My World is My Stage: Cultural Borrowing or Cultural Appropriation: What is the Line?

A lot black rappers are cooning just as much as those white rappers featured in the documentary. Some of the most famous black face performers were already black such as Bert Williams.

It is racist, but the way mainstream hip hop turned into booty-shaking, money-throwing, bitch-suck-my-dick noise is racist too. But if you truly know hip hop, you know that it is so much more. I hate that the documentary seems to be seeing hip hop as being synonymous with black culture. That is another mainstream mistake. Yes, hip hop is apart of the legacy of African Americans, but as an art it is beyond race.

Now in regards to the “authenticity” question….

I happened to be a hip hop head. And I don’t think sampling makes hip hop a less authentic art. I may be biased, but like this series proves, everything is a remix. There isn’t a creation in this world that wasn’t inspired off of something. Hip hop just makes it more obvious.

judesview:

Came across this post (shoutout to afrocentricmiss and colormysoul. So many good DMV blogs!) while going through my mrjdjude Dashboard.

I’ve never claimed to be a hip-hop head, on the contrary, I’ve openly and publicly stated that I’m NOT a hip-hop connoisseur.

What does “authenticity”…

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