Last night i was listening to some old school cd when a track came up - It was Snow, Informer. Immediately my friend asked me to skipped to the next track which i did then UB40 was playing red red wine. Immediately he asked me to skip to the next track and guess what Vanilla Ice-Ice ice baby came up!
Ok at this stage my friend made a comment regarding how my cd is wack because im listening to white people trying to do a black thing! I tried to explain to him that i dont really care because i do honestly think those tracks are good tracks (Informer/Ice ice Baby/red red wine). He dosent seem to agree with me and goes on to the extent of almost dissing eminem because he is doing what he consider in his view a black thing.
Fast forward to twenty mins ago when i arrived at work, i asked another colleague at work (a black man from jamaica) and he insist that UB 40 is a load of rubbish and proceed to call them rasclart!! (lol). I told him they aint but he also went down the route of saying they are doing a black thing blah blah blah.
As part of my arguement with my colleague at work, i tried to explain to him that for example Snow's Informer was the fastest selling reggea track of all time but he just said the guy is the wrong colour and he dosent sound black
I think i might see what he meant by that but i personally dont have a problem with any colour doing a black thing as long as it is a good tune so to speak.
This thing is kinda common amongst blacks - being sort of not welcoming other race especially white when it comes to music but i dont see the need for it. For example, in most rap battles ive withnessed between a black guy and a non-black opponent, the first line of attack by the black man is to call the non-black opponent Eminem! This i think is just not called for....
I dont know if it is the other way round i.e a black man punk band or rock etc, Let me know if it is.
Since Ocuk is predominantly caucausian (or non-blacks) I wanna hear what you guys think of artist who are doing things done mostly by black artist. e.g Eminem, Vanilla Ice, UB 40, Snow,... erm Goldie Lookin Chain?... etc. Since they are doing a black thing are they accepted by the white/non-black audience etc..
Thanks.
Ok at this stage my friend made a comment regarding how my cd is wack because im listening to white people trying to do a black thing! I tried to explain to him that i dont really care because i do honestly think those tracks are good tracks (Informer/Ice ice Baby/red red wine). He dosent seem to agree with me and goes on to the extent of almost dissing eminem because he is doing what he consider in his view a black thing.
Fast forward to twenty mins ago when i arrived at work, i asked another colleague at work (a black man from jamaica) and he insist that UB 40 is a load of rubbish and proceed to call them rasclart!! (lol). I told him they aint but he also went down the route of saying they are doing a black thing blah blah blah.
As part of my arguement with my colleague at work, i tried to explain to him that for example Snow's Informer was the fastest selling reggea track of all time but he just said the guy is the wrong colour and he dosent sound black
I think i might see what he meant by that but i personally dont have a problem with any colour doing a black thing as long as it is a good tune so to speak.This thing is kinda common amongst blacks - being sort of not welcoming other race especially white when it comes to music but i dont see the need for it. For example, in most rap battles ive withnessed between a black guy and a non-black opponent, the first line of attack by the black man is to call the non-black opponent Eminem! This i think is just not called for....
I dont know if it is the other way round i.e a black man punk band or rock etc, Let me know if it is.
Since Ocuk is predominantly caucausian (or non-blacks) I wanna hear what you guys think of artist who are doing things done mostly by black artist. e.g Eminem, Vanilla Ice, UB 40, Snow,... erm Goldie Lookin Chain?... etc. Since they are doing a black thing are they accepted by the white/non-black audience etc..
Thanks.
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