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Celeb News: Iggy: "Why Eminem Didn’t Get The Same Grammys Backlash"
Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Eminen is SO overrated. Yeah I get it your angry and yelling zzzzzzz take a midol. Iggy iggs beat him for best rap album anyway
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Member Since: 8/17/2013
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
WTF are you talking about now?
"Rapper's Delight," the rap song to pioneer Hip Hop sampled a song by a BLACK group. So, no. Hip Hop wasn't "built on the sampling of white music."
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That's just one song, out of how many? Some of the greatest hip hops songs were created by taking some old white guy's rock song and throwing a beat under it. Planet Rock is the most obvious example.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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We all hated Eminem at first, too.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Ugh just leave her alone. Yall acting like making music is the most serious thing in the world like politics. The music business is fake and fun, especially a really commercial act like Iggy. Just stop the freakin hating trend, it isn't cool at all.
Saying she's racist is for dumb people. Hate on real racist people instead. There are ALOT of them on this forum.
I like her music but i know she isn't the best rapper. If i want to listen to really good female rappers i listen to Lil Kim and Foxy.
I love Iggy as a entertainer and i support her. Positivity is the best attitude to have.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Why is race being discussed yet again when for once a negative Iggy thread not about her race. Yall need to put your race cards away I'm SO tired of seeing them
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Member Since: 6/1/2010
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Originally posted by BlueTimberwolf
That's just one song, out of how many? Some of the greatest hip hops songs were created by taking some old white guy's rock song and throwing a beat under it. Planet Rock is the most obvious example.
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One of the major elements of Hip Hop is SAMPLING in general, not "sampling white people's music," like you stupidly just said. Whites are not responsible for Hip Hop - which is way more than the music.
It's one thing to say that hip hop has used elements of songs by white people throughout the years, but to outright say or even imply that white people are responsible for the formation of HIP HOP is ridiculous and untrue. Blacks are responsible for it. There's no way you can flip it.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by Eternium
We all hated Eminem at first, too.
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+ this! Eminem was the most hated person when he came out.
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Member Since: 11/20/2011
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Originally posted by J a y
Iggy sounds new.
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Yeah, Em has gotten his appropriation lashes. There are a lot of reasons why Eminem didn't get dragged for winning that award, one of which is that he is considered the lesser evil. Iggy's critics didn't care about any of the other nominees winning that Grammy, they just didn't want her to win it.
I consider myself to be very conscious about social justice issues, but Iggy doesn't bother me because it's not like she's doing something that a black woman can't or isn't already doing because of white privilege. Iggy had a bunch of singles drop before she hit pay dirt with Fancy. She used the same proven pop/rap formula that B.O.B., Flo-rida, Pitbull, Nicki etc. used to score hits. So it's not like you have to be white to attain the success she's gotten. Being white definitely helps, but again, if her being white was all there was to it, then she should've seen mainstream success before Fancy and Problem.
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Originally posted by MadonnasBoyfriend
Eminen is SO overrated. Yeah I get it your angry and yelling zzzzzzz take a midol. Iggy iggs beat him for best rap album anyway
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Lol, Gambino and Q had 1000x better album than the both of them combined and they deserved it WAY more than Iggy or Em.
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Member Since: 8/17/2013
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
One of the major elements of Hip Hop is SAMPLING in general, not "sampling white people's music," like you stupidly just said. Whites are not responsible for Hip Hop - which is way more than the music.
It's one thing to say that hip hop has used elements of songs by white people throughout the years, but to outright say or even imply that white people are responsible for the formation of HIP HOP is ridiculous and untrue. Blacks are responsible for it. There's no way you can flip it.
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I didn't say it was built on ONLY white music, or claim it was created by white people. But it's odd to have such a protective sense of ownership of a genre that literally relies on sampling other genres works, a lot of which include the works of white artists.
Hip hop is more than music, but the other parts are relics of the era. The music is what is left and what the debate is about.
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Member Since: 11/9/2010
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Originally posted by NewRihannaStan
Awe sis
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Cackling down!
*atmospheric pop music*
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Member Since: 11/28/2011
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Originally posted by MadonnasBoyfriend
Why is race being discussed yet again when for once a negative Iggy thread not about her race. Yall need to put your race cards away I'm SO tired of seeing them
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Iggy brought up race.
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Member Since: 6/1/2010
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Originally posted by BlueTimberwolf
I didn't say it was built on ONLY white music, or claim it was created by white people. But it's odd to have such a protective sense of ownership of a genre that literally relies on sampling other genres works, a lot of which include the works of white artists.
Hip hop is more than music, but the other parts are relics of the era. The music is what is left and what the debate is about.
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I'm not even going to go back and forth with you when you can't pick a side to stick with.
It's funny how you flip back and forth with these things. One minute you're on Azealia's side when she's protective of the Hip Hop genre, now you're saying it's "odd" to be protective of it. Really?
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Member Since: 8/12/2012
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Originally posted by Mrs. Aaron Paul
bitch REALLY needs to get it into her head that other than them both being white, there is NOTHING remotely similar about her and Em's careers, music, rapping style, personality, etc.
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Especially personality, Eminem gets horny when he can beat up women, at least in his fantasy, quite a loser.
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Member Since: 11/28/2011
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Originally posted by Eternium
We all hated Eminem at first, too.
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O we did?
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by uhoh-ohno
Yeah, Em has gotten his appropriation lashes. There are a lot of reasons why Eminem didn't get dragged for winning that award, one of which is that he is considered the lesser evil. Iggy's critics didn't care about any of the other nominees winning that Grammy, they just didn't want her to win it.
I consider myself to be very conscious about social justice issues, but Iggy doesn't bother me because it's not like she's doing something that a black woman can't or isn't already doing because of white privilege. Iggy had a bunch of singles drop before she hit pay dirt with Fancy. She used the same proven pop/rap formula that B.O.B., Flo-rida, Pitbull, Nicki etc. used to score hits. So it's not like you have to be white to attain the success she's gotten. Being white definitely helps, but again, if her being white was all there was to it, then she should've seen mainstream success before Fancy and Problem.
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THIS. THIS. THIS.
Iggy doesn't really do anything terrible at all, but people just overreact over every word she says. Eminem is on a different level than she is but that comes from experience, so she'll grow eventually, probably not to his level but maybe to a better level
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Member Since: 8/17/2013
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
I'm not even going to go back and forth with you when you can't pick a side to stick with.
It's funny how you flip back and forth with these things. One minute you're on Azealia's side when she's protective of the Hip Hop genre, now you're saying it's "odd" to be protective of it. Really?
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I've always been consistent. There's a difference between having pride in something and being overly protective of it.
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Member Since: 11/9/2010
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Originally posted by BlueTimberwolf
I will say, even though hip hop was created by blacks, it was built on the samples of white music. It wasn't just something African-Americans made up completely on their own.
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This has got to be one of the most ignorant and ill-informed comments of 2015 thus far.
Yikes.
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Member Since: 8/17/2013
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Originally posted by elliotis19
This has got to be one of the most ignorant and ill-informed comments of 2015 thus far.
Yikes.
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Maybe instead of on I should have said with, but either way the point still stands.
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Member Since: 2/26/2006
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Iggy sis no please don't
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