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March 19, 2010
Is there a white backlash against Jay-Z?
Bol's Saturday Night Workout via XXLMag.com
Byron Crawford, aka "Bol,", bills himself as "your favorite rapper's least favorite blogger." With good reason. His recent posts on our favorite rapper's role in the whole Atlantic Yards fiasco have been riotous — and not for the faint of heart.
Here are some of the reprintable parts (rated R).
Black people might not give a shit just how low Jay-Z sinks to make even more money he doesn’t really need, but there’s only so much abuse white people are willing to take.
I figured a white Jay-Z backlash might be in order, last week, when I heard there were mad white people outside protesting the groundbreaking of the Atlantic Yards project.
...But I suppose it was inevitable for Jay-Z to take a lot of the blame for the Atlantic Yards project from people who are upset about it, i.e. pretty much anyone who’s actually read up on it who doesn’t own a stake in it, if only because he was the most famous person involved. And I’m sure it didn’t help matters that he’s black, both because it made him that much easier to recognize on a stage, from a long distance, and because cracka-ass crackas in New York have got it in for powerful black people right about now. They might have been pissed at Jay-Z, even if Atlantic Yards weren’t such a colossal clusterfuck. You see how they tried to run David Paterson out of town on a rail, just because he tried to talk a woman out of laying a domestic violence rap on one of his weed carriers.
Posted by eric at March 19, 2010 7:19 PM