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Originally Posted by dca
White people have been integral to the rise of rap/hip hop since the early days.
Arguably the first big rap album to infiltrate the consciousness of the music buying public at large was Beastie Boys - Licence To Ill. - An album by 3 white guys, produced by Rick Rubin (a white guy with a big beard)
Run DMC had achieved some success before that, but their real big break came when they collabed with a white rock band (Aerosmith - Walk This Way).
Back in the early 90s there was a rap group called Young Black Teenagers. All of them were white, and that was the joke. I don't think that joke could be done now, people (both blacks and whites) are too uppity. There were other white rappers in the 90s too...Milkbone, Pete Nice, MC Serch (who was also integral to signing up Nas and putting out Illmatic)... even Brian Austin Green from Beverly hills 90210 put out an album. It's pretty good.
This idea that whites are suddenly "taking over" hip hop is absurd.
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It's the same people who say that white people stole rock from black people, or act like there's some sort of injustice whenever white people and black people do the same thing, because they think their ethnicity did it first. In reality, rock was being founded in white and black music long before the 1950s. Just like how white and black people have been recording electronic/sample-based music long before rap was a thing.
If you can pinpoint a artist who kicked it all off, I'm sure you could find one of another ethnicity who was doing the same thing at about the same time. That isn't even accounting for artists who we have never and will never hear, so it's pretty silly to squabble over who belongs in what genre, or who's taking over what genre.
It's just music anyways. Just listen to it and try not to get caught up in your personal feelings about who's singing/playing it.