the main reason though is that he beat kendrick for album of the year (mack's 'the heist' vs kendrick's 'gkmc'). Macklemore gets it because of how famous he got so quickly from thrift shop, which, if that's the only song by him you've heard, you're gonna think of the same way you'd think of ice ice baby. Sorry i'm late but better late than never Of course, that's a thorn in the eyes of some Hip-Hop purist who can't accept different approaches to Hip-Hop outside of their self-constructed boundaries. If you take Macklemore songs " Thrift Shop" as an example, it's a funny tune which could be seen as a satire of this whole materialistic fixation that a lot of Hip-Hop artists go for lyrically. This debate of what Hip-Hop supposed to be or what it should represent still lingers on today. ( Sidenote: De La Soul responded to this criticism with their sophomore album " De La Soul Is Dead ", which is in my mind the best Hip-Hop concept album ever produced.highly recommend it!) Even Will Smith, who started with ridiculous stuff like" Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble" all of the sudden dressed in black, green, red and acted like he is a member of the Nation of Islam.
became popular there was this unspoken rule in the Hip-Hop community that you had to act tough and dangerous to sell records. You wouldn't believe how much shit De La Soul had to eat back in the day within the Hip-Hop community for " 3 Feet High and Rising", which is now considered an essential classic of the genre. (Street) Credibility is a huge aspect in Hip-Hop music. It is not something that only white rappers have to fight with.
#Oncue rapper skin
I think the problem is not that their skin color is white but rather that they make Rap music outside of a very narrow-minded definition of what Hip-Hop and Rap supposed to be.
#Oncue rapper mac
And, while I believe the king of appropriating hip hop culture, Vanilla Ice, appreciated the culture, he made a super poppy and watered down song (that he may not have wrote) to sell millions of records, while most black rappers at the time struggled to even get on the radio.īut why the others? Is it (in the case of Macklemore) because they make radio-friendly pop-rap? Is it because, as a result of their pop aesthetic & skin color they become more popular than black artists? Are the more "underground" white rappers like Mac and Action less vilified than others because they don't make pop rap, and aren't superstars? Or their respect of the culture is more apparent than some of their peers? Imo, Iggy doesn't have much of an appreciation of the culture, and I feel like if rap wasn't a viable mainstream genre of music she wouldn't even be doing it. My question is, why do some rappers get the accusations and others don't? Some of them are obvious, of course. Rappers like Mac Miller, Action Bronson, and Eminem. Meanwhile, there are white rappers that don't deal with these accusations often (at least, that I've seen). Current rappers like Macklemore, Iggy Azalea, and (increasingly) Post Malone come to mind. On the internet, there seems to be a "hit list" of white rappers who are constantly dogged by accusations of committing cultural appropriation. So, this is something I've been thinking about for a while.
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