Jamaican Dancehall Artist Bounty Killer Defends Gwen Stefani Wearing Locs: "Jamaican Girls Would Rather Wear Brazilian Weaves Than Dreadlocks"

[Nkrumah Was Right]

Gwen Stefani 52yr old azz do dancehall music now?

The fact that a label thought it was marketable says a lot.

She’s been doing lite ska forever. The label was probably like,

“Well, so long as you’re not doing lover’s rock.”

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

Cultural appropriation is definitely real, but this always been a glass house argument.

I don’t see black people in the West rejecting Western fashion norms…

 

[KingsOfKings]

I meannn

 

[Dad]

I don’t see black people in the West rejecting Western fashion norms…

Like what?

 

[Vandelay]

I don’t see black people in the West rejecting Western fashion norms…

Admittedly, I buy a ton of European and American fashion. There hasn't been a black fashion house I've worn in about 13 years.

Art and media is where it's problematic. Black folk set the trends in all of it, yet we don't get a lionshare of the revenue/wealth from it.

 

[Cadillac]

I don’t see black people in the West rejecting Western fashion norms…

Black Americans set the fashion trends, i cant speak for the others of african descent in other places

i assume by your username you some african, who thinks we should be wearing some dashikis or ABIDE BY African fashion norms? huh

 

[Back&4th]

She’s been doing lite ska forever. The label was probably like,

“Well, so long as you’re not doing lover’s rock.”

Damn since 1986

 

[invalid]

Madonna "inventing" voguing when Black and Puerto Rican non-Harlemites had been doing elements of it for years, for example.

The dance form known as voguing started in the late 1980s, but its roots can be traced back to Harlem's drag ballroom competitions as early as the 1920s.

writers posters culturally misappropriating Harlem indeed.

 

[ORDER_66]

Bounty killa is right

As sad as that is I cannot disagree...

 

[Roger king]

I agree, i dont like the idea of gate keeping a certain hairstyle or fashion choice. I have no problem with white women wearing locs or dreads just as i dont have an issue with black women wearing blonde wigs, let people wear what makes them happy, they aren't harming anyone. This are far important issues than this

 

[At30wecashout]

Gwen been doing reggae





This has been officially the "cry baby era"

Reggae and Ska. It is literally all I know her for before she went solo...even in her solo efforts, lots of Reggae influences.

 

[Family Lives Matter]

Why deal with real issues plaguing the black community when we can focus on cacs hair

 

[get these nets]

writers posters culturally misappropriating Harlem indeed.

Guilty as charged. hehehehehe

You lifted the lid off the "not from Harlem" tag years ago here by pointing out the non-Harlem like component of the literary movement, among other areas.

Spoiler

RICHARD BRUCE NUGENT​

And by coincidence, where is Mr Nugent from?

Spoiler

It's just funny shorthand term now.

 

[Elim Garak]

More stuff that no one cares about in real life lol

Facts lol.

 

[invalid]

Black Americans set the fashion trends, i cant speak for the others of african descent in other places

i assume by your username you some african, who thinks we should be wearing some dashikis or ABIDE BY African fashion norms? huh

And when we do
Africans will turn around
and culturally appropriate
AA’s “woke” call-out culture
And call us out
For wearing tribal patterns
Of tribes we don’t culturally belong to
While culturally appropriating ADOS lingo
Telling ADOS to
“Keep that same energy”







All of this is just stupidity.
Fools following fools.
The blind following the blind.