The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: E! News Reports Takeoff Death; Posts Photo Of Offset

Episode Date: November 2, 2022

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The Breakfast Club. Yes, donkey of the day for Wednesday, November 2nd goes to the social team over at E! News. Now, if you haven't heard, I don't know how you could have missed it, but one third of the most influential rap group of the last decade, the Migos, Takeoff was fatally shot in Houston on Halloween.

Definitely an L for the culture, hip-hop culture, black culture, just the overall culture of humanity, because America absolutely has a problem with gun violence, and that gun violence often leads to these kind of situations. And I don't even have the words for this, you know, takeoff situation, because anything I say just sounds like an old script. You heard it all before. It's literally like reporting that Nick Cannon is expecting another child.

It's just a cliche headline at this point. Insert any rapper's name here, shot and killed at insert age here, and keep it moving. That's the routine. It's been the routine for a long time. It's going to probably sadly continue to be the routine. Rinse, wash, repeat. Somebody gets killed, folks get online and talk about stopping the violence.

Everyone does their videos, their long captions about the person and how we all got to do better. Dig up their old grainy photos with a person to post and act like they were so cool with that individual. And they give flowers to the person that they never even thought about giving to the person when they were alive. And then in about a week, folks are on to the next. It's just the world we live in.

And I get it. Digital tributes are important. You know, I'm not a big digital tribute person, but the outpouring of love that some individuals receive is very dope to see. But most of it is performative. Most of it is people trying to increase their engagement. And if you don't believe that, look no further than E! News. Now, I'm not expecting E! News to be up on culture, but we're not talking about no poot butt ass group here. OK, we're talking about, you know, we're not talking

about some underground rap group that folks don't know. We're talking about the Migos. OK, I told y'all the most influential rap group of the past decade. They helped to evolve that triplet flow that, you know, three, sixia bone thugs did before them. They're ad-libs. You know, there's a bunch of people out here who sound like the Migos. These guys were on SNL, for God's sake. All right, nominated for Grammys, co-headliner with Drake. What I'm basically trying to say is white people love the Migos too, okay?

They were a big deal. So they are a big deal. So E! News, of course, decided to report on Takeoff's death, and they tweeted out yesterday, Migos rapper Take takeoff dead at 28 police give update on investigation what y'all needed to update e-news was the picture y'all used because that wasn't takeoff the picture they used was offset now i don't know if outlets do things like this on purpose because they know it will increase engagement you know please understand

folks profit off your outrage. But let's just say you are completely culturally clueless. I mean, oblivious to what's going on in hip-hop culture. You can't look at everyone else's picture they posted and say, hey, this isn't the same guy, okay? You know this is the reason that the stereotype that all black guys look alike to white people will never die. And to be fair, I don't know if the person who posted this tweet was white, but I can taste the unwashed chicken and excitement for Taylor Swift's new album in this tweet. So I'm just going to assume they are.

And this is why we use the term culture vultures, because I would rather you not celebrate me at all than celebrate me just because you want to be a part of the algorithm. Just because, you know, someone's death was a trending topic doesn't mean you have to participate, part of the algorithm. Just because, you know, someone's death was a trending topic doesn't mean you have to participate, especially if you're just doing it because it's a trending topic. This was clearly a rush job. If it wasn't a rush job, I'm pretty sure you would have gotten the right picture. Okay. Message the e-news and anyone who rushes to report on someone's death for their own personal gain. Simple task when you about to post this stuff, ask yourself, are you doing task when you about to post this stuff,

ask yourself, are you doing it because you actually care about this person? Are you doing it because everyone else is doing it? Are you doing it because you are actually impacted by it? Are you doing it just for engagement? E-news, you just tweeted that because it's the popular thing, okay? Because you don't care. And you showed how much you don't care by

not even having the right picture of takeoff up listen if you ain't never been culture don't ever comment on culture because you don't understand culture so stay the F out of the culture please and now please let me my give a new social team the biggest heree-haw. Hee-haw, hee-haw. You stupid mother******, you dumb. And salute to the legendary Tretch from Naughty by Nature. Had to remix his words just now. Okay. Yeah, drop on the clues bonds for Tretch.

Shout out to Tretch. If you ain't ever been culture, don't ever comment on culture, because you don't understand culture. So stay the F out of the culture, please. Respectfully. All right. Thank you for that donkey today Up next You alright over there?

You don't even know how to turn your damn mic on I didn't That's not my fault You don't even know how to turn your damn mic on no more This is a shame I was gonna say This is a shame Just in regards to that donkey of the day

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I know. All right. I just wanted to point that out. Ask. Go home. Go back to wipe you all right but next point that out ask go home go back to where you came from oh my gosh you can't say go back to where you came from oh god go home go okay go back to brooklyn all right go back to your right back to brooklyn that's right donkey today is brought to you by the law office of Michael S. Lamisoff. Don't be a donkey. Dial pound 250 on your cell and say the bull if you've been hurt in a construction accident. That's pound 250 from your cell and say the bull. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more.

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