Jay Z not liking white people taking over hiphop/

[Drudge]

http://www.gigwise.com/news.asp?contentid=8712

Jay-Z aka Shawn Carter has hit out at white folk encroaching on the predominantly black hip hop scene.

The president of Def Jam appreciates those white folk who contribute to the scene and culture but dislikes those who just jump on the urban band wagon.

After winning the GQ Award for International Man Of The Year he said to the magazine: "They think they can say those words and take ownership of hip-hop. You can't. It's a lifestyle. It's a culture. It's not just music.

"It's the way you present yourself, the way you talk, it's all that. You can't just say 'holler back' and you're in. It doesn't work like that."

Is he talking about Gwen Stefani there d’ya think?

He went onto say: "Look at Eminem. He grew up around the culture his whole life. He's not capitalising off the culture, in my opinion. It's what he is."

Well, sor-ry Jay-Z, didn’t know you owned hip hop…oh sorry, you practically do.

Yeah, hiphop aint about color Jay. Hiphop is a lifestyle. The problem, aint about saying "hollaback", its about talented rappers not getting the opportunity to show off their skills.

 

 

[No Compute]

I'm sure a lot of black people and people of other races have jumped on the bandwagon too.

It happens to everything successful.

[Gangstauu]

fuck gay-z

[Don Jacob]

I'm sure a lot of black people and people of other races have jumped on the bandwagon too.

great point, i didn't know only white people could leech off  hip hop

i look at all these pop rappers and see the same thing jay is talking about, fakeness has no color boundry

i hate it when black people say shit like this

[Trauma-san]

Jay Z should think before he opens his mouth.  How come Beyonce (who grew up middle class in the south) can have rappers all over her videos, but Gwen Stefani can't do it herself?  Music doesn't belong to anybody, and to be honest I'd rather hear Gwen Stefani's cd than Jay's last one.  Maybe he just feels threatened, lol. 

[Denial! Is Actively Joinin The Revolution]

White rappers and producers r doin a betta job than black people anyway, jus look at Scott Storch and JR, eminem, then u look at luda chingy and Nelly?

[Minkaveli]

White rappers and producers r doin a betta job than black people anyway, jus look at Scott Storch and JR, eminem, then u look at luda chingy and Nelly?

co-sign

[UKnowWhatItIs: welcome to my traps....game over]

lol people calm down,its not like Jay has something against us.Its all about white people who watch MTV all day who think they listen to hip hop but in reality the only rappers they listen to is 50 & co,white music artists who just started working wit hip hop artists cause of its popularity & so on.

[Kill]

White rappers and producers r doin a betta job than black people anyway, jus look at Scott Storch and JR, eminem, then u look at luda chingy and Nelly?

look at Vanilla Ice and then look at Rakim

and I have so much sympathy for Jay, I can hardly take it

[7even]

immigrants taking all our jobs 

[boycriedwolf619]

White rappers and producers r doin a betta job than black people anyway, jus look at Scott Storch and JR, eminem, then u look at luda chingy and Nelly?

suuuuuuurrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 

[J Bananas]

theres gonna be a lot of butthurt euros on this site

[SlickPants]

theres gonna be a lot of butthurt euros on this site

no offense to all of you guys, but LMAO

[Sikotic™]

White rappers and producers r doin a betta job than black people anyway, jus look at Scott Storch and JR, eminem, then u look at luda chingy and Nelly?

LOL. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, great choices of artists to prove your point 

Look at all these guys gettin butthurt over the opinion of one man.

[T-Dub]

White rappers and producers r doin a betta job than black people anyway, jus look at Scott Storch and JR, eminem, then u look at luda chingy and Nelly?

look at Vanilla Ice and then look at Rakim

lol

but the comment about doing better was in itself an ignorant comment. You can't fight ignorance with more ignorance.

I agree with Hov on it should be what you are and who you are and not about jumping on a bandwagon, but jumping on a bandwagon has no color lines.