that said, it isn’t a good look, but that is the lane him a boosie have seemed to develop; vlad brings up some topic sometimes involving a person of interest and boosie waxes hood philosophical on it…it is all very informal, it isn’t really bonafide ‘journalism’ where stuff is fact checked, it’s the type of convo most people have amongst those who they familiar, ripe with speculations, outright slander, jokes, misinformation and opinion.
however, hearing tyrese’s criticism(s) about what was said in the interview, of vlad, & of his platform generally, is kinda asinine…but simply on the strength that vlad is an outsider by dint of him being a white and russian, regardless of his time & affiliation in & around the culture, it gets traction because he is a non black person speaking on ‘black culture.’
while it is probably fair to say that vlad himself asks questions both in a manner & of the sort that someone who is ‘natively’ “of the culture” would not, and is able to profit from it…that it should make him anything other than a capitalist is kinda wild to me…to the point that seems to be over a lot of heads here, what does that make those that share our phenotype who do the same? are they also ‘culture vultures?’
is cognitive dissonance always an impeachable offense???