And it just felt so wrong to me because here I am losing time trying to save someone special to me and you want to talk about a video. It was a group of young ladies that decided the this was the time that they picked to make this move. “And don’t get it twisted it wasn’t all of Spelman. Why do you want to talk about that now when I’m trying to save lives? That was my whole issue with that” “You approach me with this conversation while I’m doing that drive. But in a recent interview with Marc Lamont Hill for Huff Post Live, Nelly explains why he’s still angered by that whole controversy especially since his Jacqueline passed away just a year later. And according to Spelman, Nelly’s foundation refused to hold the drive unless the university promised that students wouldn’t confront him about the song or video. But word quickly spread that Spelman students were going to protest. Ironically, right at the time where Nelly had black women bending over booty clapping, he was also attempting to get their help in a bone marrow drive for his sister, Jacqueline “Jackie” Donahue, who was battling leukemia. The most expressive, were the women of the Spelman Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance. And though I’m sure strip clubs across the country and the world feature scenes all too similar to the ones depicted in “Tip Drill,” the fact that Nelly brought that to the masses was too disrespectful and frankly, too embarrassing for the black women who felt they had enough sense to be embarrassed for the women who bounced, popped, dry humped and wiggled in the video.įolks were outraged. And then there was the credit card swipe that single handedly ended “Uncut”…forever.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |