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Sad_Face posted...

I was thinking about mentioning what Sarm said, before I saw his post. You'll never hear a mainstream hip hop artist complain about White folks listening to their music because it's a requirement that your music is able to appeal to them (the majority race of the US and Western world) if you want to go big.

True, you won't hear too many mainstream artists get upset at white people buying their music. It'd be career suicide in most cases...you don't bite the hand that feeds you.

But what you *will* hear is devoted hiphop fans getting angry at white people for acting like Macklemore is a revolutionary artist...or worse, seeing white people enjoy 90s gangsta rap that many of them no doubt crapped all over when it first came out. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying any of this is fair, but from my perspective I find it so weird to see Snoop and Dr Dre and Ice Cube in family friendly sitcoms and movies today after being told by white people all throughout my teen years that these guys were horrible, immoral people that were causing the collapse of the black community.

Fact is, the white people who were saying that stuff and the white people we see enjoying 90s hip hop today may not even be the same people. But I think it's naive to think there isn't at least *some* overlap.