What makes Cacklemore different than the flood of white underground acts of the late 90's/early 00's

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I was forced to listen to a whole macklemore song for the first time the other day

It was called "Same Love" I think

The fakkitry in that song just was...:wow:

Any nikka that fcks with that hipster ass cracka fakket aint no real nikka thats for sure
 

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e has been making songs like he has on the Heist forever. "The Town" "My Oh My" same general style... He's independent, I'm pretty sure he didn't "sell out" he just marketed himself well and got lucky.

*completely avoids songs mentioned*
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And I think you kinda missed my point.

Really? He looks like he's 40.

And bears a strong resemblance to Toby Flenderson.
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but... :manny:, Hip Hop lost that pro-black edge to it and to me that's when it started to fall off and become wack; dudes out here looking like stereotypical caractures of what black people look like to racist on some minstrel shyt but not so flagrant.
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That is very untrue. Commercial rap is made for white people. Regular hip-hop songs aren't. You think Trinidad James went into the studio to record "All Black Everything" for white people to love :childplease:

Rappers put out street singles/bangers for white people :rudy:

Rappers use white slangs constantly to relate to white people:wtf:

White people are large consumers of the genre due to their large population but the music is in no way tailored to them.


It's harsh truth. The vast majority of rap listeners and consumers are white, period- not just a large segment, but the clear majority of the audience. When labels, which are mostly run by white people, put out hip-hop albums, they want those albums to be catered to the majority to guarantee sales. That's just how business in general works. That means they want it to be catered to white people, first and foremost.

You think white people don't love "street singles?" One of the big reasons white people listen to rap is because it's like fantasy to them- they get to vicariously experience a ridiculous fantasy of stereotypical Black street life, which is also why gangsta rap got more and more outlandish in the first place. It's like a minstrel show. When I was at the end of high school, all the white boys I knew loved second-rate Dipset affiliates like Purple City, along with stuff like J. Hood, Murda Mook, and other artists with solely "street" appeal. Or take to the other end of the spectrum and look at 5 percent or Afrocentric rappers. If Brand Nubian or Poor Righteous Teachers did a show next week, most of the audience would be white boys. No matter what kind of hip-hop, most of its consumers are white. The commercial/regular distinction is irrelevant to that. Anyway, "regular" rap is commercial, and the other stuff is an outlier, because whatever most people are listening to IS what is regular, and most Black people are listening to the same commercial rappers that white people are and don't know all that many underground or obscure artists.
 

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They look the same age.


That cacs 30 years old but he looks like fukking shyt.

He looks like he smells like shyt, his hair is shyt, his voice is shyt. No charisma in his voice, just smiling all willy nilly in the video.

This fukking fakkit reminds me of a community college cracker and I hate his fukking guts.
 
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