There's apparently quite a hubub in the intertubes about certain comments and/or tweets made recently by one Asher Paul Roth. We don't think his music is any good, but we're not boycotting him.
In any case, the good people over at Vulture have taken the liberty to put together a retrospective on white rappers who've managed to penetrate the hip hop world and popular culture, dating all the way back to 1981 (from Debbie Harry to Marky Mark).
Truthfully, we could care less what color a rapper is, but this particular strain of MC has an admittedly, um, colorful history.
Vulture: "White People in Rap: a History"
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"For a black man, championing the Beasties is like being down with Madonna or rooting for the Utah Jazz.” HAHAHAHAHAHA
“I'm nicer than Pete, but I'm on a Serch to crush a Milkbone / I'm Everlasting, I melt Vanilla Ice like silicone”
“I bought Cage's tape, opened it, and dubbed over it” ...I always wondered why Em felt the need to diss these other white rappers...not all of them were clowns like vanilla ice...well, seems to have worked out
2004: The Streets, a.k.a. lily-white Brit Mike Skinner, releases A Grand Don’t Come for Free, one of the best-ever white-rap albums.-NEVER HEARD OF THIS\
the world waits with bated breath for Joaquin Phoenix’s debut.-LOL Will told me about this! FML
Prettty good article though, learned some shit
Nice post. Thanks for sharing....