Word to Dennis Coles: I want you to have a good summer. Hopefully, among other things, a cop doesn’t decide to kidnap you, brutalize you, and then frame you for your own murder. More on that later, and back to Mr. Coles. Ghostface‘s now-infamous video-phone chin-check to Action Bronson‘s too-loose lips was—despite Tony Starks’s insistence that it wasn’t a racial matter—nonetheless a blow to unchecked rap colonialism. No, you may not steal my essence and then disrespect me. Ghost Dini even interacted with the Teddy Pendergrass song blaring in the back, because he talks to the spirits of our ancestors, which Action cannot. This be the godbody!
Yas, Nicki Minaj took MTV and the VMAs to task on anti-blackness and sizeism—and no matter what rap moralists (usually dudes) think of Nick, her take is dead-on…