Five Times That “Post-Racial White Allyship Rap Music” Failed The World

This is what happens when “keeping it real” goes wrong…

The involvement of what oftentimes appeared to be white allies to historically African-American driven rap music in the now ended “post-racial” era was, in retrospect, simultaneously criminally misunderstood and/or undeniably deplorable. Yet intriguingly enough, this just-passed era’s white rap performers were extraordinarily dominant in music’s mainstream. Sadly though, rap’s white allies-as-leaders ultimately showcased that they didn’t know how to, or just plain didn’t carry the struggle of black people via rap music as largely a device to further the positive and/or honest evolution of the black cultural narrative at-large. Thus, it can be argued that we are right now as an American and worldwide society on some level because rap’s white allies didn’t know how to “keep it real” and dropped the ball.

Google defines the phrase “keep it real” as an “informal” phrase meaning to be “genuine, unaffected, or honest.” The phrase is best when alongside rap music, aka hip-hop music’s most culturally potent musical offspring that, since DJ Kool Herc threw a house party in an apartment building in a low-income African-American working class community in the Bronx, NY in August 11, 1973, is best when contextualized…