Joyner Lucas's most recent music video for "I'm Not Racist" went viral for the jarring acting by the two characters in the piece. The video attempts to tackle the issue of racism by placing one white man and a young black man in a room together as they air out their respective issues surrounding the race question. Despite the overwhelming praise, many viewers gave Joyner Lucas, there were detractors who believed that the track was very one-sided in terms of its framing of racism. Critics especially pointed at the fact that the Black kid's verse didn't have any substantial content. The criticism was that the second verse was more of an emotional appeal than hard-hitting social critique.
But Joyner Lucas doesn't seem to have any time for detractors of his message. In an IG post, Joyner Lucas reposted a video of one of his critics, Temple professor Aaron X. Smith of the Department of Africology and African American Studies, tearing "I'm Not Racist" apart. Joyner captioned the post with his response stating:
They out here protesting against me.??!! 😳. 99% of Hip-hop spreads a negative message, highlighting drugs, hate, sex, crime and more with no happy ending. Joyner tackles a uncomfortable conversation and creates a peace treaty and a resolution and n*ggaz wanna kill me? lol I don't get it. Smh 🤦♂️ everybody who got something to say wasn't even brave enuff to say half the shit they saying now BEFORE I dropped the record. Thank me for that. #joynerseason
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