Posted on 09/06/2005 10:30:39 PM PDT by freedom44
Rap mogul Jay-Z is standing behind Def Jam colleague Kanye West in the wake of the latter's comments during Friday's telethon to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina. As previously reported, West declared that "George Bush doesn't care about black people" and that America is set up "to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off as slow as possible."
"I'm backing Kanye 100%," Jay-Z tells Billboard by phone from London. "This is America. You should be able to say what you want to say. We have freedom of speech."
Jay-Z admits he shares some of West's views about the slow response to the disaster. "It's really numbing," he says. "You can't believe it's happening in America. You wonder, what's going on? Why were people so slow to react? I don't understand it."
Although Jay-Z says he hasn't "spoken to anyone about doing a concert event" to benefit Katrina victims, he says he wants to speak with Sean "Diddy" Combs about starting a fund exclusively to aid African-Americans in times of crisis. "Just in case anything like this happens in the future, we can do what the elder Bush and [former President Bill] Clinton are doing for our people specifically."
No one should watch until things change,The only way to get results is by taking action.Don't watch.When rating are down,their change their tune.
I guess those young children raped and murdered meant nothing to Jay-Z and Kanye.
/B> Of course not. They're part of the words in a new song most likely.
If he does that some random white person should sue for racial descrimination. Gota love how PC always says that descrimation is always a one way stree with the poor oppressed black man always being the one short changed.
"I'm backing Kanye 100%," Jay-Z tells Billboard by phone from London. "This is America. You should be able to say what you want to say. We have freedom of speech."
I guess by "we" he's talking of blacks, cause it's for true that whites have no such freedom.
For the MONEY, of course----
"The crap that comes out these idiots mouths would carry far less weight if we just ignored it..."
The rapper-racist serves a culture that has 80% of its children born out of wedlock and 50% of its males either in prison, on probation, or awaiting trial. We've lost 2 or 3 generations of african-americans b/c of primitives like him.
Kanye West who?
Your own brotha sold you out.
No buses, no planning, and a lot of dead people.
I think there really is a prejudice against Southerners in general. I think if a disaster hit the Hamptons, the fed assistance would've poured in lightning fast.
Duz Any1 Kare?! NO!
Get this filth out of here!
Jay-Z's face reminds me of a fat cabbage patch doll face. He be one ugly mo fo.
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