I'm Sorry But Fat Joe is not a Culture Vulture, AT ALL!

[Formerly Black Trash]

Over the summer, we watched old episodes of Soul Train with the younger folk in the household. They couldn't believe how different the Soul Train dancers were from folks today. Clearest observation: "It's like the black folks from back then were a totally different race of people from the black people today. They speak differently. They're built differently. They carried themselves differently. There appears to be more light in their eyes. Today, there is very little light in people's eyes."

45 years after the heights of Don Cornelius and Soul Train, we now have a bewildered population of folks who somehow believe that the casual use of the n-word is now a form of exclusive Black racial privilege.

Well, at least we have YouTube to help take us back to when it made sense: the Staples Singers on Soul Train:

I've felt this way too
They even spoke differently

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Stuff like this is what makes being a NYer embarrassing for me because too many Black NYers become docile when dealing with Latinos. I don't care how much clout you've gotten within hip-hop...you ain't calling me no “nikka/ hard er” and think everything is cool...you'll be on the pavement coming at me like that.

That's a bit of a misrepresentation of the situation. The reason(s) why black NYer's don't mind them saying "N1qqa" is because the groups have been around each other so long; depending on age, era and subcultures, that "blacks" ended up seeing caribbean latinos as pretty much "light skinned black people" who speak spanish

 

[Wild self]

Over the summer, we watched old episodes of Soul Train with the younger folk in the household. They couldn't believe how different the Soul Train dancers were from folks today. Clearest observation: "It's like the black folks from back then were a totally different race of people from the black people today. They speak differently. They're built differently. They carried themselves differently. There appears to be more light in their eyes. Today, there is very little light in people's eyes."

45 years after the heights of Don Cornelius and Soul Train, we now have a bewildered population of folks who somehow believe that the casual use of the n-word is now a form of exclusive Black racial privilege.

Well, at least we have YouTube to help take us back to when it made sense: the Staples Singers on Soul Train:

Yeah, and when the east coast try to make their own version of NWA, everything changed.

 

[Ozymandeas]

I know it burns yall souls but Ricans, Dominicans, and Cubans been in hip hop since the start breh. Hip Hop started in the Bronx and that’s PR Central See how old this Fat Boys video is. That’s how long Hispanics been involved with rap.

 

[Kool]

Man... fukk Fat Joe!

 

[ElMorenoFeo809]

I know it burns yall souls but Ricans, Dominicans, and Cubans been in hip hop since the start breh. Hip Hop started in the Bronx and that’s PR Central See how old this Fat Boys video is. That’s how long Hispanics been involved with rap.

It was always the Ricans. They were always there from the start. Ricans were involved with all 4 elements of hip hop : graffiti , bboy, dj and mc.

 

[Kool]

Here's Fat Joe as a kid. I wonder was he calling black people nikka back then too?

.....

 

[hatealot]

It was always the Ricans. They were always there from the start. Ricans were involved with a 4 elements of hip hop : graffiti , bboy, dj and mc.

Anyone denying puertonricans involvement in hip hop has an ulterior motive. You can't dispute puerto ricans.

Fat Joe is not a culture vulture.

 

[Ineedmoney504]

Not a culture vulture but the shyt he did with moe and vita is wack. Faggit calling innocent black women who minding they business “crack head bytches”

 

[Uchiha God]

"Black" in the past was more than a color, or our "tribe".

In Joe's day you had white, Latino, and Asian "black" brothers in some places.

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[seabreeze80]

Dj Kool Herc is Jamaican, DJ Kool Herc is the reason for hiphop. These is some lost nikkaz for real.

You can't be serious when Herc himself said that wasn't true. Hip hop was already here when Herc came along.

 

[Agent Mulder]

Culture Vulture? I remember when Fat Joseph was a graffiti artist back in the mid 80s tagging up all over the Bronx with Klay Slay .. I personally watched those dudes tag my junior high school school yard wall lmaoo

Fat Joseph is the further thing from a culture vulture dude was here from Day 1

JHS 148 on Third Ave? I was there for the Mad Lion "Take it Easy" video shoot. I was just a kid but I remember it.

 

[Positive Posting]

yall crazy
Look at his fukking hair

Cardi even said she was in an interracial relationship with Offset

We don't claim him

Do you know that everyone comes from the africa diaspora?

You can't be serious when Herc himself said that wasn't true. Hip hop was already here when Herc came along.

Ok bro if I’m wrong. From your studies who started it based on your studies?

 

[IllmaticDelta]

I know it burns yall souls but Ricans, Dominicans, and Cubans been in hip hop since the start breh. Hip Hop started in the Bronx and that’s PR Central

nah, "latins" was sideline watchers and had to get the black cosign to get anywhere near these jams/learn & be part of the culture: clearly weren't there from the start

See how old this Fat Boys video is. That’s how long Hispanics been involved with rap.

this dropped in the 1980s

It was always the Ricans. They were always there from the start. Ricans were involved with all 4 elements of hip hop : graffiti , bboy, dj and mc.

nah, see my above post

 

[Uptown WaYo87]

NY brehs, if u asked your Hisoanic friends to stop saying nikka, what would happen

Im dominican and youll find several post of me talking about how i stopped using the word because of how sensitive people are today and if it does come out its out of old habits. If you from the hood in nyc, thats just part of the slang and its a mix of black/dominican/rican in almost every hood. Espicially in the bronx

Its not that serious, im not fighting for the ability to use the word. But a lot of you are acting like bytches about it. If you not from new york and didnt grow up in the city thats literally the heart of hip hop culture...then shut the fukk up. Because most people in nyc dont really give a fukk unless its a str8 up white boy american saying it.