Wale
Kanye West
50 Cent
Kendrick Lamar
So either one of two things is happening here. 1. Lahren was being so sarcastic that it was impossible tell because her outrage schtick is so comically over the top. Or 2. Her priorities are so groundless that she has no problem with a man going on CBS, the network where our nation’s septuagenarians get Big Bang Theoried, and singing the lyric “You hate my people, your plan is to terminate my culture,” yet the sight of a football player quietly kneeling sends her flying off the handle.“For those that think Kendrick’s performance scared white people, you’re wrong. Kendrick Lamar actually writes his songs, he speaks his truth. It’s refreshing to hear a hip-hop artist rap about something other than drugs, sex and violence. I say this as someone who happens to love rap music.”
Beyoncé
It was so incendiary that Beyoncé’s team reportedly asked Lahren if they could sample some of it on her “Formation” tour, a request which was denied. But that wouldn’t be the last time Lahren poked the Beehive by taking on Beyoncé as a topic. The sight of Beyoncé presenting the 2017 Sports Illustrated Muhammad Ali Legacy Award to Colin Kaepernick—who again, Lahren does not like—prompted her to tweet: “Police-hating Beyoncé presents police and America-hating Kappy with a ‘legacy’ award. This is how far we’ve fallen. Wow.” Of course, Beyoncé and Kaepernick’s respective social movements have been a bit more nuanced than blatant “police-hating” and “America-hating,” but to understand that would involve active listening and a genuine desire to learn, and who needs that when you can do this thing:“Guess what, Beyoncé. White people like your music too. White people buy your songs on iTunes, memorize your lyrics, and admire your talent and beauty. Little white girls wanna be like you just as little black girls do, but instead of recognizing that, you’d rather perpetuate the great battle of the races. Your husband was a drug dealer. For 14 years, he sold crack cocaine. Talk about protecting black neighborhoods, start at home.”
Jay-Z
Jay-Z’s drug-dealing past is not exactly a secret, as he has made roughly 9,000 hit songs about it. One might assume that turning away from this life to become one of the world’s most successful music moguls would fall in line with the right’s pulling-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps American dream narrative, but that only seems to apply to suburban men who open small businesses that sell novelty decals for pickup trucks. Lahren, as she is wont to do, responded on Twitter, tweeting at Pusha T (who, keep in mind, did not did not address her in the song and also did not write the song “99 Problems”): “I’ve got 99 problems but trust me, being on your rap ain’t one.”Lahren and Jay butted heads again this year following an interview Jay-Z did with Van Jones, in which he said: “Because you don't take care of the problem. You don't take the trash out. You just keep spraying whatever over it to make it acceptable. As those things grow, we create a superbug and now we have Donald Trump.” Lahren tweeted about it the following day, saying, “As opposed to you who raps about bitches and sisters and brags about selling crack. Yeah…Trump is the problem…sure.” Ah yes, that’ll really stick it to Jay-Z, the famous rapper about bitches and sisters. Jay-Z didn’t respond but Lahren’s old pal Wale jumped into Tonia’s menchies to remind her of the obvious: Jay-Z is not the President.“14-year drug dealer and still counting
Who deserves the medal of freedom is my accountant
He been hula-hooping through loopholes, working 'round shit
IRS should’ve had the townhouses surrounded”