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Originally posted by Ari Auris
Yes because I believe that you can make whatever music you want and ignore skin ****ing color when making music I'm ignorant and racist. I see your logic.
I approve of literally every single social issue that the majority of ATRLers support, except this one. Get your head out of your ass. I realize there is a TON wrong with Iggy and her past but like the whole argument about appropriating culture is just ****ed up and irrelevant. Make the music you want to make using whatever voice you like. **** SKIN COLOR IN GODDAMN MUSIC.
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You haven't even attempted to understand Azealia's point of view, but I suggest you watch her radio interview (because it sounds like you haven't). It's really insightful.
She's not condemning Iggy for being a white rapper, more so than she's criticising the institutions that perpetuate her as an exemplar of hip-hop (NY Post's "Hip-Hop is White"; Grammy's) when black artists, who are rarely valued in the media for their excellence and artistry, receive (and
deserve, for their authenticity) more critical acclaim than someone with a contrived accent.
The problem isn't that Iggy is "making the music she wants, using whatever voice she likes". The problem is the effect of her voice and her image. Iggy's music - being a bastardised, commercial rendition of the
culture (beyond the sound) of hip-hop, without respect for its historical foundations - cheapens the uniqueness of a whole lifestyle. Hip-hop, like all music genres, came from a people and a way of living. It's not "16 in the middle of Miami". It's not the inherent racial bias and marketability of a white-skinned blonde woman. It's derivative and conformist that exists for no other purpose than profit. That's pop, not the hip-hop that Azealia wants recognised not necessarily commercially, but culturally.