Chrisette Michele Shit Canned by Spike Lee for Inaugural Sing

Soul singer Chrisette Michele made up a whole bunch of MLK Jr. reasons why she agreed to perform at the Trump Inauguration, though forgetting to mention the quarter million pay day for her thirty minute performance. She’s not broke, but that’s good money.

Michele’s music was to be featured in Spike Lee’s new Netflix series, She’s Gotta Have It, based off the movie he made thirty years. But Lee threatened Michele that if she went through with the Trump Inaugural gig, he’d nix her. Which he did. Despite being a pompous ass, you have to give a man credit for following through on his threats.

Good Morning Folks. I Wuz Sorry To Read That “Sistuh Girl” Is Singin’ At DT’s Inauguration (And To Use His Fav Word-SAD). I Wuz Thinkin’ ’bout Using Chrisette’s Song- BLACK GIRL MAGIC In My Netflix Series SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT…. NOT ANYMORE. And Dat’s Da Truth, Ruth.

Thanks for the forced ebonics. We get it. You’re the black Woody Allen. It’s why you’ve been allowed to make the same shitty movie over and over again and afford court side Knicks tickets.

Under the same Constitution that allows a million women to paint signs of their uterus and simultaneously march and update Facebook social status, Spike Lee can fuck over whoever he wants for breaking ranks with the company line. Hollywood isn’t kidding with implied career threats about anybody not providing bona fides on Trump hate. You will lose work. Spike Lee will reach deep into black history to justify his particular machinations, somebody else will raise irrelevant Roe v. Wade hysteria. This is how certain people fight. If you believe diversity battles were ever about diversity of thought, you’re a toddler.

Chrisette Michele and her manager-boyfriend gave a big fuck you to Spike Lee and Netflix for canceling their contract over the Trump performance. Netflix’s hands are tied. Once you green light a Spike Lee series, you’re kind of all in on the game of multicultural pretend. There’s no going back. The next time somebody calls themselves a uniter and not a divider, just punch them in the face. That sentiment may never have existed. 

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