Rahiel Tesfamariam, a columnist of The Washington Post, recently penned an article, slamming the popular site WorldStarHipHop.com for its negative imaging of African Americans.
The article, entitled “Death of World Star Hip Hop (D.O.WSHH)”, discusses how the well-known website is barely known for Hip Hop anymore. Rather, it is notorious for various videos that contain loads of violence that is degrading to the Black community.
Tesfarmariam called World Star Hip Hop “one of the most culturally damaging media platforms in existence today.”
AllHipHop News Reported that Rahiel is not the only one who has spoken out against the site, which calls itself the “CNN of the Ghetto.” Grandmaster Melle Mel of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five teamed up with Quadeer “MC Spice” Shakur, Minister of Information for the Zulu Nation, to take on the website just last year.
While non-labeled artists have to pay from $500-$2,500 in order to be added in the feature portion of the site, viral videos require no payment to be uploaded.
Melle Mel was quoted as saying, “WorldStarHipHop has no more to do with Hip-Hop than FedEx has to do with the Federal Government.”
Quadeer Shakur speaks directly to the site's creator, Lee “Q” O’Denat, in the video below.