The last 24 hours have been dramatic to say the least. From Lecrae getting dragged for nodding along to a white pastor’s “blessing of slavery” comments to Eminem impersonator Chris D’Elia being accused of being a “pedophile” to J. Cole’s controversial “Snow On Tha Bluff” single, the Hip Hop community has had several topics to dissect on Twitter — including Cole and Kendrick Lamar.
On Wednesday (June 17) — which happens to be K. Dot’s birthday — both MCs became trending topics as Twitter attempted to cancel them for their perceived silence on the Black Lives Matter movement.
With the catalyst clearly being “Snow On Tha Bluff” and Cole’s alleged Noname “diss,” people were enraged their “favorite rappers” weren’t using their platforms to speak up against racism and police brutality.
But it isn’t working.
A cascade of tweets have poured in vehemently defending Cole and Kendrick. Many point out the hypocrisy of criticizing two artists who have historically used their music to highlight racial injustice and the plight of Black people across the globe — especially when they’ve been joining the protests in their respective cities.
J. Cole Responds To 'Snow On Tha Bluff' Backlash: 'Follow Noname'
Cole participated in one in Fayetteville, North Carolina in May, while Kendrick was spotted at a George Floyd protest in Compton earlier this month.
Meanwhile, others are adamant Cole is nothing close to a “misogynist” and was simply speaking his truth.
Check out some of the reactions below.
Cole calling white folks crakkers and nobody cares
Man, black people are never happy with others and with ONE ANOTHER. what do you want?! Free Nikes and Air Jordans?!
The free Nike and Jordans already happened. See; “peaceful riots”
This isn’t just black people. White people are the main ones pushing this ignorant shit too in social media on all kinds of issues.
Fuck people honestly. Happy birthday K-Dot too.
Why does it matter what a bunch of nobodies think? Social media has gone as far as making people commit suicide which is why I don’t fuck with any of those services. Didn’t Kendrick say, “I don’t do it for the Gram, I do it for Compton.” He ain’t listen to any of you social media, no life havin’ losers.
This generation is so lost. So because K Dot and J Cole don’t speak on the George Floyd murder they’re canceled now? It’s that easy huh? Both artist have been speaking on these issues way before this wave of protests. While other mainstream artist were continuing to make club music to chase sales, Cole and Kendrick made conscious music to open eyes even though it hurts their sales. Lupe literally made a conscious masterpiece in Drogas Wave but I doubt many supported it. But folks getting mad because they haven’t said anything recently. You can’t make crabs happy.
Not to mention that neither of them is on social media like that. Like these are two of the more popular rappers of this time that I never see “X tweeted” headlines about. But they are in trouble because they didn’t tweet instead of actually make music that will reach people who you want to hear this message. Like wtf? That’s like if you were saying in the 90s that mofo doesn’t talk about this shit in his interviews like he does on wax, so I ain’t fucking with him. Ass backward as fuck but that’s this generation.
Fuck off Twitter, you don’t have any right tell someone what they should and shouldn’t talk about. BLM doesn’t need to occupy every waking thought, they’re getting plenty of attention as it is. And enough with this “cancel” stupidity… You’re a bunch of cry baby brats with too much ego and zero perspective.
This younger generation is really screwed in the head. Don’t nothing mean anything unless it’s on social media. Pathetic
Cancel culture is getting out of hand.
Cancel Twitter. Cancel all social media.
Cole and Kendrick spoke about this shit before it was trending smh. Cancel Social Media
Lol that doesn’t mean they’re not misogynistic wtf?
Cole praised 69 and XXX but has something to say to Noname? Sounds like he’s a spineless coward who doesn’t value Black woman. Gtfoh.
Cole was out there marching on the frontlines. Dafuq they talking about?
The internet has created a sensitive culture who cries racism or #metoo everytime they don’t get their way. No one wants to work hard anymore, just riot and collect unemployment.
So this will be one more person they’re unsuccessful at cancelling.
Cancel culture will play itself. Wait until someone is actually deserving of being cancelled. A true “racist” or a true “pedo”. The cancel calls will only fade into obscurity due to how many people have been subject to canceling. Looks like the boy who cried wolf has taught hip hop and twitter users nothing. Keep “canceling” people, and when time comes to actually cancel someone, no one will care
No one ever gets cancelled tho. Who lost a record deal ? Breezy battered riri and kept his career n muny. pedis and r***STS all keep their career n muny. Except Weinstein and r. Kelly n Bill Cosby. But that’s cus in prison. Not cus “cancelled”.
