It's always the same argument that black music will be white washed just like Rock N Roll was. If that was the case it would've happened a long time ago with Vanilla Ice, House Of Pain, Eminem, etc. Today in 2014 how many active white rappers are there? Eminem, Macklemore, Iggy, MGK, Mac Miller, Action Bronson, Yelawolf, Logic..... that's 8 mainstream rappers and out of those 8, Em, Mack, Iggy and Miller are the only ones who received real long lasting success. So what's the issue? Plenty of white rappers have come and failed or didn't last (Paul Wall, Asher Roth, Bubba Sparxx, Kreayshawn). So what is the problem? As a black man who likes to view things on both ends rather than one perspective, all this uproar is completely unnecessary. Hip-hop is a lot bigger today than Rock N Roll is. 10-20 years from now there will still be successful black rappers just like there were 10-20 years ago. Why do we constantly have to make something out of nothing? I can understand why Iggy's a bigger issue being that she fakes her black accent and doesn't write her lyrics, but truthfully she's no different than Rick Ross, Dr. Dre, and a lot of other artists. Only difference is, instead of faking their voices, they fake their entire lifestyles and backgrounds to get you to buy and accept their music.
So many generalizations in this thread. As a black rap fan, I don't care what color you are as long as the music is good. White rappers are just harder for me to get into.