Common, John Legend, & Rhymefest Win Academy Award
February 23, 2015 @ 12:10 AM EST
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G.O.O.D. Night
Following their moving performance of “Glory” at the Academy Awards, Common and John Legend won an Oscar for Best Original Song. Comm and Rhymefest, who is credited as a songwriter, become the third and fourth rappers to win an Academy Award. Congrats!
Their performance shut it down. Huge commercial win for conscious hip-hop.
Well Deserve.
Bless up. Performances and Acceptance Speeches = epic moment. Nice to see our culture affirmed on that platform. Even nicer that they used the moment to speak to broader concerns. G.O.O.D music definitely shut the show down.
none of them are on GOOD Music any longer. its been like a few years since either of them have been signed on that imprint
1) then why does billboard have G.O.O.D. listed along with Def Jam and a few other labels as being responsible for the song publishing? 2) how did rhymefest, common, and legend meet one another? was it you oprah? oh my bad.
If they didn’t win this academy awards the dirty niggas & bitches would be crying on Twitter wish a new hashtag until Love & Hip Hop comes on.
I love how rappers get more exposure at the Oscars than they do at the Grammys. I mean, for fuck sake, at least they get to give a speech!
After Three 6 Mafia won that Oscar, I could never talk shit about the Oscars lool
“Lifestyle” (Rich Gang) was a better song than “Glory”, but because it was a better song it was not as commercial.
Not sure if you’re joking, or just retarded…
The latter probably.
If Common is in your top 10 or top 5 I would not question your hip hop knowledge.
I would.
thats because you have no hiphop knowledge
Yeah right hiphop knowledge my ass.
you dont
What ever nig.
Congrats to them
It’s nice that America is reminded of blackness twenty four seven three sixty five days out the year for DECADES..Enough already. Pick your pants up black people and get a job or go to school..Lecture your parents if they are not equipped to provide, nurture or support you
Yo Vladimir, what do you mean it’s nice that America if blackness 24/7, 365?
Blacks are disproportionately affected by issues such as poverty, mass incarceration.
*is reminded of*
vladimir francois ain’t your fuckin name fool.
That’s my name, sir. What makes u think it aint?
You seen that name on my Twitter profile.
There are many haitians named vladimir françois. So u aint the only one.
whatever nigga…you Haitian?
Sure am.
Born and raised?
Your Haitian but your mind as been taken over by white racism and whats even more ridiculous is your happy in your ignorance. Like have no intention on even using your own brain and then applying that to the real world to see if what alot of black people say is an injustice is based on any truths. You simply recycle talking points from 60 year old white men from the racist parts of america that sees your own race as nothing but savages. You bring up some over reaching and obviously racial bias talking point that basically says nothing other then repeating the thoughts of a Klansmen from half a century ago and then when the reality of the situation is put in your face you just don’t wanna accept or even consider the other side of the argument. You are exactly what the worst kinda human being is and your comfortable in your ignorance, racism and stupidity.
i’m not Haitian marty don’t you ever disrespect me like that again….how would you feel if i called you a Chewa or a Zulu, you’ll definitely a be mad at me.
I don’t give a fuck what you are, your a piece of shit period.
lol coming from a man who thinks all white people is a devil lol you a piece of shit marty.
I never said all white people were devils. You said I said that and thats because the only way you can deal with what I’m saying is to lie or ignore or disregard what I really said. When you have to do that, you already lost because you gotta be dishonest literally and intellectually in order to try and make a point you can’t even back up.
You continue to reveal how illiterate and ignorant you are, as you open your mouth. You’re pitiful and small
but yet you have no counter for anything I say ever. Your only option is a personal attack because the point of your bullshit gets destroyed ever time.
whatever marty you still a racist bastard.
No fool, you just can’t deal with whats being said.
you ain’t shit…all you do is create story’s you racist bastard.
Yeah, I’m creating stories but yet everything I said has already been fact checked as being the truth, every year for generations now and that can be checked as well.
Black people are on what, the 2nd and 3rd generation where they were even allowed to make a living that would qualify them as barely being the middle class? Now when I bring up the economic history of white people in america and how they purposely held back blacks from establishing their own economics and they unified under a system of white supremacy that led up to their economic status then even the grand parents of black people living today had to deal with… You know the black people you hate so much? Then you don’t wanna address any of that. You just think oh the gap in economics between whites and blacks just got like that overnight and it just happened like this year so we don’t have to talk about what led up to these circumstances. Thats cause your own stupidity won’t allow you to use any intelligent thinking.
