The Spike Lee / Chance The Rapper feud continued yesterday after the director called the Chicago rapper “a fraud.” Lee was speaking at Northwestern University and has been promoting his recent film, Chi-Raq, a satire of gang life in Chicago.
“Come on now This guy promoting this offensive unsuccessful flop of a movie … about the Southside…in fucking Evanston…” Chance says in a series of tweets, referencing the town that the college is located in. “And then get mad when students at the screening challenge him on his sexist, and RACIST movie and he wanna point the finger at me. Boy. You are a lame. But more importantly a liar. Now stop tweeking for I get to releasing audio of you begging me to be in that trash ass movie.”
Lee reportedly asked Kanye West, another Chicago rapper, to be in the film. Nick Cannon portrayed the lead role in Chi-Raq.
Check out the Spike Lee / Chance The Rapper feud below:
(This story was first published on March 8, 2016 and is as follows.)
During a talk at Northwestern University last week, Spike Lee dissed Chance The Rapper.
“Chance the Rapper’s a fraud,” Lee said, according to North by NORTHWESTERN. “Straight-up fraud. He puts himself up as a speaker of the people, but that means you have to put truths that you see. That doesn’t mean you can pick and choose what you talk about.”
Chance The Rapper, whose father is the deputy chief of staff and director for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office of public engagement, has been critical of Chi-Raq, the 2015 film that Lee directed and co-wrote. The film is “A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago,” according to IMDB. In the film, the female characters enact a sex strike in order to try to curb violence in the city.
Chance The Rapper said during a December interview that Lee exploited Chicago for his own gain.
“He got his little $15 million from Amazon and his other little bread from Lionsgate and made a movie that was not about Chicago but manipulated and used Chicago actors and Chicago scenery to push this movie,” the rapper said at the time. “It was an oversimplification of a bigger problem. He wasn’t really focusing on the issues of Chicago, it wasn’t really about Chicago. To me, it was about this age-old conversation of Black-on-Black violence, which is to me some Bill Cosby ‘pull up your pants’ stuff. I’m just not for it.”
For goodness sake it was a satire thats what the movie was
Not enough senseless violence in it to appeal to blacks. There’s actually like, art, and dialogue in it. They wanted a movie that glorified violence in Chicago instead of clowning it. But maybe, just maybe, if violence was looked at as FOOLISH in the black community instead of PRAISE-WORTHY, it might change something.
I’m black, and I live in one of the worst areas in America. I’m not a racist by any stretch of the word. I’m just being honest. I know it hurts, and that’s why WE get defensive about it. But instead of being in denial about OUR people, we have to start bringing this ignorance to the forefront and speaking on it. I can’t speak on the Iraq war cause I wasn’t there. But I can speak on the hood, cause in the trenches homie. Peace.
Of course white people LIKED Chi-Raq. Bad B8 M8
Why do people come to hip hop sites and spew racist hatred? You just wanna steal their culture, but their community and lives are to be demonized? Hey dummy, you never listened to violent music (bullshit, youre on a hip hop site) or watched a violent movie (bullshit, I can tell youre american too)? Theres nothing more beloved in America than violence. So stop condescending a whole race when thats American culture and socioeconomics, not black skin. When is violence ever looked at as foolish in mainstream culture? Did you watch the news when we were killing hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis? Who was calling it foolish? We glorified the shit out of it, if you weren’t for the war, you werent American. So cut your hypocritical racist bullshit, you make the rest of us white people who love and cherish black culture look bad. And I know I’ll never get 11 likes like the old hateful narrative, but fuck it
CHIRAQ is pure garbage
Chirac niggas can suck a dick they all gay as fuck
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Chance the Rapper is a lame. Dude is acting like black on black violence is a boring conversation that shouldnt even be talked about. This guy is stupid as fuck and is a little trustfund baby who’s probably never even seen the hood.
Chicago had a gang problem before blacks got involved is what he’s saying
Lol..He’s jus a pawn in Hollywood.. What black man that’s truly for his people would say some b.s.? like its really nothing to keep talking about.. Really Chance..?? If we don’t start by not killing off each other how the hell are we suppose to not assume that the police is just “helping us out”? Dude is whack as hell!
