What the heezy? Of all the rappers, Princeton students are petitioning Big Sean.
Princeton University is currently engaged in a heated debate as to whether Sean should be playing a concert at the school. Scheduled to play a summer music fest called Lawnparties, he has come under scrutiny for lyrics that two students, Duncan Hosie and Rebecca Basaldua, deem “both misogynistic and homophobic.” The pair penned an op-ed piece that was circulated to Princeton students internally, then opened a petition that, as of press time, around 500 students have signed.
“I’m sure every singer has a questionable song, but there are a significant amount of his songs that deal with this and I think there are a lot of other artists in the same genre even that would have been a better choice,” said Basaldua, who is the editor of a blog called Equal Writes.
A campus-wide campaign has also begun in which some of Sean’s offending lyrics are posted in public spaces in an effort to draw attention to their problematic elements.
My two-cents: If you’re offended by Big Sean… then you obviously don’t even listen to the rest of hip-hop.
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