why is a white rapper making songs these blacks should be making in hip hop?

[Mowgli]

Macklemore makes me sick..

add a black singer, a black choir and think you rapping deep shyt.

Fukk, why didnt he just name the song Daquan while he was at it..

 

[KravenMorehead™]

Cause the people who control the industry by controlling media(radio, tv, film, print) and distribution are being selective with what they allow out and who they allow it from, so they can phase black people out like they did with country and rock, and they're doing now with RnB (adele, sam smith, justin bieber, etc.). The behavior moves on a gradient, which means by the time it can't be doubted, it'll be too late. in the beginning stages cats play it off and demand in-your-face proof, as if a muthafukka runnin game is gonna be obvious with it

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

It's so fraudulent.

 

[AMcV'88]

nooooo, Leon Bridges...what are you doing being involved in this goof's pandering music.

Macklemore missed his calling as an ambulance chasing lawyer.

Macklemore makes me sick..

add a black singer, a black choir and think you rapping deep shyt.

Fukk, why didnt he just name the song Daquan while he was at it..

i can see them sitting around table and thinking of the name to use..

"let's not put ourselves in a box with Daquan. Black youths don't buy your records."
"Michael ?"....."nah, theres a stigma attached to Michael"
"well then what what about Kevin ?...Kevin can be a white guys name AND a black guys name"...."hmmm..Kevin Mcallister/Kevin Durant"



*signs off on it*

 

[King Kreole]

son at 3:14 looks like he's who the song is about

 

[y que]

The hell it does. That song is fukking trash and is held day them old school nikkas. Mackle trying to sound like eminem. He has no identity outside of being a rapper who openly gets his culo blasted.

you dont know anything about music

downtown is musically epic

 

[Mowgli]

you dont know anything about music

downtown is musically epic

I know what my ears tell me is good and that, while technically sound, is fukking Trash

 

[y que]

I know what my ears tell me is good and that, while technically sound, is fukking Trash

go listen to fetty wap you ignoramous

 

[Mowgli]

go listen to fetty wap you ignoramous

I don't listen to fetty wap.

But I'm sure he has songs better then downtown because downtown is trash. I think you going downtown on Macklemore right now and it needs to end.

 

[Zero]

Macklemore just playing politics.

Ol I may be a fakkit but I'm true hiphop as nikka. It's sad these legends allowed their need to be relevant again overshadow the fact they were used by this queen to add credibility to his BULLshyt music

Repped

 

[Anti-Anime]

Cmon breh u know the labels for into promote positive/lyrical black rappers. Plenty of then

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

Cause nikkas don't like positive rap.

We wanna hear about nikkas fukking are bytches instead and reppin the hood.

 

[mr.africa]

does a black person with a positive message even get the same platform as a macklemore????
no need to answer that. we already know the answer!!!

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

Too Short Says There Was An Industry-Wide Plot To Shut Down Conscious Hip HopI remember too short did an interview where he said he wanted to put out one positive album and jive basically told him no they not releasing that shyt.

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So I’m like, “If I did that I’d have to then do the exact opposite and follow-up that with an album that’s all positive.” And so, I did the album for him, we did You Nasty. I thought it was a funny idea at first - we had like a porn star on the cover, I’m naked, the girls are naked and we really did a butt-naked photo shoot. And it got a gold album and all that stuff. But when it came time to do the positive album, it was never a good idea. It never got the green light. Once I did what they wanted, they would never let me do what I wanted.

I started noticing at that time in Hip Hop that the labels were actually signing the artists and promoting the artists who would bring in just the negative messages: let’s have sex, drop ya booty. We getting off into Crunk now, the bling bling is out there … it’s going down. It was a new swag and everybody wanted to brag about – Rap has always been about bragging, but everybody wanted to brag about the millions. And I noticed that at a certain point in Hip Hop the major labels stopped signing and promoting the positive artists, the ones that was just really positive. Positive images were hard to get out there. So I’m just saying that at some point it wasn’t that Hip Hop changed on its own, it had a little push. I’m a real conspiracy theorist, and I just feel like there had to be a gathering of the major labels and somebody had to say like, “Look, we gotta keep this positive shyt off the airwaves and let this booty-shaking shyt take over. It’s time.” And after that it’s like the floodgates just opened with sex and violence.

And it was on the radio! You couldn’t get Too Short songs on the radio back in the early days. But now I’m saying “Shake That Monkey” – the song is literally saying shake your vagina – and it gets played on the radio. C’mon man.
Too Short Says There Was An Industry-Wide Plot To Shut Down Conscious Hip Hop

All these labels and companies are on the same steeze. Saigon went through a similar thing.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Macklemore is a master lyricist and an extremely gifted poet. Every song ive heard from him has a powerful message attached. Thats the root of hiphop. He's using his talent and influence/platform to uplift, motivate and inspire the listeners. Something rarely done by black rappers today. OP is correct in his assessment. Matter fact, it should be painfully obvious to all of us. It pains me to see the overwhelming messages of black genocide and criminal behaviour being spread by black artists

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