Vince Staple defends Iggy Azalea

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"Nobody got mad when Eminem did it," Vince Staples says.

"I do not care," Staples said in a clip that debuted as a part of today's DX Daily. "White people invented basketball. I don't care. Why would I care? She getting paid. We speak English, we go to Christian churches. It's the same thing. Yeah it's fu*ked up but you just now getting a whiff of that? That's what it is. Nobody got mad when Eminem did it. Why you mad at her 'cause she a girl and Eminem would probably slap you? It's more than that. Azealia Banks got a point with the stuff she saying. Everybody got a point. But at the end of the day we all just got jobs. That's the way I look at it because a lot of things are culture, you never know where none of this sh*t come from, man. Of course Hip Hop is something that's very important to Black people but it's a lot of other things that are important to us that we tend to neglect like family structure. It is what it is. It happens.

"Everybody entitled to their opinion," he added. "I stay out of all that. I don't wanna argue with nobody. I wanna be able to pay my rent and I need a carwash right now so I'm 'bout to go do that. I'm just happy I'm able to do the little stuff. I don't care, all that bigger picture—ain't nobody give a fu*k when my homies got shot in their face. So if you talk about, 'What you care about?' That's what I care about. When the police start paying for some funerals and something like that instead of softball games then I'll probably have something to say about that issue. It just don't relate to me. I come from a different place. We got white people [who] gangbang. We got white boys from the hood. Are they appropriating Black culture? Yeah, but them is my nikkas because they care just as much as me. Who are you to say what somebody actually love? You can't say what touched anybody any kind of way. I don't think that's up to me personally. That's not up to me. She might love Hip Hop to her core. That might be what she always wanted to do when she was younger because she seen it on the TV but that's the reason everybody wanted to do it. We just happen to look like them."


http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/...es-iggy-azalea-controversy-says-i-do-not-care
 

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Is it me, or was he just rambling? I do feel him on there are more important things like being able to pay the rent and use a carwash. Life's demands make this Hip Hop sh!t appear minute. Still though, he makes his living via this Hip Hop sh!t, so to an extent, cultural misappropriation depending on far it goes could ultimately force him and anyone of color inspiring to be an emcee, forcefully change their mind and find an alternative way of making a living. Funny how it was people that looked like Lenny Kravitz, or Cody Chessnutt, influenced what would become Rock music. Now people that look like those two are an anomaly in Rock. Could it happen to Hip Hop? Wouldn't surprise me. Look at certain segments of the underground and your typical Def Jux supporter. They're one side of a coin, and Iggy is the other.
 

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some of you cats are quick to call people sellouts and uncle toms, but are cool w/giving iggy a pass? :what:

how many of you all know whitney houston got BOOED the night she met bobby brown...black folks couldn't stand whitney because she looked and sounded like a pop white chick...

in this day and age, criticizing doesn't mean shyt back then it meant that people may not buy your product, but nobody is buying now so it doesn't matter

there's nothing wrong w/preserving our culture brothas and it's not hating...
 
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