You decide. Why the entire ad campaign is called “Hip-hop cupcakes” is still beyond me. That sure is not hip-hop they are mouthin. Black Eyed Peas sound more hip-hop than that.
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You decide. Why the entire ad campaign is called “Hip-hop cupcakes” is still beyond me. That sure is not hip-hop they are mouthin. Black Eyed Peas sound more hip-hop than that.
Its not racist. Its just stupid….
well its not racist but it definitely makes hip hop look like a joke by calling them hiphop cupcakes.
[...] reason to question the intent if not the effect of this ad.” Other sites, like hip-hop blog Wooha.com, contest that the “Black Eyed Peas sound more hip hop.” Stumble! for WP Posted in [...]
[...] Others questioned the ad’s title, “Hip Hop Cupcakes,” observing that whatever style of music the cupcakes were producing, it definitely wasn’t hip hop. “Chocolate glaze makes the cupcakes rap-stars,” inferred a blogger at The Source who explained: If the icing was in different flavors, or the lips weren’t so big and pink we could give the ad a pass, but as it stands it’s a pretty poorly constructed and potentially racist ad I’m the last person to be overly sensitive to media images, but the frothy mix of chocolate skinned cupcakes, bad Hip-Hop and a long media history of depicting stereotypical black people to sell food give me reason to question the intent if not the effect of this ad. [...]
Of course it’s racist. It’s the same way they used to draw pictures of black people – black face, big white buldging eyeballs and big red lips, singing and dancing.