The average white tumblr user will understand that any art form/genre in existence has its own variation of modalities as art and genre are ambiguous things and different people will approach it in different ways; except when it comes to rap music. Then they come out the woodwork to say all rap is only about sexualizing women, drugs, and crime or all rap has a specific way of being done that clashes very specifically with a certain condition that only they have, while three posts ago they were talking about a sexual fantasy involving nuns or librarians or something else while smoking weed, and killing that annoying person they know and playing My Trains by Lemon Demon.
if you watched Breaking Bad and/or Hannibal you can handle a rap album
Anon, I’m adding your ask here so no one will be confused about the context of your absurdly racist belief, and as more evidence of my original point.
First, let me briefly point out that the film/tv industry has more than its fair share of sexual offenders, both on and behind the screen. Indeed, any industry will have sex offenders among their ranks because of how society at large functions. I doubt that in your life you never watched, listened to, played, or interacted in any other way with a piece of media that didn’t have someone that did something that you find offensive.
But that’s a discussion for another time with someone else. You say that you listen to rap, and that you enjoy it. But then you posit that all straight Black male rappers are all automatically rapists, and that’s why you don’t support them. Allow me to explain that not only is this a DANGEROUS notion to take root in your mind, it’s also not original. Black men being considered rapists is a threat that’s been aimed at us for centuries to justify the violence that befalls us from the hands of racism. You unilaterally say that all “mainstream” rappers are rapists, an incredibly racist and offensively untrue statement by any measure of common sense and decency.
You could’ve said you don’t want to support Sean “Diddy” Combs and anyone that’s worked closely with him, and left it at that; but instead you decided to say that because of him; ALL straight Black male rappers are rapists. You suggest this about rappers that were around before him, that are gaining fame after his arrest, and rappers that have never even met him. You say you listen to Black women and Black queer folks and think this somehow absolves of the cartoonishly racist statement you make of straight Black men. And I think you know this is a racist thing to believe because you’re on anonymous, and like all forms of bigotry (your racism in this case) is a form of intellectual dishonesty and cowardice.
Just because you supposedly listen to Black female rappers and Black queers rappers doesn’t mean you’re not espousing the same tired, myopic, rhetoric that’s been force fed into your head from hundreds of years of white supremacy propaganda. Indeed, if you’re going to come into my inbox and talk out your neck about Black men, to a Black man, the least you can do is try to come up with something new. But you can’t, because all antiBlack ideas were thought up before you were born, spread by more people than you’ll ever know, and expressed in more ways than you perceive to be possible. You only think you’re being brave and saying what needs to be said, but you’re just being a puppet for good ol’ fashion racism.
I could list the many rappers that have been nothing but positive beacons for our community, but I don’t see the point in talking to someone so diametrically opposed to my and my brethren’s existence.
I want you to look inward and consider how you can sincerely think that believing all Black male rappers are rapists is a thing a decent person would believe. I have the first answer for your journey though: You. Are. Racist. And you have a lot of dismantling to do, but I promise you’ll be better for it. Get to work and stay out the conversation of racism until you have something worthy to add.
[ID: Anon ask that reads, "You said "if you watched breaking bad you can handle a rap album" but this is disingenuous. the difference is that the breaking bad writers probably were not part of a giant sex trafficking ring the way diddy and all his fellow mainstream male rappers were. I don't want to listen to art made by rapists. I dont want to give my time attention or MONEY to rapists. And frankly it is a systemic problem in the rap industry that rapists get promoted, get deals, and get networked up. The rap I listen to is written by black women and black queer folk and it is excellent, but it also is not seen as real rap by the average rap listener." End ID]
Nah, go off on them! They need to hear it.
lol love how they threw in "I listen to queer black women!" In, in order to masturbate their own ego at being seen as progressive but if you were to ask them what artists they actually listen too they'd fucking crumble 🤣 Also an example of a honky sticking their nose where it doesn't need to be. Thank God they haven't discovered rnb though.
also the "it's not seen as real rap" nigga shut the fuck up, do they unironically think black people don't know queer folk exist and don't support those artists?? Just talking for the sake of talk but that's what happen when you're an intruder peeking in.
“It’s not seen as real rap by the average rap listener.” Is also a very damning statement. Claiming that their taste in rap is Superior to that of the Others; after posturing about Black women and Black queer folk, clearly the ‘average’ listener is meant to be: Straight Black men. Another unilateral claim about us and our sensibilities.
classic white saviour ego + whatever weird fetishistic feelings they have surrounding queer black woman. They moment they said that I immediately had that fritz the cat scene play in my head word for word LMAOOOOO 🤣🤣🤣They literally don't know how even queer folk such as Queen Latifah are beloved by the community at all! Hell there (e.g monifah, Pam from TOTAL and many more) are hella queer women in the rnb scene from the 90s it's fucking crazy, even whitney houston was queer and we still love her!
