Culture Vultures? White Artists Who’ve Been Accused Of “Trying To Be Black”
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Whitney Larkins
MACKLEMORE
Some of us might still be a little hot about the fact that Macklemore robbed Kendrick Lamar of a Grammy not that long ago, but many people don’t know what to think of him or his rap music. But he acknowledges that a lot of his success has to do with his skin color:
“If you’re going to be a white dude and do this sh*t, I think you have to take some level of accountability. You have to acknowledge where the art came from, where it is today, how you’re benefiting from it. At the very least, just bringing up those points and acknowledging that, yes, I understand my privilege, I understand how it works for me in society, and how it works for me in 2013 with the success that The Heist has had.”
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