The new song from hip-hop superstar J. Cole, 'Snow on tha Bluff,' rebukes a young female rapper for her tone. He caught a well-earned earful in return.
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Clearly, Cole thinks youngsters should heed their elders; it’s why he’s always offering his unsolicited advice . So you can take his self-infantilizing impulse as a good-faith expression of his willingness to learn — except that the rest of “Snow on tha Bluff” suggests that he’swilling when it’s hard, which diminishes the moral authority upon which his proud, grown-up status depends.
Cole came in for quick condemnation on social media after “Snow on tha Bluff” came out. Without identifying the star by name, Chance the Rapper tweeted, “Yet another L for men masking patriarchy and gaslighting as con[s]tructive criticism,” while Earl Sweatshirt said the song was like “if a white rapper made a ‘im uneducated on ur plight’ track.”
On Wednesday, Cole took to Twitter to say that he stood behind “every word of the song that dropped last night” before essentially rephrasing his central plea: “We may not agree with each other but we gotta be gentle with each other.
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