Chance the Rapper recently went off on Spike Lee. Reason being is because Lee called him a fraud during his Q & A session at Northwestern University.
Lee said,
“Chance the Rapper’s a fraud. Straight-up fraud. He puts himself up as a speaker of the people, but that means you have to put truths that you see. That doesn’t mean you can pick and choose what you talk about.”
Chance believes that Spike Lee made Chi-raq to exploit Chicago for his own personal gain. He says,
“He got his little $15 million from Amazon and his other little bread from Lionsgate and made a movie that was not about Chicago but manipulated and used Chicago actors and Chicago scenery to push this movie. It was an oversimplification of a bigger problem. He wasn’t really focusing on the issues of Chicago, it wasn’t really about Chicago. To me, it was about this age-old conversation of Black-on-Black violence, which is to me some Bill Cosby ‘pull up your pants’ stuff. I’m just not for it.”
Source: HipHopDX
