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You guys still keep complaining but do nothing about it. I wouldn't be surprised if half of you bought her album anyway.
Why Does Iggy Azalea get away with performing Vocal Blackface?
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Kobes Two Jerseys
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Another problem is that they let in too many women. For example, Rikki Martinez, Power 106, fine as can be, but annoying as fukk talking about how emojis are important to a relationship. I rarely tune into them, but when I do, Im quickly reminded why hiphop is straight garbage these days.
Cac's listen to hip-hop radio more than blacks now.
especially since most of these "Hip-Hop" radio stations got every race under the sun, except black people as the DJ's.
Knicksman20
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because he speaks differently depending on who he's in the company of, it's called CODE SWITCHING.
Come on Matt! He's straight up phony. Think about it for a second. He spent most of his life in Canada, raised by his white mother & in a predominately white area. Dude even had a bar mitzvah when he hit 11/12. You can look at him & tell he was the token "Black" in his school.
There's really no difference in the way speaks Bruh:
But when he raps it's a different story
i just be looking at them videos
BelowTheMasonDixon
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I'm trying to figure something out, because this seems to be a thing here. Is everyone who isn't Black that does Hip Hop a "culture vulture"?
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Basically, the term "culture vulture" pertains to an individual/individuals that profit of an art, music, culture, they themselves did not create.
Personally, I just don't think black people can be culture vultures...usually cause we're the ones getting our cultures exploited by others for dollars upon dollars while we (the originators) see pennies or are just placed as a nice little footnote at the end of the day. Just like in the terms of "gentrification", it requires a "gentry" class...(ie one with business ownership, community/generational wealth, etc.). Black people in those terms cannot be gentrifiers. White people are the penultimate "culture vultures".
But that's what they do. Look at Chipotle...look at PF Chang's...look at artists like Iggy Azalea. They basically figure out what people of color do...how they do it...and then replicate it without those people involved at all.
It matters because cause 20 years from now they'll be people that'll see the mainstream faces of hip-hop and automatically assume it was a white genre...there won't anyone there to sit them down and talk to them that that wasn't the case.
BelowTheMasonDixon
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LMAO, you can't be serious. You don't think Mexicans or Asians eat Hamburgers or Hot dogs? I hate to break it to you but from the first time the very first cultures of the world came into contact with each other, both cultures replicated the others food, just with a traditional twist on it. So that PF Chang or Chipotle line is just downright silly.
As for rap, I mean I seriously doubt that in 20 years, Whites won't know Blacks made hip hop.
But what yall need to realize is Hip Hop has grown way beyond Us. HIP HOP IS NO LONGER BLACK CULTURE. Hip Hop is global culture. If anything the only thing that we retained from hip hop culture is all the dumb shyt.
Hacksaw Jim Thuggin
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you nikkas literally buy (not download...but buy) no music...and then have the audacity to question why the music is being hi-jacked
short answer:
long answer: because white people and black women are driving the music industry (because they actually PAY for music) and they dont care what somebody looks like or what color they are....
....they only care that the music is good....
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You missed the point and you said it here...
Hence the PF Chang's, Chipotle comparison...
It's not like we run these record companies, own our masters, or anything else anyways...this was bound to happen on these pretenses.
BelowTheMasonDixon
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And I feel that's a poor comparison, but maybe that's just me.
My original question was "Is every non black who does hip hop a culture vulture"? Cultures, trends, etc.. get appropriated all the time. Is YOUR issue the fact that you don't think Black people will be fairly represented in mainstream hip hop in the coming years? And if so why Is this (A) a surprise and (B) an issue for you? It's not like Black people are going to stop rapping all together?
And I know we hate YT on this site, but Whites are most certainly not the only people making money off Hip Hop. Didn't PSY have the biggest album in the world a few years back? Were you outraged then?
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Yeah, I feel ya...it kind of was a poor comparison
Maybe this argument goes back to what @No_bammer_weed was saying...hip-hop is stale. I think black folks need to do something new.
Kobes Two Jerseys
8 or 24 best player of the era
Well said. The "wrap", is a perfect example of what you're talking about. Take a Mexican food, rename and repackage it.
BelowTheMasonDixon
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We need hip hop to go back to it's roots, Hip hop started off as a voice for social activism. And across the globe its pretty much stayed that way. Here it's become the voice of the vapid and greedy.
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You couldn't be more right with this...especially the bolded. The social/politically conscious element of hip-hop is completely gone.