Drugs and gangs play a big part of it as well as no father or father figure, mothers having multiple children with different men. Pick one
Yeah thats usually what’s said in meetings where white supremacists from the small to the billion dollar level meet at political events and decide on new ways to disenfranchise and systematically, politically and economically attack black families every year so they never have the opportunities or economic foundational structure to stand on. They can look on a map and control what economics provides better opportunities for what families in what areas and what areas will not. Its not a coincidence that a white employee at a chain store in a shopping mall in middle america in an almost all white town is gonna make double what a black employee does somewhere else for doing the same job.
i’m not gonna continue to educate ” DUMB BLACK FOLK ” such as yourself. What an ignorant joke you are marty Lol!
Clearly the only ignorance here is your own.
i feel sorry for your kids marty.
No you don’t you hate them because hatred of people you don’t know and even children you have never met is the source and the fuel to your mentality and life. So again, making personal attacks is all your left with to say.
I don’t have “Kid(s)” by the way as in more then one but if I did, I’m sure you would hate them simply for being black because again, your the worst kinda person. Somebody thinking with an old racist mentality that culturally is standing on its last leg and will almost completely die out with the old age of its influence at this point. You’ll still be holding the Klan down though like an idiot I’m sure.
Thats cause people like you who love hatred and negativity have been reminding black people of your racism and loyalty to white supremacist 24/7 365 for CENTURIES. Enough already. Stop hating on black people because your devilish spirit and instead of looking for new ways to attack, hold back and uphold racism, you go get a job or go to school and lecture your own people. Now surely you’ll come back with some stupid bullshit expressing just how ignorant you are because your hatred is the fuel of your existence but you will never be able to admit that whites have done anything against black people even after I bring out overwhelming activity and evidence that speaks to injustices thats still taking place in 2015. I could give names and organizations and business dealings that reach the multi billion dollar mark all in an effort to oppress and systematically disenfranchise black people and the only thing you’ll be able to say back is some racist bullshit cause there will be nothing to can do to address the issues. The end
Anybody know if Common or John Legend or any wealthy black man for that matter does anything with his wealth to help the black community? Music scholarships? Scholarships of any kind? Community centers to help give a place for kids to go? ANYTHING? How about these guys putting their money where their mouths are instead of whining and crying and stirring the race pot.
I hope you are joking because you can google any artist and find out what they are doing to give back!
Googling is no proof.
John Legend and Common do give back. So do many other black celebrities.
Smh lies don’t believe what you see on tv.
In April 2014, Common Ground Foundation collaborated with Kanye’s Donda’s House and the Chicago Urban League in an initiative to create 20, 000 jobs for the young people of Chicago. The initiative is called The Chicago Youth Jobs Collaborative.
that’s all’ i’ll do way more than that if i was in their position.
Black men are in jail because they commit crimes. Economics is part of it but plenty of poor people don’t commit crimes, and plenty of rich people do. It’s personal responsibility, not the fault of laws or police, and if Legend and Common want to really make a difference, that’s what they need to teach with their influence.
Thats only cause you don’t know the laws you talking about, you have very little knowledge on the justice system and you have no clue what kinda tactics are used to consistently find a petty violation on someone just to add them up and then give that person 25 years in prison for some petty ass shit that some little white kid in middle america has been caught doing three times as much but only gets a phone call to his parents and a slap on the wrist and some council for help. You don’t see black people as people, you only see them as your worst nightmare and as only being criminals. Not realizing that this is a an actual person and instead of just locking him up for years and then tagging him for life as a criminal so he can never again function economically, maybe what he needs is just some opportunity. If I patrolled your neighborhood everyday and policed your activity as a poor white kid in a poor area, I could catch you doing something wrong once or twice and the moment I have you in the system I can find ways to keep you there but you have no idea how that actually works so STFU. You keep talking about what Common and Legend need to do but what have you done about anything? Nothing period.
marty blacks commit a disproportionate amount of crime, which results in the inflated number of blacks in the penitentiary system. Blacks are seven times more likely than whites to be homicide offenders. Blacks are also responsible for 62 percent of all drug-related homicides compared to 37 percent committed by whites. Over 65 percent of all drug-related homicide offenders were black; whites comprised
33 percent.
