It's a specific generation of herb nikkas who have bought into the shallowest, flattest version of blackness, a sort of black essentialism. They're so deep in a capitalistic framework they believe their radical politics are expressed via whether they prefer every single black rapper to any single white rapper, and always argue every black MVP candidate is better than any white one. They invest all their faux-militant energy into inconsequential decision and opinions regarding commercial art and entertainment. In internet parlance, they're dorky try-hards.
And I say that as someone who always respected Em's prodigious talent for rapping, but had absolutely no use for a single album he made, and think every album after the Eminem Show isn't just not good, but laughably terrible. But the shift has been extreme: we went from popular black rappers openly saying Em was the GOAT (which I found to be an embarrassing thing) to black rap fans acting like Em was Vanilla Ice (equally stupid). Herd mentality shyt. But the shift hasn't only been about downgrading CACs, it has also been about devaluing black art in service to an impotent politics. In the name of "black excellence" people now prop up every lame half-wack nikka ever as an icon, as if doing so is an act of radical defiance of white orthodoxy. Common transformed into an utterly soulless, neutered Black Hallmark card rapper and somehow is held up as an example of excellence and activism. Kanye is a swaggerless diva with blue contacts and a retard haircut in longshoreman boots, such a doofus that he's the first black man to chase a Kardashian toward a white penis, making megachurch christian albums, putting Kenny G on tracks - like the very antithesis of anything black, cool, and subversive - and these nikkas will twist themselves into mental knots celebrating this bozo. Specifically because he made a shyt ton of money, and that has come to be a substitute for actual excellence and collective uplift. The value of art and politics have ironically been reduced to very conservative parameters, and tribalism rules.
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