DJ Jazzy Jeff has become the latest artist to wade into the Will Smith Oscars slap debate, defending the actor for his “human” reaction.Last month, Smith struck Chris Rock on-stage during the Academy Awards ceremony following a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head. Following numerous apologies over the incident, Smith resigned from the Academy and described his actions as “shocking, painful, and inexcusable,” before being banned from the Oscars for a decade.Since the incident, Smith has been condemned by a number of celebrities including A$AP Rocky, Janet Hubert, Jim Carrey, Amy Schumer and Zoë Kravitz, while the likes of Denzel Washington and UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak have supported him.Speaking at a live event in Chicago, Jazzy Jeff – who formed the duo DJ Jazzy Jeff And The Fresh Prince with Smith in 1986 and won two Grammys for ‘Parents Just Don’t Understand’ and ‘Summertime’ before they split in 1994 – defended his former bandmate.“Don’t get it twisted that it was something he was proud of.
Woman outraged over ‘sexist’ mommy song taught at elementary school
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wrote Sophie Hill of the outdated tune, which was produced by the UK-based company Out of the Ark Music. (Mother’s Day falls on March 27 in the UK this year.) The accompanying photo shows the patriarchy-promoting poem, entitled “My Mum” which highlights the domestic talents of mothers everywhere.
“She does all the cleaning and shopping, and makes a wonderful tea!” reads one condescending verse. If that wasn’t “Handmaid’s Tale” enough, the stereotypical song also includes the line: “She may not have a degree, but she helps with my homework, and that’s what matters to me.”Hill, who is reportedly a Ph.D.
student at Harvard University, contrasted the demeaning ditty in a followup tweet with a laudatory song that Out of the Ark Music composed for Father’s Day. She observed that the pop-aganda ballad didn’t mention any “caregiving tasks” but made sure to “specify that dads are ‘clever’ and ‘genius.’ ““My Mum” was deemed tone deaf by critics on social media with one flabbergasted commenter writing, “Good GRIEF.
I hope you and others have kicked off massively [complained] at the school.”“The mad thing is the number of people this has to go through,” vented another on Twitter. “The writer, the publisher, the printer, the school, the teachers and NO ONE at any point says, ‘Hang on a minute…’ “Some Twitter satirists even reworked the song’s lyrics to reflect modern-day gender roles.
“My mum’s one in a million, With degrees and a reasonable wage, She shares the domestic roles with my dad, Because we’re not in the Stone Age,” belted out one social media songstress. “She’s a complex human being, Which sometimes means she gets narky, But the sure fire way to make her day, is to shout f – – k patriarchy.”Out of the Ark Music has since
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Superorganism team up with Stephen Malkmus for new song ‘It’s Raining’
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