UPDATED 9/18/12: Petition Created| CEO Universal Music Group: Pull the 2 Chainz “Birthday Song” video from the airwaves | Change.org http://chn.ge/VaAaGi
By Norm Bond, www.BlackEconomicDevelopment.com
The song is actually owned by Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s largest recording company, boasting about 20 record labels including Island Def Jam, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, and Motown Records. They also own the largest catalog of recorded music in the world and reign as the world’s largest publishing house. The company did a cool $68 billion in revenue in 2011. As for Grainge, in 2011 he enjoyed a 114.5 percent rise in his pay to $16.3 million dollars.
Here’s the video:
Why is this song inside your ears and in front of your eyeballs?
Because, as Nuala asserts, Grainge and his team of senior executives produce, market, distribute and profit from it. In this game 2 Chainz, Kanye West are the pawns, like monkeys who dance for the organ grinder, they are the tools of the trade – necessary in order to capture the real consumer dough for their owner. They have chosen to literally “sell-out” culture, values, and respect of women of color. But they didn’t stop there.
Did you notice the children in the video? How about Kanye towing the stripper cake with the over-sized fake boobs? What about the filth in the house as the East Indian man guzzles his 40 while ogling the big-butt hoes? These are some of the messages that will be transmitted around the globe.
Cabral says, “women of color being degraded, dehumanized and reduced to ASS — is nothing new. We live in a world where black and brown women’s bodies have been exploited since slavery.” She continues, “Mr. Grainge, as CEO of the largest music company in America, be clear that you, your senior executives and board members are contributing to a legacy of exploitation“.
So how do we end it? The only way is to stop consuming the product. Pause the exploitation by reducing profits, market share, and brand loyalty. Women of color, and others that feel this is too far over the line — will have to organize and hit the industry in the wallet. Stop buying the music and stop supporting the artists on all levels. Concerts, merchandise, record sales, downloads, ringtones, and any other economic ventures.
If you’re not willing to do that, “Birthday Song” will not be the bottom, in fact you may look back and see it as the high point in respecting women of color. Cabral has made a start. What say you?
The Ancestors are weeping and so will these bastards of our race.
This is the same stuff Bill Cosby was talking about. So busy popping your fingers to some bull that youre stuck on stupid while others are making money off your stupidity. SMH.
This is sooooooo sad. Our race has been reduced to,
with this latest generation especially, a manless species
[no disrespect intended -- thank God for the exceptions
like you and so many Brothers I know, but generally
speaking......we've in big trouble as a people].
Black women have no one to love and honor us, and we,
all too often, do not see ourselves worthy of honoring,
loving and respecting, thus the “booty hos,” the extreme
hair weaves, street walker attire, low self esteem, feeling
unworthy of love, honor and appreciated respect.
The videos of these pathetic little boys and girls is sadly
reminiscent of the documentary I saw part of on television
either yesterday or a few days ago about the cruel and
barbaric mutiliation of female genitalia still being practiced
in Africa. This particular video focused on Mali.
It was so heart wrenching to my spirit that I could not
watch it in full. It featured these women voluntarily lining
their small daughters up in droves to be circumcised, aka,
mutililated, because they were of the opinion that their
daughters would not be “suitable for marriage” or able
to find husbands if ithey were not rendered as objects
for potential “husbands” who obviously have no idea
what lovemaking is; and view girls and women as mere
furnitureor objects of their violent sexual perversion and
immaturity. Ejaculation punching bags in other words.
But, the most amazing aspect of all is people who are
violated and dehumanized are too often aiding and abetting
in their own degradaiton, demise, dehumanization, or as I
prefer to call it “volunteer slaves syndrome.”
When I look at these females on these disgusting videos
I cannot for the life of me understand their self hate to
to extent that they do what they do. No self respect, no
self pride, no sense of self worth, or self love. I fear that
the black race will never recover from the level of self hate
and ignorance we have stooped to. Centuries of systematic
degradation and dehumanization has taken its toll on us.
So now, the divide is not just between blacks and other
races, but also another division between us, based on our
age old issues around skin color and hair; but now also the
divide between the educated/mis-educated, well off and
poor and/or class divide. Let’s face it, who snubs us more
that the black nouveau riche, particularly the mis-educated
ones who feel that they, in their madness have no one to
snub but other blacks as they don’t have the chutzpah to
snub other races, only their own.
As Bill Cosby’s daughter, Evin Cosby Harrah, was quoted as
saying that she doesn’t relate to people who don’t have her life
style [as in most people, but especially black people] and that she
doesn’t speak in that ghetto vernacular, cause he’s not black,
they’re rich, as she stood with her very long [human hair of course]
hair weave, in her very upscale, as in $17.50 for a pair of baby socks
and $30 for a pair of baby panties, boutique in Tribeca when it was
open. I guess even rich white folks don’t want $17.50 baby socks
from rich non-black, black folks.
There’s not another race on the planet except blacks who:
1) determine that they have no identity, alliance or empathy with
others of their ethnic ilk because they’re rich; and
2) put other women above their own, especially when they
think they have “arrived.” Before, we always knew that the
light skinned Sistahs got all the play from the “privileged” [as
Evin Cosby-Harrah, though rich, still would not qualify for that
club] or financially more affluent black men. However, now even
the yellow and redbone Sistahs [the preference of Eric Benet Jordan]
are taking a back seat to white [usually who have nothing in particular
going for them as in wealth, education, attractiveness, loyalty, class]
white women that the nouveau riche black males now routinely set
up in mansions everyday, while precluding black women as mates. And,
oddly enough, even snub and abandon their own black Mothers when
they need help, as in becoming homeless i.e. , – Tracy Morgan, Lawrence
Fishburne et. al. It’s call the “a**hole club,” A really chic poo-poo group
of pedigrees.
Whew! What a bunch of self loathing fools the black community has degenerated
to. No wonder no one wants to be associated with us; and yet we’re totally
impervious to our own self hate and ignorance. How sad is that?????!!!!!
What a mess we’re in. I pray for the poor, poor children. These babies are
inheriting hell.
PSeats
The real problem is with society. Art reflects reality. Stripclubs, brothels, sexual assault, dirty magazines, and all things that portray women in an insensitive and negative way have been widely accepted amongst men from all cultures and nations as long as we’ve known it. Therefore, instead of preaching, it’s time to raise our kids differently. Look at things with a critical eye.
Also, just so you know “if you haven’t seen the video, watch it here”; doesn’t quite coincide with “stop supporting the music.” How? Youtube pays the owners of the account a certain amount every time that video gets played.
So if you’re really not about supporting it, don’t watch it.