By lesser known I don't mean no one has heard of them I mean they're less popular than artists like Travis Scott or Drake
I know I got into Death Grips through a guy who browsed /mu/...
...but I'm also a slav and no longer considered white so checkmate OP
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If you look at the audiences in most hip hop concerts you would think only white people listen to hip hop
I spent the latter half of 2019 and all of 2020 listening to nothing but black metal, death metal, and grindcore and the past few days I've been bored of those so I'm dipping my toes into hip hop which is what inspired this post
Death Grips draws a lot from punk and noise music (very white genres) and also has Zach Hill (of Hella fame)
MF DOOM's music lends itself well to the "real hip hop" crowd, which seems to me to be a very white phenomenon - deciding which forms of hip hop are authentic vs not. DOOM has also done a ton of shit for/with Adult Swim - not sure of the demographics there but it wouldn't surprise me if it was mostly white.
There are shit tons of white people. Plus, white teens have all the time in the world to check out music
as a white person who likes DOOM and death grips but has never liked drake, i guess I'm part of the problem :(
Yes you are, you should feel bad for liking that music while being white you sick fuck
It may also be internet bias. That is, I'm white, I'm on Reddit and the sites I go to on the internet are quite white heavy. I don't know if you're white, but you're on here, and this place is pretty mayo.
Perhaps it's not that "underground" hip hop is white, but underground hip hop that you hear about through Reddit, the internet, and other white people has a white audience.
Maybe there are far more underground hip hop artists that have black audiences, but we don't ever hear or know about them.
I think it's just a stereotype, they're probably not significantly more white than mainstream artists' fanbases. White people love Travis Scott.
I know you've not mentioned her, but Noname complains about white people loving her music, but doesn't realise white people love rap music that doesn't challenge them with "gang culture"
