One blogger for NBC may find himself in hot water after he called Chief Keef "a minstrel show."
Whether it's Hip Hop listeners or his fellow Chi-Town emcees, Interscope rapper Chief Keef has
been earning some critical disapproval from many members of the
industry. Now, however, one blogger has taken his complaints too far by
calling Keef's music "a minstrel show."
According to a recent report HipHopWired,
Edward McClelland, a Caucasian blogger for Chicago NBC 5, recently
attacked Chief Keef and the drill music scene in a blog, calling it "a
minstrel show." He said that the shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary
School last week moved him to decry the 17-year-old rapper for his
violent lyrics.
"[F]rom what I've heard of it, is pretty lunkheaded: simplistic
rhymes, primitive beats. But it's also a window into the world that has
made Chicago the murder capital of America, and that piqued my
curiosity," wrote McClelland. "Since last week's murders at Sandy Hook
Elementary School in Connecticut, though, I haven't had the stomach for
any violent entertainment…I also don't want to pay $14 for the minstrel
show of listening to a real live South Side thug. I don't want to
support a scene that makes gangbanging a resume builder for music
success."
