Why are white rap fans so impressed with rapping fast?

[Tetris v2.0]

Some whites have a need to approach foreign culture from an "elitist" angle. If they decide to attend their palette to rap, it will be only the most technical and socially conscious. The average outsider views rap as complete buffoonery, so by taking a hard stance they maintain credibility and intellectual superiority on a subject that they really don't understand

The downside, is that mainstream audiences and stiff elitist audiences like to spite each other. So we get idiots who don't respect anything that isn't a multi syllable, or idiots who run from anything remotely substantiative or deep.

Now, imagine if multisyllablic double time flow was the mainstream. None of these idiots would know what to think lol

 

[Sauce Dab]

They think rap fast = lyricism, which isn't true. But tbh a lot of booth posters sound like those same cacs. Some booth posters just look at where somebody is from or how they look and automatically assume they "mumble". It's like a lot of people don't understand that soul that some of these artists have

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

Cacs love fast things

 

[GreenGhxst]

I think white people like the technicality and skill it takes to rap fast because that's something they can latch onto quickly as hip hop listeners

They don't really understand anything outside of that because they don't care to explore anything outside of that, to understand Kendrick you need to listen to a whole album, to understand Outkast you need to listen to an album, to understand Cole you need to hear a whole album

They don't rap fast, white boys can't latch onto that gimmick, they have to sit their ass down and listen to the backstory, listen to black thoughts and black emotions, that's work for a casual listener

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Lack of soul. They can’t even make up dances without counting the steps. They prolly be counting the syallbles is each bar to make sure they’re an even number and shyt

 

[classicmaterial]

I’m white and cannot stand that double time shyt

Same here. That shyt is boring and annoying as hell

They love when a rapper isn’t flashy and doesn’t brag About his money too

And we know why that is...

 

[classicmaterial]

Cacs love the Roots breh. That’s a bad example

We sure do. But more for the "vibe" than for Black Thought. White people will praise the Roots all day but won't mention Black Thought as an elite rapper

 

[Sauce Dab]

Cacs love the Roots breh. That’s a bad example

cacs love the Roots, but they dont show Black Thought the same love breh

 

[feelosofer]

This perfectly sums it up I think

I was gonna say something about the lack of soul but you took it a step further by explaining the focus on the technical aspects. It's like we can appreciate the talent in the artform but can't feel the music so we focus on what we can understand which is the technical structure of the raps.

That said, why aren't rappers like Black Thought more loved by white fans? Is it because he has an actually flow to his technical brilliance as opposed to just being really really fast at rapping a lot of words?

I've produced a few Roots shows in the past, they have a pretty sizable white fanbase but honestly Black Thought was pretty underrated in the Black community until fairly recently.

 

[Cladyclad]

at thread title...that shyt is so true.

Rap God is the holy grail to em

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[Devil Plisken…CMS]

 

[BeingBetter]

A lot of white people have trouble grasping the soul of hip-hop so they place a lot more emphasis on its technical aspect. Not saying it's a negative or anything, just my observation.

Beautifully put, I was about to write a long winded version of this but you summed it up quite eloquently

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

Cause it’s a soulless element that helps ensure the words have less value per minute

 

[ROFLOCO]

They also like to hear rappers address weird emo topics in their songs too: suicide, depression, abuse, etc.

 

[Sauce Dab]

They also like to hear rappers address weird emo topics in their songs too: suicide, depression, abuse, etc.

rappers been rapping about that forever tho. You saying Scarface is a weird emo rapper?