http://www.sowetan.co.za/Entertainment/Article.aspx?id=957788

"Jay-Z has credited hip-hop with improving race relations across America - because white kids who idolise him and Snoop Dogg don’t become racists.

The rapper insists there’s too much negativity about the musical genre and its related culture - and few dwell on the good it’s done.

He explains, "It has changed America immensely... Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

"Racism is taught in the home... and it’s very hard to teach racism to a teenager who idolises, say, Snoop Dogg. It’s hard to say, ’That guy is less than you.’ The kid is like, ’I like that guy, he’s cool. How is he less than me?’

"That’s why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, enjoying the same music." - Wenn



I agree with jay, this is one of the good things about rap...it brings people of all races together.

This helps "some white people" not be racist.. But you cant say this is the less racist generation..... If nobody cared about racist people and they let them do what they want.. Than blacks would still get lynched to this day.. Racism will never go away till everyone in America is the same color.. Might take a few hundred years.. And Inshalla if people are still around by then..

i think he was just saying that its helping out...

i think he was just saying that its helping out...

I watched the American Idol show, Kanye West performed.. The whole crowed was full of whites standing and cheering.

I partially agree with Jay-z, but I think what he said is great. I think the whites that call other whites wiggers for listening to rap, they need to be put to rest. Either that or give them some reefer to smoke, that **** helps people think more openly. But racism will always exist, unfortunately. Anything thats bad comes from ignorance, those who are racist are also ignorant.

i think that while it helps to diminish racism it also perpetuates racial stereotypes in a lot of ways.
i think that any realm in which black people are proving themselves to be as successful or more successful than the average white person encourages society to be less racist, and rap is no exception, but often times i think that rappers unknowingly box themselves and other black people into confinements that are both unnecessary and directly harmful to the ideologies that they are fighting for. society stereotypes black people, and rap centered around hood mentalities and street lifestyles provides false proof of these stereotypes being accurate.
i once had a grown white man explain to me his take on rap music and although i do not completely agree with it i found this particular view to be extremely interesting. he said that he did not like it or respect it as an art form because the majority of it was just underprivileged black people taking their unfortunate circumstances and glamorizing them. i think that this opinion is one that many share. personally, i do not agree with it as a whole but i understand where he is coming from.

i think that while it helps to diminish racism it also perpetuates racial stereotypes in a lot of ways.
i think that any realm in which black people are proving themselves to be as successful or more successful than the average white person encourages society to be less racist, and rap is no exception, but often times i think that rappers unknowingly box themselves and other black people into confinements that are both unnecessary and directly harmful to the ideologies that they are fighting for. society stereotypes black people, and rap centered around hood mentalities and street lifestyles provides false proof of these stereotypes being accurate.
i once had a grown white man explain to me his take on rap music and although i do not completely agree with it i found this particular view to be extremely interesting. he said that he did not like it or respect it as an art form because the majority of it was just underprivileged black people taking their unfortunate circumstances and glamorizing them. i think that this opinion is one that many share. personally, i do not agree with it as a whole but i understand where he is coming from.

LOL, if the subject matter of the music doesn’t pertain to what (YOU) are interested in then it sucks, and deserves no respect. Not only is his opinion narrow minded it is totally ignorant. And, the truth be told I do not understand where he is coming from at all.
I mean, no other genre of music talks about life’s struggles.:rolleyes:

i think that while it helps to diminish racism it also perpetuates racial stereotypes in a lot of ways.
i think that any realm in which black people are proving themselves to be as successful or more successful than the average white person encourages society to be less racist, and rap is no exception, but often times i think that rappers unknowingly box themselves and other black people into confinements that are both unnecessary and directly harmful to the ideologies that they are fighting for. society stereotypes black people, and rap centered around hood mentalities and street lifestyles provides false proof of these stereotypes being accurate.
i once had a grown white man explain to me his take on rap music and although i do not completely agree with it i found this particular view to be extremely interesting. he said that he did not like it or respect it as an art form because the majority of it was just underprivileged black people taking their unfortunate circumstances and glamorizing them. i think that this opinion is one that many share. personally, i do not agree with it as a whole but i understand where he is coming from.

I don't respect the man that said that, how about the rock groups like Korn for example, that glamourize thier life struggles? is that not art because they are glamourizing their struggles? thats what they I do, I use to listen to them in middle school, most of the music is about the problems........as far as i remember atleast.

I know you said you didn't really agree, so I'm not attacking you, i'm just stating my frusterations with that comment.

maybe that man shouldn't like movies either, all they do glamourize sex, drugs, murder etc.


NOT ALL MOVIES OBVIOUSLY, but alot of them....

also i'm not sure rap really glamourizing being underprivaledged, as much as it glamourizes overcoming that obstacle to be successful....