Hip-Hop Reacts To John Mayer Controversy
Wednesday, February 10 2010 6:44 PM EST | Posted by: YN | Posted in: Blog, Newsstand StanIn case you were sleepin’ under a rock or a foot of snow today, John Mayer’s recent provocative interview with Playboy magazine has become a national scandal. In the article, he uses the “N-word” and compares his penis to a white supremacist. Yup, fun stuff. Anyways, as you can imagine Twitter was on fire today with folks observations. Here’s what our culture had to say.












After laying low for most of day, Mayer’s back on Twitter addressing the drama. Stay tuned.





Disrespectful views at Tha Kang, T.I.? Nah, Ms. Banks you're out of line. Yeah Harris' Aussie ain't that dope but neither are you. I just saw you at Coachella and I wasn't impressed. You got the look, the swag, the tough talk but where are the tunes? "212" is alright but that's where it stops. According to Jay-Z's old board rules: You have no right to diss Tip. Look in the mirror and ask yourself: How many classic albums have you created? Are you on anyone's top 10 MCs list? Do you have any hardware on your walls, ma? Cliff is right. Keep him out of the girlfight. You're heavy in these tweets, but I hope you're finding time to create music that backs up your buzz. Or you'll soon be begone like Kreayshawn. You young ladies today bore me. *Turns up Mia X CD* No Limit forever!
The best things in life are free, but hopping on Hov's press conference stage uninvited is gon cost cha. Whatcha did was wrong! ⎯B.Dot
Fuck that, he don’t wanna fuck with sisters, its his preference, the right to choose. Hello!
Wtf was Joell referring to when he said “he will get away with it just like Asher Roth?”. What did Asher Roth do? I remember him once saying he didn’t like Obama? Fu*k Obama and his mother. If that made me racist than a sh^tload of blacks in this country would be exactly that. It isn’t racism. Its called being educated beyond surface level prapaganda and actually giving a fu*k. And news flash Joell – your latino, like myself – not black.
Another Kanye moment!! LOL
so let me get this straight…
black people are so concerned with acceptance from white people that we are offended when a white man says he doesn’t want to fuck our women?
we should say, “good deal, john.” and keep it moving. let us not be so pitiful. whining that some white man doesn’t want our women. black men…do WE even want our women? judging by the way we talk about and handle them…and exploit them, you’d think not.
it’s 2010…are we still surprised by what white people have to say about us? c’mon sons….c’mon.
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What’s all this!!!! I am a woman by the way and not a black woman… but way back when we all came from EVE…one woman…a black woman…
They are beautiful we all are… beautiful.
His words to describe his ex’s are insulting to say the least …should you ever compare me to cocaine or crack or napalm…what poetry what class… that is just plain offensive and retrograde…
What do his Jewish sisters have to say…Jews get their caste from women by the way its passed on through their mums. .. some white women strike me a splain dumb though … no sass unless they are pretenplayboy, he is drunk, and he wants to i dont know irk people and get a rise… and come on how many black men or women read playboy??? demographics show us its mostly white!!! So that was his target…
Him not having a woman of and in color … yet… good luck man its harder with us … when you are playing in the big leagues anyway… his ish would not fly on me,,, neither does his style or lyrics… your body is a wonderland…what a novice what a virginBlues… that’s his genre… ok amybe teeny white Jew boy blues…. BB King everybody …
His style is weak and tired and he cops Stevie Ray Vaughn… he wishes!!!! Dumb Jew!!! Does he know Texas hates Jews???
Stay strong sisters… sisters of the wolves unite!!!
i have many female friends…. and what he said is offensive towards his ex and even women as a whole,,, that ish is cool with white girls just have a laugh and let em call you slut//// ever watch white girls???? Well i also have strong white GF’s … but some of them are just soooo different than me or my friends that are colored or asian …whatever we are all females… stay together and strong…
Women of color… whatever We dont speak stupid… oh you calling me a slut… is that white boy for my cocks hard and i dunno what to do… go fuck the hole in the wall….
