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“What's draggin' on the floor is Kanye's reputation as a man with no empathy for animals or human beings,”

“Kanye can't help making himself look like an idiot, whether at an awards show or a fashion show,” PETA'S Matthews lashed into Yeezy during the time. “He and his girlfriend look like pathetic creatures from a shabby roadside zoo.”

 

Ouch. The PETA gang doesn't play.

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The Bricksquad rapper, who posed nude for PETA last year, is currently Hip-Hop's strongest voice against fur and animal cruelty as he has spoken out many times against it. He started collaborating with SEA Brand (snapbacks for a cause) this past winter and the two decided to let fans vote their favorite colorway for the snapback, as well as which charity should receive the proceeds. The fan vote went to anti-bullying and now a portion of the proceeds of the snapback hat will go towards the PACER'S National Bullying Prevention Center.

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Dr. Dre has had his fair share of beefs over the years with former partners like Suge Knight, Eazy-E and Ice Cube,  and now PETA has thrown its name into the "FCUK Dre" hat.

The animal rights organization is upset with the good Dr. and designer Oscar de la Renta who are about to release a limited edition  pair of Beats By Dre headphones wrapped in silver fox fur. 

PETA representative Michelle Cho issued an open  letter to Dre advocating for the headphones to be discontinued. Part of the letter read:

We wanted to get in touch to urge you to keep fur and exotic-animal skins out of your Beats by Dre designs.  Foxes, minks, rabbits, and other animals including cats and dogs—are bludgeoned, genitally electrocuted, strangled with wire nooses, drowned, and even skinned alive for their pelts.

You have a tremendous amount of influence on young people.  Won't you please consider using your platform to advocate kindness toward animals by pledging never to design with real fur and exotic skins?

The Fox Fur Beats By Dre Headphones run a whopping $695.

I doubt PETA has that much to worry about as these won't be mass produced for this price.

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals weren't fond of Rihanna's latest choice of fashion.

According to reports, while attending a launch for her perfume at a department store in London last week, the 23-year-old pop star wore a top made of ostrich feathers, and that was enough to get PETA's vegan panties in a bunch.

Daily Mail reports:

The move has enraged animal rights group PETA, who claim that the feathers used to create the garment could have been collected cruelly.

"Rihanna is flaunting stolen property, in this case feathers possibly plucked right off their rightful owners' backs," PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) spokeswoman Sandra Smiley told the Daily Star.

"She has shown little regard for foxes, cows and reptiles, now she's adding birds to the list of species exploited for her dubious looks."

"Feathers are often ripped off chickens, geese, ostriches and emus in live plucking. This can result in gaping wounds that are sewn up with a needle and thread without anaesthetic," she said.

Controversially, Smiley referenced the domestic abuse suffered by Rihanna at the hands of her ex boyfriend Chris Brown.

"We keep hoping that Rihanna, a victim of violence herself, will learn to open her heart and start empathising with the suffering of others," she said.

"That includes the animals who are beaten, gassed, electrocuted and poisoned to be turned into fashion accessories," she added.

Check Rihanna's outfit below.

What do you think about PETA's reaction to Rihanna's outfit?

Are they over reacting? Do they have or point? Or should PETA just STFU? Let us know your thoughts.

While those ads were celebrated for their message, they also gained acclaim for the celebs who stripped down to their skivvies to make it all possible.

So what would happen if celebs like Rick Ross and singer Ke$ha followed suit and took it all off for PETA?

Let's hope that the world may never know.

Here are 10 celebs whose PETA ads we could gladly do without.

The man once surrounded by rumors of performing cruelty  to humans is speaking up on dog rights. Suge Knight is the new face of PETA joining Waka Flocka Flame in the campaign against dog chaining.

“Dogs deserve our love and attention not a life of ‘solitary confinement' at the end of a chain,” Knight said in a statement. “Chaining a dog is one of the cruelest things you can to do them – they are social animals.”

Yes dogs are social animals and we must do all we can to protect them in this crazy society we live in. Suge Knight is the perfect spokesperson to scare us regular people into not chaining up dogs.

Waka Flocka's long awaited nude PETA campaign has been released.

Wearing nothing but strategically placed bling, rapper Waka Flocka Flame shows off his tattoos—and more—in his brand-new PETA campaign ad, which urges, "Ink, Not Mink. Be Comfortable in Your Own Skin and Let Animals Keep Theirs."

The ad was  shot by top celebrity photographer Robert Sebree for the campaign that's soon to feature Britney Spears and Lady Gaga.

In an exclusive PETA interview, Waka urges the hip-hop community to consider the animals who are cruelly killed for fur coats, collars, and cuffs.

"Understand where that fox fur came from before you spend $1,000…someone got their head beat in and electrocuted," he says "Understand what you buy, instead of just going off fashion and what it looks like—that's what I'd tell my community."

Waka also speaks out against forcing animals to perform in circuses.

"I don't agree with that at all," he says. "That Shyte is whack."

The Flockaveli MC is the first rapper to star in PETA's iconic "Ink, Not Mink" campaign.

Other musicians who have joined with PETA to speak out against fur include Pink, Kid Sister, Mark Ronson, Linkin Park's Chester Bennington, Gym Class Heroes' Travie McCoy, Dave Navarro, Chuck D, Masta Killa, Murs, and Mario, among many others.

Check out Waka's ad for “Ink Not Mink” and a behind the scenes video below.