Y'all know what i'm talking about. All the Kanye, Kendrick, BROCKHAMPTON, Frank Ocean, Childish Gambino, Tyler the Creator, MF DOOM, Earl Sweatshirt, Death Grips, JPEGMAFIA, fantano watching white niggas.

Yesterday, i seen one of them on twitter saying "Earl Sweatshirt > Don Toliver" and it really got me questioning:

Did this person even realize how much Earl would hate him for comparing two opposite poles of rap music just to d***ride his lyrical focused and less enjoyable music?

Do such white boys even learn anything from the music they listen to? These mfs are always listening to Earl and Kendrick rapping about black issues and sending love to the black community but proceed to treat our music like it's Pokemon cards.

They be thinking they superior for listening to said rappers and experimental s*** and give all kinds of disrespect to trap and the "generic" rap music, not understanding that hip-hop can be diverse and have different target audiences (just like every other genre), like straight up, they treat our music like it's Pokemon cards or sum.

This has to mean something bruh, i feel like these mfs don't care about black people like that and only listen to this music cuz it sounds good to them and to brag about their music taste without these messages doing any impact on the way they should treat our art.

What do y'all think?

Pls tell me i'm not crazy for saying this, I've had this feeling for too long.

yeat on top

its interesting for sure

nope. How many times have you heard someone "growing out of rap"

Valid point op but it's internet + hip-hop . Comparison is going to happen

I am Black and a fan of experimental rap so yes I care about Black people like that.

Read the title wrong. But imma be honest OP I stopped caring about whether white folk care about me or not. The ones who do I noticed don't make a thing about it and I appreciate that.

this thread again

Thats such a wide swath of artists. Seems like the qualms stem strictly from white rap listeners as a general base, not “experimental hip hop fans” because half of those artists are extremely commercially popular, mainstream rap acts

And ultimately this boils down to the question of “do white people in general care about black people in general?” which, if there’s any way to be objective in answering such a nebulous and wide-scoped question like that, is a no. I don’t think anybody would say otherwise unless we’re speaking from a personal perspective, and once you’re at that point the milage will vary per white person as to whether you believe that they, as individuals, care about black people. And then you have to define what “caring” means in this context

Almost everything here can be said about white fans who vicariously live through trap music lol

Literally this, I can’t be bothered with all that lol

ones on twitter 100% dont care

That is insane lmaooo

A lot of white fans in general don’t give a s*** about hip hop. You got those that think they’re smarter than others for listening to more experimental / conscious s***.

And you got those that listen to trap music and s*** like that to fetishize the gangster image behind it. There’s white fans of Gucci who are fans of him cuz he really killed somebody.

Sad s***

damn, that's sad lowkey

That specific group of rap fans are very annoying on Twitter especially

They HATE drake and cole

fr, i hate them with a passion

You're just doing the same pathetic virtue signaling everyone else is doing that started around 2015

I think the ranking mindset thing came from sports and sports and entertainment in America having black representation and increasingly more black equity is a good thing. If anything those arenas are less exploitative than ever. You're talking about the discourse around these things.

If that means caring about what someone on Twitter says, that was your first mistake. I don't think that's really the crux of racism when black people are dying and getting locked up and whatever else.

Compare that to bad posts on the internet? This is the kind of s*** you write for a thinkpiece though. Write a book called "Rap is like a Mountain" with that pic of Jpeg at a college show on the cover. I'd read it.

How could u generalize such a wide audience

white people in general don't care about black people, what you expect?

something about that song just makes me want to listen to kanye west

Two wolves inside me

Billy Woods & G Herbo out now