Let’s settle this: We’re blacc people listening to Kanye West in the HOOD?

[BrothaZay]

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/kai-cenat-plays-runaway-on-piano-glorilla-doesnt-recognize-it-comments-say-the-south-wasnt-listening-to-kanye.1057416/

Title is summed up for engagement purposes so let me further explain

In the thread linked, posters in the booth(and Twitter accounts in the tweet) make an extremely big deal about Glorilla not knowing this song called “Runway” by Kanye west on his album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

As someone who considers myself a hip hop head and a black music head in general, when I clicd the video I expected it to be a song I heard before but just forgot the name.

Nope.

I’m 30 & dead ass never heard this song before in my life.

So I’m wondering where is all the outrage coming from?

It made me bring up a bubbling talcn point

Were blacc ppl IN THE HOOD, bumping MBDTF?

 

[Canada Goose]

I'm sure the hood in NYC bumped Watch the Throne due to the most popular NYC rapper ever, Jay Z being on it. I remember hearing Brooklyn nikkas bumping Nikkas in Paris.

 

[Treblemaka]

Hip Hop and Pop are the two big music genres in which you dont have to know your music history. They are the time capsule genres and snapshot of what's cool right now.

It's why rap has never had a viable "oldies" station.

 

[TEH]

Hip Hop and Pop are the two big music genres in which you dont have to know your music history. They are the time capsule genres and snapshot of what's cool right now.

It's why rap has never had a viable "oldies" station.

Huh

Rock the Bells on Sirus FM is very successful

 

[Piffiztheanswer]

Naw thats cac musik

 

[OneManGang]

Kanye reinvented himself so many times, it’s kind of believable. He has a wide range of hits, and albums. So I very much believe certain nikkas was not checking for MBDTF especially at that time where other artists with a more grimy trap sound were taking off

 

[Hater Eraser]

I had to slap this shyt yesterday ...

 

[blockburna420]

Hip hop heads - yes
The hood - no

That was Drake Ross Gucci era

 

[Sad Bunny]

I remember people listening to college dropout for sure. And of course, the major hits like gold digger.

But he ain’t have the streets on lock like mixtape Weezy or Jeezy did back then.

 

[Bondye Vodou]

2010 Kanye onwards? Naw dats Cac music.

 

[Jaguar93]

I’ve heard HAM, Go Hard, NIP, Can’t Tell Me Nothing, and remember people loving Ye’s verse on Put On.

 

[JulesMusic719]

Not gonna answer since you can't even properly spell a four letter word in the thread title..

 

[cyndaquil]

First time i heard runaway was from an Asian girl in college. So yeah...they weren't unless it was Watch the throne

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

“Mayonnaise colored Benz I push miracle whips” rang out in the hood like the liberty bell.

We definitely played Kanye in my city from the jump

 

[Tribal Outkast]

This hurts Kanye’s legacy btw. You’re telling me that the hood wasn’t messing with Kanye back when this dropped? All that Yeezus bullshyt I’d believe but this was when he was still ok. People will literally say he influenced a whole generation or rap with 808’s and that came out right before the album with Runaway. Oh well I’ll just sit back and watch because I remember these conversations with rappers I grew up on. I’m going to sit back and watch people get mad about rappers and fans not knowing older Kanye songs