Actually, the creators are not all black. They’re 1) black, 2) half-black/half latin, 3) latin, 4) half black/asian, and 5) asian. And the producer is asian too.

Rap’s complicated, as everyone reading this and posting knows. So, it’s tough and disingenuous to SEPARATE it from race in the sense that so much rap is about and addresses race (I’d like to think I too address race and class with some intelligence from time to time) and comments like being post-racial, or the “new racial politics” or how Obama proves race isn’t an issue are silly, but the primary perspective to take on rap is like any art: it’s about experience. To prove my whitey-white nerd cred…Leslie Marchand didn’t get shit for writing a book about like Lord Byron or some poet because she wasn’t a bisexual Aristocrat poet, you know? I got in an argument with a dude who reviews music on the House Next Door (a film blog) about how his rap talk was wrongheaded and he deferred that he’s not AS familiar with rap and invoked his whiteness. In the same article he reviewed Joy Division and I said “Do you preface your reviews of Joy Division with ‘Now I’m not an epilpetic guy from Manchester but…”- fuck that. We relate to shit on the levels we can relate. On the emotional level of rap, a lot of “street” rap appeals to me because I too am a self-destructive male, so I think I sorta get it…

oh shit.. me too…. Navajo, Spainish and Japanese.. tight!

smh

So why you choose to post a warped opinion across the World Wide Web about hip-hop I have no idea. Shouldn’t you focus your attention on blogging about banking, a topic that a black dude from Brooklyn like me might actually trust your opinion about?
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That has to be sarcasm blood. The rest of the thought in the post would indicate a level of sophistication that would recognize how racist that shit is. ON mommas.

Oh the TITLE of THIS post is Naners.

So why you choose to post a warped opinion across the World Wide Web about hip-hop I have no idea. Shouldn’t you focus your attention on blogging about banking, a topic that a black dude from Brooklyn like me might actually trust your opinion about?
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That has to be sarcasm blood. The rest of the thought in the post would indiate a level of sophicistication that would recognize how racist that shit is. ON mommas.

Oh the TITLE of the post is Naners.

I mean I kind of understand what he’s saying here – it comes from a point of frustration. Important for white dudes not to get so defensive / reactionary here. Even my boy Omowale spoke about this phenomenon. Why is hip-hop criticism and opinions and value put into the hands of predominantly white writers that form public consensus / opinions when most of it is created by an entirely different demographic? I’m not black either but when my dude says stuff like this I feel him:

“If Hip-Hop is dying or resembling staleness it’s not any particular artist or group of artists; it’s because these cats had the culture following the rich white male standard. Yeah! Why else is everyone still trying to revive the dead Village w/out Tramps, 40 Flavas, Wetlands, Spiral Lounge (my former spot)? Why else is the “best emcees” or “top rated emcees” judged in mid-town? For some strange reason, Hip-Hop isn’t dwelling in the backyard or front yard (depending on where your positioned) of Kool Herc’s 1520 Sedgwick Avenue landmark home”

Dude is far from racist he’s just telling it like it is. The power for DIRECTING and having a critical voice about the music is very muted, save for a few like NYOIL who use the media to critique black music as well as make their own music.