Continuing his media tour in promotion of his Tanning Of America book advertising mogul Steve Stoute shared his thoughts on the magazine industry being late to recognize hip hop in a new New York Observer piece. Here’s a snippet:
Mr. Stoute would like to see more magazines adapt the way Rolling Stone did. “All those magazines are fucked up like that. Vogue is the same way. It’s all those people that come from the old school and believe that [hip-hop] wasn’t sustainable, so therefore they don’t want to buy into it and they push back on it. Vogue did the exact same thing. Anna Wintour now hangs out at Kanye’s shows and hangs out with Pharrell and hangs out with Puffy. She does all that shit now. Meanwhile, there is a lack of African-Americans who have graced that cover. Now, all of a sudden, it’s Beyoncé, it’s Rihanna. Now, she’s sitting with Nicki Minaj [at the Carolina Herrera Spring 2012 show].
“She’s tanning because she has to,” he continued. “She has to. She’s gonna put Blake Lively on the cover again?”
