Especially with these new gen Black rappers that I identify with on such a personal level Cus of our shared experiences.

Like hearing rappers talk about lenox mall in atl is such a personal cultural signifier that certain people can identify with

Like what the f*** does connor know about that. Just little s*** that makes you feel at home when u play the music

Also read that carti used to work in H&M and im like damn man im 19 now trying to finesse a job at urban outfitters. Just the struggle of being a young black dude into fashion and art, trying to get fly on the cheap shopping uniqlo and h&m and trying to get girls and s***. not that white people cant be into that but i mean navigating all that from a uniquely black cultural lens and approach that i cant even fully describe.

Lowkey this insecurity started when i moved to a city thats like 80% white. I had always been around different races but usually they werent the overwhelming majority . All my life has been in black schools and neighborhoods and for the first time i dnt feel the validation from my culture in my environment you feel?

Im seeing all these Indians, whites, middle easterns repping my culture but they dnt even understand an inch of the lens and experience that their favorite rappers like travis, rocky, carti etc use in the s*** they rap about. And alot of them be saying hella casual ignorant/racist s***

Im not saying im a millionaire that f***s hoes or whatever but i mean the little specific s*** they talk about tht only an 18 yr old black guy or girl growing up in a black city w certain interests and s*** can relate to

wayyyy too many words. but yes f*** cacs

Whats too much

Im white and i fell in love with hip hop bc of the production.

I think most minorities can in some way relate to struggles faced by others

See this what i mean

No one mentioned “struggles” nigga

Yes ive struggled but it isn’t about that, it’s something deeper, sounds corny but it’s like some family bond type s*** where it just reminds u of certain stuff

Kracker

shut ur simp ass up b**** boi

Same as if a white person says it’s weird if black people listen to The Smiths and resonate with it

Black people are human and as humans we have communal empathy

I find it weird when whites who listen to hip hop try too hard to be “cool”.

I thought this would be about Reddit type people

I wouldnt mind if the appreciation was purely that and white people in overwhelmingly white areas didnt act weirdly to actual black people

Where everyone wants to say “deadass” or whatever popular black slang but when they meet an actual black person they make it known directly or indirectly u sound “different”

im white but yeah there was a white female gucci stan on ktt1 that scared the stuffing out of me

who cares

People will enjoy what resonates with them nothing weird about it.

Whites/Asians/Indians who listen to rap and say “nigga” are the worst

No u definitely right. There is something inherently gross with casual rap fans, kids who use hip hop to look cool.

On the flipside tho, hip hop is a lifestyle not defined by color or creed, but by what you do and who you are inside. Guys like Mac Miller or Action Bronson are white as s***, but both of them are hip hop icons.

I think this is why knowing the culture thoroughly is so important to an outsider. Even there, u can go wrong tho. The white AfAm teachers and mfs like the dude below try to understand the culture as much as they can too, but they fail so spectacularly.

Depends. If it’s white people who be on some “real hip hop” s*** or exclusively listen to street rap I be lookin at em different

Yes bro what I listen to the smiths but im not ignorant about white people. I treat them regularly

Like for for example i dnt go and listen to queer culture influenced music like the smiths and be ignorant about actual queer people or whatever while picking and choosing their traits

Bullshit aside that s*** was always corny