I'm just saying you'd *never* ask the same thing about Lady Gaga

Me internally: "The fact that we're having this conversation about one of the most popular pop artists of the 2020's, simply because he's black, really speaks to the way art by black people is marked and is not given the same right to ubiquity as other Yankee art despite being informed and being a direct product of the hegemonic forces that create Yankee Cultural Imperialism in the first place. It really shows how inherently fascist whiteness is that it won't even allow itself to fold out of the way to forward capitalist interests when those interests too directly benefit a marginalised class. Popularity is a commodity that can only be allowed to be exchanged for influence among other black people, their art is not allowed to stand on its own as an aesthetic object for a wider audience. Being black and mainstream is a threat to white hegemony."

Me externally: "Of course you can set that AMV to 'Industry Baby', that song slaps."