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Originally Posted by Rogue Element
In fact, I would go beyond it being about black culture. Hiphop and rap is now a global lingua franca for the dispossed and disenfranchised youth. Barring the monied superstars pushed by the big record labels, naturally. There is some excellent hiphop coming out of China and Siberia, for example. Ghana has some hot stuff too, and even Indonesia has a fledgling scene.
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This is an excellent point. I used Black culture as one example. There certainly are other cultures that use the form to express themselves to get their messages out.
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Originally Posted by Crompsin
Hmmm, it seems kinda stupid to say that only those with a dark pigmentation who grew up in the ghetto (street cred) can create certain types of music.
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Another great point. I'm not sure if this would always generate racism, but it certainly draws undue and unfounded criticism, and is why I'm wary of the term
wigger. If you've listened to enough Eminem and The Streets, you'd know that the genre isn't impenetrable to White folk. If anything, it's a mode of communication for urban youth in general. Blues, jazz, and rock took similar paths: They started as Black genres and branched out to virtually every walk of life.