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Old 23-12-2008: 23rd December 2008 17:03 #1 
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Default Why is rap music so popular among young whites?
 
Kind of ironic that music created amongst conditions of extreme poverty in places like South Central LA is now so popular with rich suburban white teens.

Why is this?
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Old 23-12-2008: 23rd December 2008 17:04 #2 
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coz soulja boi crankd it up
 
Old 23-12-2008: 23rd December 2008 17:05 #3 
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People like it?
 
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'Cos black rappers are 'hard'
 
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i like to crank dat ****.

edit: bastard. someone beat me to it.
 

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Blame Eminem
 
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They want to be hardmen
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Default Re: Why is rap music so popular among young whites?
 
Even more bizarre; why do racist British skinheads listen to ska music? It comes from the Caribbean..
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Why should race have a ******* thing to do with what music you like ?
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Because life in suburbia is all about 'bare merkage'.
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Default Re: Why is rap music so popular among young whites?
 
Someone told chavs black men have large penises; now all chavs want to be black.
 
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*turns off dirty south online radio station*

 
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Default Re: Why is rap music so popular among young whites?
 
Most rap these days is very commercialised and aimed at a wider audience (such as Gym Class Heroes, Kanye West and Flo Rider)

The more hardcore Hip-Hop underground stuff still is more associated with "black" minorities. Most people are just suckers for a decent beat
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well said spex!
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Default Re: Why is rap music so popular among young whites?
 
Coz guns don't kill people, wappers do!

Seriously though, where did you come up with that? From the Too posh wash encyclopedia? Created in South Central LA .... oh boy lol
 
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Default Re: Why is rap music so popular among young whites?
 
Originally Posted by Dr Fanculo
Kind of ironic that music created amongst conditions of extreme poverty in places like South Central LA is now so popular with rich suburban white teens.

Why is this?
kind of a generalization, and a major one. . .
 
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Default Re: Why is rap music so popular among young whites?
 
RELAX! DON'T DO IT!
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WHEN YOU WANT TO COME!
RELAX! DON'T DO IT!
WHEN YOU WANT TO SUCK IT TO IT!

Lyrics don't neccessarily matter a whole lot. I don't think everybody in Britain was having gay sex when Frankie Goes to Hollywood stormed the charts.

People like the music and listen to it.
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Default Re: Why is rap music so popular among young whites?
 
I don't know many white lads my age here that love hip hop and rap... its mostly Electro, House, Trance and Dnb which is favoured Perhaps in London it could be like that but up here it aint
 
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...Rap is popular. Everywhere.
 
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Default Re: Why is rap music so popular among young whites?
 
because it makes them think that they're all hard, when in fact they're not hard enough to listen to metal
 
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