OH, ALSO. ALSO. EVEN HIP-HOP IS BEING BUILT AND TARGETED AT WHITE PEOPLE NOW. FUCK, JUST LET ME HAVE THIS ONE THING. Edit: And like, I know I was talking about how hobbies don't have to be tied to racial characteristics, but hiphop is so entrenched in Black culture so when you try to get me to hear "this new rapper Macklemore he's pretty good, almost as good as Eminem, the greatest rapper of all time" you're 70% of the time a racist asshole that refuses to listen to any hiphop made by Black people because it only has "sex, money, drugs" in its material (thanks for the quote fodder, crappy roommate) Click the top all time results here for a bit more understanding. And I can talk about this LITERALLY forever so if you have questions just ask. I've got aaaaall day.
Flippant, not correct comment: Didn't that start way back in the mid-2000s with Asher Roth? He's the first memory of a rapper I have where my friends moms were okay with the music. I wouldn't be so quick to attribute to being a racist though, most of the people I've seen that talk about Macklemore or similar artists just don't care that much about music and like him because he's easy to digest, and they didn't have to work to find his music. It's the surface, lowest common denominator artist at the moment.
True enough. Born out of ignorance than anything else. And yeah, it kinda did. Asher, Eminem. The Beastie Boys, if you go back far enough. Vanilla Ice. But Eminem got Dre's stamp of approval in 1999, so he's a little earlier than Asher. My favorite, though, is MC Paul B. Got quoted as making "the whitest EP ever made" by NYT.
Man, I used to be this guy (except I did listen to black people playing music I LIKED Bad Brains, Fishbone, etc ), and it's painful to look back at it. When I moved to Flint, my roommates set me straight. They gave me Wu-Tang, then Pharacyde, Chali 2na, Hieroglyphics, KRS-ONE (OMG). They made me listen like they'd quiz me about the stuff. When I actually listened to the music and moved beyond my dumb stupid enclosed stereotype I fell in love. I just bought a mid-sized sedan and the first thing I did was blast Blackalicious. Anyway, hiphop helped reflect a mirror on me that I wasn't expecting at the time. I'm really glad I moved past that, I hope your roommate does too.you're 70% of the time a racist asshole that refuses to listen to any hiphop made by Black people because it only has "sex, money, drugs" in its material (thanks for the quote fodder, crappy roommate)
I love that subreddit. It's funny how much music choice is tied to subconscious racism, if "funny" is the right word. Creepy, maybe. How when a White guy raps about death and sex, he's exempt from the Puritanism they then apply to Black rappers. 70% of the time?