Eminem and the White Rapper Problem

so maybe a little over a year ago I'm riding alone for some reason for long enough and I'm listening to this Spotify mix of some songs that are like some of my favorite rap songs to play on some particular playlist and for those who don't know Spotify runs on a predictive algorithm so after all of the songs in a playlist are played it creates a brand new playlist based solely on what it thinks you'll like based on your previous songs that you're listening to this playlist in particular for me is called hip-hop old and new

and it features some of my all-time favorite real hip-hop tracks so we're talking like Tribe Called Quest slum Village common and then it also features newer people that I like such as Kendrick jcole Saba no name Etc and once it got to the end of the playlist it played some familiar stuff that I'd heard before and liked but then it got to a new track and I was immediately like oh yeah this is this is definitely going into the rotation it was this unfamiliar voice though it was this deep raspy unmistakably New York style of

flow over this undeniably New York sounding beat it made me feel like I was hearing mob deep or something way back in like 96 initially I thought this is probably some new Griselda person that I hadn't heard of before or maybe one of these underground rappers that you know the babies be telling me about on Twitter that I hadn't bothered to check out yet cuz I'm sorry I just I don't be listening to new music like like that y'all I just don't have the time turns out I was mostly right it was definitely a new

New York MC and the 9s early 2000s influence was there because the track was actually produced by Havoc of mob deep Fame but it wasn't anyone from Griselda or any of the '90s New York style cats that had popped up in previous years like a Joey Badass or a mock Hami the name was completely new to me which was fine cuz like again I'm listening to music like that I'm not Anthony fantano I don't know who half of these people are until y'all yell them at me enough for me to listen right but I was

not imagining seeing this when I looked the artist up y'all [ __ ] with that grimy hip-hop [ __ ] out here in La he turned as [ __ ] I see him New York ain't dead it came back to life in the apocalypse I didn't seen too much by 14 to be an Optimus round late registrations dropped I learned about consequence fored out I saw a few Mar yeah what what the [ __ ] the [ __ ] this is Marlon craft and over the last year or so he's become one of my favorite

new rappers and has been in heavy rotation a little bit craft seems to be doing well with several songs with millions of strings but I have to say I'm a bit shocked that I hadn't heard about him before he popped up on my Spotify he doesn't have a large presence or buzz in the online hip-hop circles that team to buzz around my head on a regular basis ever since I've been on YouTube which is OB because he sounds like someone I should have heard before because he sounds like one of these '90s Renaissance rap artists

out of the East Coast that have been you know having their own little wave and moment for the last five or six years and he's white very clearly white not like spicy white like Yeet or logic like white white raisins and potato salad white and that just blows me because generally speaking any white ra who is halfway decent will get an outsize amount of attention for example at the same time that I was discovering Maron craft another white rapper seemed to be pretty much everywhere I turn for most of 2022 Jack Carlo was in escapable

he was on at least two top hits that I feel like happened last year there was countless discourse about him online he won a BET award made a movie hosted a college football show and then quickly laid an egg with his subsequent major release before then disappearing to regroup grou and figure out what the [ __ ] went wrong it was an aint musical anticlimax I think a lot of people saw coming but more and more people were happy to see happen something about Harlow's rise to fame rubbed a lot of people the wrong way

it was a bit of a paradox though because while harlo had so much fanfare and hype as well as hate his actual music was just mid it was like perfectly in the middle and disposable which is probably why he didn't go anywhere but it didn't make sense that he had so much hype and hate in the first place I remember so many people telling me to make a video about him and I'm like why would I why why I eventually did make a b-sides video and the video was basically like and this is because hip

hop has always had a very large mid tier full of guys who you remember a few songs of and they have their DieHard fans right but they'll never move the needle on the culture and will barely be remembered 10 years from now and harlo really fits into that except for the fact that he's white in a weird paradoxical way haro's whiteness was both amplifying him to a level of stardom that his talent was not worthy of but also as a result of this amplifying scrutiny and criticism that should be reserved for more offensively bad or

problematic or at least interesting artists like say a Kanye West DOA cat Lauren Hill like those are figures whose work in lives and careers are worthy of discussing at a high level even if you don't like them or their music and that's not the same as Jack harlo I would never that would be like me doing a video about CH Ali or Nappy Roots killer Army you kind of see yes those are all real rappers from my ERA this y'all going to do a lot of Googling if you are under the age of like 35

just go ahead open Google up in another window so you can see all the jewels I'm about to drop them [ __ ] some of y'all have never heard of I would rather tell you about Marlon craft who's a much better artist but even then I feel the urge to tread lightly cuz although I like genuinely like Marlin craft music he's still white again real real white and just as with Jack harlo there's this complex and difficult to describe thing with white rappers and if you think about it white people in general in arts like

I realize that people don't want me to talk about Jack harlo as much as they want help processing this weird relationship between him and hipop this explicitly black American art form that has defined pop culture for nearly half a Century now and whiteness and white people that vampiric relationship that they have with black art and culture despite having contributed a lot to hip-hop like some of you want me to validate that you as a white fan of hip-hop or maybe even an aspiring hip-hop artists that you can indulge in the art form without guilt or

trepidation and but on the flips side I know some of you just want me to drag and roast the likes of Jack harlo Lil Dicky Tomic Donald post Malone and show them as examples of why hip-hop needs to be clearly gatee kept from white folks allog together and it's if if you know me you already know I'm not going to perfectly satisfy your deepest desire on this topic but at the end of the video I think you'll understand why there's a a a tender squishy what what am I doing what am I doing what I'm

getting at is I think by the end of this video I'm going to make both of these crowds very sad but also very happy I hope and I'm going to do that by addressing what I call the white rapper Paradox and the only way to do that easily is to talk about the most successful white rapper of all time and probably one of the most misunderstood that's an awfully hot coffee pot Eminem and his complex and profound career as hip-hop reject into Niche rap darling to biggest musician in the world to Fallen are and now

kind of back to Niche darling again Eminem's career and his contributions both good and bad tell us everything we need to know to understand why white rappers are both a problem for the art form but also bring a lot to the table at the same time that I don't know about y'all but like when I get into it y'all not going to want to give up some of the [ __ ] I bring up here you know just to keep Tom McDonald out we got to do some work to set the stage first so let's

let's do our you know typical history lesson here historically white people have always loved black art and that makes sense cuz black art and its music are top tier you don't have to do a lot of work to look into so much of art history to see how black art and African art clears everything on a regular basis or how white and European people have often been influenced by it whether it be the influence of African art on Pablo Picasso or the outright theft of Black Rock and Roll by Elvis Presley now all art builds