Yeah, a bunch of stats you can’t confirm or apply to any reality because you simply look for statistics without applying reality to them from your own experience and knowledge and you refuse to apply history which would clearly show you what led to these realities. I could tell you Native Americans are disproportionally alcoholic and completely leave out a bunch of other historical and present day realities that lead up to that in which they were targeted as a people and oppressed in a number of ways. Thats called only telling part of the story. Any of those points you made, I could give you that flip side of that coin and you’ll refuse to use any intelligence to address the situation and thats cause you don’t see humans as being humans, you only see race. I could bring up all the historical points about how when whites are in similar situations economically and historically, they too formed gangs, committed murder and sold drugs and thats even though the whole structure of how they live is paid for by the blood of dead slaves which built up the wealth that established their whole middle and upper class life that their reality is based on. Its one thing to be an oppressed people that gets involved in illegal activity in order to survive, its another to do it and be white and live in a country in which the foundation is based on white supremacy. I could go on but you wouldn’t have enough sense to use your own brain. You’ll continue to look at the stats that target black people and completely leave most white areas outta that equation and completely leave out why is it that these realities exist.
Oh shut up with the “racist” comment it quite old and you have ANTI-WHITE issue… Go play in the street marty…lol
Exactly and thats cause you can’t counter anything I said. I talk about the history of white economics in america vs black (or political status, criminality and law enforcement practices and injustices etc…) and now I’m anti white? Thats only because what I have to say about those issues is the truth.
You wish white didn’t exist…but it a white man world marty. Take your ass back to Africa where you’re came from.
I didnt say I wish men didn’t exist. You just said that and its not me that feels that way but many people do feel that way and history gives an endless amount of evidence that shows there has never been a race on the planet ever thats even been remotely close to as destructive as white people.
Destructive John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo single handedly destroyed D.C.. what the are you talking about Marty.
Your stupidity makes you believe that oh all black people are killers and drug dealers and they do it because they just woke up one beautiful morning in america and decided to do it just because… Not having enough sense to realize that if the roles were reversed historically between whites and blacks that whites too would be involved in crime if their survival depended on it to the degree that would create the circumstances that one would involve himself in drug related crime. You think oh crime must just be a black thing? While completely leaving out centuries of history that suggest its not just a black thing. The same way the police will assume that white kids don’t sell drugs because hey their white? Meanwhile white people no damn well that there little middle class neighborhoods are loaded with every kinda drug there is and many of their neighbors are hooked but since the police never look there and only spend there time patrolling black people then that kinda activity is never reported. Whites don’t have to kill over a drug deal gone wrong because their livelihood doesn’t depend on having that money but the drug dealing is there.
John Legend- and many on the Left who appeal to the problem of black incarceration- do so in a way that completely divorces black criminality from black incarceration, as if blacks were- and are- simply arrested, convicted and imprisoned for no other reason than the complexion of their skin. It’s absurd- and again, it’s one of the reasons why the country increasingly takes blacks less and less seriously, to the detriment of… blacks. If people want to
reduce black incarceration, let’s proactively reduce black criminality
and recidivism.
Thats cause you don’t know what your talking about. Go talk to the head of the FBI James Comey, a white man thats been around for years in the CIA and other factions of the government and works on the side of law enforcement… Ask him if black people have been targeted by law enforcement based on skin and see what he says. At the lowest rates of black criminality, prison sentences continue to go up. Even during years when black criminality consistently goes down overall.
There are more black men under correctional control today than were under slavery in 1850
Yeah and there is systematic law enforcement manipulation and economic oppression behind that as well.
James Comey has participated in targeting blacks at all levels of the justice system whether they were criminals or not and participated in doing whatever it takes to find reasons for locking black people up not matter what they did or didn’t do and years later as come out and said it was not right to target black people like that.
Do these guys realize that blacks represent 12% of the population yet commit 70% of the violent crimes in this country. Here’s a tip Legend – graduate from high school, wear a condom but if you get someone pregnant, accept responsibility and help raise your child. The reason so many blacks are prison is because they commit crimes! Are these people really that stupid? Take responsibility for your actions and stop breaking the law.
