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Joey Bada$$ Defends Bill Cosby, Accuses Media of 'Brainwashing'
Joey Bada$$ is feeling some type of way about the media. The Brooklyn rapper has gone on a Twitter tirade in defense of Bill Cosby, arguing that the rape allegations against him are the result of media “brainwashing.”
“I don’t fuck with the Bill Cosby slander,” he wrote initially, adding, “Of course I’m always against a rapist but it’s just like y’all EAT UP anything the media feeds yalll…”
I don't fuck with the Bill Cosby slander 😐
— B4.DA.$$ OUT NOW!!! (@joeyBADASS) July 20, 2015
If rape is such a bad thing to yall then why r yall helping the media make jokes about it?? Thats why I don't think the slander is funny….
— B4.DA.$$ OUT NOW!!! (@joeyBADASS) July 20, 2015
he raped multiple women? Ok. Do you think these women feel pleased when they see a meme on the internet bout what was really done to em?
— B4.DA.$$ OUT NOW!!! (@joeyBADASS) July 20, 2015
He expanded his argument from one about Cosby to a larger point about how people believe everything they read. “You internet kids know NOTHING except what they put in front of you on these devices,” he said. “Every media site can start slandering anyone at any moment with some half ass story and you guys will fucking believe it.”
You internet kids know NOTHING except what they put in front of you on these devices.
— B4.DA.$$ OUT NOW!!! (@joeyBADASS) July 20, 2015
That's the part that's not funny to me…. The funny part is how gullible you people are!
— B4.DA.$$ OUT NOW!!! (@joeyBADASS) July 20, 2015
Bada$$ continued in this conspiratorial vein, making the case that the media routinely deceives audiences, and that people need to “know that there is always a REAL story beneath the COVER story.”
I don't want to believe that the media isn't brainwashing us the same way America doesn't want to believe it killed and enslaved black ppl.
— B4.DA.$$ OUT NOW!!! (@joeyBADASS) July 20, 2015
He concluded his Twitter rant by asking his followers to continue getting updates on his views on his Snapchat @badmonjozif.
But yo watever guys. Wanna hear my argument from my VOICE and not media articles. Watch my snapchat story @badmonjozif. If not, DIPPPPPP!
— B4.DA.$$ OUT NOW!!! (@joeyBADASS) July 20, 2015