How many black people work for Vice/Noisey/Complex/SPIN/Rolling Stone? (UPDATE :BUZZFEED included)

[The_King_of_Everything]

Maybe send it to gawker?

 

[NotaPAWG]

 

[GPBear]

shyt


It's almost like cultural forces are trying to keep black people back

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Yo. If y'all wanna start a black website, I'm up for writing.

 

[Cynic]

This.

Did I already quote this?

This is why this is a big deal! @Cynic

WE're overrepresented as the subjects of these magazines, yet underrepresented as members of the actual staff of these publications, how is that not a problem of some sort and how is that not a big deal? Black music and culture has been infiltrated by the same good ole boys club that barred black people out of the game in the first place. How is that not terrible irony?

Like I said, if the main readers are cacs and the writers are cacs then so be it......
I don't particularly care for complex/vice/noisey content like that nor do I care what race the writers are.....

Hip hop sold out over 30-40 years ago and now people want to complain because cacs
employ themselves and write for the themselves about hip hop ?


It's only a problem if you see it as such.... and honestly if you have an issue with it
do something about it......

There's some UK cat who wasn't happy with the coverage on their grime sh!t...
He started SBTV and he's black......he got serious and kept at it.....

Personally cacs can have this sh!t.... then we'll just invade other more lucrative industries
like finance, real estate, manufacturing and tech

We are innovators.....imagine taking that into science and other applications

 

[Unknown Poster]

Like I said, if the main readers are cacs and the writers are cacs then so be it......
I don't particularly care for complex/vice/noisey content like that nor do I care what race the writers are.....

Hip hop sold out over 30-40 years ago and now people want to complain because cacs
employ themselves and write for the themselves about hip hop ?


It's only a problem if you see it as such.... and honestly if you have an issue with it
do something about it......

There's some UK cat who wasn't happy with the coverage on their grime sh!t...
He started SBTV and he's black......he got serious and kept at it.....

Personally cacs can have this sh!t.... then we'll just invade other more lucrative industries
like finance, real estate, manufacturing and tech

We are innovators.....imagine taking that into science and other applications

Positive rep pending for that last line. Thats what black folk need to be overrepresented in.

 

[Sauce Dab]

Is this a coincidence or does he post on here? This is the editor from noisey

 

[Stacker Pentecost]

That's why you can't take anything any of these publications say seriously

I literally don't read any of these because it's nothing but a bunch of vultures trying to tell us about our own culture... I started giving noisey the side eye when they hired that white dude to host their video series where they go around Atlanta and shyt like that... shyt had me cuz it was on some Black Nat Geo shyt with SUBTITLES like the migos nikkas weren't speaking English.

And his Ben Franklin Gates ass keeps a running cac commentary going on what they're doing

"And now we're at KOD, which is a strip club where women shake their butts for money! Let's go in."



That shyt obviously isn't for *us*

Jinx over at complex is my nikka tho

 

[Stacker Pentecost]

Noisey sure loves doing those cultural touring videos where a hipster white guy goes to some ghetto and interviews gang members and/or trap rappers. That shyt is their bread and butter. I'm not gonna lie I watch them because they're interesting but at the same time it's blatant exploitation.

A lot of people watch them but I refuse.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Who cares? You shouldn't need magazines, black or white, to give you opinions on the music. Now interviews? Well a good interview is a good interview regardless, so read on.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

how did Dave Mayes "ruin" it when he started it and employed a majority black/hispanic writers

When he allowed Benzino and his clowns to run off people like James Bernanrd and Selwyn Sefu Hines and them.

James Bernard wrote a great piece about the downfall of The Source about 8 or so years ago. The early Source magazine was the greatest rap magazine of all-time. They had a few Whites involved, but they were overwhelmingly Black with the exception of Mayes and a few others. they talked about racism and police brutality and all kinds of shyt.

and kinda off topic, but kanye really not the one to be making comments like this without opening himself to being seen as a hypocrite. he's all into white business and just went on a rant because Pitchfork gave him a 9/10. steady shouting out white designers, using white artists samples, married into a white fam. like wtf is reallly good kanye. should white peopld say he shouldnt talk about steve jobs, pablo picasso, and whoever other white person he worships?

BINGO!!!

Eh. Kanye is a hypocrite cause he's pro-himself more than anything, but if he says something right it's right.


Kanye hires black people, hires black models, gives black people paychecks, his creative director is a black fashion designer, uses soul samples, namedrops the 2 MJs constantly, He actually wants blacks to be given props in the fashion realm...

You can't really say hypocrisy.

Dude hasn't used soul samples in any real capacity in the past 10 years and so he hires Black models, so what? He's still there with the Kardashians sucking Anna Wintour's dikk and trying to be friends with Taylor Swift and still crying about Grammy awards.

Dude only gets pro Black when White folks aren't honoring him enough.

I've NEVER heard of a quality artist that's been broken in or discovered by a hip-hop publication...they usually jump on the wave after an artist has already created a buzz for themselves

Dude, you must not be old enough to remember The Source back in the "Unsigned Hype" era. They discovered Biggie and Eminem

What is the point of this shyt?
He wanted that white acceptance, now he is crying because they don't care about him anymore?

Pretty much

I'm beginning to think a lot of you guys are overwhelmingly fascinated with Cacs

You just now figuring that out?

