I notice it, but that whole thing about white people liking rap, umm, most are just posers. I'm not saying all of them are, but the style and sound of the music just seems to fit African-Americans better. I mean c'mon, they're better at it than white people are, Eminem is a crying wuss.

NeedlesKane Wrote: I notice it, but that whole thing about white people liking rap, umm, most are just posers. I'm not saying all of them are, but the style and sound of the music just seems to fit African-Americans better. I mean c'mon, they're better at it than white people are, Eminem is a crying wuss.

Agreed. I'm white and I like rap. But I don't rap for a very simple reason:
I suck.
Period.

First off, I loved that skit, it was light hearted but still very funny. (Especially the spanish/latino part with the keyboard).

Anyway, I think it should be said that all music eventually grows to a point where it splinters off into a hundred directions. From Jazz came blues. From those two came Rock and Roll. In response to Rock there was Folk and Disco. From that era there came the beginning of Punk and Hard Rock. That transgressed into metal. In response to metal and punk, there was rap. And so on and so on.

Personally I think the best years of all recent music are from 1976-1996. Since then very few new bands have been able to come up with anything that can rival that.

Music may not have a distinct ethnicity attached to it, but that doesn't mean that certain ethnics arn't attracted to certain styles of music. Plus it also has to do with what's "in". Back in 1992 Ice-T put out the song Cop Killer, which was more metal than it was rap because it was the "in" thing at the time; yet he's still considered rap. Limp Bizkit did that song with Method Man a few years back which was basically a rap song, but they're still whatever crappy genre they belong to. The "in" thing these days is rap, hip-hop, and R&B. From what's played on the radio to how the majority dresses and acts.


PS. I'm not sure what my point is, but I know there is one. Somewhere lost in all of that rambling.