Hello. This question is directed towards Macklemore. A black rapper has not topped the Billboard Hot 100 since 2011. Yet Iggy Azalea and you both have. White hip hop being the only hip hop that sells massively now is becoming a trend. I'm going to be honest and say this makes me angry because it definitely has to do with you and Iggy's race. You're self aware of it with songs like White Privilege even before you got famous which is great.
The Grammys (where you won 4 awards including RAOTY which you and I agree should have went to Kendrick) made me angry not because I care what the people at the Grammys say about our genre, but because it show the racism that is coming into Hip Hop. White rappers always get praise from racists who don't want to dive deeper into the genre. For example you say this on your song Awake.
"They say, "It's so refreshing to hear somebody on records / No guns, no drugs, no sex, just truth" / The guns that's America, the drugs are what they gave to us / And sex sells itself, don't judge 'til it's you / Ah, I'm not more or less conscious / Than rappers rapping 'bout them strippers up on a pole, popping / These interviews are obnoxious / Saying that "It’s poetry, you’re so well spoken," stop it".
Iggy Azalea followed the same path as you did on the charts and this is becoming a trend that I don't want to become a trend. Not because I don't want to see white rappers (and there are a lot of talented white rappers), but because I don't want to see white rappers doing exceptionally better then black rappers due to what it represents, racism. What is your opinion on this? I would like to know since you have a great song on white privilege in Hip Hop.
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Hello. This question is directed towards Macklemore. A black rapper has not topped the Billboard Hot 100 since 2011. Yet Iggy Azalea and you both have. White hip hop being the only hip hop that sells massively now is becoming a trend. I'm going to be honest and say this makes me angry because it definitely has to do with you and Iggy's race. You're self aware of it with songs like White Privilege even before you got famous which is great.
The Grammys (where you won 4 awards including RAOTY which you and I agree should have went to Kendrick) made me angry not because I care what the people at the Grammys say about our genre, but because it show the racism that is coming into Hip Hop. White rappers always get praise from racists who don't want to dive deeper into the genre. For example you say this on your song Awake.
Iggy Azalea followed the same path as you did on the charts and this is becoming a trend that I don't want to become a trend. Not because I don't want to see white rappers (and there are a lot of talented white rappers), but because I don't want to see white rappers doing exceptionally better then black rappers due to what it represents, racism. What is your opinion on this? I would like to know since you have a great song on white privilege in Hip Hop.
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