Dave East Becomes Music Critic: This Week's Winners & Losers

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Words are a powerful thing and this week, some stars used their words for the best, while others probably should’ve kept their lips tight.

This week’s Winner below, then hit the next page for the Losers of the week!

Winners

Chrissy Teigen

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Every once in a full moon, an ultra conservative “news” pundit will emerge from the shadows to try and ridicule a valuable member to the culture. Faux News host Laura Ingraham tried to do this with Chrissy Teigen and things didn’t end well.

Teigen was recently listed as one of Time 100: Most Influential People. Just to list off some of her many roles, Mrs. Teigen is a…

– Cookbook author

– Lip Sync Battle commentator

– Model

– Mother

– Twitter shoota

– Influencer

And oh, John Legend’s wife.

But it seems Laura Ingraham missed all these things because she had nothing but jokes when it came to Chrissy being crowned a Most Influential Person.

According to New York Daily News, Ingraham brought up Chrissy on her show The Ingraham Angle. She mocked Teigen’s Time profile and her affinity for food.

“She was chosen, according to the profile, because quote, all her life Chrissy Teigen has liked to eat,” Ingraham said. “She’s not shy about that or anything else. Well, that’s nice and innovative, eating.”

Ingraham continued:

“But did most Americans like her take on female empowerment during last week’s Democrat retreat?”

This is when Ingraham pulled up a clip from an event where Teigen was asked what word women should say more often. Teigen’s response?

“F**k you.”

Clearly, this was a problem for Ingraham so Teigen decided to address it on Twitter in the most Chrissy Teigen way.

She called Laura Ingraham a “white supremacist.” 

“Corny monster. There were 1 million other ways to try and take me down and this is what you choose,” Teigen wrote to Ingraham on Twitter. “F**k you.”

Aaah. There’s that lovely word again.

Teigen continued:

“When time comes out with their 100 most influential white supremacists list, I promise I won’t question your worthiness, @IngrahamAngle.”

Good morning, good evening and GOOD NIGHT.

To add a little extra sugar on top, Teigen ended with a GIF of Ingraham doing what looks like the Nazi salute at the 2016 Republican National Convention.

Another day, another accomplishment added to Teigen’s Time-worthy list.

Losers

1. Beyoncé comparisons

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So on Wednesday, Beyoncé released her Netflix concert film Homecoming, which covers her epic 2018 Beychella performance. Once released, the Internet was, of course, obliterated, renewed, in shambles, overwhelmed and motivated towards their dreams.

A typical Wednesday when Beyoncé’s involved, right?

Well apparently, some folks wanted to eclipse Bey’s bright sun when they dared to compare her to other artists in the music game.

First, words started floating around Twitter like “#Arichella” and “#Gagachella,” referring to Ariana Grande, who’s headlining this year’s Coachella, and Lady Gaga, who headlined 2017’s Coachella.

Beyoncé was the first Black woman to headline Coachella in 2018 and already, people were trying to overshadow her culture-shifting work by co-opting her #Beychella title. Pop culture critic and author of Ain’t I A Diva: Beyoncé and the Power of Pop Culture Pedagogy Kevin Allred worded it nicely when he tweeted:

“Coachella doesn’t get renamed for every artist that performs. Stop it. #Beychella is a specific once in a lifetime, world-shattering performance that no else today could ever replicate. Beyoncé changed Coachella. Every other artist is still just appearing at Coachella.”

This still didn’t shut the haters up though.

One person had the nerve to compare Chris Brown to Beyoncé because of ONE flip he executed at one of his shows.

“Until the day Beyonce does this on stage never in your life compare her to Breezy,” one user wrote.

https://twitter.com/herboldsoul/status/1118563829556838405

Clearly, they didn’t watch the Homecoming documentary.

The Internet was done for the week.

https://twitter.com/MarvinSomethng/status/1118889895525847041

*Sigh*

Why can’t we just let this Black woman be great?

2. Dave East 

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Surely there’s an African proverb somewhere that states:

“Why be a hater when you can just be silent.”

This is what most of the Internet was wishing for Dave East when he came out of nowhere to announce that Lil Nas X‘s “Old Town Road” is “wack” on Instagram.

East made the comments in his Insta Stories, saying:

“That ‘Old Town Road’ sh** is wack. I don’t know what the f**k is going on with hip hop, with rap, but — I ain’t no hater man, but that sh** is wack with a cape on it. It’s super wack.”

Guess Mr. East isn’t here for the country trap movement.

It’s one thing to give constructive criticism, but if you’re starting your sentence off with “I ain’t no hater” or “I don’t know what’s going on with hip hop,” chances are you’re about to sound old, stubborn and yes…

Hater-like.

Lil Nas X never even subscribed to the “hip hop” label for “Old Town Road.” According to NPR, he clearly uploaded and marketed the song as a country track, more specifically country-trap.

So all the annoying hip hop and rap purist can rest easy.

Many people on the Internet were completely over Dave East’s criticism with some folks going so far as to say they don’t listen to his music.

Eesh.

Dave might have the lyrical rap skills on lock, but he might want to stay in his lane when it comes to the genre-bending pioneers.