upon previous art and nothing is new Under the Sun but historically with black art it's not just a matter of being borrowed from and stolen from it's a matter of receiving any credit or reward for the creation in the first place like later in his life Picasso denied being influenced by traditional African art and while Elvis did thankfully at times try to credit his success and work with the black influential rock and roll figures that gave him his start it kind of didn't matter what he did him being white and mastering this black art form

for a white audience overshadowed any efforts to bring shine to those black folks that influenced him remember this for later is going to become kind of important but the love of black art isn't just a product of black art being so great though everyone has dope art in their culture and history even the variety of European cultures that made up various immigrant groups in America had dope cultural Aesthetics and art that they came to America with or at least they did before they became White see the first thing we going to have to talk about

is the concept of white as a universal category to even put in front of rapper there are Americans alive today that are older than the universal acceptance of white as a genuine ethnicity and not just a category that black people didn't belong to when the first colonizers arrived in America they weren't white they were Spanish or Portuguese or British or French Etc but when they had to figure out a reason to justify taking the land of native americ amans or the need to enslave stolen Africans these various European ethnicities and nationalities develop the concept of

whiteness as a core feature to unite and Empower them as a race against the others that did not look like them because of their darker skin and they just so happen to want to kill take the land and enslave these people convenient that they would make them into something that was inhuman in the process this practice has a long history like I'm I'm incredibly flattening and simplifying some stuff but the end result over time of enough of that activity was this bleaching and flattening process of tons of unique cultures into one Bland American aesthetic and

when you consider that the first like true American settlers were Puritans and pilgrims folks not necessarily known for vibrant expressive art it's understandable that the bar for white art was in hell and the same fate occurred for later immigrants that were Italian and German and Irish that came later they came with Italian German and Irish culture and overtime all that [ __ ] get stripped out and they become just regular white people except the Irish the Irish they all be trying the Italians too a little bit you know Germans n not so much you know

ain't nobody going out to get German food what is German food conversely under the constraints of Oppression enslaved Africans carried on bits and pieces of traditions pulled directly from Africa stripped of their original elements but not their Core Essence and that carried from that slave experience to now the origins of Soul music and the blues were crafted in the slave Fields the Vibrance of black dance and movement Spilled Out from slaves in the black church the only place where they had enough privacy to dance and express Joy all of this has manifested directly into a

lot of what hip hop and black art and song and dance and storytelling is today black Marxist philosopher France fan wrote about this type of art under colonialism another aspect of the colonizer effectivity can be seen when it is drained of energy by the Ecstasy of dance any study of the colonial World therefore must include an understanding of the phenomena of dance and possession the colonized way of relaxing is precisely this muscular origy during which most of the brutal aggressiveness and impulsive violence are channeled transformed and Spirited Away everything is permitted for in fact the

sole purpose of the Gathering is to let the supercharged liido and stifled aggressiveness spew out volcanically symbolic killing figurative cavalcades and imagine multiple murders everything has to come out the ill humors seep out tumultuous as lava flows it's wild that fan wrote this so long ago yet you can easily imagine that these words could describe the unbridled aggression intense it and runch that hip-hop music presented to us since the late '70s hip-hop is an art form explicitly informed by the oppressed condition of black people but also very much informed by those African Aesthetics and traditions

that have never really left us so it's pretty clear why our art even today but also back then it just hit different right let's keep it above white Americans struggle to have the same background factors to drive their art the very essence of whiteness and the white experience is designed to avoid and pull out those types of conditions that make black art possible and it's telling that the elements of white art and music that do stem from similar conditions of poverty and strife and struggle your Johnny Cass your spring got in a little Hometown jail

son put a ra in my hand send me off to a foring land to go kill the yellow Punk metal all of those genres of white oriented music that existed for years in white culture you notice they've all faded into the background in favor of rap over the last few decades like there's not going to be any Super Bowl halftime shows probably for the ever going forward that will feature a white musician playing rock music they may never happened again and this is because as has been the case pretty much from jump whiteness has needed

to consume control and embody Blackness and black art so as hip-hop emerges as this new thing much like black rock and roll before it and black Jazz before that white consumers seek to fill that void of nothingness that whiteness creates with the Vibrance of hip-hop and over time just as with rock and roll and Jazz these white youth fall in love with the art and want to make their own and eventually we get the white rapper black people often love to see white people perform our [ __ ] it's you you see this Paradox situation

we're talking about right there's always been this heightened sense of being impressed when a white person is able to perform anything that is culturally or aesthetically tied to Blackness it's kind of an Unholy combination of white privilege and the fact that black people in America have been psychologically conditioned to see the best in white people reflexively but that wasn't the case for white rappers though I think because Hip Hop was so explicitly built off the image of black male swapping out white males just didn't work Bobby calwell can find the right Groove and talk about

love and Dusty Springfield could sing about a Preacher Man but snow rapping about snitching over a Reay beat that just didn't work which is ironic cuz snow actually did time in prison he was legit like trying to talk to somebody with that song but he was also a Canadian Irishman doing RGA music which sounds like something from an Eric Andre skit impos just a middle class W from Toronto in spite of how I and yeah it just it just didn't work and it it really wouldn't work for a while before Eminem there was a mixture

of genuine and Earnest tips by white artists to perform the art form as well as absolute buffoonery and Ridiculousness in either the form of lowkey offensive novelty Acts or soulless commercial cash grabs hip-hop starts in the late '70s out of disco culture but there's not too many white rappers to appear until the late ' 80s and this is because it wasn't until really that time that hip-hop began being seen as a commercially viable genre where record labels and the radio saw reason to invest and develop hip-hop as a genre for commercial game up until that

point most of mainstream America saw hip-hop as a joke or a passing fat thus as far as I could tell doing research the first ever white person to rap on a commercial track is this skinny white girl from Blondie talking about Fai Freddy and dancing like someone's drunk at an office [Music] party and after her the next white person to rap is [ __ ] Rodney Dangerfield beginning what would actually be a long tradition of random white celebrities making rap songs for no discernable reason friends don't call my phone don't ring I don't get a

break with anything what's the matter death Where is My Sting in 19 86 we get the Beasty Boys founded by fellow white hip hop Legend Rick ruin their early success came greatly as a novelty hey we're white guys that rap type of gimmick they were the first frat boy rappers probably but they impressively quickly abandoned the gimmick and graduated to be one of the most eclectic and musically challenging groups of their era in any genre along with the Beasty Boys in that early era we have third base while not nearly as impactful as the Beasty

