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| by kenn on 9/07/2005 03:04:00 PM |
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Jay-Z and Rhymefest React to Kanye’s Anti-Bush Comments
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As Kanye West’s scathing comments about the media, the government, and the president’s handling of Hurricane Katrina become old news, rappers and other figures are still reacting to his unscripted NBC rant. Jesse Jackson praised Kanye’s sentiments on Larry King Live, and Jay-Z and Rhymefest have both recently spoke on the rapper’s remarks.
“I’m backing Kanye 100%,” Jay-Z told Billboard. “What’s going on? Why were people so slow to react? I don’t understand it.”
Another one of Kanye’s comrades and fellow Chi-town rapper, Rhymefest, had some harsh words regarding the handling of the disaster as it relates to blacks.
“Black people, man, we – I’m starting to think that we are some of the softest people on the planet,” he said. “We’ll stand up to each other but we won’t stand up to the people who don’t really like us. And then when we stand up to the people that don’t like us, everybody else is like ‘ooooh. Look what he did.’ Instead of looking at George Bush like, ‘why won’t Satan help us?’ Of course Satan don’t like you. Where’s the surprise,” he asks.
Rhymefest insisted that Black people should be responsible for themselves.
“Why didn’t we have water and canned food to take care of ourselves or a plan in a time of crisis? This is on us.”
Jay-Z plans on making sure that next time a disaster takes place, there will be funds reserved specially to help black people. He expressed a desire to collaborate with Sean “Diddy” Combs to create this type of savings.
“Just in case anything like this happens in the future, we can do what the elder Bush and [former President Bill] Clinton are doing for our people specifically," Jay-Z said.
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