Is SPIN really circling the drain?

well i'm glad these two were able to start such a valuable dialogue

The women have spoken. They want to be referred to as ladies.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/awards/Australia%20Jerry%20Lewis.jpg

the song and the review are both not the best

lupe fiasco is not a woman tho

not defending the "mansplanation" angle, and i don't care for the lupe track

writer might want to think about the implications regarding other types of explanations delivered from a position of relative privilege tho

or not

Eh, it was a pretty fair critique.

it was disgraceful

tut tut

lmao this song

I guess I'm the one who feels disgraced. I really really enjoyed The Cool.

yeah it was a fine piece

im not going to get any more involved in this discussion for probably obvious reasons but I don't think that the response he got was ideal & that might have had something to do w/ how it was written.

would "the rain in spin circles mainly down the drain' be funnier?

idk im bad at display names

in memory of paul robeson! that video is insane. just watched it.

now i really don't want to hear the album. but that was...something.

if you change the title and take out the "lady better" part and uh rhyme better it wouldn't be...oh never mind.

"bitch bad" is a pretty dope song imo

though obviously the whole "lady better..... GREATEST MOTHERHOOD" party is cringeworthy

no shots, but when I saw #BoycottSpinMagazine was trending I figured it had something to do with br@nd0n s0d3b3rg lol

should have had trina do a guest verse.

he wants nicki minaj for the remix

m not going to get any more involved in this discussion for probably obvious reasons but I don't think that the response he got was ideal & that might have had something to do w/ how it was written.

― The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Friday, August 24, 2012 2:01 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol @ the idea of lupe fiasco (or pretty much any rapper, for that matter) taking into account the quality/effectiveness of a press slander when losing their shit over it & starting an internet boycott rally

yea brandon's entire persona is inherently/purposefully inflammatory most of the time but lol

this is a really good dissection of why the song and its message suck

http://daintyblackpegasus.tumblr.com/post/30109701002

also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBhXr1U-E78

did somebody really say that "99 Problems" "sensitively deconstructed" the use of the word "bitch"? that is my main question here

have quibbles w that daintyblackpegasus piece, but the gist is otm

did somebody really say that "99 Problems" "sensitively deconstructed" the use of the word "bitch"? that is my main question here

― steven fucking tyler (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, August 24, 2012 2:11 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no fucking way....also i mean i know this is corny and and old man rap to say but it's really annoying that no one ever gives credit to ice-t for the damn line in the first place.

Brandon Shackelford 3 hours ago
As a person named Brandon, I'm offended that a person named Brandon would write this biased and dismissive article over a great song/video.

this has sent major shockwaves through the brandon community, it's all over twitter

i liked when someone commented calling it a "b.s. article"

no fucking way....also i mean i know this is corny and and old man rap to say but it's really annoying that no one ever gives credit to ice-t for the damn line in the first place.

― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, August 24, 2012 2:15 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe he meant the pimp c-quoting line about 'ain't a bitch in a sense of having a pussy.' i wouldn't call it 'sensitively' but you could stretch that to being a deconstruction

i know you REAL HIP HOP HEADS only listen to "Snoopy Track" or whatever, but in the song "99 Problems," the three verses individually use the word "bitch" in the tag line to mean, respectively, 1. a derogatory term for a woman; 2. a female dog, 3. an effeminate man

the song does deconstruct the word but it's hardly "sensitive"

isnt that a misuse of deconstruction? idk

a song cant deconstruct something, deconstruction simply is, etc etc

idk i never went to grad school

even in the loosest sense, i would imagine that deconstruction involves more than pointing out that a word has multiple meanings

otm. wordplay can critique language, but it's a stretch too far to call 99 problems a "deconstruction" of the word bitch.

i know you REAL HIP HOP HEADS only listen to "Snoopy Track" or whatever, but in the song "99 Problems," the three verses individually use the word "bitch" in the tag line to mean, respectively, 1. a derogatory term for a woman; 2. a female dog, 3. an effeminate man

― Fareed Zaireeka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, August 24, 2012 2:44 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^woah that's amazing, i never notice that word could be used in those 3 ways before

verse one also implies critics bitching, tbf

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/08/24/spin_accuses_lupe_fiasco_of_mansplaining_with_bad_bitch_.html

think i'd quite like the awful 'rap in stuffy white person language' meme if that stuffy white person was derrida.

where's steve allen when you need him?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlzP-zPvtgo

that is not ned raggett by the way.

http://theworldsbestever.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/humpty-hump-head.jpg

thank you for ruining the internet

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

― scott seward, Friday, August 24, 2012 12:57 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

lol i really hope whiney tells us how much website traffic has jumped as a result of this "boycott"

maybe he meant the pimp c-quoting line about 'ain't a bitch in a sense of having a pussy.' i wouldn't call it 'sensitively' but you could stretch that to being a deconstruction

― The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Friday, August 24, 2012 3:42 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

this is a cheap gotcha but seriously how can you not know which member of the group said that line

lol i really hope whiney tells us how much website traffic has jumped as a result of this "boycott"

― some dude, Friday, August 24, 2012 4:59 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Lupe story is not even one of our two biggest traffic getters today, so....