doing this rn

that skit made me furious and then it was the intro to best hip hop video!!! like REALLY???

That was so painful to watch.

Yeah it felt like a smug white girl fest

I didn't watch the VMAs so maybe I'm being a tad presumptuous, but I get a hunch that all of this was done on purpose to create ~*controversy~* and ignite a plethora of Monday morning thinkpieces. I'm pretty sure a band of 20-something production people working at MTV know what can ignite a Twitter backlash and what won't. And as they say, all publicity is good publicity.

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The Rebel sketch to me was the absolute worst. But it is hilarious to me that Nicki didn't choose to acknowledge that and happily posed for pictures with Rebel in a shirt mocking police brutality.

I'm sure MTV felt like they got an all clear to pull this shit because they ran that Dear White People show and have had some PSAs about white privilege/racism.

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yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas

that rebel wilson sketch was so awful

I agree. There was something so off about the show.

yeah for real, i was uncomfortable

It's hard to tell who is worse, her or Iggy.

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