#RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery Takes Off on Twitter Thanks to Morning Joe
On Wednesday morning’s edition of Morning Joe, hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, along with guest Bill Kristol, laid the blame on hip hop — and in particular rapper Wacka Flocka Flame — for driving University of Oklahoma SAE frat brothers to feel free to chant racist slurs on video.
And with that argument, the #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery hashtag was born.
The idea appears to have originated with Twitter user @fivefifths, who remarked:
"White people keep saying the n-word because of hip-hop!"
Damn bruh rap must have been LIT in 1823
— W.E.B.B.I.E DuBois (@fivefifths) March 11, 2015
In response, @tacojenkins coined the hashtag:
The Cottonfield Dropout was also top 5 RT @fivefifths: Get Free or Die Trying was a classic debut
— AJ (@tacojenkins) March 11, 2015
— AJ (@tacojenkins) March 11, 2015
And from there, it exploded, still trending nationally more than five hours later. Here are some of the best entries:
Lmao Straight outta Cotton got me crying #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— AJ (@tacojenkins) March 11, 2015
Straight Outta Europe #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) March 11, 2015
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Ancestry #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery cc:(@GrandeMarshall)
— DENIS (@denismcinerny) March 11, 2015
Three Fifths Mafia #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— Rod TBGWT (@rodimusprime) March 11, 2015
Take Care (of my land) #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— Nat Turn-Up (@israelizreal) March 11, 2015
The Intentionally Withheld Education of Lauryn Hill #rapalbumsthatcausedslavery
— Little Skeedie (@SKEEerra) March 11, 2015
Get North Or Die Trying #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— MUGGA MANZIEL (@GrandeMarshall) March 11, 2015
200 Chainz. #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— Digi Gillespie (@dnyree) March 11, 2015
Genocide and Juice #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— Notorious TSF (@MsFlowersTweets) March 11, 2015
LL Cool J "Massa said knock you out" #rapalbumsthatcausedslavery
— Manual Neuer (@BullhammerPT) March 11, 2015
The Intentionally Withheld Education of Lauryn Hill #rapalbumsthatcausedslavery
— Little Skeedie (@SKEEerra) March 11, 2015
Late Emancipation #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— More Averaged (@TweetyMcGhee) March 11, 2015
All Eyez On Me At Auction #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— Common Sensai (@CommonSensai) March 11, 2015
C.R.E.A.M. (Caucasians Rule Everything Around Me) #rapalbumsthatcausedslavery
— yah hello (@yahhello1) March 11, 2015
Watch the clip that inspired the meme below, via MSNBC:
[Photo via screengrab]
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