I always assumed Justin would do this eventually
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They fuck with black music and black folk love it but they always fall back on who they truly are. Black artists should learn from this.
Your faggot ass used to love yellowwolf. Even made us look at your gay ass yellowwolf signature for years. Fuck you, bitch ass homo.
Coon ass fag fake militant. You love white men.
I could never forgive him for that
Can a teleprompter right next to the main camera?
Having them lookto the left is irritating.
Back to Justin, they all steal from our culture and become white again once they become famous.
All Cac eventually do it. The beastie boys even did it and they have a classic hiphop album.
Justin Timberlake is rebranding as a white man
The former *NSYNC singer is the latest pop star to embrace his “authentic” roots.
A powerline stretches across a backdrop of golden fields. A stem of grain cuts through the sun shining in an empty forest. Justin Timberlake is cold and alone in the woods, staring at something we can’t see. Now he is kneeling in a snowy field, lost in thought and then a second later arms stretched up toward the heavens. Now he is walking fully-clothed through a quiet stream. He is gazing out at some snowy mountains. Next he is on a cliff gazing out over an autumnal wilderness scene. Something is weighing on Justin Timberlake’s mind, but what could it be?
We don’t know yet, but what we do know is Justin Timberlake is now very deep. The trailer for Timberlake’s new album Man of the Woods presents the former NSYNC heartthrob looking pensive in various natural settings, hitting every note of the “white man finding himself in the empty West” trope that has long been part of America’s romantic fictional past (and Levi’s commercials). In case the shots of Timberlake running through empty fields that cut to a shot of a band of horses running through snowy mountains aren’t enough, his wife Jessica Biel and his producer Pharrell are there to hammer the point home in a voiceover. “It feels like mountains, trees, campfires, like Wild West, but now,” says Biel. “It just feels so earthy,” says Pharrell shortly before a black and white shot of him in a studio pronouncing something, presumably a song from the album, as “a smash.”
White colonialist fantasies aside, there’s something very familiar about this pivot in Timberlake’s style. We saw it from Miley Cyrus in her hasty rebranding around her 2017 pop country album Younger Now, as well as from Lady Gaga who took to wearing cowboy hats with the release of her 2016 album Joanne. Authenticity is quite marketable now, and for white pop stars that means shifting away from the hip-hop and R&B-influenced sounds that made them famous, and toward the sounds of Southern and country rock. For Timberlake, the pivot should be sonically natural: Originally hailing from Tennessee, Timberlake has never been shy about celebrating his Southern origins. And considering Pharrell and Timbaland are both producers on the album, Man of the Woods is likely to retain some familiar influences. But with his insistence in the video that this album will be his most personal yet, Timberlake is indulging in the inexplicably popular fallacy that music with heavy country influences is somehow more profound or emotionally acute than music that is electronic, lyrics that are rapped, or songs that inspire listeners to shake their asses. Most recently, hip-hop artist Post Malone pushed this narrative in an interviewwhere he said, “If you’re looking for lyrics, if you’re looking to cry, if you’re looking to think about life, don’t listen to Hip Hop.”
Timberlake has a long history with hip-hop and R&B, genres invented and dominated by black people. (And to be clear, without African-Americans, there would be no rock orcountry music as we know it either — but I digress.) His first single as a solo artist featured legendary hip-hop duo Clipse and was co-written by The Neptunes. The success of his second studio album FutureSex/LoveSounds was in no small part due to hip-hop producers like Timbaland and Rick Rubin. There’s nothing wrong with a white artist expressing black influences in his music; still, the ease with which Timberlake can pivot to and away from blackness certainly raises some questions. Pop music is about reinvention, but only white artists are allowed the freedom to leap between racialized identities, depending on the whims of the market. Timberlake can escape his past much more easily than Janet Jackson, whose nude breast at the 2004 Super Bowl — which popped out thanks to Timberlake’s planned pull — directly kicked off the decline of her career, which has yet to recover. (Timberlake, for his part, has never fully atoned in public, though his upcoming performance would be a good place to start.)
The first single from Man of the Woods will be released on January 5, while the full album will arrive on February 2, just a couple of days before the highly-anticipated Super Bowl LII halftime show. The album may very well include some hits, considering the seasoned team behind it. He’ll only have to live with himself for pandering to a whiter America.
Never liked him......., he has gentrification intentions from the jump like Marky Mark/Michael Bolton/Vanilla Ice/Elvis...ain't nuttin' changed but white supremacy is just rearranged. Deranged Negroes help the interloper, the pale stranger/ adopt blackness in white face/ when the Black Panthers should be waiting with the anti culture vulture mace & spray their faces.
Eric Clapton Whitesplains His Racism. He Even Had a Black Girlfriend
by Angela Helm
Yesterday 12:45pm
Kevin Winter/Getty Images
I had no idea that Eric Clapton was once an avowed (rather than just a plain ole complicit) racist.
In fact, I thought all those soulful white singers/rock n’ rollers from England loved black men, especially those that gave birth to their beloved (and quite fruitful—especially for white men) rock music.
But uh, not Eric Clapton.
The legendary guitarist must’ve fell into the “loves-black-culture-but-not-black-people” trope (even if said people literally gave you the music you play.)