Boys their biggest hit the gas face still gets the party going at in the old school hip-hop set and marks probably the most prominent first appearance of one Zev love ex who would Fade Into Obscurity early in his career and then reemerged later as the legendary MF Doom this is another thing that you're going to see a lot throughout this video is is that randomly like some of our biggest black hip-hop stars of all time would pop up you know next to a White Guy saying hey I'm here too and then all of a sudden

it's like [ __ ] this is MF Doom's first appearance MC search one the rappers from third base actually did it twice because he also discovered NAS from under cool G raps nose and actually owns the rights to his music or something which is [ __ ] up but the whole inj is [ __ ] up and I don't really want to get into that [ __ ] there's the unfortunately named Milk Bone Milk Bone made one of my favorite rap songs of the 9s and I forgot milk bone like most rappers from the 90s

like had that Big Daddy Kane cool G Rap flow that Nas had mastered and taken to another level and so so this one song keep it real sounds like a nice bside it even has AZ as a sample for the [Music] hook and the [ __ ] still goes hard though but like he was never seen again so I remember looking through Nas's whole musical catalog looking for this song literally for decades until I rediscovered Milk Bone probably like a couple of years ago so what else we got in the '90s we got a lot

of groups we got House of Pain they were Irish and then like the lead singer started doing the blues again that that transition thing going on we had the young black teenagers I memor roled these [ __ ] because until searching for this video I had forgot these [ __ ] existed but once I saw them I was like oh I remember these dudes they were advocating for a post-racial society and speaking on the struggle of being white in a black art form and nobody was on board with this but they they tried you can

you can tell for example let's look at this jam on album that I wrote called Daddy call me I like history know I'm saying they look at as a white group you know what I'm saying and they use no word Daddy call me it doesn't just go for my father being Caucasian call me a CU I'm into a street culture I have a lot of brothers that I roll with since I was young that just because they in the same culture and the St same state of mind that I am their father calls them of

today the Youth of hip-hop today are young black teen see what I'm saying has nothing to do with a skin color it's a race without a color all right in the late 90s right around where we're getting M&M's emergence we also get a lot of rock rap in the form of lint biscuit Insane Clown posy Rage Against the Machine a little bit of Anthrax who collab with Public Enemy people cringe at this now and but this was really a moment I'd argue there's like a huge missed opportunity for some racial and class solidarity here because

like this genre collected black white and brown youth from poverty and lump and pro backgrounds and got them organized and working and connecting together and then money and general dysfunction ruined it like that was probably a missed opportunity the most significant white rapper to emerge in this time and in my opinion the greatest white rapper of all time LP also gets his start in the early mid 9s LP began with company Flo and underground group from New York underground meant something different back then like now I'd argue there is no underground cuz you can search

and discover an independent artist off Tik Tok and then find all of their music on Spotify within seconds but in LP's day you had to really connect to the culture to find underground artists they had to print up their own material and sell it out of their trunk or in a barber shop or walking down the street so LP changed a lot of that he started definitive ju and really collected a lot of underground artists from his area then developed the sound of What alternative underground hip hop would be for like that entire era and

really going forward but a lot of that happens after Eminem so he doesn't get as much credit as he should most of you only know him as one half of run the jewels but understand his legacy is also worthy of his own video to be honest it's artists like LP that make me side eye this reactionary and oh God am I about to say this out loud anti white anti anti white I get it get because of what Eminem did to the art form of the genre people feel like no white folks had ever touched

again but understand while there is definitely a white rapper problem now that's not just because individual artists themselves initially sought out to mutilate the culture as they have there would be so much missing from hip-hop as we know it today if we remove some of these white artist just like it would suck to remove Bobby calwell or Tina Marie from Soul and R&B from their era are you trying to go to a old folk set or a cookout and not hear Tina Marie and Bobby calwell is that is that the world you want to live

in none of these rappers even the ones that I love and I think are great like an LP can say with honesty that their whiteness didn't work as an exploit of the factor in hip-hop the trick about white supremacy is that it functions without intention or consent and for the most part its effects are invisible to the naked eye you don't realize how white supremacy is working on behalf of some of these artist until you sit back and do the math on where they came from and where they ended up despite maybe a lack of

talent and this is most evident in one of Hip Hop's most notorious white figures before Eminem this is the moment hundreds of hysterical fans have been waiting for last year this man became the first rap artist to hit number one on the pop singles chart this is the man Madonna sends flowers to and who's guaranteed to make any self-respecting teeny Boer go weak at the knees the cool the cold a very hot Vanilla Ice the VIP is cold baby the VIP is cold baby the VIP is cold Baby R Vanilla Ice was and to this

day is everything wrong with white participation in non-white art forms much like Elvis before him he was a cheap corporately backed and manufactured culture vulture who came into the with the intention to grab as much from it as he could and then denounce it after the fact doing that routine I talked about earlier going from Hip Hop to heavy metal later in his career almost as a [ __ ] you to the culture that rightfully rejected him as a poser and a leech except this isn't really an accurate look at Vanilla Ice in fact Vanilla

Ice is probably one of the first victims of the white rapper Paradox ice better known as Robert Van we was a part-time rapper slre dancer SL motocross racer which is is funny as hell but makes sense in retrospect and he came about these interests honestly in a time before Eminem in a time where being a white guy in a black space was not as beneficial like I want people to remember Eminem Begins the scourge of the white rapper so when Vanilla Ice is becoming Vanilla Ice he doesn't think he could be a mega star in

the process he's legit just trying as hard as to do the thing that he loves doing he wasn't just plucked out of the scene and given raps to rhyme as we often imagine with figures as presently noxious as he was he cut his teeth as a dancer and rapper joining a lot of different groups and doing talent shows and even becoming a regular performer at a nightclub now ice wasn't a great rapper but he was a great dancer and that was still very important in hip-hop back in the late 80s in the era of MC

Hammer Big Daddy Kane quame kid and playing many others and it also didn't hurt that he looked like an underwear model and once combined with the strong record of Ice Ice Baby he was out of there was to the moon and like in isolation there's not a lot wrong with that that should be perfectly fine but the way whiteness Works [ __ ] just always gets messy the reality is that everything but the rapping took Vanilla Ice to the top I think early on he genuinely did have love for the art form and the culture

and had dreams about being a rapper I mean you you can't be a regular performer at a nightclub and not love the art form that you're attached to but his whiteness had other plans his whiteness was within the world of hip-hop the package that he provided was too valuable a commodity to just let him be slow played into his career and so he was suddenly one of the biggest stars in hip-hop he legitimately skipped the line from you know random white rapper to one of the most notable figures in the game popping up in movies

magazines TV shows and he was just kind of along for the ride and wasn't asking any questions people that said a white boy couldn't rap um I guess there are a lot of battles you're experiencing krs1 said that you present a distortion distorted mutation of rap what is that I'm not sure what that means I have no idea what it meant I read the same article they also said that you know I'm bringing rap AUD uh rap music to an audience that has never heard it before as well so you know whether whether I like

it or not it's it's bringing rap music up you know I mean I'm putting it in front of people that that never even considered listening to rap music and now they're considering it and and it's and it's bringing rap music up you know rap music is here to stay no matter what color it is I'm not the Elvis of rap that's another thing you know um I'm Vanilla Ice I'm not no Elvis Presley you know I I know a lot of uh a a lot of black rappers are probably angry because some of the white

