How many black people work for Vice/Noisey/Complex/SPIN/Rolling Stone? (UPDATE :BUZZFEED included)
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Fortunate Lee
Superstar
thats the thing that pisses me off too breh. go write a fukkin book if you wanna explore your corny writing skills. review the fukkin music and stfu
Fortunate Lee
Superstar
people look up to young thug and shiit these days breh were doomed
Insensitive
Superstar
I think that's a problem with a lot of popular music journalism period, which turns me off of it, so I don't read or follow
many of these websites because some of the writing on rapper's in particular is
inducing.I see it like this :
There's multiple generations of white people who grew up on The Rolling Stones, The Ramones, The Beatles, Eric Clapton etc.
So when they approach R&B or Hip-Hop, they're approaching these genres not as someone who has grown up with the genres
but probably someone who only covers them because it's their job too.
Hip-Hop/Rap is caught in a weird position because there's people who generally know of Hip-Hop as "Pop Music" and nothing more.
So rappers are lumped in with Taylor Swift and Gaga while R&B which has very few vocal proponents in the media is treated like
Hip-Hop's odd little brother. Both genres are viewed in a "Poptimist" sense, hence fader jumping to Drakes defense when it became
known that he wasn't writing his own music. For them it isn't a big deal and they're part of the reason Hip-Hop and Pop music
journalism has turned into tabloid light.
They also appear to be generally ignorant to anything Hip-Hop that wasn't running the mainstream the past two decades.
I get the feeling there are more writers that can recall Ja-Rule than Digable Planets.
Then there are people who view Hip-Hop/Rap as a distinct culture and music which is an extension of Black Musical expression.
And these people MIGHT have an aversion to "Pop Rap" and/or are derided as "old" and "antiquated" so their views and ideals
are dismissed out right. I have an issue with these types as well but I vastly prefer them to weird white chicks with Wayne and Drake
posters all over their apartments. (this person exists btw. There is a thread on her in the booth.)
**I'm well aware there are exceptions to this and I fully respect white writers who are genuine fans of the music. These types generally
seem to share the opinions I do as far as it pertains to Hip-Hop music.
***I'm also aware views on Hip-Hop and black music in general can be more varied
and nuanced than the black and white view I've presented.
Screwface Exchange
All Star
Doesnt Big Biz work for complex??
The_King_of_Everything
Yeah.
fukk THESE MOTHERfukkERS!
And shut the people who make the music and are the most active part of the culture out of the equation.
It's a blatantly colonial mentality.
Go back and read what I said. I didn't say they are diverse. I said they are the most diverse out of all of the big media sites. You're looking at the execs.
not surprised. We don't own our art. We don't own the distribution either