Black rapper wears whiteface for 'White People Party Music' album

speedboatchase · 25-03-2014 02:16PM #1

Blackface is bad, right? We can all agree on that? But what about whiteface, as seen in the comedy film White Chicks?

Mariah Carey's husband Nick Cannon has created a whiteface persona called 'Connor Smallnut' (because white people have small penises! Hurrrr) to promote his new album called... White People Party Music. Yep.

He has said: "'It's funny how people take themselves so seriously. People love drama! We feed off of it. Just relax and have fun!!"

So remember that if you want to wear blackface and impersonate Nick Cannon at some point.

wazky · 25-03-2014 02:19PM

speedboatchase wrote: »

So remember that if you want to wear blackface and impersonate Nick Cannon at some point.

Tape a dildo to your head, that would be a more apt impersonation of him.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 25-03-2014 02:19PM

White Chicks, I took it as seriously as it was meant to be, which was not at all.

I'd still eat my hat if 2 white actors dressed up and acted like stereotypical black chicks and the film wasn't banned.

RDM_83 again · 25-03-2014 02:22PM

But your still allowed to do black face as long as its subtle and integral to the story line as in lethal weapon 5 and 6 :-) (always sunny)

Duggy747 · 25-03-2014 02:22PM

Album must be is probably shìt so he needs the publicity to sell it.

Festy · 25-03-2014 02:24PM

GenieOz · 25-03-2014 02:25PM

So people are just forgetting about Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder then...

It's fine, when it's funny.
Majority of it isn't.

131spanner · 25-03-2014 02:25PM

speedboatchase wrote: »

Mariah Carey's husband

Doing well for himself.

mad muffin · 25-03-2014 02:29PM

I like to do yellow face. Black face is so 2013.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 25-03-2014 02:30PM

GenieOz wrote: »

So people are just forgetting about Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder then...

It's fine, when it's funny.
Majority of it isn't.

it tends to be people without a sense of humour that try and decide for everyone else what is and isn't funny though

mikom · 25-03-2014 02:32PM

speedboatchase wrote: »

Mariah Carey's husband Nick Cannon

Is that your man from "Agents of SHIELD" ?

My name is URL · 25-03-2014 02:33PM

speedboatchase wrote: »

Blackface is bad, right? We can all agree on that?

What about Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder?

edit: I see this was already mentioned, but still. It's not always necessarily designed to be offensive.

Scotty P · 25-03-2014 02:34PM

speedboatchase wrote: »

Blackface is bad, right? We can all agree on that?

I don't agree. I'm sure at times certain people had / have bad intentions when blacking up, but it's not an inherently racist thing to do imo, not even close. I remember wanting to make myself look like Mr.T when I was a kid and was told that I couldn' as it would be offensive. To me, the idea that making my face black is offensive.. is what is really offensive.

Dwayne Wade (the NBA star) whitefaced when dressing up as Justin Timberlake for Halloween and received a lot of stick, but I don't see why.

speedboatchase · 25-03-2014 02:36PM

GenieOz wrote: »

So people are just forgetting about Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder then...

It's fine, when it's funny.
Majority of it isn't.

There is a small distinction there though. RDJ's character and his obsession with method acting was the butt of the joke in Tropic Thunder. Everyone in the whole movie was offended by it. The joke was on him, not black people.

Here, the joke isn't on Nick Cannon. We're meant to laugh at how lame the stereotypical white character is, hence the surname 'Smallnut'.

token56 · 25-03-2014 02:42PM

I dont see anything wrong with either provided they are used in the right way.

If you get outraged over Nick Cannon you need to watch Dave Chappelle. He did the whole white face thing over 10 years ago in The Chappelle Show and what Nick Cannon simple doesn't compare to some of the sketches in The Chappelle Show. Racial satire at its best.

humanji · 25-03-2014 02:44PM

"'It's funny how people take themselves so seriously. People love drama! We feed off of it. Just relax and have fun!!"

So essentially he broke the story himself trying to stir controversy and get free publicity. And the best thing to do is ignore him.

