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12681342, I agree with a lot of what you said BUT
Posted by howardlloyd, Sat Dec-20-14 02:15 PM
the thing you are overlooking.... is... what is culture? is it the products (music, dance, food) or is the a priori paradigms and collective experiences that have led to the creation of the products?

so when azalea banks says she created hip hop she's saying black folks went through a specific set of circumstances and have a different worldview that made hip hop possible in the first place. no other group of folks would have done it.

so... yes you can LISTEN and be influenced by hip hop but you are dealing with it on its most simplest of levels I.e. the actual product. you have not experienced the black American experience nor were you raised with what would consider a black worldview.

ownership of culture means you have been through it.

you can't understand hip hop the way a black person does because you haven't been dehumanized... you haven't had generations go through slavery... you didn't populate housing projects in the south Bronx harlem or Bk. (not you per se... but a typical white american)

also...a plane is an invention.... culture evolves. too different to make analogies.