Recently, the Daily Beast reported that Clapton was at a Q&A after his biographical documentary Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars, aired. The film showed footage of Clapton chanting racial slurs such as “coons” and “wogs” (short for Golliwogs) and saying “England is for white people” at a 1976 concert in the British city of Birmingham. (I guess all Birminghams are not so great on the race relations thing).
In the video Clapton jumped behind racist Tory MP Enoch Powell, and declared that Britain must stop itself from becoming a “black colony.”
“I don’t want you here, in the room or in my country,” Clapton declared. “Listen to me, man! I think we should vote for Enoch Powell. Enoch’s our man. I think Enoch’s right, I think we should send them all back. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking Jamaicans and fucking… don’t belong here, we don’t want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. We are a white country. I don’t want fucking wogs living next to me with their standards. This is Great Britain, a white country. What is happening to us, for fuck’s sake?”
Clapton has apologized over the years, saying it was his heavy drug and alcohol addictions that spurned his racist diatribe.
He also said he kinda likes black people!
“I was so ashamed of who I was, a kind of semi-racist, which didn’t make sense. Half of my friends were black, I dated a black woman, and I championed black music,” said Clapton.
OK!
The three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (you know, the form of music the black people created), truly proves the point that the “I have black friends” thing might not make whites as anti-racist as they think. We, of course, know better.
And maybe he does too.
Maybe.
About the author
Angela Helm
Ms. Bronner Helm is Contributing Editor at The Root. Always down for the cause, Never down for the count.
https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/eric-clapton-whitesplains-his-racism-he-even-had-a-bla-1822054554
by Angela Helm
Yesterday 12:45pm
Kevin Winter/Getty Images
I had no idea that Eric Clapton was once an avowed (rather than just a plain ole complicit) racist.
In fact, I thought all those soulful white singers/rock n’ rollers from England loved black men, especially those that gave birth to their beloved (and quite fruitful—especially for white men) rock music.
But uh, not Eric Clapton.
The legendary guitarist must’ve fell into the “loves-black-culture-but-not-black-people” trope (even if said people literally gave you the music you play.)
Recently, the Daily Beast reported that Clapton was at a Q&A after his biographical documentary Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars, aired. The film showed footage of Clapton chanting racial slurs such as “coons” and “wogs” (short for Golliwogs) and saying “England is for white people” at a 1976 concert in the British city of Birmingham. (I guess all Birminghams are not so great on the race relations thing).
In the video Clapton jumped behind racist Tory MP Enoch Powell, and declared that Britain must stop itself from becoming a “black colony.”
“I don’t want you here, in the room or in my country,” Clapton declared. “Listen to me, man! I think we should vote for Enoch Powell. Enoch’s our man. I think Enoch’s right, I think we should send them all back. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking Jamaicans and fucking… don’t belong here, we don’t want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. We are a white country. I don’t want fucking wogs living next to me with their standards. This is Great Britain, a white country. What is happening to us, for fuck’s sake?”
Clapton has apologized over the years, saying it was his heavy drug and alcohol addictions that spurned his racist diatribe.
He also said he kinda likes black people!
“I was so ashamed of who I was, a kind of semi-racist, which didn’t make sense. Half of my friends were black, I dated a black woman, and I championed black music,” said Clapton.
OK!
The three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (you know, the form of music the black people created), truly proves the point that the “I have black friends” thing might not make whites as anti-racist as they think. We, of course, know better.
And maybe he does too.
Maybe.
About the author
Angela Helm
Ms. Bronner Helm is Contributing Editor at The Root. Always down for the cause, Never down for the count.
https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/eric-clapton-whitesplains-his-racism-he-even-had-a-bla-1822054554
Wrong on Fat Joe..
When White people want to be noticed or climb the ladder they always cling to Blackness. Once they climb the mountain they go White..Justin ,Pink, country music rappers,
That's what I thought once I saw them in the video. I get the feeling it's still going be good lol
Album can't be that white then....
Fuck that cracker..i stopped fucking with dude right after that Janet shit.
Also am i the only one that thinks thst two niggas are more annoying than funny?
Also am i the only one that thinks thst two niggas are more annoying than funny?
I’ll forever Fucks with dude. The man has done a lot for Memphis and recently purchased a house in Franklin to open a studio to provide local kids a place to learn about music.
Hate on dude all you want to but Justin have given more to Tennessee then a lot of these other famous kats from this state.
Even this teaser was partially shot in Tennessee.
Hate on dude all you want to but Justin have given more to Tennessee then a lot of these other famous kats from this state.
Even this teaser was partially shot in Tennessee.
He is from Memphis... lived in milington.
He purchased a house in Franklin, but still lives in Memphis. He has never lived in nashville.
This is real hardcore, Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit soft
Since he went back to his roots. Will u fall back for playing a female on the interweb Lester?
You seem like a breh of a certain age. I hope you get that checkup. Colon cancer is no laughing matter breh.
These e accounts and other clowns think they know. Anyone who had paid attention knows that Yo Gotti, Elvis, Penny Hardaway , JT and others are home town folk .
Wow....didn't know that about Clapton.
Makes me want to say something off kilter, but i'll play the better man.........i don't want to say anything about his deceased kid right now....
Makes me want to say something off kilter, but i'll play the better man.........i don't want to say anything about his deceased kid right now....