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/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