"The definitive list of white rap songs recorded by black artists"
These are songs that either blew up with minimal love from balck audiences or songs that have become white party anthems while falling out of favor in hip-hop circles.
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"You can take an African out of Africa, but you can't take Africa out of the African" Afro-Americana/Afro-Caribbana/Afro-Latino unite. We are ALL Black!
7. "gotta remember that many of us exist on the fringes of ___ness." In response to Reply # 6
so our experience may not be in line w/the experience of mainstream ___ ppl.
i guess that's cutting both ways here.
i remember the song being embraced by Blacks at first but i was in high school and i heard the song at parties. i can't remember hearing it on Black radio in STL back then.
since its initial popularity i have definitely encountered it most often in the company of white ppl.
34. "RE: #1 on the Hot 100. #27 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Chart" In response to Reply # 6
Baby Got Back was an MTV song though.... the video broke it more than the radio grind... Once that happened its easier to be #1 on pop charts then try and break urban..
Doesn't mean black ppl didnt fuck with it... It just scaled differently
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dula dibiasi Member since Apr 05th 2004 21925 posts
Wed Jul-30-14 11:31 AM
37. "lolz" In response to Reply # 6 Wed Jul-30-14 11:32 AM by dula dibiasi
you do realize that "#27 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Chart" means that black ppl *were* fucking w/ it, right?
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it is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - sherlock holmes
18. "i didn't hear "There's Some Hoes In This House" on radio either." In response to Reply # 14
but it was getting played at the college gigs, lol.
>do you?
nah, but i wasn't really listening to radio at the time.
>i mostly came across it via the video airing on the Box and >MTV. maybe BET too but i don't remember specifically.
it seemed like it was underground from the Box briefly, then blew up on MTV shortly thereafter. pretty sure i recall seeing it on BET...i seem to remember Donnie Simpson playing it. LOL, i could be wrong though.
but I generally agree, that after a certain point (MTV blowing it up), it faded from black radio. if Black folks weren't fucking with it at all it wouldn't have charted as high as even #27.
PoppaGeorge Member since Nov 07th 2004 10384 posts
Wed Jul-30-14 09:16 PM
52. "I was REALLY wrong about that single" In response to Reply # 10
>everything else you said is true. > >as a DJ at Michigan State University, i remember a room full >of US getting way the fuck down to Baby Got Back when it >dropped.
I was still spinning around Tha D when "Mack Daddy" dropped. I thought "Testarossa" was gonna be the breakout single on there, not "Baby Got Back" (and DEFINITELY not the lead "One Time's Got No Case")
That said, when Baby Got Back was released as a single, I got requests left and right for it.
That song was just unlikable but of course it got blown up by the radio, infact that song got play on the pop station here but only once or twice on the r&b/hip-hop station.
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33. "I think Naughty By Nature had a level of corniness we overlooked" In response to Reply # 32
in the moment, and we're somewhat embarrassed by it now. Even the name was corny as shit. That Jackson 5 sample was a little TOO on the nose. The Hey/Ho chorus was too calculated. Those are legitimately great pop songs, though.
41. "I think Naughty gets a bad rap" In response to Reply # 33
Yes, O.P.P. and Hip-Hop Horray were corny. Extremely so. But the rest of their catalog is solid. And even if you don't like Treach's style (as many do not), it's not intrinsically "crossover".
35. "RE: that's fair...but are they still messing with those songs?" In response to Reply # 32
YES..
If you were to say,, DJ a white wedding 30+ .. early 90s rap crossover classics are still the life of the party...
Crazy to think all that stuff is Jock Jams status now..
and yea. NBN had an ill songwriting game imo. They cracked a code to make these rap crossover anthems that were still rap hooks.
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36. "RE: The definitive list of white rap songs recorded by black artists" In response to Reply # 0
Where is Party Up son?!
Jay-z/Ja Rule - Can I Get a..
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dula dibiasi Member since Apr 05th 2004 21925 posts
Wed Jul-30-14 01:51 PM
43. "RE: "recorded by black artists"" In response to Reply # 42
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it is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - sherlock holmes
Dj Joey Joe Member since Sep 01st 2007 13770 posts
Mon Aug-04-14 02:54 PM
67. "I'm Surprised Nobody Mentioned "Hey Ya" By Andre3000" In response to Reply # 0
When that song first aired on radio & video I saw soooo many white people buying that album & single more than black people did, most blacks wanted to hear the "Speakerboxx" than the "Love Below" disc.
--------- "We in here talking about later career Prince records & your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak
--------- "We in here talking about later career Prince records & your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak
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