Random Thought #5

I think I figured out why a lot of trash rap artists get cosigned and the better ones don't. I also figured out why the rap fans are overwhelmingly White these days.

The reason bad rappers get a lot of shine and have a lot of white fans is because White people love to hear Black people talk shit about themselves.

They applaud it, but as soon as an artist speaks positive and uplifts their people, they don't want to hear it or they call it "boring".

Look at whose calling the shots. It ain't us.

The White rap fan and the person writing the rapper's check are one in the same.

And that goes for those nominating the rappers for awards.

I knew it was an attempt to brainwash people, but I didn't really put the White fans into account.

Now I wonder why they like rap and if it's for real or not.

What brought this on, you ask? Well. It reminded me of a time where me and my husband were downtown, and this jeep full of frat bro looking White guys were blasting a song out of their jeep where the rappers were saying "Nigga" a lot. They didn't blast it until they got near the intersection my husband and I were waiting to cross at.

And I side eyed at them as they hurried around the corner like, "Really?" 0_o


What made me think about this was he had the album, and that made me wonder about White rap fans in general. What's their motive for buying the music? Do they really like it, or are they using it to pull bullshit like that, or engage in confirmation bias? Are they using it to confirm certain stereotypes?

It makes since because they call Eminem one of the greatest while I've always found him corny. Yeah, he can spit, I'll give him that, but he doesn't move me like that. I find it funny that people were saying that he talked about "real stuff". And I'm like , yeah... "real" like raping women, calling your mother and girlfriend  all kinds of bitches sluts and whores, talking about locking women in trunks, doing drugs and being White.  In fact, that's all he talked about during his first two albums.

So I guess he IS real. For White people, that is.

Which is so on point that as soon as a White artist gets a bit of clout in well, anything or anywhere they are deemed a visitor, instead of respecting the space, they start flexing a bit. Insert Em's album title called Rap God. And today I found out that Action Bronson had the nerve to say he was better than Ghostface Killa on live TV no less. Nevermind that his whole style of rap is exactly like Ghostface's but that's not my business.




Honestly, I saw this coming sooner or later. It was all a matter of time. It's a tried and true pattern of behavior but this time, he ended up writing a check his ass couldn't cash. Until then, I'll wait and see what happens next.

Needless to say, this is why we need our own media and our own everything else away from greedy, prying, eyes that feel left out of whatever they're feeling left out from. Because if we don't get that, then this sort of thing will be what we will always fall victim to.