Rappers to boycott Cristal champagne

[Greenfield]

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While that's true, it's also everyone's right to boycott, and urge others to do so.

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I wasn't denying that.

[Smelly]

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It makes sense, Cristal's target market don't want to be associated with the bling / gangsta lifestyle.

M. Rouzeaud makes sense, and if I am ever in the market for expensive champagne (unlikely, but hey), I'm now going to buy Cristal because Jay Z is just wrongly playing the racist card.

Believe it or not, sometimes people dislike you just for being a dick, not because of the colour of your skin.

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Their target audience isn't watching rap videos anyway. And if they are, they are buying cristal because thats what they see in the videos.

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Exactly

[fiskebent]

Living in Europe I've never heard of Cristal except in association with US hip-hop stuff. I've never heard of anyone buying a bottle of it or seen it in a shop. Is it a US thing?

The ones I think of as good are Dom Perignon - because that's what James Bond drinks and Veuve Clicqout was fashionable some years back, but not so much anymore.

Personally I'm just as happy with a good bottle of Cremant de Bourgogne. I can't taste the difference and it's half the price.

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lolz @ people thinking this is somehow not about race

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If you're going to make a charge like that, then you should have some proof. I agree with the others who said that it just could be they don't like seeing Cristal dumped all over a stripper's ass on TRL or something.

[Smelly]

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Tommy Hilfiger v. 2006?

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Do some research before you post:

about.com- tommy hilfiger a racist?

"Netlore Archive: False rumors alleging that fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger made racist statements on Oprah Winfrey's show are circulating (again) by email"


This myth that proof exists of Hilfiger being a racist has been debunked as an urban legend and people should stop propagating it for Tommy's sake.

[TheIronGame]

Ya...because everything HAS to be about race. They would probably be equally as turned off about the idea of white trailor park trash spraying toothless hicks in music videos.

Pull that fat head out of your ass and think for a second. I am starting to doubt that your a 29yr old virgin not because of your looks and more because of your thought (or lack there of) process...

TIG

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Ya...because everything HAS to be about race. They would probably be equally as turned off about the idea of white trailor park trash spraying toothless hicks in music videos.

Pull that fat head out of your ass and think for a second. I am starting to doubt that your a 29yr old virgin not because of your looks and more because of your thought (or lack there of) process...

TIG

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Your reading and comprehension skills need some serious work.

[Olof]

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lolz @ people thinking this is somehow not about race

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I don't believe that this is the case here. Burberry have decreased the use of their tartan pattern since it became associated with football hooligans and chavs - both subcultures, as far as I understand it, largely consisting of white, working-class males.

I don't think you can blame a company for not wanting to be associated with individuals that might alienate their traditional customer base.

[Evan]

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Yes, b/c not wanting your product to be seen being sprayed all over some strippers ass in some cheap music video must be racist.

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Cheap music videos? I'm think music videos are pretty expensive to make.

[meleader2]

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Yes, b/c not wanting your product to be seen being sprayed all over some strippers ass in some cheap music video must be racist.

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Cheap music videos? I'm think music videos are pretty expensive to make.

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content cheap