people screaming didn't buy rap until you did it until they saw aella face on the cover of an album that probably makes them angry because angry you know angry it's not my fault did I have anything to do with that so no they should dog the people what they're saying is they're showing their own jealousy man that's all it is you I don't think he saw anything wrong with it which is bad for him because when the inevitable backlash hit he came off defensive and Confused like he didn't know why people were annoyed by his

presence in his mind he had worked hard and earned that spot and I get that but but no no that's that's that wasn't the case what you man Robert Van Winkle nothing rhymes with Winkle I become richer with every Endeavor I'm living large and my bank is stupid cuz I just listen to realing and understand his record label and the people around him were not helping they were trying to get that cash out of they overly emphasized his whiteness they even wrote a fake biography to make it seem like he was more Street credible than

he was and real hip hop responded accordingly this was a different era of hip-hop where Black Culture still had the power to completely dictate who is accepted into hip-hop so once most of hipop rejected Vanilla Ice and he couldn't come up with another major hit he was gone he was out of there only to emerge later in life again as a heavy metal artist do a few rock albums some reality shows think he had a drug problem at a certain point you know it's the usual routine but I am bothered by the fact that he's

looked at as this ultimate culture vulture cuz unlike similarly branded oversaturated acts today he didn't know that was what he was doing he didn't ask for it and as I said earlier the whiteness spoke for him it propelled him to that position and he didn't have enough wherewithal like you know most white people to stop it before it ate him alive what Vanilla Ice illustrates to us is an important point which is that there isn't as much money in black music as pop or rock or whatever and that's simply because there's never going to be

as much money marketing something to black people as opposed to any other population of Americans you just won't sell as many records or tickets or t-shirts and whatever you do sell will probably end up being less lucrative in the long run thus not long after everyone figured out that white kids loved hip-hop the same way their parents loved rock and roll years [Applause] [Music] ago just like with rock and roll the corporations and record labels were looking for an artist and person that they could Market to that white audience to get the maximum amount of

money that's just the reality of the situation if you want to be successful at the highest levels of whatever you're doing whether you're black or white you're going to have to get white consumers whether it be Kanye West with Adidas or Rihanna with textile the people that make her clothing line speaking of which while I got you white folks here please join the FD signifier patreon you can become a member for just $1 you don't get [ __ ] from it to be honest with you it's just the way to paid me to keep making

videos y'all and pay my editors and pay my bills go ahead sign up the True commercial and economical lifeblood of Hip Hop and the viability of many of its biggest early breakthrough acts like runmc tribe call Quest Public Enemy these are goats right but part of the reason why they're goats is they had large white fan bases that kept them in the media eye white people wanted to see them just as much as black people did and that is one of the reasons why they're Legends because white ran hip-hop media had the reins on dictating

who is popular this is not to say that those aren't great acts of course I mean tribe is top tier but there's a reason why the Ghetto boys don't have the same level of notoriety so what this means is that you had to have crossover appeal as a rapper to get to the highest level of popularity and economic success but even crossover appeal had its limitations cuz you had to be white friendly like those AFF forementioned groups or a caricature of real street life like NWA or IC and even then you still only capture a

fraction of the white hip-hop fan population there was this huge untapped Market of white people those white folks that kind of lik good music but don't really like black people you know racist the hip-hop world was searching for his Elvis someone who was good enough to really perform that black art but could translate it effectively for a white audience they had tried with all these other acts some accepted opportunity many rejected it thankfully and they got close with Vanilla Ice but he didn't have the talent or the heart to pull it off but 9 years

later as the oldest Millennials began to come of age such as myself hip hop found its Great White Hope and he was more than happy to tell you who he was my waiting on my dog Eminem y know Eminem AKA Slim Shady and it's not there a lot of white people don't got it and a few do I don't like to dwell on what color I am I don't like to sit here and go oh I'm white Mr controversy Eminem Eminem yes [Music] [Applause] matter I guess first of all I want to thank everybody who

could look past the controversy or whatever and see the album for what it was and also for what it isn't emm is such an interesting topic to me because he's so misunderstood and in some ways misrepresented in popular discourse but even as he like gets all these reactionary hot takes about why he's a problem which some of what you know are accurate people miss the real problems of Eminem completely so looking forward to this [ __ ] it's pretty funny to see Jin Z discover and then cancel Eminem like every 6 months but to Millennials

Eminem was a cultural Touchstone a cannon event and how he got there and what happened in the aftermath is is really complicated but it's the epitome of the white rapper Paradox concept Eminem AKA Slim Shady was born one Marshall matters in Missouri actually before he his brother and his mother moved to Detroit Michigan where he grew up as one of those few workingclass white families in an all black area if you are a white person from the hood then you have an immersing experience there and black culture in that environment is native to you in

a way that it isn't for most white people and even many black people they still exist and experience whiteness but that experience is from a standpoint that gives them as much of a black experience at the same time that they could get without actually being black they can have everything but the burden of Blackness though it is still very much a difficult and traumatic experience one living in poverty but also being a token in an all black area is not easy to quote one Dave Chappelle yeah be walking the street and you'll see like a

group of black dudes walking not just any old black dud we talking you know Thug group they got like one or two sometimes as many as three white guys to be with them you ever seen this [ __ ] let me tell you something about those white guys those white guys are the most dangerous [ __ ] in them groups ain't no telling what they've done to get them black dudes respect and this to me describes imim he had to develop an extreme Persona of sorts to survive not just poverty and a toxic home life

but to gain acceptance among a bunch of black kids who naturally are going to be a little bit distrusting of of this one random white person in their community at a certain point Eminem discovers hip hop but now we're well into an era where white rappers are a thing he's had the benefit of seeing Vanilla Ice up close along with the Beasty Boys in third base and Eminem knows unlike most other walks of life that his skin color is actually kind of going to be a barrier to his goals nobody wants another corny white guy

trying to be black and trying to rap and he had to learn this the hard way with his first independent album infinite which sold like 5,000 records infinite is an interesting and often untold part of Eminem story cuz on infinite Eminem sounds a lot like Milk Bone he sounds like a white rapper trying to be a black rapper being down and trying to fit in one day I plan to be a family man happily married I want to grow to be so old that I have to be carried till I'm glad to be buried and

leave this crazy world and have at least half a million for my baby girl and this led to General apathy toward I listened to this album initially upon discovering Eminem before he became big and it was all right I mean I was in the Cannabis so of course I liked it a little bit you best believe if I was in a cannabis I was in Eminem and infinite had some moments but overall he just sounded like another lyrical Miracle AZ N Style rapper and if AZ couldn't make a Big Splash in the game with the

flow then you best believe Eminem could Eminem went back to the drawing board he knew that being another mediocre white guy was going to cut it he couldn't be another milk bone who was a person that he actually suddenly dissed in one of his earliest breakthrough songs titled I just don't give a [ __ ] and that song was a breakthrough for him because unlike the Eminem we met on infinite I just don't give a [ __ ] was a song from Slim Shady a than who but I'm on a search to CR a milone

