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Cordae has always been an advocate for Black issues in America. While fighting for these causes, he hopes that his peers in the music industry will show solidarity and support.

However, Cordae has not gotten that vibe lately, and sounded off on Twitter on Thursday (Nov. 11) about the tendencies of industry folk saying: “It’s a lot of Oreo ass n****s in this entertainment shit.”

He is likely touching on how Black entertainers have been consumed by white influence and act “Black” on the outside but now have white tendencies on the inside.

Before then, he let off a pair of tweets about how support for the Black community is only shown when it is convenient for people: “Most of these entertainers only pro black when it’s convenient. Or when it’s “cool”.”

While it isn’t know what prompted Cordae to lash out, these tweets come just days after he offered to support Howard University, a Historically Black college who has been in turmoil lately due to student protests about poor living conditions. Cordae tweeted to find ways he could help students financially: “Dear Howard students, how and where can I directly donate and or be of service to the cause ?”

Cordae is not new to this type of support either, as he was seen protesting the murder of Breonna Taylor last summer in Kentucky. He was actually arrested during the protest, but was able to dodge a felony charge.

Perhaps this two-faced behavior from his Black colleagues in the music industry is what led him to establish his own label Hi Level in May, 100% owned by him.

It seems as Cordae becomes a seasoned voice in the entertainment business, he learns more about its harsh reality.

Check out Cordae’s angry tweets below.

Soulja Boy says that fans need to be more aware of their surroundings at concerts in the wake of the mass casualty event at Travis Scott’s 2021 Astroworld Festival, where nine people were killed and hundreds more were injured.

As for how everyone can keep shows safer going forward, Soulja explained, “You just gotta hope that people can, you know, just enjoy themselves in the crowd, and it don’t be a lot of extra activities going on. You know what I’m saying? But we got it under control. Y’all come to the Millenium Tour, man, we good.”

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“You got to always check your surroundings, you feel me?” he continued. “Because if you get caught up in the concert and everybody got their phones out, you don’t even know what’s going on around you. You know what I’m saying? So you just really got to be aware of your surroundings, baby, we’re in New York City.”

Scott has been in hot water since the festival, with many  fans questioning, not only why he didn’t stop his performance to help fans, but why he was at Dave & Buster’s after the show partying.

“Travis didn’t really understand the full effect of everything until the next morning,” the rapper’s lawyer, Edwin F. McPherson, explained in a statement, this week.

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While giving a Veterans Day address at Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday, President Joe Biden mistakingly called Satchel Paige “the great negro” while recalling a story about the baseball legend. Biden was honoring former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary Donald Blinken.

“I’ve adopted the attitude of the great negro at the time, pitcher of the Negro leagues, who went on to become a great pitcher in the pros — in Major League Baseball — after Jackie Robinson. His name was Satchel Paige,” Biden told the crowd.

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He continued: “And Satchel Paige on his 47th birthday pitched a win against Chicago. And all the press went in and said, ‘Satch is amazing. Forty-seven years old. No one’s ever, ever pitched a win at age 47. How do you feel about being 47?’ He said, ‘Boys, that’s not how I look at it.’ And they said, ‘How do you look at it, Satch? And he said, ‘I look at it this way: How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?’”

Paige moved to Major League Baseball in the late 1940s, but his career as a whole spanned five decades. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1971.

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Following the tragedy last week at Astroworld Festival, for which the death toll has reached 9 after 22-year-old university student Bharti Shahani passed away from her injuries on Thursday, rapper Travis Scott’s attorney Edwin F. McPherson has issued a statement via GMA, claiming that his client didn’t know the scope of the tragedy until the following day.

It has been widely reported that nine people died at Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas a week ago, and hundreds more were injured in a crowd surge. Travis’ attorney issued a statement on Thursday, offering support to the victims’ families and providing a contact for them to reach out to the rapper’s team. On Friday, Attorney McPherson appeared on GMA to address questions about Travis’ involvement in the surge.

Scott’s attorney said that authorities are looking to get to the bottom of what happened before pointing fingers, but he did say that the “mass casualty” declaration never made it to Travis or anybody on his team.

“It absolutely did not,” he said. “In fact, we’ve seen footage of police half an hour later just walking about and not looking like it was a mass casualty event. But the important thing is that never got to Travis, it never got to Travis’ crew. He’s up there trying to perform, he does not have any ability to know what’s going on down below, certainly on a mass level.”

He went on to say that Travis didn’t realize how serious the situation had gotten until the next day, which explains why he was so comfortable partying at Dave & Buster’s after the show.

“Travis didn’t really understand the full effect of everything until the next morning,” says his attorney. “Truly, he did not know what was going on. As you can see from [a now-viral video], he’s on a riser and he sees one boy down, and he actually stops the show, asks security to get to that person. There were a couple of other times, once with, you say an ambulance but it looked more like a golf cart with some lights, he wasn’t sure what that was but he actually stopped the show for that, told people to get aside if they’re okay, put their hands up. There was one other incident right in front of him, but understand that when he’s up on the stage and he has flash pods going off around him and he has an ear monitor that has music blasting through it and his own voice, he can’t hear anything, he can’t see anything.”

Travis’ attorney concluded by saying that he doesn’t think the artist “incited” the crowd by telling them to rage, claiming that that’s just like any other show.

“I don’t think so, I think it’s nothing more than any other performer wants, you want your audience to be engaged. You want them to be standing up, you don’t want them to be sitting down, I know he didn’t have anything like this in mind. He wanted them to be engaged, he wanted them to have a good time, we’re coming out of COVID, this is what this festival was about.”

We will keep you updated on any further statements from Travis Scott or his team.

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