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

[Lord Beasley]

I'm now following him on twitter due to this thread.
I want to get his opinion on this matter.

He referred to us as "that site" tho

 

[JerseyBoy23]

He referred to us as "that site" tho

got to support one of the only brehs doing it big I guess. The replies though are low key shytting on the thread.

Edit:
we got another black writer to add.

 

[3rdWorld]

Only way is for recording artist's to withhold new product for reviews by these Nazi organisations..but then again the industry is Jew controlled..
So what's the solution then?we start a new Black owned publication the Jews come in and buy it out.

 

[3rdWorld]

Sports journalism is an even bigger travesty. No Black writers in sight yet the league's majority Black players..most can't play the game without a college degree so you can't tell me retired athletes can't write from an actual perspective. Whites do this deliberately. Sickening..

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Or they tell them what they can say or what they can say or what they can do or what they can't do.

You should do what we do
Stack chips like *censored* :jewpls:

 

[↓R↑LYB]

See it's one thing when you don't have the ability to mass produce magazines at newstands but a lot of these are e-zines.


You can't tell me we here at The Coli couldn't band up and do something just as good if not better including live show reviews, etc. It's not like we don't do it for the free anyways.

But y'all ain't really bout it LOL. Just complaining for complaining's sake.

Speak on it fam. I wonder if any of the brehs upset are gonna put their money where their mouth is and start a publication that will compete against all these Cac owned outlets

I guess time will tell

 

[Mike Otherz]

I was just getting ready to say this. In the 80's and 90's there was way more black writers in Hip Hop. Something happen around the 2000's and the Hipsters straight took over. It's like Hip Hop journalism was gentrified. KanYe was 100% right. It's not that white people or writers can't enjoy Hip Hop cause Music is universal but the messages in Hip Hop are specific to the Black Experience. The "Yeezus" reviews are perfect example. You had all these white writers saying if you didn't get it you don't understand music on a broader level, how pompus is that sh!t, lol. But Hip Hop in the streets was like "No Ye, you can do better, and we heard better". Like Tupac talked so much shyt about White people and racism. I'm sorry I don't see how a White Person can truely identify with Tupac's overall message because it was about Black Empowerment. It's not that a white person can't sympathize or even empathize but I don't see how they could understand it truely.

Sure Hip Hop is inclusive because Black people aren't like White People. We let people into the culture and let them use Hip Hop to tell there story but Hip Hop will always be about the Black American struggle period. I never tried to get with these magazines myself because I was discusted by some of the commentary I would read. The Drake Ghostwriting Drama was is exactly why I would never write for them. You had Hispsters trying to rewrite the rules of being a true Emcee. Blacks should start up their own Hip Hop magazines and channels again. The goal shouldn't be to work for Rollling Stone, Pitchfork etc. It's clear they don't care about Black people's opinions or their staff would reflect that.

good point but li!e chuck d said, evey brother ain't a bro

They put on for the Bay and for the South.



And Black Dog Bone is actually from the Slums of Sri Lanka.

But shyt, he ALWAYS only had nikkas reviewing his shyt and writing articles.

Damn sure wasn't no hipster cacs,

Pretty sure that mag was owned by a sri Lankan.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Nobody shytted on The Source until Benzino (who is half White) and Dave Mays (who is White) ruined it



Not when we're talking about Black culture!!!!

That would be like saying that a magazine about Native American culture only has 1% of their writers being Native American, but that's okay because there aren't that many Native Americans in the America.

Dude, it's OUR culture, WE are the ones who should be writing about it.

The fact you even have to explain this is absolutely embarrassing

 

[Mike Otherz]

Black twitter has made rap magazines irrelevant anyway. The beef was that coverage of black art was dominated by cacs but social media has given black people a voice. Coli a perfect example. I get better info and more principled arguments on here. I don't bread noisy or complex or pitchfork. Only time I hear about them is on here.

Shout out to honorable SKJ for the millionth al haymon mention. That dude had white money backing his attempted boxing network takeover but you will never hear skj mention that. According to him its all black money. .

 

[↓R↑LYB]

breh



First question before you go taking "The Coli's" moniker and starting YouTube Channels and magazines... is this forum owned by whites?

Yall about to run out here being reactive and let history repeat itself. Who owns this site?

Speak on it God

 

[↓R↑LYB]

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

Dead End Hip Hop

Cosign. I check out their YouTube channel on the regular. They have really good reivews

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Are nikkas starting something black owned but have a white women on twitter recruiting?

The shyt is absolutely fukking sickening man

 

[3rdWorld]

I remember reading a remark by a Black hip-hop journo way back that cacs were invading not just writing, but had found a way to push out Black graphics artists etc from the game too..
This shyt all started with rappers finding out from the label that their music videos were to be directed by some white kid..
Then next thing you know the video hoes are all white or Latina.
My question is how do we stop the rot?

 

[Joe Sixpack]

OP updated 2/17/16 @ 8:21 PM

Inspired by this tweet.

And this thread.
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/pitchfork-has-44-writers-only-4-are-black-update-t-l-o-p-9-10.241796/

Here's a run down of all of the black employees and these publications.
VICE
Employees of the month y'all.
February's Employees of the Month | VICE | United States

NO BLACK PEOPLE!

Complex
The Complex Staff Lists Their Favourite Songs And Albums Of 2015
4 black people work for complex.

Out of 24 total employees.

Rolling Stone
Top 25 Editor profiles at Rolling Stone Magazine | LinkedIn
0 black people work for Rolling Stone. Out of 25 editors.

Noisey (The Urban Music Branch of Vice)
Top 25 Editor profiles at Noisey | LinkedIn
2 out of 25

SPIN Magazine
SpinMedia - Staff
1 black person here...as a contributor.

and now the linkedin.
Top 25 Editor profiles at Spin | LinkedIn

The grand total? :2

GQ
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/gq-young-thug-is-an-atlien-and-the-best-rapper-alive-link.401337/

And how many black folks work there?


Top 25 Editor profiles at Gq | LinkedIn
1



So the grand total between pitchfork (4), rolling stone (0), vice (0), noisey (2) complex (4), SPIN (2), and GQ(1) is is...

13 black writers/editors....
TOTAL




BUT WAIT!!!! THERE'S MORE!
The FADER
2. Both black women.

XXL
Top 25 Editor profiles at Xxl | LinkedIn
5 black writers/editors

Pretty diverse staff, but again, black people are there are in the minority.


The Grammy Foundation
The Recording Academy
2.
Grammy Foundation

Yo Kanye be keepin way too one hunnid. I liked when he shytted on MTV and Taylor Swift. Ain't no way in the world that white girl can beat Beyonce in anything when it comes to music.. I like how he shytted on Beck too knowin damn well that his shyt is weak and his CAC ass can't fukk with Beyonce..
The Grammys and MTV can go fukk themselves thoses CACs don't know shyt about music

Black peole created every form of music in this damn country



fukk all these white publications they dont know shyt about black music they cant hear the blue note.

I'm ridin with Ye all day on this issue

 

[MouseTeeth]

This is why I can't give credence to any of these magazines