Originally Posted by NOBLE

Then I'd have to disagree. I think someone can be a guest in Hip Hop, but I don't think it has anything to do with race. B-Dot and Lord Jamar probably think of Hip Hop as "black music," and in that sense, they view anyone who isn't black doing Hip Hop as being a guest. I would disagree with that as well.

B-Dot’s probably one of the more polarizing live battlers today for that reason. I’ve only ever seen him battle 1 white guy (stricc), but he mainly battles on KOTD which is ran by a white dude (Organik).

His ideal of being a guest in hip-hop would be like an all-white heavy-metal band saying a black lead singer for a heavy-metal band is a “guest in heavy-metal”. The backlash from that kind of statement would be huge, yet people don’t seem to bat an eye when Lord Jamar says it about Eminem.

Originally Posted by NOBLE

Then I'd have to disagree. I think someone can be a guest in Hip Hop, but I don't think it has anything to do with race. B-Dot and Lord Jamar probably think of Hip Hop as "black music," and in that sense, they view anyone who isn't black doing Hip Hop as being a guest. I would disagree with that as well.

B-Dot’s probably one of the more polarizing live battlers today for that reason. I’ve only ever seen him battle 1 white guy (stricc), but he mainly battles on KOTD which is ran by a white dude (Organik).

His ideal of being a guest in hip-hop would be like an all-white heavy-metal band saying a black lead singer for a heavy-metal band is a “guest in heavy-metal”. The backlash from that kind of statement would be huge, yet people don’t seem to bat an eye when Lord Jamar says it about Eminem.