Shorty is a keyboard activist and had the nerve to try and call out Cole & K. Dot when they were just on the frontlines protesting in their cities and their whole catalogue is about the plight of Black people and uplifting them. Just another stupid miserable b*tch with a bunch of dumb ass followers. Her or her followers are cancelling nothing! LoL
Everyone on Twitter needs to kill them selves. Problem solved.
black folks r turning into cry babies- always complaining about something stfu already ure embarrassing urselfs every day
CLOWN ASS MOTHERFUCKERS
First the community goes in on LL saying he got no buiness saying something now they going in on K.Dot and J. Cole for not being vocal enough. Ya’ll bi-polar AF
Cancel Cole and Lamar but Iggy Azalea, Post Malone and all of the other culture vultures get a pass huh? How about when Bieber said that racist shit and Wayne, TI, Chris Brown, and Mayweather came tobhis defense? I don’t see y’all cancelling them. Too many bandwagon militants out here. Fake ass for the moment ass clowns. We need to cancel y’all asses, weak mfs!
Because those never marketed selves as woke messiahs making millions and getting Grammies for being (wat we knew was fake b.s but let slide for decades) caring about black lives. Wen it RLLY matters they deliberately SILENT. They exist to distract and divide the movement. Marketed selves as leaders to make MILLIONS. Now Cole says “yeh wat she said follow her”. If she a leader he needs to DO wat she says. Use his list to mobilize, Millions of his followers and their networks to protest, petition, organize. We let it slide but now it matters. He happy to wait another 60 years for next uprsiing. In real world we can’t wait we ain’t rich celebs .
J Cole and Kendrick marketed themselves for decades as woke genius Messiah leaders. Many ppl knew was b.s but let slide. But now Wen poor ppl are getting battered by police . And Protestors are ONLY reason things being listened to for decades.. jcole and kdot and j elec are too gud to say BLM. Too mysterious, genius, superior, think they too gud to help. Doing photo op at a rallies don’t cut it. They have Millions followers. If they did want to help they wud mobilise their lists to petition, donate, protest. Mobilise millions. Instead they as ONE individual attend protest. Failing to mobilise their followers. This is strategy and tactics. They take up space. They take up airtime. Dordecades marketing aelfs as woke messiahs. Then having carved out space they hold back movement by using up all that space to be SILENT.
I know I’m over a year late to this but i just need to say sumn to you. A protest is more effective than a tweet correct? Now if you are at a protest and you spot one of your favorite rappers, are you not going to want to talk to them, or take a picture, or get an autograph or something? The reason some celebrities would rather hide their actions is to not draw attention to themselves and to allow people to focus on the problem at hand. The same people that were trying to cancel Cole &Kendrick are the same people who didn’t participate in protest’s and only posted a #BLM tweet or two and changed their social media pfp to the BLM symbol and well thats about it. Kendrick and Cole have written plenty of songs about racial injustice for YEARS and they were deemed as boring, but all of a sudden people are trying to cancel them. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE!
Anyone trying to “Cancel “ Kendrick & J. Cole clearly doesn’t give a Shi.t about Any of the Issues going on Right now,
must be in the bizarro World when people want to get Rid of 2 of the few real voices and give a pass to every 2020 Stephen Fetchit / Sleep N Eat Rapper because they hoped on Twitter
clowns using Social Media / Internet just to complain and b.itch and cry with fake outrage Acting like Their Righteousness Is genuine and not A facade for their Sh.it life
If all these Celebrities/ People of Influence actually cared about this issue ,not Just when it was the cool outrage of the month changes would have happened years ago
Cancel culture is corny, especially when there’s real bullshit out there that must be cancelled: rappers with ghostwriters, rappers with no talent being signed, gangbangin’, police brutality, racism, poverty, misogyny, & gentrification.
I was with the first four words that you wrote. The rest is drenched with typical retardation. But I’ll just shred one of your weak complaints: When white people move into a neighborhood, it’s called gentrification. When White people leave, it’s called white flight. So White people are racists no matter what they do? Nice philosophy!
people are fucking stupid and trying to find any reason to “cancel” people because they have miserable pitiful meaningless lives. its fucking pathetic. fuck off already.
Twitter is the worst invention in the history of mankind. It should be cancelled .
Wale must’ve started that shit
Cancel Cole & Kendrick?? Fuck all yall trying to do that. Cole & Kendrick dont have to explain their blackness to anyone! No one knows what charities they contribute or what they do, maybe its lowkey so they dont attract attention to themselves… Not everyone does shit for clout. It’s like were turning against each other and NOT focusing on the problem.
There’s a reason these goofies failed to cancel them!