I'm everting I'ma ice like silicone I'm up to just straight up you for no reason Slim Shady is a chaotic misogynistic homophobic murderous psychopath probably developed out of a combination of Eminem struggles in his personal life he was dealing with addiction at the time he was always in conflict with his mother his baby mother and living in poverty but at the same time he had also connected with his future group D12 who dabbled in Horror core and extreme Edge Lord content so Slim Shady is basically all of those experiences plus M&M's intrusive thoughts made sentient

he put all of that rage into the music and this was not new for hip hop that was the same thing the AmEx did Biggie and Pac did Etc except they were black and so there was only so much rage that would be accepted by Society if it came from a blackmail voice there were rules and limitations to that [ __ ] most of Y are probably too young to remember all the multiple attempts at Horror core that happened in hip-hop which were all failures and met with much much cringe but for Bleach blind Eminem

The Standard was a little different this was a way for Eminem to over overcome the challenge his skin represented part of Hardcore hip-hop's appeal even for black fans was this feeling of pantomiming the unique energy and aesthetic of hip-hop culture to embody that black male entity and not just being black but being that [ __ ] the music gets people going but that skin color was an ingredient there the imaginary Gangsta fantasies don't work when they come from white skin which is why Vanilla Ice Milk Bone and others didn't work it just doesn't look right

but smartly Eminem didn't even try to do that the second time around M sought to enter into hip-hop being something different all together adjacent to it but completely different you don't have to watch Eminem long to notice that he is a Jester a skill he probably learned as a survival tactic being one of those few white kids in the black space something that minorities from all walks of life can relate to it's easier to make yourself into a joke if you think people are going to make fun of you to begin with but there's also

something deeper there something that maybe wasn't intentional but was definitely impactful writer K Russ stated the following in an essay called Eminem the new white negro from the book everything but the burden edited by late cultural critic Greg Tate Eminem does not perform the authentic [ __ ] as much as he performs a new white [ __ ] he maintains his whiteness with a quirky Jerry lewis-like phrasing and a bright Greek god bleach blonde bus cut and the classic hip-hop realism he was initially influenced by when he first studied the style of Naughty by Nature

and NS has been replaced by his own brand of contemporary surrealism that abstracts and exaggerates hip-hop lore more so than any of his authentic heroes or contemporaries dare try if that felt like too many big words again here's Dave Chappelle those white guys are the most dangerous [ __ ] in M groups and here's where it gets complex maybe even paradoxical cuz in reality this is kind of the right way for Eminem to handle things like I said earlier a lot of people see Eminem as this Pioneer of the culture vulture they look at the

of his success in the dart fan base and compare that to his very much mid catalog of music and assume that he must have been much like the white rappers that came after him clearly cynically using their whiteness to access hip-hop fandom without paying any type of respect or support to the culture they think Eminem started that but that's not really the case for the most part Eminem did everything right for one as was just stated he didn't try to be black he didn't try that hard to imitate Blackness explicitly he didn't make it seem

like he was just like Dr Dre or Snoop Dogg or any of the figures he ran with he wanted it to be understood that he was down and accepted in Black Culture but that didn't mean he was black unlike so many right rappers before them he didn't say the n-word and he thought it was weird that people felt like he had the right that he should say it he also paid pretty effective lip service to all of this conflict in his lyrics as well as pointing out the double standards involved with his success and fame

his Circle has always been full of black people he did his best to put on D12 his former group along with others he gave away beats for free he even took risks with his white fan base by challenging them politically at times making the song mosh an anti-war anti- George bus song in the middle of the 2000s well before the woke Ally Point thing was a thing [Music] and this was after they had basically murdered the Dixie Chicks for saying the same thing it's hard to understand this and it doesn't make sense like in retrospect

but if you were to make an Allied checklist Eminem probably would have checked all the boxes which is what makes what happens with him so much more problematic eminim at least consciously never set out to take advantage of or hurt hip hop he never set out to be Eminem he legit stayed in his Lane and I think he deserves more grace for his impact on hip-hop at least from that perspective but that is the Paradox cuz even pretty much doing everything white Eminem's whiteness spoke for him he may have stayed in his Lane but as

soon as he entered the road the entire structure of the highway buckled under his weight like have you ever been on the road when the president is in town that is how Eminem stayed in his Lane he probably didn't understand this I hope he understands it now Eminem brought white people to hip hop in a way that hadn't been done before and the impact of that influx of white eyeballs and dollars on the culture is still being felt in very very delaria Ways Eminem is the highest selling rapper of all time more than Pac more

than even Drake more than Jay more than yay this is because he's white period Eminem has 15 Grammy Awards more than Fel more than Lauren Hill more than Outcast this is because he is white period rock radio back when radio was a thing they played Eminem in heavy rotation they never played any other black rappers the whole entire time that the radio existed there was hip hop R&B radio then there was rock radio and seldom did the two cross you didn't hear Nirvana on black radio you didn't hear Nas on rock radio but you heard

Eminem on both this is because he was white period throughout the early 2000s there was no bigger rapper than Eminem and while Eminem does have arguably one truly great album The Marshall mats aop the rest of his catalog during this time and after was mid at best yet he was everywhere dominating not just the charts but the attention economy in an era that saw the release of blueprint still itic Like Water for Chocolate stank onia Matt villain fantastic volume 1 the fix Etc mainstream attention for hip-hop stopped in this place on a regular basis to

see what Eminem was [Applause] doing it was the first instance of the essence and attention economy of hip-hop being wrestled from black fans hands now the black fans and the real hip-hop fans were more focused on those better artists but the rest of the world was not Eminem had a good five six year run where it was no argument that he was the biggest and best rapper in the game and this was because he was white period to be fair to emm he was always a top tier Lyricist and rapper nobody's taking this away from

him he was great for guest verse most of the time and in between 45 songs about killing his ex or his mother or some [ __ ] there were always a few amazing moments but his presence in hip-hop did not and still does not match up to his contribution his music overall wasn't anything special now he wasn't a vanilla ice but he's also no LP either it was really only when Little Wayne dropped the Carter That Eminem would kind of finally fall to the Wayside and Wayne would take his spot as the biggest rapper in

the game but by then it was too late the die had been cast and the formula had been released and the dollar signs were calling the industry Eminem had grew a brand new fan base of allwhite hipop fans and Hip-Hop has never been the same this is where you start getting I don't listen to rap much but I really like Eminem and bad times y'all bad times so this brings us to the white rappers AE after M and we're in a new reality and it's the worst one doesn't start off that bad again thanks to

