If I were the manufacturer of Theraflu I think I would be dancing for joy cuz the cash cow has come in. I don't know anyone who has used the product but the name check must be dazzling.
So tell me why PETA (People for The Ethical Treatment Of Animals) cant do the same? I suppose they are offended by the line "Someone tell PETA my mink is draggin' on the floor,"
Everybody calm down. It's a line in a song that most likely got the best rhyme. PETA has to fire off a statement:What's draggin' on the floor is Kanye's reputation as a man with no empathy for animals or human beings," PETA's senior vice president Dan Mathews said to MTV News in a statement. "He's a great musician but doesn't seem to have the fashion sense to design anything more than caveman costumes."
Suddenly we are all back in fifth grade, next comes the 'yo mama' jokes. I can understand PETA taking offense and using this as a teaching tool but what I cant understand is the slam back of 'caveman costumes', is that not stooping?
But do I detect a bit of back peddling here? "We keep hoping that one day he'll find his heart and join evolved style icons — including Russell Simmons, Pink and Natalie Portman — who have dropped animal skins," Mathews said.
I believe in ethical treatment of animals AND rappers. I believe PETA has better and more effective ways of encouraging a more compassionate world than throwing back juvenile insults. This isn't gaining them any supporters, its making them appear more pathetic and desperate than a kid with no cake.