If white people weren't gatekeeping black genres of music, black people would be running the music game. I'm sick of it.

[Unknown Poster]

At the end of the day black people just make shyt cool and trendy and hot.

Like the reason why rap is popular is because it's consumed by damn near any and every audience you can think of there is mad diversity at rap shows. That's because black people can't help but be inclusive sometimes to our own detriment.

Meanwhile look what happens when white people run genres of music...

the audience becomes almost Lily white with a few token Asians, black folks and Brown folks in the mix.

The artists are almost always white that get promoted and Get featured, and the only time they put on anybody else is when they put on white guys like themselves that are just as pretentious and full of themselves. Other than that they NEVER put anybody on. Especially Black Men.

And then in the end black men and black women are the people that get promoted the least. when they play at concerts and festivals it seems like that's the time for everybody to just play on their phones or take a smoke break.

Do you know how many talented and motivated young black men and black women are out there that make amazing music but just can't get the same opportunities their white and non black counterparts can get? it's it's frustrating family.



The North American music scene is so gatekept and cliquey to the point it is segregated. I hate gatekeepers.

(End rant)

 

[BarackStar]

Who came over and became the faces of black music while we lost all control of it. It wasn’t Eminem it was after his era.

 

[Henri Christophe]

White people aren't gatekeeping anything.

Black people willingly sign over their rights and ownership in exchange for a LOAN.

Nobody is stopping black men from finding some local talent on soundcloud, putting $100,000 behind a single and blowing it up.

Black men simply dont care about ownership.

 

[Unknown Poster]

And another thing these motherfukkers are so goddamn arrogant and they want to be seen as the center of attention at all times. They want all the glory, they want all the women, they want all the money, they want everything to be connected to them, and they think they own the music in the culture.

Not to mention they have a hard time getting into anything where they can't see themselves in the performers and the artists and the musicians. so what you end up with is a monolithic sea of boring and milque toast white and non black artists. You get artist that like black music and like black culture but are bigoted towards black people.

I remember playing shows in the past where they booked me with white Dj's and after I played people would leave cause no one would be able to follow up with the energy and presence I was giving. Lowkey they would hate that I would get more attention than them when they wanted the camera lights and action to be on them.

Its deeper than rap

 

[Lonj]

That's part of the reason mainstream black music is so bad nowadays. Black artists have been pigeonholed into making either thot rap or crash test dummy drill anthems while their non-black counterparts get to pilfer traditional black genres we once dominated like r&b. At this point we need to break off from the mainstream music scene and create our own black musical ecosystem. Let them have it, I think black people musically thrive when left to our own devices anyway.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Who came over and became the faces of black music while we lost all control of it. It wasn’t Eminem it was after his era.

This is the question I asked myself over and over again.

Elvis - Face of Rock
Eminem - Old Face of Rap
Post Malone - New Face of Rap
Diplo - Face of EDM
Kygo - Face of Tropical
Sam Smith/Adele - Faces of R&B
Ed Sheeran - Face of Pop.

 

[LunaticVillage415]

Black people still run the rap game, black folks just don’t control the image and the message as much as back in the day. I seen the Math Hoffa interview with Lord Jamar and he said when Brand Nubian signed a record deal with cacs back in the late 80’s, there was no label coaching involved in the production of their music. They had 100% artistic freedom. That’s why rap was so diverse in the 80’s and early 90’s. You had Tribe Called Quest, Snoop and Wu Tang all on the radio at once.

Black men are still the face of Hip Hop. No matter how much they push the Macklemore’s, the G Eazy’s, the Cac Harlow’s... they never last and are always rightfully treated as novelty acts. When Rap starts to look as white as alternative rock in the mid 90’s, it’s will be a wrap. That’ll probably happen in the next ten years.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Black people still run the rap game, black folks just don’t control the image and the message as much as back in the day. I seen the Math Hoffa interview with Lord Jamar and he said when Brand Nubian signed a record deal with cacs back in the late 80’s, there was no label coaching involved in the production of their music. They had 100% artistic freedom. That’s why rap was so diverse in the 80’s and early 90’s. You had Tribe Called Quest, Snoop and Wu Tang all on the radio at once.

Black men are still the face of Hip Hop. No matter how much they push the Macklemore’s, the G Eazy’s, the Cac Harlow’s... they never last and are always rightfully treated as novelty acts. When Rap starts to look as white as alternative rock in the mid 90’s, it’s will be a wrap. That’ll probably happen in the next ten years.

So all Black People run is the rap game and White People run everything else.



Listen, I Love rap but I just get sick of it because this is the genre that most black men are situated in..yet black rappers are going to jail and getting killed all the time...and now the word "rapper" seems to be a new way of just saying the n-word.

Black people aren't the face of any music genre otherwise.

that's not a product...that's a big problem.

I just hate how black people are automatically associated with rap and hip hop when black people created damn near all of these musical genres. What about us that want to make to rock or classical or jazz or techno like why do we always have to be associated with this?

Like I'm sick of the negativity of rap, I'm sick of the violence, I'm sick of the celebration of debauchery, like we gotta do something else...

 

[Fanservice]

This is the question I asked myself over and over again.

Elvis - Face of Rock
Eminem - Old Face of Rap
Post Malone - New Face of Rap
Diplo - Face of EDM
Kygo - Face of Tropical
Sam Smith/Adele - Faces of R&B
Ed Sheeran - Face of Pop.

Drake is the current face of rap. Post isn’t as high profile as Drake and he also doesn’t rap

 

[Unknown Poster]

Drake is the current face of rap. Post isn’t as high profile as Drake and he also doesn’t rap

Good point.