I'm white, honestly what he's saying about whites infiltrating hip-hop the way we did with rock and other genres of music is true, but besides that he is pushing an extremely counterproductive and down right destructive narrative. To say whites don't create anything is ridiculous and not even worthy of a response beyond that. Now as far as hip-hop goes, he should focus his energy more on the people destroying the integrity of the culture, regardless of race. Corporate America has done much damage to the culture, and this can be seen as white america but there are people of all races playing a role in this. Also hip-hop has been one of the greatest factors in race relations in this country and the whole world really, and what he's saying seeks to destroy a lot of that progress. Old white women go to rap concerts nowadays for christs sakes. Artists like Drake, Cole, and Kendrick will push that even further, also Macklemore will help with that too. I live in South Philly, in a neighborhood that was historically racist, but now you drive by the playgrounds and see kids of all races playing basketball or football together, when I was in high school there was no racial tension in my class (about 200 people), and I mean none. Whites and blacks were literally united through their love of hip-hop and the culture as a whole. I understand why some blacks are still angry as racism is far from dead, and the history of our country is disgusting as far as treatment of blacks and minorities as a whole goes, but the majority of white people have nothing to do with that, are ashamed of that, and come from middle class to poor families so we can relate to the average minority much more than we can relate to rich people and those in corporate america regardless of what race they are. I just feel like he's bitter and way too stuck in the 90s, hip-hop/rap will never go back to what it was, and no one should want it to, though a lot of great music was made it was also very destructive. I'm not saying I'm completely happy with the state of it right now, but that's on us as listeners and consumers to show support for the artists making real soulful music that looks to build and unite rather than the majority of the trash that's on the radio or mtv that is destructive and ignorant.