LP we get two of the best white rappers of all time cage who is like Eminem From Another Dimension even down to the motherhood trauma his story is pretty wild and then ASAP rock not to be confused with ASAP Rocky ASAP rock is just great he's like it's hard to describe just I I'll throw some tracks in there you know hip-hop nerds already know if you want to be a hip-hop nerd you got to listen to some ASAP rock that's like a write of Passage this is all part of like this dope underground blog era

of the mid 2000s the same time we started getting Brother Ali who's probably the first White conscious rapper there's this whole wave of nerd rap that happened with folks like Whitey cracker rapping about his real life history of being a hacker as if he was a black rapper writing about being a drug dealer the goat of nerd rap is probably MC Chris who legit made some pretty interesting tracks in the mid 2000s is Nico case MF Doom and T pay I play a gummy bear go check that out this next song's about Star Trek if

you're a millennial you probably will remember him from some appearances on Adult Swim he also probably again one of these major firsts brought us Donald Glover like the first time you ever heard Childish Gambino rap was on an MC Chris [Music] song we even start to get white rappers from down south like yellow wolf Bubba Sparks and the most beloved white rapper of all time Paul Wall if you just look at white rappers to emerge from this era right right after Eminem Like immediately during and after him you might think that he had an overall

positive influence John Cena rap album aside of [Applause] course and this is because Eminem convinced labels to try to find their next Eminem and they were putting more effort into to find them in that immediate aftermath and they were finding a few gyms and it worked early on because all of these rappers at this time were from the same era as Eminem So they grew up watching the cool G raps and rock Kims and you know all these other black rappers their view on music was still sleeped in that black oriented aesthetic they were just

like Bobby calwell Tina Marie Dusty Springfield Etc we don't get to the real [ __ ] [ __ ] until we get to the era that is influenced explicitly by EML [ __ ] doesn't get really bad until we get to the 2010s look I like to play it cool like I'm not that on the low who'd assume that I got that we expect from you now great coming up I hope to make a Monumental change quicker than the edible I'm about to run what you doing what are you doing for the black lives matter

movement I mean look first off I think it's ridiculous that we live in a society where like people aren't able to like treat everybody equally like I don't understand how like that being said I'm not doing much like I'm not a very cause person like I you know I'm not doing anything for like world hunger either not that they're the same thing but I don't even know what I should be doing to be honest that's a very honest answer stendo everybody know the cat like a dope meme I got him buzzing up the crack like

a dope easy I don't even know where to start with you because you have been on the grind and working since like day dot I mean so watching you grow into the artist that you 100% deserve to be is amazing Hotel got them puffing on the L going harder than some hell knew it if everybody had to tell the truth and you had to pick a dude's pit better than you dude can't do it and the Grammy goes to M lore and Ryan Lewis the 2010s gives us rappers that were only influenced by Eminem essentially

but also exist in a hip-hop landscape where far fewer barriers to entry exist due to technology same things that talked about the Drake video and this isn't so bad because Eminem also influenced some great black artists that we have today like Earl Sweatshirt and Ty Creator when they first came with the whole Odd Future Collective boy if y'all going to try to cancel Eminem please do not listen to some of the early Tyler Creator stuff at the same time it also starts the era of really cringe [ __ ] like Hopson and jiner Lucas and

yeah it changes fundamentally the reality of not just like how hip-hop exists but where it exists before to be a rapper and to experience hip-hop as we understood it you had to be in community with black people you couldn't even be a white rapper not surrounded and accepted by black spaces but in this era we get the Resurgence of frat boy rappers people like Asher Roth literally started their career with a song called I love college guys like G easy little dick mam Moore Etc all break out in the late 2000s early 2010s with real

genuine white people rap music some of this stuff is good Little Dicky can spit a little bit but these are people who self- admittedly have not grown up connected to Black Culture at all and their favorite rappers growing up were Eminem or maybe Drake and it shows on a technical rhyming level they're talented and skilled as Lyricist some of them but they make this vapid toothless shallow music and lacked the life experience and Trauma of an Eminem to give them something to talk about that was somewhat interesting instead they just talk about college and partying

and how small their penises were it's it was really really cringe but all of these guys became successful on some level and worse yet were're given entry into respected hip-hop spaces Lil Dicky popped up on The Breakfast Club and does freestyles with Funk Master Flex or sued Breakfast Club we got a special guest in the building Dave Lil Dicky he keeps introducing himself as Dave introduce himself as Dave but his rap name is l Dicky and mamore wins a Grammy famously sending him that apology text where he just so happens to share that text with

the entire world on Instagram Eminem helped create the new white negro and next thing you know you have post Malone calling himself white Iverson and then a year later saying hip-hop is boring I'm going to do something different I want something some real music I can't call what the [ __ ] Tom McDonald is thankfully I've never listen to a Tom McDonald's song guys like to catchy 69 pop up and he's technically not white but boy does his existence feel really really white we see today the aftermath of what Eminem did technically by accident the

total adoption of black Aesthetics and slang and signifiers into white culture ebonics which is what it was called Once Upon a Time AKA African-American vacular English is now jinz speak white girls have a hot Cheeto phase before graduating into appropriate white femininity and all these young white influencers are doing Tik Tock dances for likes that they usually steal from black people but then go silent when it's time to actually speak up about the culture they voraciously partake in Eminem much like Elvis before him managed to separate the music from the people and reframe it and

recreate it in the image of that white audience and this allows that white audience to avoid the cognitive dissonance of loving black music but not really liking black people they get to enjoy all of our [ __ ] without giving us not just credit but Humanity half the time and when I look at this modern landscape of white people not just white rappers but like white folks involved in Black cultural Aesthetics and art and I think to myself where the [ __ ] did Marlin craft come from according to what I could find Marlon Craft's

background isn't any more Street than his white contemporaries his parents are both highend professionals he grew up near Manhattan New York which is not cheap he does have direct connections to Black spaces having played aaou basketball in the South Bronx but if anything I'd imagine that give him maybe an inflated sense of connection where he would act more brazenly stupid about the fact that he knows black people and his music but instead he's got bars [Music] like our good look at you like what DNA you got locked away in your cells slave owners is doing

life in your bloodstream you going to come clean you ain't seeing the dirt up under your nails excuse me sir where is this with your contemporaries Marlin why are we not hearing this from other white rappers Tom McDonald would never this is why nobody's probably heard of you by the way you might I don't know for your own good you might want to sell out or sell in cash in whatever anyway it seems like Marlin craft has a desire to uphold an era of hip-hop that everyone else has forgotten and left behind and in that

