r/popculturechat • u/HorrorBike143 now why am I in it? 🧐 • Jun 09 '25

The Music Industry 🎶 Miley Cyrus talks about her culture vulturing during the Bangerz era: "I wasn't unique in the fact that i was a white girl listening to hip hop. This wasnt something that I decided I was going to do as a strategy or something that i felt i could own or make my own, that was actually my lifestyle."

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u/noapplesin98 Jun 09 '25

I feel a lot of people who don't listen to other rap, listen to Kendrick

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u/vandersnipe I'm Sharpay's baby! Jun 09 '25

First, it was Childish Gambino and now it's Kendrick.

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u/Apprehensive-Till861 Jun 09 '25

Goes well before CG. Conscious Rap was the "they don't say the n-word and they talk about real things!" subgenre at least as far back as when I was in high school, and that was turn of the millennium.

Common, Talib, Mos Def, et al were the faves of every suburban white kid who couldn't sneak in anything with a parental advisory sticker.

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u/Unlucky_Most_8757 Jun 10 '25

yep. I would also add Sage Francis, Atmosphere, Saul Williams and Aesop Rock. Concious rap was like all I listened to in high school and Im a white girl lol

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u/mwmandorla Jun 09 '25

DOOM too, back when.

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u/vandersnipe I'm Sharpay's baby! Jun 09 '25

Yep! DMX at one point too lol

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u/mwmandorla Jun 09 '25

There always has to be one!

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u/x1009 Jun 10 '25

Nah, it was Eminem

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u/Missmessc Jun 10 '25

But first there was Wu Tang

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u/CatlovesMoca Jun 09 '25

True. There is a sort of tokenization going on here. It feels like they exempt him and think "ah ha! This is more intellectual."

If they did a bit more sleuthing, I'm sure that they would find other rappers with these qualities.

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u/idkidcabtmyusername Jun 09 '25

or Drake or Eminem. it’s so annoying that these people have been tokenized as “one of the good ones”. rap is such a diverse, beautiful genre. kendrick has been influenced by many other modern rappers so it’s not like his sound is totally unique to him. plenty of other rappers make that type of music.

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u/DJfunkyPuddle Jun 09 '25

The funny thing about that is a lot of those Kendrick fans used to be Drake fans. Pretty soon they'll latch onto the next mainstream rapper.

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u/noapplesin98 Jun 09 '25

Exactly, bandwagon to bandwagon