>>hip hop is a universal culture that white people have had a hand in as artists, b-boys, producers, djs and execs from the beginning.....<<

Refer to the *correction above.


This is the part that a lot of non-Blacks don't understand:

Rightfully acknowledging and paying homage to HipHop as a Black cultural art-form doesn't mean, in and of itself, that non-Blacks can't enjoy, participate in, and contribute to it.
Don't know why that fact is so hard to understand.

-HipHop is a direct offspring of the African rhythm & dance traditions/aesthetics imported and culminated in the Americas through rigorously oppressive conditions-
(More specifically, a symbiotic cultural cross-pollenation of Afro-American, Afro-Latin, and Afro-Carribean elements and the subsequent *synthesis of these elements)

^ ^ ^That is a fact!

Whether non-Blacks were present at HipHop's inception to bare witness to, be influenced by, and residually re-contribute to it via their initial contact with the African rhythm/dance aesthetic is inconsequential when speaking of the originators/progenitors of this cultural art-form.

-Pay Homage-

In layman's terms:
If -I- invent something and -you're- there to witness it, *YOU don't get any executive credit as an originator of what *I invented.

And that's exactly what a lot of naive white people have the culturally-unintelligible misfortune of doing all the time:

"Oh...well uhhmm...HipHop isn't a Black artform because white people were there to witness it at the beginning"...

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Nope! Doesn't work like that.

When non-Blacks begin to grasp this in its greater culturally macrocosmic context, taking into account the tumultuous antagonistic waters that our African-rhythm/dance-traditions had to resiliently endure, it is then and ONLY then that non-Blacks will gain an even DEEPER appreciation, love, understanding, and *respect for this art-form of *ours.

Muthafukkaz need ta do the knowledge....

https://chriswind.bandcamp.com/track/massage

"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!