You discovered her and that's what matters

I'm not sure what you're saying then fam.

Eminem and Drake factually attracted lots of suburbanites and foreigners who saw them as safe rappers or "one of the good ones" no differently from how the hipsters and music nerds perceived Ye.

Eminem definitely "gentrified" rap based on your criteria. I knew so many White kids back in the day who legit didn't care for Black rappers but had Shady in rotation.

Eminem himself called himself Elvis for that reason and made a whole song about this on "White America." He was a MTV/TLR/pop sensation who brought hip hop to way huger audiences than Pac and Biggie ever did.

Ridicule that went diamond repeatedly. The hate comes with the love. Run DMC wrote Beastie Boys s***

The Vanilla Ice movie >>>>> Goodfellas

That's what I'm saying though bro. It's not explicitly about white people at all honestly. It's about hip hop becoming watered down and sanitized for white audiences, and plenty of black artists played a role in that. White rappers such as Eminem and El-P and even the Beastie Boys did not gentrify hip hop. They also all seem to have more reverence for traditional hip hop than Kanye does, by far honestly.

still live in white america no s*** he went diamond lol.

MC Hammer also went diamond too. And we still aint like that nigga either lol

@sab ban please.

i did not know she was on that song until this very moment

Why you hating

I'm just saying that 50 making sung hooks didn't gentrify rap. Rap has never categorically precluded incorporating singing/melodies into it.

you dissing the greatest italian mobster movie of all time (Goodfellas >> Godfather) is CRAZY

MC Hammer was rap's Michael Jackson for a hot minute

we losing the plot whet

Can you show me how Kanye doesn’t have reverence for traditional hip hop?

annoying thread that has already been done by annoying posters of yesteryears past

but hey let's keep doing this topic and see if it gets any less insufferable i suppose

he literally said he hated the s*** he made on drink champs

Bro that s*** broke my heart

I wouldn't call that gentrification though, at least not explicitly. It's more of just traditional racism.

Gentrification has an explicitly class-based element on top of a racial element. Eminem being white and inadvertently attracting tons of white fans despite making respectable rap music isn't his fault. Kanye going out of his way to call old school rap primitive/basic because the artists didn't have $2m at their disposal for production is gentrification.

Did he mean that or did he just try to get at Kweli during that segment? Because he was praising a whole lot of traditional hip hop in that interview also

depends

which movie? That’s My Boy was funny

Touché you know what, I'm wrong

sab gotta ban sab PLEASE

nah he mighta just been being petty against kweli, yayo is right.

Yeezus gentrified rap

I def think he was being petty esp at Talib as well as being a contrarion, but he's shat on LR/tcd a couple times iirc

Called them democrat music one time