Black like me (Throwback)

Yesterday while looking at Necole Bitchie I got an idea about this article. The thought I had was about the global reach of hiphop and black American culture. By culture, I incorporate clothing, music, slang, mentality, and aspirations. Like the whole world thinks like todays young black community, but has no authenticity with it.

For instance, there are people all around the world using "Ni99a" and have no idea of the true meaning. Hiphop icons have endorsments over seas and sell plenty of records their too. Did you know that the majority of rap albums sold in the U.S. are bought by teenage white kids. Unless we really like someone, we're downloading that album, they are buying them. And it's not just the world's youth that love what we do, but even other people in the industry. Don't believe me? Look at the video below; a rock group named Framing Hanley does their own rendition of Lil' Wayne's Lollipop. The surprising thing is its good, maybe thats just me being open minded, I don't know.

Framing Hanley- Lollipop (yes that lollipop)


This brings me to my next thought, Are black people open minded? I know I am, I do plenty of things that most people woudn't try but is` everyone like that. I listen to pop, rock, and classical music along with my hiphop, reggae, jazz, and r&b. What I realize is that while most of the world is adapting to us we are not open to them. However, the very hiphop artist that we idolize are extremely open to other things. Look at Kanye, Pharelle, Lupe, and Wayne. All of them embrasing typicaly white art forms like pop, punk, and rock. Now punk and rock is interesting, besides the crazy yelling you have a pretty good rap song with less base. If you don't agree, look at the video below. It's Travis Barker of Blink 182 playing drums to Crank Dat and I wish Soulja Boy would do this rendition live because it makes the song better. So who are you and what do you do and are you open to something else?

Travis Barker "Remix" Soulja Boy "Crank That"