You guys are totally misunderstanding the point. Chance is arguing that the older generation of black celebrities have often scolded the younger generation for making the race look bad, but do absolutely nothing to understand their experiences and the variables that contribute to issues like poverty, violence, teen pregnancy, etc. There are wider social systems that impact the nature of these issues and Chance is arguing that the same old “pick up your pants” (AKA victim blaming, telling young blacks its their fault) instead of addressing the systemic racism that spawns these results. Women withholding sex to stop the violence? THATS CONDESCENDING! People get violent for money to eat, feed their families. Hey Spike, why not make a movie about the way in which Chicago became as bad as it is through the policies against blacks by the city and America as a whole. Look at the real reasons Chicago is that way. Oh wait, that doesnt make for a million dollar Hollywood movie! Who’s the fraud really?
Do the work to research and empathize so a solution can be worked toward instead of blaming the next generation and telling them it’s their actions that gave them this fate. Its not. It’s redline districting by Mayor Daly. Continuous budget cuts, particularly on the South Side. A long history of oppression and racist policies that are totally ignored. All Chance is asking is to make a movie that really represents his city instead of acting like the problems in the Southside are all black people’s fault and they can change it if they just behave right (white), like Chiraq is suggesting and Cosby did before him.
spike lees been a fraud messing with my nba2k experience with racial undertones and hey i get to play as a white black guy named frequency vibrations who gets talked down to by the white people in general in the game and his white coach who says he cant do certain things because he owns you or something to that nature…..spike lee cant even write a basketball game… that doesnt revolve around racist whites…and its funny because the couple movies he didn’t make like this were good inside man…25th hour his best movie imo……besides chances musics bumping …hes smart and its true what he said age old black on black violence where i think it is important to be discussed analyzed critiqued …..spike lee is not the man for the job any more or ever was….and has profited from sensationalized racism and exploitation of the black experience… and yeah it is bill cosby like pull your pants up.. how doesnt anyone see that
This is a perfect reaction.
I’m a dark skinned hispanic. I am black. and I def found that offensive. I started skipping the scenes. Like EFF this!
we got bigger problems than some rapper disagreeing with your views. move on and keep putting out important messages for the youth to understand. Shit like this makes you look like an angry old man ranting instead of a role model!
never seen this movie and I honestly could care less…..but chance the condom wrapper is awful regardless so he can go to hell as well..
real talk hopefullySpike dont KATT WILLIAMED anywhere now cold world not cole world
Can’t wait for “The Real Chi-Raq” directed by Quintin Tarantino comes out. 0_o
I like both these negros an the work they put out. Not sure why Spike is butt hurt over the rapper he really should know better. Anyways we need some black on black love in these streets..be peaceful yall
Who wants to suck my cock?
This kid is a trustfund baby with a $5 million inheritence trying to say someone else doesnt know about the hood. I really wanna spit on this ugly kid
I’m from chicago and this is one of the worse movies i have ever seen..period
Worse? Worse than what?
Anybody could tell it was p.o.s just by watching the trailer. LOL
Worse than anything. It really is a piece of shit movie and nick cannon playing a gangster rapper is as bad as him trying to be a rapper.
Chance the rapper talkin about “little” 15 mill? Like hes even seen milli. This chance dude is a goof .
He’s worth a mill and has 5 in inheritance money from his uncle Demetrius Flenory but he doesn’t like talking about that.
Im fairly sure you got that mixed up m8
Spike is REEEEEEAAACCCHHHHHIINNNNNNN!!!!!!!
All BS aside, Spike is still pissed off about the success of Straight Outta Compton and did Chi-Raq as a way to throw shade.
He’s not fooling anyone with those comments.
Worse than any movie that’s come out in the last five years…literally
Chance the crapper is an idiot little trust fund pussy, who paid cash to put himself on, little pussy shitstain.
Yeah Spike why didn’t you do a Chi-raq, Menace to Society style? You know change 0-Dog to Lil’ B or some nonsense, throw a lot of shootin’ , blood, n.. this, n.. that, b this, b that and instead of saggin’ khakis, have saggin’ tight jeans, and emo thugs, you know that would be dope. Chance knows what he is talking about he’s the realest killer in Chi, his uncle is friend of a friend of a friend of another friend’s cousin of a friend who did 17 years for murder, so he knows what he’s talking about. Negro please.