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Thread started 06/15/03 4:52pm

Ardeo	White people in Hip-Hop Videos? Where are they?!?!?! I am neither black or white but one thing that confuses me is the lack of white people in these video...i mean they are the largest section of consumers arent they? [This message was edited Sun Jun 15 9:53:33 PDT 2003 by Ardeo]
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Reply #1 posted 06/15/03 4:55pm

Paisley

Ardeo said:

Where are they?!?!?!

I am neither black or white but one thing that confuses me is the lack of white people in these video...i mean they are the largest section of consumers arent they?
[This message was edited Sun Jun 15 9:53:33 PDT 2003 by Ardeo]

It's just to be expected, just like you'll probably never see a black person in a country video, dont get me wrong I'm not prejudice but that's just the way the music business is now.

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Reply #2 posted 06/15/03 5:00pm

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ummm... Charley Pride is black isn't he???

my fave music would probably be R&B yet...i'm so white i'm almost clear!!! HEY...112...put me in your next video!!!

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Reply #3 posted 06/15/03 5:04pm

Muse2noPharaoh	DO YOU START THREADS FOR THE SAKE OF STARTING THREADS Ardeo??? I seem to have seen that somewhere!
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Reply #4 posted 06/15/03 5:05pm

Ardeo	Muse2noPharaoh said: DO YOU START THREADS FOR THE SAKE OF STARTING THREADS Ardeo??? I seem to have seen that somewhere! LOL, its a Sunday
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Reply #5 posted 06/15/03 5:05pm

Muse2noPharaoh	Ardeo said: Muse2noPharaoh said: DO YOU START THREADS FOR THE SAKE OF STARTING THREADS Ardeo??? I seem to have seen that somewhere! LOL, its a Sunday Ok Ok fair enough! :LOL:
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Reply #6 posted 06/15/03 5:07pm

Paisley	lillith said: ummm... Charley Pride is black isn't he??? my fave music would probably be R&B yet...i'm so white i'm almost clear!!! HEY...112...put me in your next video!!! Is Charley Pride country? I didn't know that.
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Reply #7 posted 06/15/03 5:10pm

Muse2noPharaoh	lillith said: ummm... Charley Pride is black isn't he??? my fave music would probably be R&B yet...i'm so white i'm almost clear!!! HEY...112...put me in your next video!!! I'm almost clear!
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Reply #8 posted 06/17/03 4:55pm

okaypimpn

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Ardeo said:

You must be bored.

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Reply #9 posted 06/17/03 5:04pm

paisleypark4

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okaypimpn said:

Ardeo said:

You must be bored.

well, obviously there are more reports goin on in our community about rappers always getting these mixed girls up in their videos rather than having full beautiful chocolate queens on them. If there were bunches o white girls in the videos, it would cause uproars...

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Reply #10 posted 06/17/03 5:17pm

ThreadBare	They're too busy running the corporations that own the rappers' labels to appear frequently in videos.
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Reply #11 posted 06/17/03 6:47pm

Sueme

paisleypark4 said:

okaypimpn said:

Ardeo said:

You must be bored.

What would be the point of rappers doing that? Prince already did the "black guy with white chicks in his videos" thing.

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Reply #12 posted 06/17/03 7:17pm

namepeace	If White people are buying the lion's share of the hip-hop records, then why wouldn't they be represented in the videos? Somebody like Rakim, KRS-ONE, etc. needs to stand up, Miles-like, and declare that "hip-hop as we knew it is dead." Good night, sweet Prince \| 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016 Props will be withheld until the showing and proving has commenced. -- Aaron McGruder
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Reply #13 posted 06/17/03 7:34pm

ThreadBare

namepeace said:

If White people are buying the lion's share of the hip-hop records, then why wouldn't they be represented in the videos? hmm

Somebody like Rakim, KRS-ONE, etc. needs to stand up, Miles-like, and declare that "hip-hop as we knew it is dead."

I think it has a lot to do with the appearance that hip-hop is a black-ghetto thing, some unsafe, animalistic place frequented by nonwhites.

If the image seen most often on Mtv changed to place that was "safe" enough for white kids, then it would lose part of the edge that makes it so popular in the first place.

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Reply #14 posted 06/18/03 1:35pm

pejman

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