Dude’s being really defensive even though he’s criticized artists in the past for being right wing. It’s times like this I’m reminded that he’s been on multiple v*ush streams too.
I feel like I’m reading translations of graffiti from Pompeii
A dog walks into a tavern and says, “I can’t see a thing. I’ll open this one.”
Edit: The dog then says, “This is excellent, transcendent; truly genre-defining. I’m feeling a solid 6 out of 10.”
you morons don’t understand, I NEED MY TREATS 
No wonder a figure like Kanye never gets held accountable for his behavior.
Pretty sure he isn’t held accountable because he has a lot of money and generates a lot of money for companies not some twitter people making posts
Isn’t the only information about this the picture itself, or did Peggy say something about it? Because if it’s just the picture, agree with melonboy that commentary on this is stupid. Otherwise we gotta dunk on our favorite CEO Rachel Jake for going to Shen Yun, etc.
We’re always “if you sit at a table with 10 nazis, there’s 11 nazis at that table” until it’s someone who makes music we like huh
I just think jpegmafia has earned enough cred to attempt an explanation. I’m not saying he just gets a pass because I like his music. He shit on Kanye in his music recently, so while this is very wtf to me, I’d still like to hear the explanation before writing off his stuff forever because of one photograph. If the explanation is “oh, I know Kanye is a Nazi, I just think his music is cool” then you won’t see me defending anyone.
I don’t think anyone can earn plausible deniability for participating in the normalization of nazi rhetoric. You simply are or you aren’t, there should be 0 tolerance for associating with nazis.
Kanye is wearing the shirt of a nazi band Peggy literally has a song attacking lol he knows this is a violation of his principles.
This is opportunistic for his career no matter how you slice it, Kanye should be shamed for his normalization of nazi shit as all nazis should, and Peggy should be for associating with it whether he’s involved with vultures or if this is just a photo
I’m not trying to say that’s wrong in any way, just that I don’t have a material attachment so I want to see some form of explanation to decide whether I listen to Peggy’s work again. Since it’s not like he’s a member of a political movement with material consequences, it just seems online to me to suggest my behavior of wanting to hear an explanation is inappropriate. If the explanation is much outside of “lol look at this pic I got with Kanye, he doesn’t know I hate him” then I think there’s no salvaging it. It just doesn’t make sense to me to fully condemn or acquit someone who has expressed opposite views repeatedly without further information.
That’s fair but tbh he’s had plenty of time to address and regardless of whether he’s the member of a movement or not I still think it’s wrong to post photos with someone whos been engaging with nazi shit for awhile. If it were just a shitty garden variety republican or something I’d say fair dues, but it’s Kanye, Nick Fuentes’s bff in a burzum shirt, west. Nazis should be deplatformed always
Yeah, regardless of what comes out of it, it’s very disappointing. Its absolutely bad one way or another. I mean Christ, Kanye is on tape getting shushed by Alex Jones for proclaiming how much he loves Hitler, I sure wouldn’t want a picture with him. I imagine the reason for this in Peggy’s head is that Kanye is a big musical influence. But that doesn’t make Kanye pass the smell test any better. And Peggy isn’t an actual communist like Boots Riley, so I’m thinking the bad optics didn’t matter, which is shit because as you said, hanging out with Nazis makes you a Nazi.
I sure wouldn’t want a picture with him
Yeah exactly this, you couldn’t waterboard that pic out of me lol.
Kanye’s early albums are huge influences on me too but that shit is dead to me. Can’t even engage with it without remembering that jones interview.
i would have considerably less patience if it were a “garden variety republican.” a liberal with power is way more dangerous than a mentally ill nazi with some shitty records.
I meant like… a rapper with dumb republican esque views not a politician. And I honestly disagree, you may not think much of Kanye but he’s a immensely influential figure to a large part of American culture(who are crucially politically illiterate by design) and his making nazi shit out to not be a big deal has a large possible of being really damaging wrt to people thinking of it as just another pov.
We’re already losing the battle on nazi platforming and I’ve seen people carrying water for his ass and his views already both in my professional career in the industry and online. 10 years ago you could say gamergate was just some dumb online shit but it went on to normalize and propagate a lot of reactionary shit and ideologues were still dealing with today
I don’t really know what more explanation there could be. He makes music, but probably not a lot of money, he would like to make more money and this seems like the most direct way to get it.
Brace told people it was a bit before the footage dropped. They dedicated two entire episodes to talking about Shen Yun, so there actually was context beforehand.
Counterpoint: I actually point people to this TA episodes as a source on why Falun Gong is a regressive cult and its seems pretty effective. So the tiny amount of money they made off Brace and Liz is likely countered by the number of people who were helped to see through Falun Gongs bullshit.
Even then I’d say it’s still not worth giving the fascists money just to do a bit.
Typically they hand out tickets for free in certain areas. I don’t remember if it was free or if they paid for it
I don’t think going to a free reactionary play to dunk on it and mess with the employees is the same as collaborating with someone because they’re your idol
i’m not on the formerly bird site, i hadn’t seen the tweets that accompanied the picture. it seems like it’s probably in fact as bad as it looks.
does this matter?
No lol. I genuinely do not know any Fantano dorks in real life so his opinions and “influence” mean little to me
I have watched his album reviews in the past and I never agree with his scores lol. If it’s not heavily produced hip hop, then he’s giving it a low score.
I don’t know a lot about Fantano. I know he’s a big deal and usually gets talked positively about in left spaces. Tbh the only shitty take of his I remember was when he said Swedish prisons were like Gitmo and that asap rocky was being tortured when he was briefly held for having his security stomp on a guys face.
So extrapolating purely from this. Maybe he’s just not a big fan of judging musicians for anything but their music?
Maybe he’s just not a big fan of judging musicians for anything but their music?
No he judges them for everything as well. But usually those are two separate videos.
I know he’s a big deal and usually gets talked positively about in left spaces.
Not talking about you, but that sentence is so pathetic lol. Why are people so hung up about this dude just because he said something about BLM or Bernie sanders being good.
CHECK THE FLIGHT LOGS FOR “FANTANO”
From what I’ve seen of Fantano he’s generally alright, though he has some really lazy/shitty opinions and he gets into so many silly beefs on social media for no reason that its hard to take him seriously
Fantano is basically every DSA guy rolled into one
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I dunno, it’s a confusing move really. I don’t think the left leaning stuff in his songs was done to falsely find a niche. He grew up rough, faced constant racism, and was discharged from the army for speaking out against abuse. He’s got some authenticity about him.
His niche that very few people come close to is that he makes insane beats and raps through them. I don’t think his leftist leanings got me into his music - it was that signature cacophony of noise that somehow comes together. The leftist lyrics were just icing on top once I’d already started listening.
I think people are forgetting that he’s never said that he’s some committed leftist. He’s just rapped about shit that makes him angry, and a lot of that stuff has intersection with the left.
