Reply #99: not about the artist

[m berst]

"The white upper-middle class controls everything in this country, and Eminem was supply to their demand. It is much easier to sell a white rapper to the security moms and their kids than it is to sell a black rapper. Now he is touted as the most revolutionary hip hop artist ever by many white liberals who are blind to their own arrogance."

Elvis was a talented man. Which artists are promoted and which are not has nothing to do directly with talent, however. The post IMHO was about the culture and how the corporations reinforce regressive social attitudes. We have a long history of the recording industry searching for and then promoting white artists to captalize on music that originated in the African American community. To say that is not a slam on any particular artist.

Racism as discussed here is an institutional and social issue, not one of individual good guys and bad guys.

On edit - the original post said "race and class issues" so that is what people are discussing.