During the time of slavery and Jim Crow, whites also said blacks commit most of the violent crimes in america. This of course was false. The same people doing the stats represent the interest of the people who fund law enforcement programs. Spencer Ackerman, a reporter for The Guardian recently did a story called Chicago Blacksite. This is a place where black people have been taken off the record and tortured and killed by law enforcement. This is just one example of how corrupt the justice system is and how easily their own criminal activity can be kept secret from the public. The reason you get these kinda stats from certain groups is because its not in the interests of law enforcement to show how many crimes are committed by white people. Sometimes it is and those stats are sometimes reported in poor white areas and its clear that whites to also engage in violent crimes. However in more affluent areas and in larger cities, the crimes committed by whites are not put on blast unless its some kinda massacre and this is in an effort to manipulate public opinion in order to maintain control of those areas under white supremacy.
See you wanna address the young thug in the street and attack him for what he does to survive but you don’t wanna even speak about the systematic oppression that comes together every year in america from wealthy white establishments to political whites on capital hill that look for new ways to systematically create circumstances that assure that young thug will most likely never have any opportunity of options and will face increased policing while he tries to find ways to to survive. You wanna focus on one side of the coin.
question for you Marty, where do you live sir, in one of these black communities you defend so much and think they aren’t criminals lol
I never said there weren’t criminals in these places but I have enough sense to know these black communities didn’t just appear outta thin air. There is a history there and when black people moved into these places its because they were not allowed to live in areas by white people even when they could afford to do so. Black people did not control the real estate and the housing market in the mid 1950 up till the mid 70s and even when they had the resources they were denied the right to live where they wanted or to open business where they wanted. This led to the communities you see now a generation later. See your the type to just think hey, this shit just got this way overnight? No dumbass, there is historical reason for why so many blacks were forced into certain areas of certain cities and there is reason for the conditions of these places and the police state patrolling was already put in place before there was any significant crime in these areas. When other white immigrants lived in similar conditions (not quite cause they were still considered white to a degree), they also lived in these kinda places in different cities and guess what? When they were at the bottom of the economic latter they invested in crime to survive. So its no surprise that when black people purposely held back for generations that it would lead to crime happening. Common sense.
You won Marty this ain’t going nowhere… you stupid and racist at the same time… congratulations you a winner..
I know I won fool, thats why your only lose more the more you keep talking. Again, your only option is to make personal attacks against me and you have to form a lie about me in order to even make that possible. There is nothing you can say because your too stupid to even know what your saying. You keep coming at me about being racist? First of all you have very little knowledge on what the word “racist” means and you too stupid to realize that your own comments make you a racist not me. Again fool, I’m black, I cant be racist even if I wanted to be because I as a black man can not relate, identify or be accepted by the system of “racism”. Thats like you telling a Jew in a concentration camp that he’s a Nazi? No fool.
Black people built America, if you were black you would understand that no matter what kind of degree or job you get as a black person you are at the bottom of the pecking order because of the racist system implemented by the people in power. A white guy always gets first pick at the job regardless of if there is a better or more qualified candidate. Further more the media does everything it can to influence the world that black people are the bad guy in this instance when clearly any person who can think for themselves and do their own research will see that this system has been set up for black people to fail, most of the one’s that end up succeeding in these corporations have to be dog’s to white men to make it up the ladder and lose their dignity like a slave. A man with self respect is not going to continue going to these interviews begging for a position so we find alternate ways to make ends meet, wether it’s rapping, or selling drugs to make enough money to get out the game and start your own legit business because you can’t raise that kind of money working at Mcd’s and due to our circumstances coming up (due to the man) many people already have bad credit and there aint people around you that can help you like that. If you’re white a college degree is great but as a black man or woman it’s often like taking out a loan that you can’t repay because people won’t give you the job you are very well qualified for and deserve. It’s important that you are constantly reminded of blackness on a mainstream level so the message can reach the greater ignorant population and perhaps their guilt can induce people to want to create change and a system of equality can prevail, until then we will keep shoving it in your face.
The Oscars threw a bone to the angry blacks by giving them this one award. Just more tokenism.
Black men are in jail because they commit crimes. Economics is part of it but plenty of poor people don’t commit crimes, and plenty of rich people do. It’s personal responsibility, not the fault of laws or police, and if Legend and Common want to really make a difference, that’s what they need to teach with their influence.
Glad to see John and Common win. Good music!
potential EGOT
within 5 years, Common will have an Emmy and Tony, i guarantee
Damn. Common needs to run for office or something haha. Dude’s speech was on point.
yes sir. keep going. don’t stop