The truth on the industry and white artists in hip hop
...because the industry places white hip hop artists on the map to prove a point.
hip hop is black dominated but most of the people making real money are white men.
The black culture wants to believe they own this genre and as soon as the industry feels as though they are getting too big for their britches...they develop someone or push someone that is white and ensures they come out with hits and makes music that will be bigger hits and more remembered than 90% of the current roster at the time.
they get alot of money quickly, a few awards and then the industry tosses them to the side after they cause an uproar in the black community at white artists taking from their culture and making more money and having bigger hits.
This goes for R&b too.
But yes Ice ice baby is bigger than most hip hop songs from the 90s even if it's not quality based.
Vanilla made about 20M in total from that era.
Yes Macklemore had 2 #1 hits and a top hit and won more grammy's than most rappers have period.
Tossed to the side after that.
Iggy had the longest #1 rap hit for a female and almost all time. She was nominated for grammy's in major categories that most rappers wouldn't be nominated in as a lead. She scored a few more hits too.
Now in iggy's case her niche market exist/ed so they were trying to push her to be the Pitbull/Flo rida female version for top 40 but she tarnished herself with all that twitter rants or whatever.
Eminem is the only exception because ALTHOUGH not the best rapper of all time he is one of the most edgy, creative rap artists visually, musically and he had enough of that so that mainstream can always hold on to him as a reference to say even in hip hop the most successful rap artist of all time is: Eminem because he could deliver greatness...not just decent to good (vanilla/iggy/macklemore)
Feels weird. 
