A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.
I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around.
Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.
I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
American music culture is black culture.
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.