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Originally posted by accelgors
i don't really believe that cultural mixing is wrong at all, i actually think it's a good thing if a few white rappers make it, but it'd make me really uncomfortable if it became more white than not. it would be ok with me if black people were more represented in other genres, but since they're not, it's kinda bad to force them out of the genre that they're the majority in. i don't really think it's good to see culture that way, as something that certain people own and others don't, but i understand why it's bad for someone to have no representation at all in media, so while i usually don't mind this type of stuff i can see why this could be bad.
macklemore is my dude though and i'll always say that the hate towards him is unjustified
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basically my thoughts.
I hope that those who make it in the future depend on originality and don't try to do what they think rappers do. I love Iggy to death, but her use of black culture still irks me sometimes. Her mixtapes prove that she has something to offer in hip-hop, but her album could have been written by anyone (I still use it though
). To be fair, it is her first album, and she had to break out some how. Hopefully she will bring more of the Iggy brand to her future commercial material.
Take Watsky, for example. He hasn't really blown up like the rest of the examples listed, but his music is some of the most authentic stuff out there, and he is respected for it. He raps about things a middle-class white guy from Boston would rap about. He doesn't try to emulate the typical hip-hop culture, because he knows it would end up looking like a minstrel show.
