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		<title>Beyoncé Stands with Rioters in New Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world’s biggest pop star incites violence.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/beyonce.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246622" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/beyonce-450x299.jpg" alt="beyonce" width="274" height="182" /></a>Just in time to add fuel to the Ferguson fire, superstar singer Beyoncé has re-released a <a href="https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/beyonce-sports-niqab-in-new-ferguson-like-rioting-video/">video</a> for her dirge-like, 2013 single “Superpower,” in which she makes rioting against law enforcement look hip and romantic.</p>
<p>The overlong video opens with an image of the Black Power fist – a hint of things to come. Then the camera finds Beyoncé striding in super slo-mo down a stretch of urban Los Angeles devastation in a flesh-baring outfit that is difficult to describe; suffice it to say that, like too much fashion today, it is runway-fabulous but no one would wear it outside of a Beyoncé video. The salient point is that her getup inexplicably pairs this semi-nudity with a niqab, which she draws up over her face, exposing only her eyes.</p>
<p>This apparently displeased some Muslims. Twitter lit up with <a href="https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/beyonce-sports-niqab-in-new-ferguson-like-rioting-video/">complaints</a> such as, “Dear Beyoncé: Do you think you’re going to get away with wearing a version of Islamic head-dress, niqab, while promoting your Demonic music?” Another tweet: “Quoting our holy Quran and dressing in a niqab isn’t a fashion statement you dumb beyonce.” In the video’s context, it’s possible that Beyoncé intended for the look to be more Occupy Wall Street than Islamic. Or perhaps she was wearing a niqab to make Muslim head coverings sexier and more culturally acceptable. If so, it failed to convince at least one feminist, who lashed out on Twitter: “Sorry, Beyonce. Probably not in the best interest for women’s rights to make the niqab fashionable. Just sayin’.”</p>
<p>Back to the video. Beyoncé is gradually joined by a growing crowd of chic, wannabe revolutionaries sporting edgy hairstyles and clothing that looks like a privileged designer’s ridiculous fantasy of how urban youth dress. Some of them conceal their identities with gas masks and scarves, Occupy-style, because they know they’re about to commit crimes.</p>
<p>The dirge drags on as Beyoncé pouts, scowls, and growls. Her mob smashes car windows with baseball bats, hurls Molotov cocktails, and burns cop cars while Beyoncé sings: “The laws of the world never stopped us once/’Cause together we got plenty super power.” Except for the music and the ultrachic posturing, it suggests the real-life “sensitive urban zones” of Paris, where immigrant “youth” go on nightly, car-immolating rampages and challenge the police in territorial skirmishes.</p>
<p>As the song draws mercifully to a close, the privileged Beyoncé – having peeled off the niqab and donned a camouflage jacket that costs probably $3000 – faces off with her defiant, multicultural mob of chiseled cheekbones against a line of cops in riot gear. She stands next to a man in a balaclava reminiscent of her niqab. The two of them clasp hands <em>Thelma and Louise</em>-style in anticipation of the confrontation to come. The message: rioting, property destruction, anarchy, and attacking cops are cool – and nothing influences youth more than the aura of cool.</p>
<p>Who cares, you ask? She’s just another left-leaning celebrity exposing her own political ignorance. Why is her video important? It’s important because Beyoncé is arguably the biggest entertainer in the world now. With over 118 million albums sold, she is the top artist of the 2000s, with 17 Grammy awards, a Golden Globe nomination, and untold millions of fans worldwide. Her pop culture influence is incalculable, and pop culture – not politics – is where the progressive control takes root. When Beyoncé weighs in on an issue like the Ferguson tinderbox, her fans absorb the message and pump their fists along with her.</p>
<p>The video was actually first released last December, long before the August 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. Why would Beyoncé believe that this is an appropriate time to put it back in the public eye?</p>
<p>Keep in mind that she is married to rapper Jay-Z, who has none of Beyoncé’s talent but all of her racial supremacism and political radicalism.* His song lyrics are replete with profanity, racial slurs, misogyny, glorification of violence, and expressions of racial grievance – not to mention anti-police hatred. “Dirt Off Your Shoulder”<em> </em>boasts of giving “a middle finger to the law.” A music video titled “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJt7gNi3Nr4">No Church in the Wild</a>,” which “Superpower” resembles, celebrates anarchy and depicts police trying to quell a violent riot. And “<a href="http://www.mrc.org/articles/obama-welcomes-jay-z-support-violent-misogynistic-lyrics-and-all">99 Problems</a>” features a verse about blacks being racially profiled by the “motherfu**ing law.” In 2009 he released a <a href="http://www.mrc.org/articles/obama-welcomes-jay-z-support-violent-misogynistic-lyrics-and-all">song</a> in honor of the newly-elected Obama entitled “My President is Black” (imagine if a country singer back in 2005 had performed a song called “My President is White”). The massively wealthy Jay-Z (he and his wife have a net worth of $1 billion) has also been a <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jay-z-occupy-wall-street-shirt-rocawear-260334">supporter</a>, or at least an exploiter, of the Occupy movement.</p>
