From mltsnt Sent Fri, Jul 16th 1999, 06:10
From mltsnt Sent Fri, Jul 16th 1999, 06:10
>hey, anyone wanna buy my hip-hop, jazz, dub, blues, and techno music >collections? apparently my pervasive whiteness says i can't own these >records anymore. something about "misappropriation of culture"... obviously you're missing my point. i NEVER implied that white people can't listen to these genres. i'm white, i still enjoy these genre. race is not an issue at all, it's CULTURE. my problem is when this music is specifically watered down by suburbanites for suburban consumption. if you're going to partake in other cultures, please have respect for the culture. When someone feels a need to steal this culture and water it down to make it more palatable for people of your own culture, that's sucks. I still don't understand how you could have gotten the racial impression from my previous post. and just to clarify, i have no problem with, say, much of the Mo' Wax roster, Shadow, Vibert, Ninja Tuners, because these are people who are doing it out of respect for hip hop, the problem enlies in the 'scene' that was spawned, mainly from Mo' Wax and 'Endtroducing', where it was deemed profitable to water down hip hop into a pigeon hole.