I have developed this opinion and chosen this viewpoint because of my personal experiences as a Brown woman, and I'll go into more detail about that too. So please stick around. I will also include links as much as possible so that you can check out some of the songs that I mentioned. So without further Ado. Let's get into it. I love hip hop, I love rap and thinking of my black culture and identity. Music like hiphop and rap are so important to me
Much of my teen years, I lived in a predominantly black, lowerclass innercity neighborhood. Everybody knows everybody. People drive around with bass booming out of their car. And in my inner city high school, the black kids were constantly called out as troublemakers. The stereotypes against black people run so deep and are so systemic that all of a sudden, the black students in high schools are performing lower because they're constantly called out of classes for being too loud or disruptive or whatever
Thank you so much for listening and hearing my experiences and perspectives, and I hope that by listening, you feel even more encouraged to listen to more black artists. But basically my whole belief system behind my reasoning for not listening to white artists is beautifully put by Nick Cannon. Nick Cannon said that white people are guests in hip hop again, thank you so much for listening
I wanted to come back here just to clarify one thing. My reason my true down towntoearth reason that I am choosing not to listen to white rappers is is because my purpose for listening to rap is to connect with my culture, and I do not feel connected to my culture or empowered as a Brown woman with black roots when I listen to white rappers because I think that white rappers are not doing an adequate job at acknowledging the origin of rap and uplifting that