<p>The two are arguably Obama’s closest, and certainly most famous, friends in the entertainment industry. MTV even <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/1694108/jay-z-obama-bromance/">described</a> their relationship with the President as “a mutual affection society” and Jay-Z’s friendship with him a “bromance.” In September 2012, Jay-Z and Beyoncé hosted a $40,000-per-person <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/18/obama-jay-z-beyonce-fundraiser_n_1895494.html">fundraising</a>reception which <a href="http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/lapdog-abc-trip-cuba-obama-donors-beyonce-and-jay-z-much-ado-about-nothing">took in</a> more than <a href="http://theybf.com/2012/09/18/beyonce-jay-z-raise-4-million-parties-with-president-obama-at-4040-club">$4 million</a> for Obama’s re-election campaign. Subsequently the dynamic duo were given State Department permission for a grand, whitewashed <a href="http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/lapdog-abc-trip-cuba-obama-donors-beyonce-and-jay-z-much-ado-about-nothing">tour</a> of the Communist utopia in Cuba, where Jay-Z appeared <a href="http://colorlines.com/archives/2013/04/who_needs_to_get_informed_on_che_guevara_jay-z_or_marco_rubio.html">wearing</a> a Ché T-shirt (in solidarity with a murdering coward who held musicians and <a href="http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3657/che_guevara_was_no_hero_he_was_a_racist">blacks</a> in contempt).</p>
<p>Music entertainers have a long tradition of anti-establishment, anti-authoritarian lyrics aimed at a rebellious youth audience. I don’t expect Beyoncé to come out with a pro-police anthem or an ode to Darren Wilson. But to <em>re-release</em> a video that openly advocates violent conflict with the police at this time of heightened tension between blacks and law enforcement is irresponsible at best, and incitement to violence at worst. The fact that Beyoncé is so closely linked to the President of the United States makes it all the more unconscionable, albeit unsurprising, since the “post-racial” Obama, who <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/17/obama-told-civil-rights-activists-keep-ferguson-staying-on-course/">urged</a> protesters to “stay the course,” hasn’t lifted a finger to quell the violent animus over Ferguson.</p>
<p>* Some of what followed was excerpted and paraphrased from the Horowitz Freedom Center’s <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2588">Discover the Networks</a> resource site about Jay-Z.</p>
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		<title>Hip-Hop Celebrates Ambition &#8212; and Shows Why O&#8217;Reilly Should Think Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2014 04:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A music genre goes in-your-face to grievance mongers, stands up for honest work and for self-esteem through earned income.  Why hate on it?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/american-flag.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-221530" alt="american-flag" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/american-flag-450x256.jpg" width="315" height="179" /></a><strong>[Read Ronn Torossian&#8217;s two-part series on why hip-hop and Jay-Z are worthy of America&#8217;s respect, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/bill-oreilly-is-wrong-jay-z-is-worthy-of-americas-respect/">here</a> and <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/welcome-the-hip-hop-world-into-the-conservative-tent/">here</a>.]</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>Editors&#8217; note: Hip-hop goes in-your-face to grievance-mongers, stands up for honest work and for self-esteem through earned income, puts down the anti-One Percenters and the welfare hustlers, celebrates ambition and shows why O’Reilly should think again:</em></p>
<p>&#8220;All these bitches and niggas still hatin&#8217;<br />
I used to be ballin&#8217; but now I Bill Gate&#8217;n<br />
I got a list full of problems, I&#8217;ll tend to them later<br />
Life is a bitch, but I appreciate her&#8221;<br />
-Lil&#8217; Wayne</p>
<p>&#8220;I used to roll up, this is a hold up, ain’t nothing funny<br />
Stop smiling, be still, don’t nothing move but the money<br />
But now I learned to earn cause I’m righteous<br />
I feel great, so maybe I might just<br />
Search for a 9 to 5, if I strive<br />
Then maybe I’ll stay alive&#8221;<br />
-Eric B and Rakim</p>
<p>&#8220;Got everything, I got everything<br />
I cannot complain, I cannot<br />
I don&#8217;t even know how much I really made, I forgot, it&#8217;s a lot<br />
Fuck that, never mind what I got, nigga don&#8217;t watch that cause I<br />
Came up, that&#8217;s all me, stay true, that&#8217;s all me<br />
No help, that&#8217;s all me, all me for real&#8221;<br />
-Drake</p>
<p>&#8220;They tryna blackball me, they say I get too much money<br />
They want my name from me because they know what it do<br />
They say I&#8217;m A-Rod, nigga, cause I got the juice<br />
They tryna blackball me, went and bought a Ghost as a coupe&#8221;<br />
-Future</p>
<p>&#8220;How you a man waitin&#8217; for the next man to get rich?<br />
Yo&#8217; plan is to stick out yo&#8217; hand real quick?<br />
So if he feed ya family and he serve you shit<br />
Then he need that head you get and he deserve your bitch<br />
Since you wishin&#8217; cash fall from the sky all ya life<br />
Dwellin&#8217; on the past when you was alright&#8221;<br />
-Nas</p>
<p>&#8220;Hmmmmmmmmmmm, now what&#8217;s a title to fit me?<br />
A champ like Tyson, a Captain like Kirk, no<br />
Employee of the Month, cause yo, I do work&#8221;<br />
-Big Daddy Kane</p>
<p>&#8220;Baby I&#8217;m a boss, I don&#8217;t know what they do<br />
I don&#8217;t get dropped, I drop the label<br />
World can&#8217;t hold me, too much ambition<br />
Always knew it&#8217;d be like this when I was in the kitchen&#8221;<br />
-Jay-Z</p>
<p>&#8220;Break records at Louis, ate breakfast at Gucci<br />
My girl a superstar all from a home movie<br />
Bow on our arrival &#8211; the un-American idols<br />
What niggas did in Paris, got &#8216;em hanging off the Eiffel<br />
Yeah I&#8217;m talking business, we talking CIA<br />
I&#8217;m talking George Tenet, I seen him the other day<br />
He asked me about my Maybach, think he had the same<br />
Except mine tinted and his might have been rented<br />
You know white people get money, don&#8217;t spend it<br />
Or maybe they get money, buy a business<br />
I rather buy 80 gold chains and go ign&#8217;ant<br />
I know Spike Lee gone kill me but let me finish&#8221;<br />
-Kanye West</p>
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