ATR 65 - White People and Hip Hop - 03/26/2007 at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

ATR 65 - White People and Hip Hop - 03/26/2007

by Carmen Van Kerckhove

A brand-new episode (No. 65) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.

Carmen hosts a roundtable discussion on white people and hip hop with Jason Tanz and Harry Allen. Jason is the author of Other People’s Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America. He is senior editor at Fortune Small Business magazine, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Fortune, Spin, and Time Out New York. Harry Allen is host and producer of Non-Fiction on WBAI. He has been writing about hip hop for 20 years as a journalist and he is a long-time associate of legendary hip hop group Public Enemy.

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Comments

Nina wrote:

Great podcast. So many good points. i.e. Larenz Tate being denied an Oscar bid for Menace II Society because he couldn’t have been acting, just being himself; the quote from Ice T “if you believe I am a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an alien”; how some white people feel ’saved’ by hip-hop and feel like they have a greater understanding of the black experience because of it; that the black community is the only community that is asked to measure reality by what is happening in entertainment. I could go on and on but don’t want to spoil it for those who have not heard it yet. Again great podcast.

On a side note, I saw an interview on TVone with Stanley Crouch talking about hip-hop. He is definitiely not a fan but he did make an interesting point. He stated that mass media will continue to support commercial hip-hop (i.e. money, hoes and clothes) as it confirms to the greater white community that they are better than what they see and hear in these videos. Wonder what your panelists would think of that statement.

Posted 29 Mar 2007 at 1:48 pm ¶
Alcoholism wrote:

I find your podcast very insightful, well thought out with great discussion always. Btw, I loved the Stanley Crouch interview too, he made a great point on commerical hip-hop music.

Posted 23 May 2007 at 12:13 pm ¶
John wrote:

Hip Hop has always been difficult to define and understand, because it spans so many facets of America including buisness, money, music, race, culture, everything really. And so it’s just a really really interesting phenomenon to try and find some “ultimate truth” to so I can understand the difficulty of the conversation.

Posted 19 Sep 2007 at 1:53 am ¶