This response to the backlash has completely exposed it all as a class war, IMO.
Because we're dealing with Black people, the lines don't quite look like it tends to look writ large -- some Black celebrities are with Snoop, others with Fauxprah/Fayle.
The fact that there were any prominent Black celebrities at ALL on the "fukk You" side is why it blew up, why Fayle went on IG and started moving the goal posts and blaming CBS. They often leaned on these people for "authenticity" purposes to show that they were still "down". All together they said "nah, we ain't doing this."
Those who identify with the Boule-side all went up with Fauxprah. They did the usual Bill Cosby "respectability politics" tour, pointing the finger at the "Bad Negroes" and moving the goalposts (talking about misogyny over all, not just in the language of Snoop). fukkin' SUSAN RICE and CORY BOOKER chiming in? Fauxprah really the feds.
And for the record: Fayle was c00ning, Oprah was EXTRA c00ning. Ari Lennox was right, they are the c00niest c00ns to ever c00n sometimes and they finally got caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
I said it back when the MJ bullshyt was going down, one day they gonna go at the wrong one and they gonna get lit up and their feelings hurt. I never thought it would be Kobe (partly because I never thought Kobe would be dead by now).
I hope people who fell for the homophobic concern trolling when it was MJ in the crosshairs see it now. This is what they do. Throw rocks, hide their hands, and manipulate the public as oligopolists tend to do in the public square.
These gatekeepers don't like it that people can talk back. And they really found out that certain famous Black people don't fukk with you when you do this shyt.
GOOD.
fukk 'em.