One writer is getting lots of flack for his rant against Chance the Rapper.

Journalist Phil Mushnick went off via a New York Post essay after it came out that the Chicago lyricist was up for the brand ambassador slot of the Chicago White Sox.Mushnick went off and “challenged” the MLB team and called out the rapper for not being a good fit for the gig.

“Chance records and sells pro forma, no-upside, can’t-expect-better-from-us, women-denigrating, blood-on-the-breeze rap…”

He said he chose a random song of Chance’s “to get a sense of whom the White Sox would choose as their first ‘Ambassador’…” After a quick Google search Mushnick landed on Chance’s ‘Smoke Again’ song; which Mushnick said the lyrics are inappropriate and disrespectful to say the least as Chance raps about hooking up with a woman “so I can smoke again.”

Mushnick added, “From there it ‘grows’ more vulgar, as per the genre, more boastful…One wonders how MLB’s domestic violence policy, issued last August, would read in juxtaposition to Chance’s work and his candidacy as a payrolled ‘Ambassador’ for an MLB team.”

He then listed Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanual, Rev. Jesse Jackson and even MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, asking if they would ever dare to say Chance’s lyrics “in public.”

It didn’t take long for fans to get wind of Mushnick’s seemingly anti-Chance campaign. So they went off about it on Twitter and came for Mushnick big time.

Radio personality of HOT 97’s Ebro In The Morning, Peter Rosenberg, said he’s ready to “DESTROY Phil Mushnick in moments”

One fan also accused him of “still throwing grenades not doing any research or stating any facts… AKA being a Newspaper Writer”


Baseball journalist Dayn Perry kept it simple with, “Oh, eff off…”

Many went as far as accusing Mushnick of being a “racist.”

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