Why would any other groups care about genocidal hip-hop if black people don't care or cosign it ?
Let's be real. We don't want anyone from outside the community criticizing hip hop. We'd clown anyone doing so.
At a surface level, I agree with the bolded. Any attempts by non-black people to criticize the content of hip hop are typically shouted down, but I'd say it's less about who's making the criticism, and what the intent of the criticism is. Typically, those criticisms come from someone white who is using hip hop as a surrogate for black culture, and isn't really asking hip hop to be better, but are really just airing their grievances with black people that are typically rooted in some degree of racial bias, if not flat out racism.
I haven't watched the special yet, but I have gotten the gist that he says that people are cool with him rapping about killing another black man, but aren't cool with what he said about the gay community. Based off of the backlash I've seen, this really looks like a case where people are mistaking this for the false equivalency game.
For the record, I thought what he said was fukked up, and he handled the entire situation terribly, but I also thought people dogpiling on him was just as bad. Primarily because a lot of the same outlets that were putting out their thinkpieces about how he's terrible, and an example of some of the dated ideologies of masculinity in the black community were the same ones propping him up. It's probably not all that hard to find articles where the same folks, when talking about him gleefully rapping about killing another man, would say shyt like "a stunning example of how the chilling realities of urban life can be addressed with humor and wit", or "the medicine of a window into the dark reality of the black experience.on America laced with the sugar of a uniquely blunt sense of humor."