Cyrus Langhorne
Ruff Ryders’ Eve is ready to move on and not look back. The hip-hop veteran has expressed her personal issues with Kanye West over his publicized slavery comments.
In a new interview, E-v-e explained why she cannot support the G.O.O.D. Music boss.
“You want to be a free-thinker, you want to be thought-provoking, you cannot have these ideas without facts to back them up. Slavery is a fact. Slavery is part of our history… we cannot forget it – we are still feeling the effects of slavery within our community, within our culture. It hurts me. … This is a man that I actually used to listen to, this is a person that we used to look to as an artist. Any young brothers looking at me, listening to me today – pick up some Nas, pick up Damian Marley, pick up some J. Cole, pick up some Kendrick Lamar. Listen to these artists. I am done with Kanye.” (The Talk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCoPifMA1pg
This week, various high-profile celebrities have shared their disappointment in West over controversial statements he’s made.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BiShU38gvUA/
I’ve had it with @KanyeWest + @RKelly using the imagery of lynching as rebuttals re: their dastardly behavior. Evoking racial terrorism and murder for personal gain/blame is stratospheric in is audacity and ignorance. This is what lynching looked like. How dare they? pic.twitter.com/wfobcdjiKL
— Ava DuVernay (@ava) May 2, 2018
Shame on you, @kanyewest + @rkelly. If you want to have a REAL conversation about lynching, get at me. Until then, have some respect and dignity for the dead. The murdered. You’ve gone beyond embarrassing yourselves. You’re both in territory that you don’t REALLY want to be in. pic.twitter.com/LXci0F0umc
— Ava DuVernay (@ava) May 2, 2018
According to @MemPeaceJustice, more than 4,000 black men, women and children were hung/lynched between 1877 and 1950. @kanyewest + @rkelly are using their heinous murders in tweets and press statements. Using our ancestors’ pain as punchlines. pic.twitter.com/DHlwIF5kLc
— Ava DuVernay (@ava) May 2, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T16QMvnjAJU
