Sunday, July 26, 2015

Module 4.3

Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill, Twitter’s Ethics Police

      Ethics, taught by female rapper Nicki Minaj, who once rapped:
"Yeah, he love this fat ass
Yeah, this one is for my bitches with a fat ass in the fucking club
I said, where my fat ass big bitches in the club?
Fuck those skinny bitches, fuck those skinny bitches in the club
I wanna see all the big fat ass bitches in the motherfucking club
Fuck you if you skinny bitches WHAT?"
     Those lyrics were taken from Nicki Minaj's song, Anaconda, which is essentially a remix of Sir-Mix-Alot's "Baby Got Back."  Ms. Minaj, as an artist is constantly pushing the boundaries of free speech, which is her right as an American.  However, I don't believe I'll be looking to her for "ethics advice" any time soon.  She was recently left out of the nominations this year for video of the year in the MTV Video Music Awards.  Minaj went to Twitter to say "If your video celebrates women with very slim bodies, you will be nominated for vid of the year."  Minaj was way off base with her comments, and social media makes this instant communication too easy.  Millions of followers were soon caught up in the drama between Minaj and Taylor Swift who was nominated for a VMA.  It was apparent that Minaj was out of line, because Beyonce was nominated who has a very similar physique to Minaj, and she was nominated.  Nicki's comments were unfounded and certainly didn't win her any new fans.  She is an artist and entitled to her opinion, but sometimes she may want to keep those to herself.

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