105.1 the Bounce announces in a statement that it will no longer play the rapper's music as 'we feel like Kanye has gone too far with his latest statement.'
- May 4, 2018
AceShowbiz - Kanye West fans in Detroit won't be able to hear the rapper's songs on radio again. 105.1 the Bounce announced on Thursday, May 3 that it would no longer play Kanye's music after he made controversial comments about slavery.
In a statement that was posted on social media, the station announced, "We feel like Kanye has gone too far with his latest statement, declaring that 'slavery was a choice.' We are over it. We don't want to hear Kanye's music. So we are taking a stand and we aren't playing his music anymore; we just are refusing to give him a platform."
"We feel like Kanye has gone too far with his latest statement declaring that “slavery was a choice.†We are over it. We don’t want to hear Kanye’s music. So we are taking a stand and we aren’t playing his music anymore; we just are refusing to give him a platform #MorningBounce" pic.twitter.com/2qYdjx4zWM
— 105.1 The Bounce (@1051thebounce) 3 Mei 2018
Kanye has been receiving backlash after he made the incendiary statement during an interview with TMZ on May 1. He suggested that African-Americans simply chose to be imprisoned for centuries by white masters. "You hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years? That sounds like a choice," he told hosts of TMZ live. "Like, that was there for 400 years and it's all of y'all?"
"It's like we're mentally in prison," he continued, referring to his fellow black Americans. "I like the word 'prison' because slavery is too direct to the idea of blacks. Like Holocaust is Jews, slavery is blacks. So prison is something that unites us as one race, whites and blacks being one race. The human race."
Following the backlash, the Yeezy founder took to his Twitter account in an attempt to explain his controversial remarks. "To make myself clear. Of course I know that slaves did not get shackled and put on a boat by free will," he said in a series of tweets. "My point is for us to have stayed in that position even though the numbers were on our side means that we were mentally enslaved."
