Apuleyo
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My girlfriend is a big mix of races. She has some black ancestors, but mostly she is arabic.
edit: I forgot to mention, she is an aspie too
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Brandon-J
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Location: North Carolina, USA
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| Im black and I love listening to rap. I can listen to all parts of rap club/gangsta/lyrical part. As long as it sounds good. |
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bluebandit
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I'm not diagnosed as aspie, but I'm black. I'm not big on rap/hip-hop but I like a lot of blues-blues/rock which was once "black music" as well.
As for being picked on, I was when I was younger by a few other black kids for somehow acting/talking white. But these particular kids(and their parents) were ignorant. I've even got apologies from most of the kids as we've grown up. I think we just came from different backgrounds and they didn't understand me.
However, since I finished high school, it's never happened, not once. No one questions the music I like or clothes or anything. No one cares and the only time anyone says anything about how I talk is when I'm down south( which is another subject.) |
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tmad40blue
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My father is black and if it weren't for the afro:
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/1435/photo60tf3.jpg
no one would ever know that I'm half black. Although, my favorite types of music in order are:
1. Daft Punk
2. Traditional Irish recorder music (go figure)
3. Symphonic rock (like Nightwish)
4. Classical music (since I play classical trumpet and piano)
Nowhere on my top 100 will you see anything related to "black" music, a.k.a. all that rap/hip hop crap. The closest thing to it that I've ever listened to and enjoyed is this: http://kirbyhot.ytmnd.com/
You gotta admit that that's just awesome. XD |
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patrick6
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| I'm not black but I have to admit, I loathe most of the rap music that is out there today. I have been exposed to rap music since I was 5 or 6 years old (I'm 21 now) and most of the rap I heard as a kid had more substance than the rap I hear today. To be a rapper today all you really have to be is black. I don't see much talent at all, it's really becoming a pathetic genre of music and if it keeps up the way it is, it will die and fade away. The violence portrayed in the music doesn't bother me as long as it isn't encouraging violence, or any kind of derogatory BS. There are certain rappers that I like (Jay-Z for example) who rap about violence they have seen. I don't think I've ever heard Jay-Z talk about killing someone or anything like that before. There are other rappers that I like, but loathe a lot of the lyrics (like 2pac for example). The thing I don't like about 2pac is that he said a lot of contradictory things in his songs. You'll hear a love song, then you change the track and he starts saying "thug life" like it's a good thing to be a thug. Is it sad that 2pac died? Yes. But it's also sad that he chose to live a "thug" lifestyle. Nobody should be surprised that he died the way he did. |
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EvilKimEvil
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| Aspie_Chav wrote: | | I don’t listen to mainstream rap/hip-hop but I do like Horror-Core Rap like Ganksta Nip, Esham and the Gravediggerz. Ganksta nip is so psychotic and evil in his lyrics he is funny. |
Woah, that brought back memories. I used to listen to Gravediggerz all the time. I didn't know that was an actually genre with a name (I'm pretty ignorant about rap), but I'm glad it is! I'm going to look up Ganksta Nip and Esham. |
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gs56ca
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| I'm black, but I'm not African American. My parents are from the Carribean. And you probably havent listened to real hiphop. The stuff on the radio is commercialized interpretation of real hiphop, under the guise of gangster rap. I listen to alot of rock. Check out the black rock coalition and the Afro-punk movie. |
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gs56ca
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| pat666rick wrote: | | I'm not black but I have to admit, I loathe most of the rap music that is out there today. I have been exposed to rap music since I was 5 or 6 years old (I'm 21 now) and most of the rap I heard as a kid had more substance than the rap I hear today. To be a rapper today all you really have to be is black. I don't see much talent at all, it's really becoming a pathetic genre of music and if it keeps up the way it is, it will die and fade away. The violence portrayed in the music doesn't bother me as long as it isn't encouraging violence, or any kind of derogatory BS. There are certain rappers that I like (Jay-Z for example) who rap about violence they have seen. I don't think I've ever heard Jay-Z talk about killing someone or anything like that before. There are other rappers that I like, but loathe a lot of the lyrics (like 2pac for example). The thing I don't like about 2pac is that he said a lot of contradictory things in his songs. You'll hear a love song, then you change the track and he starts saying "thug life" like it's a good thing to be a thug. Is it sad that 2pac died? Yes. But it's also sad that he chose to live a "thug" lifestyle. Nobody should be surprised that he died the way he did. |
Rap will never die, at first it was an underground movement. And right now , the real stuff had to go under the radar into the underground scene. Good thing their is the internet, because right now there is a problem with all commercial music, including rock. TO understand TUpac, you have to understand the politics behind him. He wasn't doing explicit gangster rap before going to jail. Once Suge Knight got him out of jail, he had to repay, and so that's the way he repayed him. After that he records another album, I forgot the name, and that's when he stops working exclusively with Suge Knight. |
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Ruchard
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| i'm black and from england |
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hartzofspace
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I am a mix of Asian, Native American, and Afro-American. I got accused of talking "White" when in grade school, along with other persecutions. I hate rap music, and love so many other kinds of music, that they are too numerous to mention here. I also am always on the look-out for new genres of music, because I don't want to end up closed minded. 
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Tim_Tex
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I might have a distant creole ancestor.
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roygerdodger
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I'm black, and I don't even care about rap (or any) music.
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Aalto
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The thing about gangsta rap is that there is institutional racism or at the very least an immense rift of inequality in the US: one in three African American males between ages 15 and 25 is rotting in a prison cell; the CIA pumps 60 billion dollars worth of narcotics, mainly crack and heroin, into the ghettos yearly; and this has become the sound of many peoples' lives. For others it becomes a raw vitality, a life-or-death urgency, and a visceral in-the-moment experience of life, to experience the sound of the ghettos. Basically though I keep to other realms of hip-hop usually, this is how I see it and we will only see music so "extreme" as gangsta rap vanish once the problems facing its musicians' people are tackled.
This is how I feel on the matter.
Also, I am white. |
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nekoguy
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| I'm black and I have Asperger's Syndrome. I don't really care for all that gangsta crap. |
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CottlestonPie
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| I'm black. It looks like there are a lot of black people on here. I'm glad to see that I am not alone. I love hip hop, but I don't listen to it much anymore, because I can't relate to the lyrics. I'm not a hustler, pimp, or a player, and I don't want to be. I like Tupac, because he was a good lyricist and some of his political rap is incredible. His earlier stuff, before he got big, was a lot more positive and a lot more political. I don't like any of the new rap artists that are on the radio. It's a minstrel show to entertain white people and perpetuate stereotypes about black people. The sad thing about it is I was raised on hip-hop. My dad left, and when he was home he was drunk. My role models were hustlers. The only way I could have friends in high school was join in with the drug use, criminality, and misogyny. I thought that's what black men were supposed to do. I'm one of many. I grew up, but a lot of black people don't. The lifestyle in the music is real, but it isn't worth living, in my opinion. It's like slow suicide. It hurts me really bad that our popular culture is so self-destructive. It's not just a black thing either. American Culture devolves more and more each year. |
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