he's actively trying to defy the unyielding pull of white commercial viability that is probably gwing at his heels and even this is nothing new to be honest today if you go into any jazz or Blues Club in the United States you're probably going to see a bunch of white guys on stage playing Miles Davis or maybe even Jay Dilla and this is all nice and I wish I could beat 100% a fan of marlin craft because you have your Eminem and Eminem has baggage in all these different forms and fashions that Marlin craft doesn't have

and you recognize that this person is trying to do their best to respect the art form and in Marlin Kraft's case trying not to take up a lot of extra space But as soon as he does things start getting a little problematic the Paradox is that no matter how much a white rapper tries to be respectful and tries not to be harmful the forces of capitalism and commerce and economics and these industries and these corporations they're going to use whiteness and that person as a spear to penetrate every other aspect of the culture and even

as they're just minding their business and trying to make art the harm will follow them regardless of how hard they try to avoid it world [Music] is I was just like a kid making music and all of the sudden I was everywhere she hat it when I call and it's late you kind of started in the beginning of the blog era like this was sort of the beginning of that era which is [ __ ] nuts man I've seen eras I'm a young dude I don't he never hesitated to extend his hand to the people

he loved and was responsible for putting on so many artists ladies and gentlemen y'all know who I am to some MC Miller is one of their goats or at least one of the goats of his era and I don't see it don't get me wrong I've tried and just to be clear I'm also old always remember that when Mac Miller was at his Peak I was beginning my journey into fatherhood and graduating out of Hardcore hip-hop fandom I wasn't there in the musty basements of hip-hop mesh's boards when he arrived in the mid 2010 so

it's possible I just missed the moment but I don't think so cuz there's artists from that era that I love today and he's just not one of them to give Miller his props he saw the play when he entered into the rap game he recognized that you know the corporations and the industry had this severe thirst for the next White rap meast star and that they would use him and thrust him to the Forefront of the rap game if he allowed them to it would do him like they're doing jack harlo right now which is

you know jack harlo is not smart enough to recognize what's happening to him so MC Miller like Asher Roth and other guys before him said you know what I'mma actually chill on in the background and make good music that inspires me y y y and so as soon as MC Miller really started getting to the top of the food chain he switched up his music to become more eclectic and challenging in its sound and scope I can't remember where I got this from but someone correct me in the comments there was like an interview where

I think it was Snoop Dogg told him that MC Miller had this conversation with him and asked him how he could respect the culture and respect hip-hop and Snoop told him that if you want to be taken seriously he have to drop all that frat booy stuff and challenged himself in the genre as a whole and he did that to great success Miller was beloved and respected in hip-hop in a way that I don't think any other white rapper had been or has been since him Miller also remained independent for a large chunk of his

career and even when he signed it was after that transition into being a more eclectic artist he never really fully took advantage of his whiteness at the level he probably could have and unlike Eminem he doesn't have all the baggage of having his music be so hyper violent and misogynistic and homophobic Etc so he's not performing the new white [ __ ] as Eminem did so Eminem did almost everything right and MC Miller seemingly did do everything right so then obviously the question is what's the problem how could I be complaining about MC Miller if

he did everything that he could have to respect the craft and the art form and the culture and then tragically died before he could have the full impact on the music that he maybe could have had well the thing is I'm not really criticizing M Miller the individual what I'm wanting us to be critical of is the Legacy specifically how did he get into any type of goat conversation status even just among his contemporaries so y'all know battle rap is one of my favorite things I leave a lot of references to it in my content

one day they'll get his own video etc etc etc so there's this classic battle between Murder Moo and iron Solomon from Summer Madness 2 Summer Madness is like WrestleMania for battle rap and this battle is kind of a dud and the reason why it's kind of a dud even though it has these two legendary figures is because it was incredibly one-sided it was supposed to be this huge thing because Murder Moo was this legend that had just came out of Hiatus and Solomon was this very at the time hot white battle rapper that was building

a buzz that had a few notable battles and was constantly calling moo out and this didn't go well for him if you've only ever seen battle rap from like Epic Rap Battles of History or 8 Mile then you know enough to know that battle rap is about attacking your opponent in whatever way possible along with controlling the crowd and generally being a great showman and moo was good at all of those things but his best feature was being a master at analyzing and breaking down his opponents and then turning the crowd against them based on

that argument and breakdown face all right take your best shot but you know after you try it it's going to be a riot a lot of your [ __ ] dying so avoid of y'all running out of here calling for help Tu that Pride away tough guy keep that thought to yourself there too many of us you if I can give any opponent to Murder Moo a piece of advice is never let moo go first cuz by the time you get the mic back it may not be possible to get the crowd back and that's

what he did to iron Solomon white battle rappers are nothing new in fact there's probably more respected white battle rappers than white rappers in general but a lot of them very much play into the fact that they're white and in kind of the most cringe way possible but not iron Solomon iron Solomon had just enough Charisma and gravitz that he could be taken seriously and not have to play into the LOL I'm so white bars and he did that he wrapped with conviction and bravado like every other black rapper and that was relatively rare in

battle rap I'mma make smack want to smack you literally you got garbage punch lines and plastic similes I recycled your Rhymes to trash you lyrically cuz back in high school I smashed his chicky to cut she cut s class to visit me we had the chemistry attracted physically taught a sexed and wood shop now math is history and it usually worked well for him but not against moo who immediately pointed out the difference between him and iron Solomon in his first verse I didn't come here to talk a whole lot of popping tools and how

many guns I'mma use Solomon I came here to strip every piece of Integrity out of you and break you down to your last molecule moo puts on display the white rapper Paradox the fact that white rappers are allowed to come and partake of the culture and eat some of the biggest meals at the table despite one not always having to put in the level of work or having the credibility to do so and two not being quite as sharp as their black counterparts yet still being seen as the same level as them hey this [

