Oh yeah ! I 100% know it’s not from a racist place, and I’m a little white dude so I have no real horse in this race, I’m not gonna tell anyone shit if they’re not white ya know. OT still raps with some of my favorite rappers so it seems pretty negligible in general, and funny enough i don’t think he said it on his newest tracks with Denzel 😂 and he’s fun
Nah don’t listen to that person Tech is still great. He runs his own food drive in NYC and he’s out putting in the work. He said some crazy shit back in the day but he’s always real, one of the only genuinely openly communist, anti-imperialist rappers that raps about materialism n shit. And he doesn’t hate gay people and has clearly reconciled with his use of the N word as a non-black man, something a lot of modern non-black rappers do with 0 material analysis.
that Mexican OT, as much as I dig the guys music, is a good example of someone who has been told by different communities to stop saying the N word but won’t because he identifies with it even tho he’s not black and will never know what that is like, if that makes sense.
Oh yeah, you see that a lot (both homophobia and misogyny) with rap music or rap adjacent music as well. Funny enough the most progressive people I’ve ever met are black dudes and most of the rappers I’m talking about who popularized this kinda thing are white (looking at u, Eminem) but to pretend like it hasn’t been deep in rap culture for a while regardless of race is not true. I’ve noticed a lot of rappers are Christians now, too. Like even project pat is a pastor or something and he was literally in a group called 3 6 mafia (666).
Idk my point exactly but I do feel like a lot of artists dabble in cultural norms like sexism and homophobia because it’s what you grow up knowing, culture meaning American/English speaking art and not like ethnic culture or anything, so of course when you start spitting bars you’re gonna probably go to money, btches, cars and fuck the haters cuz they’re weak pssy f**s you all know the rest. It’s even a big thing rn where non-black rappers are saying the N word allllll over their albums like Shorline mafia, even Immortal technique but he’s an outlier ig because he stopped saying slurs and the N word long ago, but the homophobia thing still stand with him he went way too long saying some pretty nasty shit for a leftist rapper.
I mean if you’ve ever lived in a big city in general you have a fuuuuck ton of neighbors
Oh come on… Hellscape is pretty dramatic don’t you think? I don’t wanna hear that from anyone who hasn’t been to America…
I know it’s played out at this point but the building I’m working in is 10x worse than this and they keep letting one company build them and block the view of the river !!! We could use some more trees and tennis courts here!!!
Why do you not think I could live and work comfortably in NK? If I learned the language (BIG if, I know, just bare with me), how would my life be worse as a cook in North Korea vs America, I am genuinely curious how much you know about daily life there