Czarcasm · 25-03-2014 02:54PM

speedboatchase wrote: »

Blackface is bad, right? We can all agree on that? But what about whiteface, as seen in the comedy film White Chicks?

Mariah Carey's husband Nick Cannon has created a whiteface persona called 'Connor Smallnut' (because white people have small penises! Hurrrr) to promote his new album called... White People Party Music. Yep.

He has said: "'It's funny how people take themselves so seriously. People love drama! We feed off of it. Just relax and have fun!!"

So remember that if you want to wear blackface and impersonate Nick Cannon at some point.

Really, how seriously are we meant to take this? It's all about context. I'm certainly not going to get all faux outraged about it. It's Nick Cannon for Christ sake, hardly Barak O' Bama.

speedboatchase · 25-03-2014 03:04PM

token56 wrote: »

I dont see anything wrong with either provided they are used in the right way.

If you get outraged over Nick Cannon you need to watch Dave Chappelle. He did the whole white face thing over 10 years ago in The Chappelle Show and what Nick Cannon simple doesn't compare to some of the sketches in The Chappelle Show. Racial satire at its best.

I have but Chappelle's sketches - the race draft and the pixies, you're talking about right? - were equal opportunity and highlighted how ridiculous the stereotypes for each race were. This is just using the stereotypes of white people to make white people the butt of a joke.

The Diabolical Monocle · 25-03-2014 03:06PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnffskKI_IA

jimgoose · 25-03-2014 03:07PM

Bleh. I do that all the time for my Nō outfit. But first I go Jap by eating a raw lemon.

Killer Wench · 25-03-2014 03:11PM

Hold on. Let me get a pepsi and some popcorn. I'll be back to read the uninformed responses.

Czarcasm · 25-03-2014 03:14PM

speedboatchase wrote: »

I have but Chappelle's sketches - the race draft and the pixies, you're talking about right? - were equal opportunity and highlighted how ridiculous the stereotypes for each race were. This is just using the stereotypes of white people to make white people the butt of a joke.

Ahh I dunno tbh, it's a bit more "if the cap fits" than it is racist. I mean, there's no malicious intent there, and a good many celebrities have done the whole 'alter ego' thing.

The Diabolical Monocle · 25-03-2014 03:14PM

Killer Wench wrote: »

Hold on. Let me get a pepsi and some popcorn. I'll be back to read the uninformed responses.

Yo word.

suicide_circus · 25-03-2014 03:22PM

blackface = bad
whiteface = good

denhaagenite · 25-03-2014 04:03PM

Honestly don't care. He might as well sure. He should've called himself Connor Mariahcareysbitch though.

krudler · 25-03-2014 04:21PM

"Black people be drivin' like this: dun dun, dundund dun dun..and white people be drivin' like this: dee deee, diddle diddle dee dee"
"Haha! it's so true! we're so lame!"

Ray Palmer · 25-03-2014 05:11PM

http://www.allmusic.com/album/black-music-for-white-people-mw0000263735

Only 22 years after it has been already done to an extent

Smashius_Clay · 25-03-2014 08:45PM

Paul Mooney, a well-known stand up comedian and friend of the late Richard Pryor, once described white people even attempting rap as 'blackface without the makeup'.

wexie · 25-03-2014 08:52PM

RDM_83 again wrote: »

But your still allowed to do black face as long as its subtle and integral to the story line as in lethal weapon 5 and 6 :-) (always sunny)

There was a lethal weapon 5 and 6?

Scotty P · 25-03-2014 08:56PM

Killer Wench wrote: »

Hold on. Let me get a pepsi and some popcorn. I'll be back to read the uninformed responses.

Oh and I suppose it's just a coincidence that Pepsi is Black and Popcorn is white, eh?

You people make me sick.

123balltv · 25-03-2014 09:32PM

Ike and Tina were depicted in “white face” make-up that mocked the prejudicial black-faced make-up used by minstrel performers from the past.
Never done Tina any harm and Ike well he was always messed up.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VcOGQZtm8ZE/ULWGXoHn6GI/AAAAAAAAD-k/jpk6xwFQSjU/s1600/outtaseason.jpg

Black rapper wears whiteface for 'White People Party Music' album

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