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Originally Posted by WhateverDude
I didn't read your post carefully enough, my bad. Like punk though, Hip-Hop is for the most part kind of a counter-culture and so mainstream representations are never going to be accurate. No one who really listens to punk thinks of a band like Blink 182 as a genuine punk band, likewise no one who really listens to hip-hop thinks of Drake as a real rapper. I could be wrong on this- I am pretty new to the genre but everything I've seen, heard, and been around leads me to think the way I do about it.
Somewhat related, the same corporate dickheads that commercialized hip-hop are the ones who commercialized punk and also many other genres. Whether they're white or not really has nothing to do with it, they're just a bunch of suits tryna make a dime off anything they can that smells of zeitgeist.
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Good points, rap music is not the only music that is falsely represented. However, its a genre that exploits black people. There is not alot of black or even white people being exploited in punk music. At least I don't think
There are alot of people that think that the music and images that they see in rap music are "real reflections of the hip hop culture". So there are people that do believe those images are true.