__ ] has some nerve to say that this was Jordan vers bird you [ __ ] kidding me [ __ ] this is practice this is Jordan vers Cur and since you on my team here's how I'm going have to do you spot your ass up in the corner and wait till I pass it to you moo returns to this line of argumentation multiple times throughout the battle but in the third he delivers a concise thesis that explains why MC Miller never did a lot for me as an artist see it was his image that

got him over cuz he was a corny looking white boy so when he wed and he added a little black swag we' give him more credit cuz [ __ ] for a white guy he wouldn't half back cuz some of the white people screaming didn't buy a rap until you did it until they saw a vanilla face on the cover of an album that probably makes them angry because if it makes them angry you know you angry it's not my fault did I have anything to do with that so no but it's like the white

guy that just get on the court immediately what you do you write them off like [ __ ] damn [ __ ] ain't nobody else sitting up in them stands well [ __ ] [ __ ] we got a pick him we only got nine he a T man I mean what more can I say to that than a lot of white people don't got it and a few do I mean so after like what 40 possessions they finally passed it to him like let's see how he do [ __ ] Ain't expecting much they

like all the best he probably could shoot what your [ __ ] do he start guarding them taunting them like hey white boy show me how you hoop he fake a show do a give and go catch the alley you we like oh white boy got gang I am white I'm sure I'm sure I mean yeah probably could have helped but maybe it did you know I was just talking to somebody on Twitter today who told me that that was the reason that I was here see it's a shame let me explain how this story

and his story are wanted the say and how the color of his skin could dictate the amount of credit he get because the very next play of black [ __ ] caught that same alley you but it was just regular [ __ ] MC Miller is good but if MC Miller was black it would just be regular [ __ ] as good as MC Miller is and was what makes him great is the fact that a black fans hadn't ever seen a white person make this type of music before and B A lot of white

fans had never heard this type of hip-hop pretty much at all as much as I like a lot of MC Miller's music it's nothing absolutely nothing that I didn't hear 20 years ago from common on Resurrection or in the lyrical humor and word play realm from Big L or Big Pun or in those Jazzy influences you could see that in the soul cians era or if you want contemporary comparison Anderson Pac maybe even Jay Cole like two of Mt Miller's most laed albums from what I could tell divine feminine and swimming pool came out in

like 2016 and 2018 and these are these earthy Jazzy departures from what he's known for and he's singing and being more sentimental and more sensitive and reflective and it was great because it propelled Miller from being just another white rapper to being a serious artiste in his music but between both of those albums jcole dropped my favorite album of his For Your Eyes Only and sonically and thematically they're pretty similar but for Cole this album is considered a low point for him even though he's doing pretty much the same thing as Miller and I would

argue doing it better it's an album that nobody ever talks about as something special from jcole and this is because when jcole did it we were comparing it to other versions of the same [ __ ] by other black artists but when MC Miller did it it was the first time anything like that had ever happened you kind of see the uncomfortable thing I'm pointing out here MC Miller was a really good rapper a great one by white standards but that's the thing a great rapper by white standards paradoxically comes an alltime great by industry

and cultural standards because whiteness is like a special buff for everything they do I want to be clear I don't say this to disrespect such a beloved figure or to take away from the quality of his catalog or the people he left behind whom were inspired and affected by his art I think Hip Hop will be better off with way more mac Millers and way less Jack haros but it doesn't make the white rapper Paradox any less of a reality or a problem no matter how much effort is being put into the culture no matter

how much genuine Talent is Pres in these white artists no matter how hard they try to not exploit their whiteness and Seed space to black artists like any real Ally should in this commercial Venture under capitalism their whiteness will always be the most important and valuable aspect of their art and if they're really successful and allow themselves to pursue Mega stardom something that thankfully no right rapper has done until Jack Carlo then they end up making that problem worse through their success and that sucks to be empathetic it legit sucks for them I don't want

to take the love of art away from anyone it has to be hard to feel like your work in art is tokenized and that people aren't hearing what you're actually saying and instead only see your skin color missing so much of what you might have to offer I can't imagine what that feels like and if I read between the lines I think a lot of white rappers acknowledge that they're carrying this burden this is the reality of all art under the control of Commerce and capitalism and thus white supremacy this is the reality of white

culture or lack thereof just like with rock and roll 50 years ago there is an unyielding homogeneous thirst of whiteness to drain other vibrant cultural and artistic movements into their own void to fill that vacuous space that was created just to make wh what it has to be in this country for this country to function European or Caucasian or whatever people are trapped in caged by whiteness yet they can't even see it but they feel it and I know that they feel it cuz that's the that they're trying to escape when they listen to hip-hop

they're trying to feel that void so I don't blame any white person deluded by the flavorless and Bol art that comes out of white supremacy wanting to find something better it makes perfect sense to me though maybe dismantling white supremacy might be a you know better overall option you be doing both of us a favor you know just putting that out there but I'm going to be honest all that said I don't care I don't care much either way cuz hip-hop as we know it at least as the commercial Juggernaut that I grew up with

is dying anyway all over music news we hear the most popular rap artists are failing to get streams and sell records or selling tickets to their shows even Jack Carlo with the clear industry backing that he has has not had much of an impact and the most interesting and Innovative black music is ironically starting to look a lot more like Punk and rock and roll the byproduct of algorithms in the internet means that gen Z and gen Alpha are coming up in an era where they get to choose use their media influences at least a

bit and they're not as interested in the death and destruction that hip-hop gave my generation my kids lowkey don't even like rap I've tried really hard to get them into hip-hop and my boys half the time are like why are they cursing so much and why are they talking about women like that what am I supposed to say to that out the mouth of babes there's not a lot I I I can't [ __ ] but that's all fine with me cuz even at the height of Eminem and the current wave of Jack Carlo they're

still good rap music being made they may not be selling out Arenas but you can still find the gazelle to people dreamville has a cast of stars and amazing artist on his roster I can enjoy a ratchet anthem from the city girls and get something more thoughtful maybe from rap cityy and on a long ride I can toss in some Marlin craft as well I'm not pressed about Lil Mau making songs with chrishan rock who really cares about all of that like for real so you're not going to fix Rap by eliminating white people from

the hip hop sphere like Not only would that not work it doesn't serve the art like would hip-hop be better today without Eminem maybe I doubt it but it's it's plausible but would it be better without LP definitely not hell I don't want to live in a world without Epic Rap Battles of History I want to see George Washington battle dude from Braveheart rapping over a Houston style bounce beat flowing like the Migos I want that [ __ ] I got on quarter you got quar on the orders of a king really how at the

end of the day to quote one of my favorite YouTubers I'm on the side of good art and there's countless example of this in hip-hop from White artists and I don't see the point especially now in Hip Hop's dying flails of being hypervigilant about it CU if all the white rappers magically disappeared the core problem white supremacist capitalism would still remain we just have less hip-hop and like to keep it a buck the energy some of y'all spend pouting about Jack Carlo would be better spent sharing a favorite song from an artist that you actually

love the algorithms are owned by these corporations but they've kind of given all their power to the algorithm so you can affect that by your behavior on these platforms if you're on Twitter or Tik Tock or wherever and you keep on saying over and over again I hate insert person here understand that every comment you make about a Jack harlo or Eminem or whomever else just makes them stronger even if you're saying something negative so maybe don't say anything at all and spend more time talking about Kenny Mason can I get some Kenny Mason love

in the streets I do not see it Angelic hood rat 2 is still probably one of my favorite albums from the last four or five years and I never hear anyone talk about it at the end of the day I don't have a prescriptive suggestion on what to do with hip hop and white people in it I don't have a prescriptive suggestion for how fans should respond to your L Mao and your Tom McDonald's but I suggest suggest that if you love hip hop you should be spending more time on the love of the art

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