White women need to get sassy and get some color on… you know… I want to hear those exes of his blast him…. and i doubt black women hit on him… and i doubt he even understands the blues… his music gets recognized by slightly off fans … come on… take a look at his fans… tweens and grown women without a clue…
Really come on now Jewish men…which is what he is…. pasty… whiney… i gotta ask my mum… ohhhhh please!!!!! And Jessica Simpson…lol…did she get a voice lesson yet or learn how to read a note??? That shit flies with hew very white audience only… she cannot sing but obvoiusly can suck pasty white jew cock really swellll…. ohhhhhh shame and ohhhh DUHRYYYYYY….
How do you get mad at a person for being honest? No one trippin when Diddy says “white folks” in his latest freestyle. SMH at these drama queens.
man overeacting idiots look at the context in which he uses the word and what his actually saying is prob black not anit look beyond the stupid word its just a word to the intended meaning and context of which it is said it clearly wasn’t said in the KKK way
@ Nathaniel
FOR REAL SON!!!! LIKE I GIVE A FUCK WUT A WHITE MAN THINKS OR FEELS ABOUT ME!!!! CERTAIN BLACK PEOPLE FEEL THEY GOTTA BE ACCEPTED BY WHITES TO BE OR FEEL VALIDATED!!!! FUCK A JOHN MAYER!!!! I’LL KEEP FUCKIN’ HIS WHITE WOMEN!!!! HA!!! REAL RECOGNIZE REAL!!!! ONE!!!!
DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!!
I’m more mad at how stupid John Mayer was for saying what he said how he said it.
I can’t be mad that he unfortunately doesn’t see the beauty in black women or doesn’t want to have sex with them. That’s his personal preferrence just like everyone else has theirs but to say you have a “white supremacist dick” takes it somewhere else as opposed to saying “I’ve never slept with a black woman before”. The question wasn’t even whether or not he’s slept with a black woman so overall he put his foot in his mouth. I mean, hey, I’ve never had sex with a Jewish woman before but I wouldn’t say I have a “Nazi dick” either, the fact is that I have absolutely nothing against Jewish women, it just so happens that I’ve never had sex with one. Not that I’d never have sex with one because “I don’t leave myself open to it”.
All in all, it no longer surprises me or shocks me when I find out that certain people have issues with race. It just bothers me that some of our black people let that determine their worth when someone of another race (particularly caucasion) looks down on them because they’re black or whatever. Not everyone loves God so everyone can’t expect for everyone to like and except them. Fuck if someone doesn’t love you, love yourself and those who love you back.
As a black woman, it is discouraging to hear his comments told so disrespectfully. I understand what he was trying to say, because my preference is black men, but its a way in how you say stuff.
@Nathaniel
I feel you. I wish more Black men would stand up for Black women instead of constantly belittling us and allowing other races to belittle us.
@ Sonja D.
Why are you so against jewish men? What are you so against white girls? You talk about uniting but you only want to unite with a certain group? You talk about Eve and a religion that values the unity of mankind and love and you keep attacking jews? And if you are a christian then why don’t you realize that your “supposed” savior was a jewish man. Anyway, the story of Adam and Eve is nothing more than a folklore and I would love for you to disprove that it’s not (besides citing “The Bible”). You’re terrible for society and I hope you don’t have kids or don’t get kids until your views change. Again, if you’re a christian then you must realize that off those two posts you’re committing at least two deadly sins (pride and envy).
@NewJerz…….Asher Roth made the statement that he was hanging with some nappy headed hoes like your momma…You still got his back?
lol I’m sorry but he did an interview in Playboy magazine. Who actually reads the articles in Playboy? (I honestly thought Playboy cut out the articles decades ago so that every page just features a naked chick with maybe a couple pages in the front and back for “important” information. I obviously haven’t “read” the magazine.) You would think that you could say anything in that magazine and no one would care because of the women.
John Mayer is a dooshbag. Simple as that. Every race has beauty and I’m sorry buy my d*ck doesn’t discriminate on race. Only thing I discriminate on is body/vagina odor. If that shit don’t smell right or got some weird shit coming out of it, I ain’t messin wit ya. Simple as that!
Now you gotta understand, Mayer is from Fairfield, CT and if you’ve seen black chicks out here in CT, they are the dirtiest, grungy looking females you could find with terrible attitudes to boot. So I can understand where he’s coming from, he just shouldn’t have said it the way he did.
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Who cares.
Racism has been around since dawn of man, it will continue being around til’ the fall of man.
White people are racist, black people are racist, so what?
