Morning Joe hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough suggest that rappers are the cause of the University of Oklahoma SAE fraternity brothers who were chanting racist phrases this weekend, according to Gawker.
A video of SAE surfaced, causing Waka Flocka Flame to cancel his performance at the school, which lead to MSNBC hosts Brzezinski and Scarborough to evaluate Waka Flocka Flame’s music.
“If you look at every single song, I guess you call these, that [Waka Flocka’s] written, it’s a bunch of garbage,” Brzezinski says, per Gawker. “It’s full of n-words, it’s full of f-words. It’s wrong. And he shouldn’t be disgusted with them, he should be disgusted with himself.”
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“The kids that are buying hip hop or gangster rap, it’s a white audience, and they hear this over and over again,” Scarborough adds. “So do they hear this at home? Well, chances are good, no, they heard a lot of this from guys like this who are now acting shocked.”
After the release of the video, the hashtag #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery became a trending topic on Twitter.
Some of the rap albums whose titles were changed include N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton, which became Straight Outta Europe; Kanye West’s Late Registration, which became Late Slave Registration; and A Tribe Called Quest’s People’s Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm, which became People’s Intercontinental Travels and the Paths of Sugar.
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The MSNBC video and tweets from #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery are as follows:
Straight Outta Europe #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— jamilah lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) March 11, 2015
Late Slave Registration #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— .los SPURS (@TooSoonJunes) March 11, 2015
People's Intercontinental Travels and the Paths of Sugar #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— Open Mike Eagle (@Mike_Eagle) March 11, 2015
good kid, m.A.A.d plantation. #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery RT @CoryTownes: THIS IS RACIST?! pic.twitter.com/qHK7JIEeA2
— 2DOPEBOYZ (@2DopeBoyz) March 11, 2015
Fear of a Black Plantation #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— Selwyn Seyfu Hinds (@selwynhinds) March 11, 2015
RT @GrandeMarshall: Get North Or Die Trying #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— Talib Kweli Greene (@TalibKweli) March 11, 2015
