Lupe Fiasco is encouraging his fans to boycott Spin, after the magazine gave his new video a bad review. It all happened after Brandon Soderberg, the writer who runs Spin’s hip-hop blog, deemed Fiasco’s new clip for “Bitch Bad” a blatant grab for socially conscious publicity, saying:
“'Bitch Bad' is, to play Lupe's game and get histrionic, how you ‘debase’ a ‘culture.’ You twist a rap song into poorly thought-out grab for attention, and give it a muddled video, all under the guise of ‘starting a conversation,’ which implicitly suggests that rap music isn't having these conversations already.”