The Pigeon Holing Must Stop

My response to a Ta-Nehisi Coates post on Hip Hop and black masculinity:

33 year old black male. Phd in engineering. MBA from ivy league.

Grew up listening to hip hop. Still listen to hip hop. Most of my 80GB iPOD is hip hop. Much of this hip hop has been published in the last 3 years. Yet I never listen to the rappers mentioned in this thread. (Maybe if I flip channels and happen to see a video, or hear music from someone's cranked-up car system.)

I travel the world on business and for pleasure. I have been in some off-tourist track venues in china, and stumbled across b-boy groups performing. I have browsed hip hop sections in asian and east european music stores and heard rappers I couldn't understand flowing to exotic--yet familiar--beats.

Point: To those of you pigeonholing Hip Hop and black men. STOP IT. Your myopia is laughable. Both are flying past conventional wisdom and expectations.

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There is one similarity between the 50 cents vs Obama that the author expressed on a subtle level.

I believe the same 'pecking order' the civil rights Blacks wanted to apply to Barack Obama ("It is not your turn") these corporate Blacks want to apply to hip-hop.

These corporate Blacks believe they are entitled to 50 cents money and fame because they "did the right thing" by going to school, being subservient and getting acknowledged by their upper management.

Something about hip-hop being a backdoor and straight shot to success doesn't sit well with these corporate, intellectual types who believe all Blacks must go through the "traditional route" to be successful in America.

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