John Mayer sucks anyways.
And just because he did some shit with Gay-Z doesn’t give him any “Hood pass”.
He could be produced by Suge Knight, bitch still will not have a hood pass.
Asher dissed both black women and the black president. He is the only republican rapper…..mayer should get beat up SMH
Newjerz Latinos like you kill me…you’re not black? Then what they hell are you. Why don’t you read something? The only reason you’re considered “Latino” is because the Spaniards don’t considered your dumb ass white due to your African ancestry. I can’t stand you dumb Latinos, go read a book. People are always so quick to accept anything white in their blood and deny their African blood…so dame dumb. I hate stupidity…
NewJerz… smh at you being whitewashed and having self hate. You are a disgraced to Latino’s in NJ.
Scotch infused conversation or not, he said what he really feels. It’s not about John not liking black women or wanting to sleep with only white women. I only date black men. You have a right to preference. The larger issue is to refer to his genitals as white supremacist w/o consideration of the weight of those words to a community that has suffered almost endlessly because of it. It was disrespectful, it was demeaning, it was minimizing, and it was egregious to every beautiful black woman. Furthermore, to insinuate that his genitals are a white supremacist, was like calling himself a racist, otherwise why would his genitals be a white supremacist.
Do I think John Mayer is racist? I don’t know him personally to confirm or deny that. The statements he made including the use of the word “n****r” certainly were or at least alluded to racism in some way.
My friend you will never have a “hood pass.” To make the statement is to suggest that every black person is from some sort of hood – usually a poorer community riddled with violence and drugs… that is an inappropriate and media endorsed assessment of a culture on the rise. The only “pass” you get is mine on your next album. Grow UP!
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ummmmm…. I know race is emotionally charged and all… but he sais his cock has been in white women only… his “david duke cock” was his brand of humour… it was his style… it was for a porno mag… it was a fitting tone…crude, crass, raw…kinda like porn…
The interesting thing is everyone focused on the part about his penis and the race and the racist part…because we are allllll preoccupied with this… everyone knowingly or not…
He also said he has a Bennetton Heart…i.e… open to it all… jsut ahs not gone there… so what… his “David Duke” comment was dark comedy, satire, methaphorical… perhaps that humour is the ramblings of a person who smokes too much ganja… perhaps he though it was funny in his head when he was saying it then in print (it was funny too because it was witty) it got weird because of the flow of the questions…i.e Hood Pass, N-WORD (saying that like that and writing that like that is so American and such a waste of time freedom of speech my A-WORD) then the black women, then the talk of sex, and his genitals… it was the flow of ideas and the flow had racial tones as well as sexual…
What is important is real issues ie issues women face everyday black, white, brown, light brown, white, yellow…whathave you… less money, negative stereotypes, look at how women and more so black women are portrayed in Hip Hop by men … black men… listen to those lyrics… Black men treat their own women poorly…well some anyhow!!! women we are all beautiful and desirable…let us not be so oversome with emotion… let not their words and actions hurt us so… laugh at it see positive everywhere you can… and remember the darker the berry the sweeter the juice… AND PS I do not hate Jewish men… I was just going out on a limb there… I relent…. PEACE.
You aMEricans are soooo preoccupied with colour man!!! That must suckkkkk! Large!!!! DUHRYYYYYYY… like all your styles…your Music and Women Britney Spears..Jessica Simpson… shit YUCK… listen to ours Celine Dion and FEIST!!!! he he he ohh tee teee PROPS capital P!
Also Mr Barry Washington… I was speaking about The Real Eve a documentary aboabout all our interconnected genes… not the bible…you bible thumping Yank you!!! go you tube now k… doi oi!
Oh and also I am from Canada where we had no black slaves and are not soooooo preoccupied with colour… oh yes and your US American Hip Hop sucks it large!!! Sell OUTS! Mange la merde eh>!!!! PEACE!!!! CANADA LOVES YOU>>>>
@ Barry Washington… ohhh teeee heee heee get a life … eh… read a little more k.
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Talentless douche who is another in the long line of white men ripping off Jimi Hendrix.
How the fuck does a idiot like this even get time on anyones watch?
John, go to the asshole bar and order a never ending cup of shut the fuck up.
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who cares? this fool dn’t need to grab so much of our attention, i meen how important is he really?