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Well, being a white German kid living in Portugal, I can't really
participate in this discussion, since the black audience here
likes mostly music from their own home countries or Brazilian
stuff, and feels no kindrance with Hip Hop/Reggae/Soul/etc.
whatsoever; likewise, I doubt it many of the white local Metal
bands have any sort of "liberal guilt" complex for ripping off black
tradition.
All I know is I got made fun of for liking "nigger music" when I
was in 8th grade (the first Run-DMC album, for the record), and
now every damn white kid on the island thinks Eminem is God,
and IT MAKES ME MAD!!! The only black guy my age that I've ever
met here, btw, thinks Eminem is overrated and gets most of his
fame because he's white.
Other interesting tidbits:
In 8th grade someone once asked me who the black guy in Limp
Bizkit's "Break Stuff" video was ; I answered it was Snoop or Dre,
can't even remember who it was; to which he replied "that guy
has NO STYLE at all!". What the fuck?
The most inteligent guy my age I know on this island once went
into a diatribe about how "white people are trying to be black
these days", citing some female friends dancing to Ja Rule as
an example (this kid is white, mind you, but has lived in Angola
for three years); when I asked him what HE liked, he answered
"Rock...and Blues and Jazz, which is black music, but it's not
DUMB".
Go figure.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
one year passes...