These nikkaz find ways to disqualify Black people from being Black. Frederick Douglass isn't Black by their standards

exactly. ..which is why I find it exhausting to speak about it

I'm tired of us spewing this rhetoric about these white award shows and media outlets not truly representing us (blacks)

what do you expect to happen

when u don't set up your own infrastructure?

what you WONT DO...the OTHER MAN WILL DO....

I get numerous requests to write and work for media outlets ...

and to be honest the BEST OFFERS and situations come from the "white" owned establishments

I've worked for two URBAN media entities run by Black Men whom I was passionate to work for whom did nothing more than STIFLE and SUPPRESS my creativity..when I got "too deep" or uncovered some "DIRT" on a entity they didn't wanna offend FOR FEAR of MASSA taking away their advertising dollars

True Story and I have the AUDIO to back it up

my black business patnah and so called friend CENSORED me on my own damn radio show simply cause I called out the Major Labels (universal....warner) for their exploitive efforts in regards to streaming revenue and digital royalties.....

something I have spoken upon millions,of times on the COLI before it was a topic..

but now u got all these OVERNIGHT MILITANTS and TWITTER PSUEDO PRO BLACK NATIONALISTS getting all upset when they see some "cac" on the tv screen or dominating black airwaves

without failing to realize that's NOT THE REAL CULTURE VULTURE

the REAL ONE is the old guys wearing suits who are rarely seen in public as well as some of our OWN PEOPLE

speaking with their shareholders as reps of REAL CULTURE VULTURES such as VIVENDI..GOLDMAN SACHS...JP MORGAN..CLEAR CHANNEL and YUCAIPA CAPITAL just to name a few...

see KANYE is only ATTACKING THE BUFFER and,doing it for SELFISH reasoning
....

If he really BOUT DAT LIFE...he would try to,empower or create distribution by networking with other brothers and sisters..

and no I'm sorry TIDAL is NOT helping the situation

instead of BEGGING Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page for bread ....

why not ask AL HAYMON..or RICHARD PARSONS or CATHY HUGHES or TYLER PERRY??

nah cause he is just like my former business partner RELUCTANT to work,with blacks on a large businesses platform out of INSECURITY AND TRUST ISSUES....

and that's why just like u Said WE ARE THE END,USERS (IGNORANT CONSUMERS) of a culture we NEVER OWNED ........

since it's exit from the parks,of NYC with BAMBATTA and HERC to it's first entry into the recorded music field. ....

ITS ALWAYS BEEN THE WHITE MANS GAME.....

we Are the REAL GUESTS. .as RENTERS

yall wanna talk OWNERSHIP holla at me. ..

but all this whining about why MASSA COMPLEX won't hire me...or why the GRAMMYS and OSCARS won't INVITE IS FRUITLESS damn their RETARDED...

FUKK DEM STOP BYATCHING AND GET OUR OWN SHYT!

Exactly, I always questioned what do White posters like @hexagram23 actually get out of Hiphop. Black people talking about hood shyt and circumstances really entertainment to them or do they like rhyme schemes

Thee dudes aren't akin to any other part of black culture either. it's just rap, like what's the appeal?

To be fair, but I'm a Black dude from a 90% Black city who listens to Pearl Jam and The Beatles and shyt.

If you love music, you love music

These magazines are made by white ppl, predominantly for.....wait for it......white ppl.

who fukkin cares what they think?

We do when they WRITE ABOUT BLACK CULTURE. Why is that so hard for you retarded ass nikkaz to understand? If they wanna write about Guns N Roses and fukking Animal Collective, fine. Do you. But, once they start claiming to be the definitive opinions on OUR CULTURE, there's a problem with that.

aren't black people only like 12-15 % of the population of America? I don't understand why you guys are expecting all these media companies who pretty much do all genres of music to be full of black employees

Because they're claiming to be authorities on our music. If they were writing about other shyt, there's no problem.

 

[Goat poster]

That's why you can't take anything any of these publications say seriously

I literally don't read any of these because it's nothing but a bunch of vultures trying to tell us about our own culture... I started giving noisey the side eye when they hired that white dude to host their video series where they go around Atlanta and shyt like that... shyt had me cuz it was on some Black Nat Geo shyt with SUBTITLES like the migos nikkas weren't speaking English.

And his Ben Franklin Gates ass keeps a running cac commentary going on what they're doing

"And now we're at KOD, which is a strip club where women shake their butts for money! Let's go in."



That shyt obviously isn't for *us*

Jinx over at complex is my nikka tho

I'm glad im not the only one offended by Noisy and their Nat Geo like videos on black culture.

The Chicago/Drill one is worse than the Atlanta one.

Matter fact Vice the ones that got Chief Keef put back in jail cause they had him shooting guns at gun range while he was on probation

 

[John Hull]

There used to be black blogs that were real popular about 5 to 6 years ago, what happened, nikkaz stopped supporting them?

Talking bout Nahright, Okayplayer, The Smoking Section, Global Grind, Two Dope Boyz,

shyt like that. I went to Nahright recently and the comments section looked like a ghost town, I remember that shyt used to be as active as the Coli

 

[Concerning VIolence]

props to outlets like Dead End Hip-Hop, though.

Dead End Hip Hop

 

[Blessings]

great thread