The Unacceptable & Horrible Impact of WorldStar HipHop on Some Black Americans

by | Apr 11, 2014 | Opinion | 0 comments

The Black Internet World, if anyone can locate it, shifts intermittently. It’s like trying to locate the Gates of Hell, except that no one has the keys or knows where the front door is.

First, there was hotghettomess.com, now there is worldstarhiphop.com (aka ‘WSHH’).

WSHH

WSHH: Friends is friends, but bid-ness is bidness.

And in case anyone starts thinking “She’s hatin’ on WorldStar HipHop,” I am. But that’s not why I’m here today.

Question: Did you know WorldStar HipHop dot com is the #1 most visited Black-owned website online (or that it is owned by Haitian-American Lee “Q” O’Denat of WorldStar LLC)? Overall, according to Huria.com, we do love HuffPost Black Voices (owned by AOL) even more.

WSHH is a shock-site mostly equivalent to watching an episode of Jerry Springer or Maury Povich’s “Find Your Baby Daddy” without someone else deciding what to watch and when to watch it. Other than that, the ‘monkey-see/monkey-do‘ histrionic reality show drama is on like popcorn. Grab a couple of buckets while you’re at it, this could take all night and “you don’t own the popcorn company either.”

Yeah … I said ‘monkey.’ (<—-Go ahead and click the link to the left. If you can watch WSHH, you can certainly see what you look like to the rest of the world.)

If y’all can say “nigga” and hand out Black passes at will, you’ll roll right on over for an older Black woman using some ‘illified’ racist-ish stereotype to describe exactly what is seen and done on WorldStar HipHop day in and day out.

With all due respect to Mr. O’Denat, he found himself a gold mine (platinum?) catering to the most debased caricatures of the Black community that some white folks love the most, and that we love even more…obviously. In the meantime, RapRehab says it’s not really a problem. Uh huh.

Since when did we as a people become so accustomed and adjusted to taking white folk’s wretched shyt, and their ideas and feelings and thoughts about us as a people, and rubbing it all over our lips, mouths, teeth, tongues, spirits, minds, souls, AND bodies and calling it a day? That “integration” thing was a total and nearly complete disaster. Black folks were better off mentally and spiritually when we didn’t have jack and kept to ourselves.

The site cranked out in 2005, so it has enough history (nine years of it) to get this kind of traction at 1.1 million UNIQUE viewers a day; but I have to ask the more obvious question: Why?

The CNN of the Ghetto, so says O’Denat, began when his mixtape distribution site was destroyed by hackers. So he decided to become an aggregator of content that featured (mostly rapper) fights and lots of porn, something the Black community apparently can’t get enough of. Wonder if the Other Top 20 Black-owned and oriented sites give us a clue as to net net Black mentality; because if we don’t have a clue, the real money-makers sure do. Cha-ching$.

{Lay the cash down, that ain't FOR YOU! You know how this works. 
"Friends is friends, but business is business."}

In 2012, BET (Black Entertainment Television, owned by VIACOM, also the owner of MTV and VH1) voted WSHH “Top Hip Hop and Urban Culture Website” of the year.

They would, wouldn’t they? Cha-cha-cha-ching$. (The obligatory “LOL”).

REFERENCE

The Next Noise You Hear from Below Will Likely Be Coming from a White (or Black or Foreign) Financier with a Vested Capitalistic Monetary Interest in the Continued Success of WSHH in Spite of the Spiritual Damage to the Black Community

UNDERSTANDING PROPAGANDA – It was intentional, people!

WWBP = Whitewashed Black People

WSHH = WWBP

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