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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2014 9:52:50 GMT -4
Yeah, I'm not a fan of Iggy Azalea at all. I really can't believe what she does is considered acceptable. She lipsync-raps about being the "realest" in a completely fake accent. Even if she weren't white, it would be all kinds of wrong. But her lack of musical talent is why I think T.I. feels a sense of ownership. Iggy is complicit to it, but T.I. is the one who plucked her from obscurity for no good reason and elevated her to AMA award winning status. I think he's the bigger asshole between the two of them. Anyway...this is the conspiracy thread! We have to stay on topic. So let's say that he's her handler and her fake accent is her MK-ultra kitty-programmed alter-ego. That makes about as much sense as anything else when it comes to Iggy's success.
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Post by satellite on Nov 30, 2014 17:16:29 GMT -4
Actually a friend posted a conspiracy-ish article on FB awhile back about Iggy and the "whitening" of hip-hop and R&B. It was around when Macklemore was winning a bunch of awards. I myself have made the comparison between now, and the "race records" of the 1950's when Pat Boone covered black artists' songs for palatability to the white audience.
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Post by discoprincess on Jan 20, 2016 13:58:06 GMT -4
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chiquita
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Post by chiquita on Jan 20, 2016 16:41:46 GMT -4
Has he always been a weirdo, or is this a new development? I only really know him from his work and never paid attention to his personal life. That "world passport" crap is so strange.
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Post by Ginger on Jan 20, 2016 16:52:16 GMT -4
My parents lived in Cameroon and this is very much something that happens there. It's about bribes. (I'm not lumping unrelated African countries together, I'm lumping bribe system countries together...)
When my parents were at the airport with all of their belongings, their two kids, and their dog trying to leave the country to move back to the US, they were told by police (who were carrying machine guns) that they needed to pay some huge (and phony) tax on their dog and either leave her behind or stay and argue about it. (My mother, God bless her, completely lost it on them and they backed down.)
My friends who still live there say whenever they travel to the city to shop, they have to go through checkpoints and show papers with a bunch of bullshit stamps on them. They intentionally leave off one of the stamps to make the whole requesting and paying of the bribe process easier and not piss off the police.
ETA: I know Mos Def might actually have a bullshit passport problem, I just find it funny.
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Post by chonies on Jan 20, 2016 17:09:37 GMT -4
I have literally no experience with South African border control and customs agents, so part of me thinks the World Passport thing is extremely...irregular, and I understand them trying to expel someone without a visa, I am also baffled that they let him in with the same passport.
That said, a world passport sounds very interesting from political philosophy point of view.
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Post by discoprincess on Jan 20, 2016 17:15:35 GMT -4
In the story, South Africa also claims that the entertainer formerly known as Mos Def also overstayed his visa.
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Post by Ginger on Jan 20, 2016 17:22:37 GMT -4
In the story, South Africa also claims that the entertainer formerly known as Mos Def also overstayed his visa. Isn't the punishment for that usually deportation?
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chiquita
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Post by chiquita on Jan 20, 2016 17:23:52 GMT -4
I have literally no experience with South African border control and customs agents, so part of me thinks the World Passport thing is extremely...irregular, and I understand them trying to expel someone without a visa, I am also baffled that they let him in with the same passport. That said, a world passport sounds very interesting from political philosophy point of view. According to the news article I read upon seeing the post, he entered on his US passport. The bullshit "World Passport" is something that Julian Assange & Edward Snowden supposedly use, but it's not a real thing nor is it recognized by any government.
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gremlin45
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Post by gremlin45 on Jan 20, 2016 18:48:17 GMT -4
I have literally no experience with South African border control and customs agents, so part of me thinks the World Passport thing is extremely...irregular, and I understand them trying to expel someone without a visa, I am also baffled that they let him in with the same passport. That said, a world passport sounds very interesting from political philosophy point of view. According to the news article I read upon seeing the post, he entered on his US passport. The bullshit "World Passport" is something that Julian Assange & Edward Snowden supposedly use, but it's not a real thing nor is it recognized by any government. I must be missing something. Why doesn't he use his US passport to leave?
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