‘Drink Champs’: Stop blaming Kanye’s self-hatred and racism on liquor
Without the liquor and the weed, Ye STILL made his George Floyd comment
Whiskey sour. It’s my go-to. No matter what other drink is given to me, I sip a bit, lose interest in it and ask the bartender (or host) to get me another whiskey sour. I will “fugg up” your dance floor. I will go up to that one guy who I’d been quietly eyeing from afar and tell him he’s “cute as hell.” I will randomly hug people and tell them I love them. What I won’t do is go off on a tangent about Jewish people, say Trevor Noah isn’t black (or anybody of African descent who can walk into their childhood home or point their African relatives out on the street) or ignore the entire Derek Chauvin trial to say George Floyd died from Fentanyl — or cancer.
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If you’ve burned a few brain cells long enough to watch Kanye West’s interview on Noreaga’s “Drink Champs,” you know the comments I’m talking about. YouTube and Revolt TV took the interview down, but that hasn’t stopped other users from creating their own links. What’s blowing my mind is the amount of my own skinfolk who heard the George Floyd line and are still backing him up. That’s not to say that the antisemitism shouldn’t have been enough to turn one’s back on him. I stopped claiming him as a Chicago rapper and listening to his music around the time he stated the most pathetic president in the United States of America was a “father figure” and “slavery was a choice.”
Yet somehow I’m still reading tweets about how the Jewish community is responsible for the backlash with Noreaga and Kanye West. Although the entire interview annoyed me — and I knew I should’ve passed it by because it took me an entire year to have enough patience to watch Kanye West’s first interview on “Drink Champs” — I’m disappointed in the excuses.
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Reading tweets like “nore podcast is about getting drunk and yall think niggas was gon turn into anderson cooper lol” gets under my skin in a different way. As I have stated before, no one becomes magically racist when on drugs or drunk. That’s not a thing, no matter how much Roseanne Barr wants it to be.
It is very possible to drink and smoke, and still have a non-racist convo — “Drink Champs” has proven that many times. Ne-Yo did it. Chris Brown did it. Kevin Hart did it. Redman did it. J Boog and Fizz did it. Remy Ma did it. Some guests flat-out wouldn’t drink at all, choosing to avoid the sauce (like French Montana) and Yasiin Bey snacked on Reese cups and ate a full meal. If your inner-racism and self-hatred comes out when you’re drunk or high, you were ALREADY that way. I winced while Noreaga defended O.J. Simpson and R. Kelly during the Redman interview. I hung my head when he asked ASAP Rocky to “give it up for Trump.” But this month’s Kanye West interview out-crazied those moments.