Welcome to seeing the white supremacist hegemony. They’ll platform racists criticizing Black Art forms, but they’ll actively avoid giving any room for those Black Art forms. You see it everywhere in what artists get radio promotion and algorithmic boosts vs who toils in the underground for years, or else releases a couple EPs, a couple of mixtapes, and then goes into a boring graphic design job because shit, they need food man.
for sure. and it was extremely gratifying. kendrick is a master of understanding propaganda, messaging, and co-opting broadcasts because he studies the entirety of everything that hip hop has ever been from its early years to now. but i’m not talking about one moment. i’m talking about the entire cycle of media promotion and analysis we exist in, and that favors pro-capitalist, patriarchal, white centered view points. but that conservatives criticizing it gets more airtime than than critics of the system celebrating it is neither a surprise nor an accident.
You’re right. I have to think pretty hard to name a single black artist because of how little attention they get in the media. Meanwhile, practically every white group formed by friends in high school gets a tour and record deal.
Welcome to seeing the white supremacist hegemony. They’ll platform racists criticizing Black Art forms, but they’ll actively avoid giving any room for those Black Art forms. You see it everywhere in what artists get radio promotion and algorithmic boosts vs who toils in the underground for years, or else releases a couple EPs, a couple of mixtapes, and then goes into a boring graphic design job because shit, they need food man.
Yeah for some reason nobody has on a black man to criticize white culture but they will do the opposite often.
and if he does he’s too much, too loud, too political, reading too far into things, or needs to learn to take a joke. always bugs me
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I hear you and all. But this post is about a Black Art form being performed by exclusively Black artists on one of the largest platforms available.
for sure. and it was extremely gratifying. kendrick is a master of understanding propaganda, messaging, and co-opting broadcasts because he studies the entirety of everything that hip hop has ever been from its early years to now. but i’m not talking about one moment. i’m talking about the entire cycle of media promotion and analysis we exist in, and that favors pro-capitalist, patriarchal, white centered view points. but that conservatives criticizing it gets more airtime than than critics of the system celebrating it is neither a surprise nor an accident.
You’re right. I have to think pretty hard to name a single black artist because of how little attention they get in the media. Meanwhile, practically every white group formed by friends in high school gets a tour and record deal.