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peace y'all it's your boy Johnny
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Fastlane here with allhip hiphop.com so
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recently the internet has been talking
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about something kind of strange the best
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white rapper debate but that got me
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thinking like why is that even a thing
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it opens up a whole conversation about
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white rappers in hip hop being able to
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provide for your family is something
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that every person wants to do but do
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white rappers owe the culture anything
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like should they be able to profit off
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of black culture and in turn profit off
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of black struggle slavery prison hood
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movies have white people been profiting
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off of black struggle this whole time
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hop hip-hop wasn't born in a boardroom
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it was molded out of the fires of the
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black experience back in the day when
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mainstream America turned a blind eye to
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the struggles and injustices of the
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black community hip-hop was the
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megaphone it was the only real way to
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bring awareness hip hop was real and it
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was raw then suddenly white faces
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entered the game spitting rhymes
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adopting the slang swag and style black
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culture has always been the blueprint
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for cool music fashion you name it so a
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white guy rapping and trying to be cool
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it wasn't too unexpected then in 1980
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Def Jam signed the first white rappers
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the Beasty Boys though they eventually
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gained respect in the hip-hop community
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it didn't start out that way the Beasty
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Boys started out as a punk band then
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they dropped Cookie Puss a parody rap
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record it was a joke that accidentally
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launched their rap careers and just like
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that they were signed and started
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profiting from the same genre that they
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originally made fun of look we live in
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America historically everything seems to
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end up in white hands hip-hop should be
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the one thing the one thing that should
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remain sacred but can we truly gatekeep
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hip-hop and if so who determines who's
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in and who's out what makes a Mac Miller
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rest in peace different from a slim
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Jesus what elevates a Paul Wall over a
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GE it feels like there's a line right a
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line between genuine appreciation and
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straight up exploitation check this out
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jelly Roll started out as a rapper got
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some popularity and then bam country
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music superstar same with Machine Gun
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Kelly he used hiphop as a launchpad into
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punk music post Malone did the same
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thing yellow Wolf did the same thing the
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list goes on and on when did hip-hop
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become a stepping stone now I do have to
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mention artists like Mac miller and Paul
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Wall and even Jack Harlo who seem to
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genuinely love and respect the culture
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there's something authentic about their
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presence my whole thing is that you just
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got to be yourself and then show respect
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to the originators look at Lil Dicki he
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built a career off of comedic rap or the
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lyricism of Action Bronson and R-rated
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Rugged Man and who doesn't love the
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southern flow of Lil White and Bubba
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Sparks and then there was Eminem the
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biggest white rapper in the world eminem
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was very careful with his words and his
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actions from day one he acknowledged his
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position and acted accordingly he even
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eventually called himself a guest in the
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House of Hip Hop remember that beef he
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had with Lord Jamar eminem didn't come
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at him too sideways his self-awareness
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allowed him to put his ego to the side
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so the question still remains do white
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rappers owe hip-hop anything my answer
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absolutely this isn't just about beats
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and rhymes it's a culture a history a
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struggle what can they give back they
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can use their platform and their massive
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reach to amplify the voices and issues
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that created this genre they can call
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attention to the same injustices that
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black communities have been facing for
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sadly Eminem is the only one that does
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this at the end of the day hip-hop is a
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gift and white rappers will continue to
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find success within it but that success
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comes with a responsibility a
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responsibility to honor the origins and
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respect the journey we're doing more
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