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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But this is true haha

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

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

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

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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.”

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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.

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