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

[Unknown Poster]

I shot for complex a few times. They pay good money but I didn't see any blacks there and it was a cac who got me the job.

Did shyt with fader and vice but they were always freelance gigs. Never been offered a permanent job.




Not sure why you hate on white organizations tho.., where are the black organizations giving opportunities?

I mean there is some guy a few posts up campaigning for non paid work.

I'm cool on that

Yeah, I know you have done work for some of these publications.

And I'll just say this, I went into this thread going with what I knew and just with how the industry has been from my perspective....and I actually visited VICE's office on Kent Ave near the Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn a couple of weeks ago,.

Sometimes when I make threads liek these I hope that my suspicions are proved false, but that visit proved them to be true unfortunately.

Other than the black female security guard I saw at the front door of Vice's one story office building, there were NO other black people there.

That's why I hate on these white organizations.

It's obvious they have no problem with us being in front of the cameras...showing off our music, our style, our slang, our culture..

But when it comes to US working for them it's always the same thing...

-Thanks for applying with us, we'll get back to you when we make our decision.
-Thanks for applying with us, we selected the candidates for the job and unfortunately you weren't a fit for our current staff organization.


Just excuses to say NO. Cause they are control freaks. Like @thatdude901 said in his post.
They want to explouit black culture for a black. They dont' give a fukk about black peopel as people. Just as sources of entertainment.

It doesn't matter how "down" they say they are, how many gucci mane songs they know, how many times they traveled to Jamaica to smoke weed, or how much they say they love thier non-white significant other. They just want control, domination, and the final word when it comes to black artforms. They just as racist as their parents and grandparents. Don't let the "I voted for Bernie" freewheeling white liberal schtick over-compass that.

 

[Unknown Poster]

It's disgusting

But at the same time I don't really remember getting any money from black folks in the entertainment/media industry.

To be honest a lot of black people in these industries including the entertainers are c00ns and would rather give money to their useless homies or white people or Asians. I see it all the time.

I worked with a bunch of people for peanuts before they were famous but once they got paper they had upgrade to white folks.

Sad but true. There's too much of this. The idea of creating anything black owned and operated scares them. They don't want to be associated with it for fear that their non-black counterparts will call them "racist" so they put on that fake "we are the world" lets work with everybody multi-cultural spiel...it's pathetic and disheartening that some black people don't want to support black people.

 

[Unknown Poster]

So... yal ain't hear about how Ebony hasn't been paying their black writers that have done cover stories for them?


I saw an article yesterday about it. Chance's cover is coming up and he shouted out some of the people he worked with on the cover and people started going off about how Ebony hasn't paid them for work.

EDIT: http://thegrapevine.theroot.com/ebonyowes-ebony-magazine-is-blocking-writers-they-sti-1795683051

That's a link to what I'm talking about

Black journalists are getting fukked over at a time where black journalism is more needed than ever.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Yeah, this has been going on for over a month. Ever since Ebony got bought out back in 2011, they've been hot garbage. So folks aren't losing sleep of them going down the drain.

It's probably been going on longer than a month. Seems to be that this is par for course when you're black in journalism.

@UpAndComing you was right breh. Black folks be busting their ass to get ten degrees and a three page resume for these white companies only for these employers to hire their buddy Phil so they can have a weed connect at work.


even in that Joe Budden/Akademiks clip they showed where Joe was barking at Angel, it's obvious from their body language and mannerism they still are very uncomfortable around black people and harbor racist resentments toward us even though black music is what they make money from.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Call me a hater, but I have not watched 1 fukking episode of that Everyday struggle show. I refuse to give Complex my views. Especially after all of the stuff I've said about them. Sad that just because they got one of us in front of the camera you're going to overlook their colonialist fukkery. I haven't. I can't.


This is why I be emphasizing the idea of "show negroes" in the entertainment industry.

And that's the black person that's trotted out in front of a camera to make audiences feel and think that something is black owned and operated when it's not. This is the shyt Dr. Umar Johnson be talking about. Black folks are easily fooled I hate to say it, we think because we see someone that looks like us representing their organization that they actually fukk with us. How fukked up is it that I have a better chance as a black person of being on Complex as a RAPPER or Athlete than as an average black college graduate professional with a degree working for/with them behind the scenes?

 

[Stir Fry]

What's the backstory on Ambrosia For Heads? They're the only hip hop site i mess with because I randomly added them as a facebook follow a while back.

 

[mson]

Yeah, I know you have done work for some of these publications.

And I'll just say this, I went into this thread going with what I knew and just with how the industry has been from my perspective....and I actually visited VICE's office on Kent Ave near the Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn a couple of weeks ago,.

Sometimes when I make threads liek these I hope that my suspicions are proved false, but that visit proved them to be true unfortunately.

Other than the black female security guard I saw at the front door of Vice's one story office building, there were NO other black people there.

That's why I hate on these white organizations.

It's obvious they have no problem with us being in front of the cameras...showing off our music, our style, our slang, our culture..

But when it comes to US working for them it's always the same thing...

