The way he phrased it was wrong I don’t agree with it but his core message is essentially hood niggas have different taste and value different things from rappers than a white hip hop head. Which is true.

The guy who made the tweets needs to specify that he means hood niggas and not the average black fan

theres a difference between UNDERSTANDING hip hop & its history and knowing a SERIES OF FACTS or albums. It also does not mean you KNOW THE HISTORY BETTER or UNDERSTAND IT MORE because you listen to more traditional artists.

we need a reset so badly man

Exactly and for a black man - who definitely understands the nuance of the living it vs looking through a lens dichotomy - to be so aggressive and generalized in his assessment; relegating black hiphop fans to being surface level and white hiphop fans as a wholly caring for the genre let’s me know this is coming from a place of coonery rather than observation

not watching can you please provide an AI summary for me?

Basically if it wasn’t a black guy who wrote that I’d be calling it racist 100%

which is lowkey a really weird thing to say because hes purposely trying to paint black people as uneducated and shallow to the extent they dont "listen to the intelligent music". Thats the implication.

Hes branding specifically people in the hood without enough time or money to put into being NERDS as black people in general, then comparing them to priviledged suburban white kids with vinyl covers on their wall to say white people know the history of their music i know hes black however thats a really harmful weird thing to put onto twitter of all places. It doesnt really seem like a mistake lol thats genuinely just how he views the average black listener. He knows the platform hes on.

yea dudes be saying rage bait for clicks then back tracking to make it seem like theyre being genuine

i see ur point an yea im sure there are a lot of white ppl who are knowledgeable about hip hop history, but the core of the people who make hip hop what it is will hopefully always be black, and the people who have both experienced the culture and created it are mostly black.

i actually dont care about a rappers race, but i do think its disingenuous to imply that black people arent as knowledgeable about it. thats jus a overgeneralization

yea dudes be saying rage bait for clicks then back tracking to make it seem like theyre being genuine

i see ur point an yea im sure there are a lot of white ppl who are knowledgeable about hip hop history, but the core of the people who make hip hop what it is will hopefully always be black, and the people who have both experienced the culture and created it are mostly black.

i actually dont care about a rappers race, but i do think its disingenuous to imply that black people arent as knowledgeable about it. thats jus a overgeneralization

Like are we going to conveniently ignore that black hiphop heads exist or that most white people who listen to hiphop don’t care about the genre’s history?

Bro is acting like the only black hiphop fans that exist are hood rap fans and romanticizing all white hiphop fans like they all care about the history. I don’t like that s***

I think this is why @op said upbringing plays a role in it too.

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A Black hip hop head would also would also know more than your average black rap fan ...

F*** that coon ass engagement bait ass nigga.

On one hand I agree on the other hand I'm only a few years older than herbo and Im from the south and I know madlib and dilla.

It just boils down to interest.

This is just trash discourse to help peddle engagement and anger. White people and black people are not monoliths first off. Second off, respectfully, a white person could never connect with the roots of hip hop comparative to a black person so this whole knowledge s*** is just coming from second hand accounting told to them by a black person directly or indirectly. Dumb tweet dumb thread

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ayoo pause tho!

Title blowing my s***

This nigga just saw a tweet and hit copy and send on here

Also for every white person that does know hip hop history there's a thousand of them that don't know anything about it other than Eminem.

keep in mind
this is a UNIVERSITY PROFFESOR, one thats whole show starts with the warning that he is learning, is an outsider, and is attempting to understand the genre. He didnt interact with it from 2005-2018. If your familiar with certain envrionemnts, what professor skye is saying here doesnt even NEED TO BE ARTICULATED.

However, this huge chunk of the genre's history doesnt matter to this guy because that period is worthless to him, so hes so far gone down this elitist hole of strict "what makes music good" rubric, he finds himself selling out the people who the music comes from and is made for, for a white saviour narrative, that has his same surface level downright disrespectful way of viewing huge swaths of this genre with rhetoric that would come off as downright blatant racism if it was from a white mouth.

and surprise surprise, people that need billy woods to teach them about s*** they dont already know, are more likely to listen to billy woods! and so are people with more acess to money & time to nerd out about s***, gonna rave about nerdy s***! its a time resources and taste thing, not a race culture thing.

I don't see why we have to look at it that way. Obviously, it's possible that some white people get into it a bit later, but not all, like myself, but also: that doesn't mean you can't become knowledgeable about it.
Let's just look at it as hip hop fans and then judge individually instead of looking at it like that.