Is SPIN really circling the drain?

wow this is fucking amazing

the comments on the piece are similarly amazing

this is called envy folks. For instance, the fact that he said Lupe has a "Lyrics over everything" attitude. The ONLY reason he says that is because he knows Lupe is an EXCELLENT lyricis

I really hope he makes the shirts

Me and my roommate totally disagree with this. Watch what you say ("Why must we continually endure Lupe Fiasco's half-baked conscious hip-pop?") because obviously you haven't seen much rap videos.

Mr. Soderberg, you literally made the biggest mistake of your career. This ignorant attempt at an article about one of the only rappers being real has caused everyone on twitter to wanna boycott spin magazine. You've awake a shit storm that I hope you take full consequences for.

http://www.kanyetothe.com/forum/index.php?topic=275801.0

that thread is gonna be amazing in 12 hours -- i love that forum

#BoycottSpin.com

^ for real though - tried to investigate this review and it fwded on to the Spin home page after I read the intro

eh, Spin is full of shit, don't we all know that?

*rests head on chin, leans forward in chair*

Lupe Fiasco ‏@LupeFiasco
Ay Yo @notrivia just wanna say was really taken aback by your article. But I respect your freedom of speech but stil #BoycottSpinMagazine

ahahaha that last sentence

Lupe Fiasco

whatever, j0rdan, it's a rag and has been for a looooooong time.

*takes a sip of tea, reclines*

http://hypervocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/AROD-EATS-IT.gif

http://www.spin.com/sites/all/themes/zen_spin/assets/images/about/brandon_soderberg.png

thanks for clearing things up

Please fire this person and the editor. Cause this is sad. Lupe is one of the forces keeping hip-hop's heart beating.

SPIN needs to be put out of its misery. It hasn't mattered since about 1988.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer)

Wow. This guy doesn't know anything about hip-hop. Also he has no respect to women and he's a racist.

that thread is gonna be amazing in 12 hours -- i love that forum

my favourite was when they had an argument over my ethnicity and thus which ethnic slurs they could use about me

haha wow

it was especially confusing cuz my byline photo was right there and was it not obvious? i mean, not that it's obvious but yeah o_0

The writer of this article is LOST or working with the Government!

As you can see the author already had bias against Lupe, since Lupe supports Palestine and the author is jewish...

I think I'll stop now.

nice ring to it

fuck this guy, fuck his view point. If he's black I'd be gob-smacked!

#BoycottSpinMagazine

I wont be back!

This guys whole article is discredited when he asks, "does any female want to be called "a lady"? Has he been missing? Has he never heard the saying, "Lady in the sheets, but a freak in the bed (sheets)?

that's "a whore in the street and a chef in the bed" iirc

no, sorry, I was thinking of the Bulletproof Wallets cover again

https://twitter.com/LupeFiasco/status/238847334820225024

#BrandonSoderberg...the most hated man in the true hip-hop community...you should go "spin" on someone's finger..#BoycottSpinMagazine

Jesus. Am I wrong to actually feel a bit shocked by this?
And by "this" I do not mean the stupidity of Lupe's fans but by Lupe's own conduct. I knew he was an idiot, but this is just so... disgraceful.

what's disgraceful? twittering?

i am not shocked by twitter allowing any celebrity to demonstrate their idiocy

i am...not shocked, but more depressed, by the reaction of the fans. feminism has a long way to go. it really is depressing that such basic things are not taken for granted.

Of course twitter is disgraceful. But more specifically, an artist using twitter to claim that someone who critiqued their music video actually is "degrading society" is disgraceful.

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/countygrind/2012/08/lupe_fiasco_shut_up_about_spin.php

yeah i don't know if disgraceful is the right word. juvenile? no offense to Juvenile.

all PR is good PR. good for lupe and good for spin.

i kinda want to hear the album. i've never listened to one of his albums.

see it worked!

i'm boycotting spin for using the word mansplain.

Mansplain is a horrible horrible word.

it's certainly not a word that men should use in order to justify long-winded explanations

spin thing kinda sucks. read the whole thing. i'm with lupe. if you already obviously hate someone your hatred of their new thing isn't gonna read very well.

I am a man and I shave my mansplain

i think it's more that lupe's idea of "having a conversation about bitch" is everyone praising him and thanking him for writing a song where he tackles the word "bitch." and sure, it's laudable enough, but once someone criticized his execution he was more or less done with the "conversation" part

i just have a problem with the execution of the criticism.

That's what's so disgraceful. His ego is showing.

just disgraceful