Am i racist to dislike Black artists using white or very lightskinned love interests in their vids?

[fortyacres]

All pink inside

that doesnt apply here nigga

 

[playmaker88]

All pink inside

take your infantile rebuttal somewhere else b

 

[gdatruth2.0]

I've noticed the same thing

unless the video is set a strip club black women are very rarely featured promiently.

 

[Copper]

Where y'all still watching music videos at?

Youtube , Twitter , Tidal , blogs , forums pick one.

How bout pick none

 

[Mr.LV]

You would have to go back to the early 2000's to see a black woman as a love interest.

Excuse Me Miss

https://youtu.be/tnDh0JhmaFw

Song Cry

https://youtu.be/w5srnNrICJo

 

[High Revolutionary]

I remember back in the day it was unheard of to see hispanic/white women in videos. It all changed somewhere around the mid 2000's. Now they're practically a staple.

You'll [chris rock]neeeevvverr[/chris rock] see another video like this:


P.s. Neo-soul artists still represent though, I think.

 

[silverfoxx]

I remember back in the day it was unheard of to see hispanic/white women in videos. It all changed somewhere around the mid 2000's. Now they're practically a staple.

You'll [chris rock]neeeevvverr[/chris rock] see another video like this:


P.s. Neo-soul artists still represent though, I think.

Smh Lil Zayne really thought he was 2pac

 

[MallyG]

Shout out to Dolph for the "Royalty" vid doing the exact opposite!

 

[Plutarch]

man, a lot of these rappers/artists are coons. just listen to their lryics & watch their videos.Gotti got some song.on the radio talking bout "Spanish bitch, J.Lo". Smh.

I wonder how much control rappers/artists have over who appears in their music videos. Could very well be that the producers, directors, executives, etc. make the final decisions.

 

[blackrain]

You would have to go back to the early 2000's to see a black woman as a love interest.

Excuse Me Miss

https://youtu.be/tnDh0JhmaFw

Song Cry

https://youtu.be/w5srnNrICJo

1. No you wouldn't. There's still videos with darker women as love interest. Remember Kendrick got props for specifically requesting a dark skin woman as the interest for Poetic Justice video

2. Black is black is black whether it's light skin or dark skin. While I do think there's clearly some artists who only put lighter women in their videos or talk about getting a light skin girl too much, I also think people need to get off this train of thought where you have to down lighter women as if they're not black in order to uplift darker women

3. Any woman who bases her self image or any dude who bases the women he should like based on music videos is stupid

 

[StillFaggyAF]

Nah not racist. I remember when niggas was going in on Khalid for his video.

The niggas lives in El Paso for god sake

@kat this convo is not for you

 

[StillFaggyAF]

Shout out to Dolph for the "Royalty" vid doing the exact opposite!

In a song calling women bitches LMAO

Women make no sense

 

[The Lonious Monk]

Shout out to Dolph for the "Royalty" vid doing the exact opposite!

In a song calling women bitches LMAO

Women make no sense

Women pick and choose when words like that offend them. They'll get mad when some dude calls them a hoe, but rush the dancefloor in their best hoe uniform when "Yous a Hoe" comes on. Well. at least they did when that song was actually out.

 

[Kat]

Nah not racist. I remember when niggas was going in on Khalid for his video.

The niggas lives in El Paso for god sake

@kat this convo is not for you

I'll decide what conversation is for me. Feel free to skip over my post at any time.

 

[StillFaggyAF]

Nah not racist. I remember when niggas was going in on Khalid for his video.

The niggas lives in El Paso for god sake

@kat this convo is not for you

Some nonsense .

 

[Koltrain]

I've thought about that too, and while it's true that u shouldn't base your self esteem on something trivial like a music video, but it's a strong message to little girls when they only see themselves portrayed as the bad bitch with a phat (fake) ass..

 

[VulcanRaven]

Only weak minded people let shit like this bother them IMO. I don't know anyone offline who even complains about shit like this. There are many real problems to deal with than to worry about an irrelevant music video from garbage rappers.

 

[CottonCitySlim]

are they love interest or glorified sex objects?

Music video ain't a movie..

 

[semi-auto-mato]

Normally it doesn't bother me. I like fat chicks but they are rarely the love interest. That location video bothered me though. Shit was just offensive to me.

 

[Copper]

Nah not racist. I remember when niggas was going in on Khalid for his video.

Yeah that shit looks wack af

I agree with the thread premise 100% ...i just dont watch videos that much.

everything said can be taken and applied to shonda rhimes shows and it would be spot on