Should We Slam Rick Ross for Trayvon Martin Reference on Usher’s “Lemme See”? (Listen) Posted by Nathan S. on 04/30/12 | Filed under Young Jeezy, Usher

If you're about to complain that I'm ignoring the larger point - Usher, the the biggest R&B stars of our generation, has a new surefire hit single out - and focusing on a small detail instead, then you don't know RefinedHype. Paying obsessive attention to detail is kind of my thing. Blame the Riddlin.

So yes, "Lemme See" is a pretty damn enjoyable song, and yes it looks like Usher is back to cranking out hits like MettaRon WorldArtest cranks out elbows, but I'm more interested in seeing if everyone will slam Rick Ross for his Trayvon Martin like like they did Childish Gambino:

“Chanel hoodie on, looking like Trayvon Martin / George Zimmerman don’t want it.”

Frankly I'm gonna marinate on this for a minute before I can come up with an official stance. (Yep, believe it or not I sometimes think about something before I write it.) But my gut reaction is that if you thought Childish's Travyon line went too far, you have to be furious at that. Ross just turned the murder of a teenager into a Chanel luxury rap reference.

Straight up, I'll be fascinated to see how RefinedHype Nathan responds. Let's all get to marinating.....



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