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Old Man Who Doesn’t Like Rap Song Somehow on Right Side of History (thehardtimes.net)
submitted 10 months ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/theonion@midwest.social
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LOS ANGELES — Legendary metal musician, and noted septuagenarian, Ozzy Osbourne broke new ground when he became the first old white man to complain about a rap song and actually be on the right side of history.

“This is the first time we’ve ever seen a person of Ozzy’s age, wealth status, and complexion complain about a rap song or artist and actually be correct. Especially when they say it in an all-caps Tweet,” said music scholar Aiden Lawrence

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Exactly, this should be on /c/nottheonion@lemmy.world, or one of the other Not The Onions.

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Hard Times is satire, literally the same thing as The Onion but another publication. This is the place for it.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The story is true though, it's not satire.

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Lots of satire is based on true events, that doesn’t make the article itself true. There is no music scholar “Aiden Lawrence”, the quotes from that person are made up.

Metalhead Tony Garcia is also made up to illustrate the joke. The true part is that Ozzy Osbourne tweeted with a good take. The reactions to it are fake to illustrate the authors joke, which is that an old rock legend having a good take on a rap artist is rare.

[–] mysoulishome@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it has a funny headline but is 100% accurate. T-Pain’s cover is awesome and he shared the tweet:

Legendary rapper T-Pain had a completely different experience with Osbourne on X (formerly Twitter) earlier this year.

“I sang on a cover of ‘War Pigs’ at The Sun Rose and Ozzy tweeted at me saying it was the best cover he had ever seen and wishes we had called him. Hell, I wish I had his phone number. I would have loved to share the stage with him,” said T-Pain. “But I’ll admit when I first saw he had tweeted at me I full expected a racist rant, but it couldn’t have been further from the truth. Ozzy is a real one.”

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think either of you understand the point of the article. The subject being satirized in this article are people who use hip hop/rap criticism as a racist dog whistle. Not Ozzy Osbourne. They're using an accurate headline based on a real news item about him in order to satirize racism because his reason for denying use of his song subverts the trope of the "old guy who hates rap for racist reasons." So no, it doesn't belong in c/nottheonion. It's 100% satire and was posted exactly where it belongs.