Kanye West has lashed out at white people trying to sound black - United Bimmer Community

**komodo** · 09-25-2005, 10:05 PM

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The Late Registration rapper has voiced his anger about white people trying to sound like something they're not.

He railed: "I hate music where white people are trying to sound black. The white music I like is white.

"I like Franz Ferdinand. That's the s**t."

However, he was keen to emphasise the fact that he is a fan of a wide variety of musical styles, performed by artists of all colours, but he just thinks people should just stick to what they do best.

This is the latest attack on the white adoption of urban culture, which was preceded by his label's head honcho, Jay-Z.

The Roc-A-Fella big cheese recently declared that he was sick of white people thinking they can just buy into the hip hop lifestyle.

He told GQ: "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."

He added that the likes of Eminem were not in his target sights: "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."

http://www.inthenews.co.uk/music/types-music/rap/kanye-attacks-white-adoption-hip-hop-$15051097.htm

Also notice how he has a member of Maroon5 (very white band) featured on his new album.... kinda ironic isn't it?

DEATH2000 · 09-25-2005, 10:09 PM

no offense but hes a friggin retard. like damm, all the stuff he says is stupid in one way or another

witeshark · 09-25-2005, 10:09 PM

Kanye West has said a few things he should regret. Now he's done it again

**RealBmw 02** · 09-25-2005, 10:17 PM

^^^ ya this will probably just bring down his record sales for a little while

**xsperf** · 09-25-2005, 10:23 PM

yea whens he gonna bounce

**Gomerino** · 09-25-2005, 10:27 PM

I wonder who in particular he is refering to exactly? who set him off...

**komodo** · 09-25-2005, 10:28 PM

I really don't like him either... however:

http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/hot100.jsp

**Chris** · 09-25-2005, 11:15 PM

he's a damn gold digger. remember, there's no such thing as bad publicity. so every little thing he says helps his career, even if it destroys his career.

**94bmw325i** · 09-25-2005, 11:57 PM

sounds like when 50 cent made his last album, its for the money not the fans..

**jrhaile** · 09-26-2005, 12:02 AM

he's a fucking racist. Ban

witeshark · 09-26-2005, 12:04 AM

Seems typical. Hmm, Eminem? Hmm TuPac? HMMM

**///Milk** · 09-26-2005, 12:29 AM

Kanye West is a fucking fag nig.

**Chris** · 09-26-2005, 12:57 AM

Using that type of language just perpetuates the racism. I'm sure there are other ways yu can express your opinions of him without stooping to his level at teh same time. so please, for the sake of the community, please cut out the language.

**RealBmw 02** · 09-26-2005, 02:48 AM

ya milk, you might want to think about going back and editing that post. I think that is a little over the edge. many people will take offense to that

**EnvyM3** · 09-26-2005, 04:10 PM

yeah Milk, not cool man. You need to check yo self