-Thanks for applying with us, we'll get back to you when we make our decision.
-Thanks for applying with us, we selected the candidates for the job and unfortunately you weren't a fit for our current staff organization.


Just excuses to say NO. Cause they are control freaks. Like @thatdude901 said in his post.
They want to explouit black culture for a black. They dont' give a fukk about black peopel as people. Just as sources of entertainment.

It doesn't matter how "down" they say they are, how many gucci mane songs they know, how many times they traveled to Jamaica to smoke weed, or how much they say they love thier non-white significant other. They just want control, domination, and the final word when it comes to black artforms. They just as racist as their parents and grandparents. Don't let the "I voted for Bernie" freewheeling white liberal schtick over-compass that.

VICE has some black people working for them. I went there for an interview a couple months back. They're obviously not the majority.

 

[GoldenGlove]

The Coli 'could' be competing with all these publications/sites if we organized some things in order to do so...

The content is here... And the talent is here... We got people EVERYWHERE

There are posters here who know far more than these popping sites. That's why we easily pick apart all the lazy lists and other miscellaneous articles they shyt out on the regular.

 

[mson]

The Coli 'could' be competing with all these publications/sites if we organized some things in order to do so...

The content is here... And the talent is here... We got people EVERYWHERE

There are posters here who know far more than these popping sites. That's why we easily pick apart all the lazy lists and other miscellaneous articles they shyt out on the regular.

I tried to get something popping.

 

[Flywin Lannister]

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

Inspired by this tweet.

And this thread.
Pitchfork has 44 writers only 4 are black.. UPDATE** T.L.O.P 9/10

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!

UPDATE: 4/10/16

NOW I see alot of y'all still talking about Vice, making threads about them noisey ATL, CHIRAQ, Miami, etc documenatries with rappers but look at that and then take a look at these articles and then put two and two together to find out why Vice has no black people on their staff.
Google


A Historical Guide To Hipster Racism
Understanding Hipster Racism: Lester Bangs' 1979 "White Noise Supremacists"

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
GQ: Young Thug Is an ATLien (and the best rapper alive) [link]

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

BUZZFEED
BuzzFeed

4 out of 94 employees

This is their video team for their US offices.



Credit: @Mr swag

Last edited: 17 minutes ago

This is not exactly eye-opening, but a great reminder. Some take aways:

Name another race that invents something and then someone else runs it, owns it, controls it, distributes it.... other than black people I mean.

It's 2017. We are fukking amazing at infighting, even killing each other, discussing and all WORKING FOR white people, who hire semi-black people (you know the type of lightskin dudes who are hood enough to know a hit when they hear it, but sniff coke and hang with white people exclusively) to control the black people who create the black music that gives the white owners their million dollar lifestyle.

It's 2017 and we as black people have not figured out that WITHOUT US.. there is no fukking Hip-Hop, Pop.

It's 2017. What the fukk do we own?

THEY own us. So THEY even decide what to FUKKING WRITE about us.

We are just standing on the side line of our own fukking game.

Can you really blame these rhythmless white dudes and dudettes? No. We ALLOW this. As long as we have a nice necklace and car, we are fukking GOOD because we are doing better than the other nikkaz.

And not one of us is thinking 'I want to do better than the richest white motherfukker on the planet.'.

Let's keep ridiculing our FAMOUS black leaders like.. let's see Jay-Z. Why doesn't he fukk with hood azz nikkaz and why is he meeting with Presidents and Mark Zuckerberg? BECAUSE NIKKAS want to show off.. for other NIKKAS. While white people do not GIVE A SINGLE FUKK about what black people think... because they fukking own us. We are watching the NBA Finals. Black people will decide the outcome of these finals. But who owns the TV station? Who owns the league? Who owns the teams? White people.

We are so fukking caught up in our own bullshyt that we don't own the fukking things we dominate and invented.

Sad, sad, sad state of affairs. But hey.. let's focus on dissing other nikkas and fukking their girls and buying this or that chain or whatever PETTY AZZ FUKKING BULLshyt drives the average hood azz nikka.

Fukk.. get it to FUKKING gether..

 

[Flywin Lannister]

I tried to get something popping.

And.. what happened?

 

[mson]

And.. what happened?

The owners seemed interested at first. But when I showed them something concrete and asked for their input, they stopped responding to me cold turkey. That same idea is being thrown around in the locker room right now. I guess that poster was more convincing.

 

[Flywin Lannister]

The owners seemed interested at first. But when I showed them something concrete and asked for their input, they stopped responding to me cold turkey. That same idea is being thrown around in the locker room right now. I guess that poster was more convincing.

What's the idea? And why would you let someone else's non-response stop you from pursuing it on your own with other people? You're talking about the potential YouTube show?

 

[Larry]

I work for All Def Digital











cats out of the bag...









anyone else here work for a publication?

 

[mson]

What's the idea? And why would you let someone else's non-response stop you from pursuing it on your own with other people? You're talking about the potential YouTube show?

I can't say I fully stopped. But it definitely slowed me down immensely. Using this site with its already built in traffic was something I was hoping for/kind of relying on.