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Originally Posted by GOOD GRIEF
I’m not saying anyone is a guest. Fuck Jamar and fuck the guest part. What I’m saying is hip hop needs to be recognized as a black art form. That’s why I used the anime metaphor. Anime is a Japanese art form part of the Japanese culture. Others are welcome to view and create anime regardless of nationality... BUT it’s Japan’s style. It’s Japan’s shit PERIOD.
We can share and care and let everyone in the hip hop culture all we want but it was primarily made by blacks and should be recognized as such. Not sugar coating that. I get that this sort of term may FEEL dividing but it’s better than not recognizing a culture for what it is for the sake of inclusivity. It’s just a label (but in this case the lable is important imo).
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That really shits on the Latino and Anglo Saxon contributions early on though. I don't agree with it being a Black art form. The Anime argument would make this an American thing moreso than Black IMO.