Yes I've had it with white rappers thinking they've gone through or seen some sort of struggle because their friend in had and addiction to their mothers prescription drugs or they slept with every producer for hits....like they don't get the essence of rap they just want to have that edge that a record label will market.
White people have always taken things from people of color and profited with them.
People really call Elvis the King of Rock&Roll.
Well the same could be said about others taking things from white people and making a profit from it. What I don't understand is why people are making it a negative thing. As long as it's not done in a form of mockery, why not be happy people are embracing your culture?
Because whites are the majority and you honestly can't really blame them for coalescing around someone with the same skin color, same background, same culture etc.
We don't live in an idealistic uitopia so that's one of the realities we have to accept.
This tbh. The sooner African Americans understand that they do not belong, the better. True equality will never be established when you were brought there as property, not as compeers. Phone home.
I say this because in history (and now) you see that white people literally take what black people do and have and making into their own to please the white audience...
but that's not just white people to black people. cultures have done that all throughout history and are still doing it now. i don't think it really makes any culture better than another because every culture does it
Well the same could be said about others taking things from white people and making a profit from it. What I don't understand is why people are making it a negative thing. As long as it's not done in a form of mockery, why not be happy people are embracing your culture?
Yes I've had it with white rappers thinking they've gone through or seen some sort of struggle because their friend in had and addiction to their mothers prescription drugs or they slept with every producer for hits....like they don't get the essence of rap they just want to have that edge that a record label will market.
um, white rappers have plenty of struggles too, because being white doesn't make your life automatically amazing. and why are you being elitist about it? rap is just a way of expressing music, it isn't necessarily "about" anything. nobody owns it, it's just a style that people started liking and using once they found it
Well the same could be said about others taking things from white people and making a profit from it. What I don't understand is why people are making it a negative thing. As long as it's not done in a form of mockery, why not be happy people are embracing your culture?
Well the same could be said about others taking things from white people and making a profit from it. What I don't understand is why people are making it a negative thing. As long as it's not done in a form of mockery, why not be happy people are embracing your culture?
Well the same could be said about others taking things from white people and making a profit from it. What I don't understand is why people are making it a negative thing. As long as it's not done in a form of mockery, why not be happy people are embracing your culture?
Exploiting is not embracing. Don't get me started on rewriting the history
I mean, Black people changed the face of basketball, fair enuf but at least they were outstanding at it. Miley changed the face of twerking, is she even half decent?
Well the same could be said about others taking things from white people and making a profit from it. What I don't understand is why people are making it a negative thing. As long as it's not done in a form of mockery, why not be happy people are embracing your culture?
but that's not just white people to black people. cultures have done that all throughout history and are still doing it now. i don't think it really makes any culture better than another because every culture does it
Exactly! But that's the idea behind culture. Having your own, but embracing another. Lol.
how long are you guys gonna keep playing the victim? it's 2014 give it up MOVE ON!
How can we move on when racism, cultural appropriation, and etc. still effects the world today. Stop acting like this anti-black thing ended. It clearly hasn't.
A lot of people have the wrong impression of appropriation. Iggy is not appropriating black culture, because she raps. Same with Miley with twerking. It's appropriation when the white media say **** like "Miley is the Queen of Twerking" and go head and start classes teaching people how to do their version of "twerking" when just a year they either didn't know what twerking was or criticized it.