2006-06-18 01:57:27 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Depends rap when mainstream and surfaced to the public in about 1979, with The Sugar Hill Gang, Kurtis Blow in 1980 became the first rapper to sign with a big label. So rap got many fans right there, including white. August 88' Yo! MTV raps debuted and did very well. I don't how old you are but Whites have been listening to rap for a while, even before I was born and I'm 20. Call it a blessing though, because with black fans and white fans alike, I truly believe rap wouldn't be what it is today, a major business!
Oh and the whites calling rap music "black music" I have no idea. We did start it how ever but black people do call rock "White people music" (Which is funny cause blacks did lend a hand putting Rock & Roll out there with Lil' Richard and Chubby Checker.)
2006-06-18 02:11:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 12⤊ 2⤋
I dont call it black music. To be honest any white guy that raps besides Shady is an idiot. Blacks just rap better plan and simple. But whites have always listened to rap. The real question is why do white people try to rap?
2006-06-18 02:04:55 · answer #2 · answered by whitetrashwithmoney 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
White people ain't got no rhythym so they been listening to 'Black Music' since the first guy came over from Africa and started beating on a stick. That went to Blues music, Rock & Roll, R & B, Disco, and now Rap! Not all of them can I stand but Black's got a way of ryming and a rhythym that white's find irresistible, Friday & Saturday nights. Then Monday morning they can put y'all down & say, "Oh did you see them ____ (you know the word) and their crazy music?"
http://www.total-knowledge.com/~willyblues/
2006-06-18 02:10:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There have been white people listening to rap since the beginning. Just like their have been black people listening to country (white music) since the beginning.
2006-06-18 02:07:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The release of the Sugarhill Gang's single "Rapper's Delight" was a rap song that was made safe for whitey in 1979. However, rap was made okay when Vanilla Ice and his piss-poor "music" burst onto the scene in the early nineties.
2006-06-18 02:04:54 · answer #5 · answered by Andrew 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u cant just define rap as being "black music" what about the blues? do white ppl not listen to jazz, hip-hop? rnb? im blk and i lissen to everything from system of a down to tupac. its just that they only have country and metal-u cant get jiggy off that! so they had to develop a liking for something worth listenin to.
i say leave em alone, they cant dance, they have no rhythm, the least thing we could do is let em sit back and lissen.
2006-06-18 02:11:57 · answer #6 · answered by ~$håý®èè~ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm white and I don't listen to rap. The lyrics are disrespectful to women and usually full of the worst cus words.
2006-06-18 02:03:39 · answer #7 · answered by MadforMAC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, they started listening to it when it came out, but the insecure suburbian 12 year olds started dressing black and cursing out their parents about 3 or 4 years ago.
Can't stand posers.
2006-06-18 02:02:10 · answer #8 · answered by lecarz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate rap music. Sorry.
2006-06-18 02:01:03 · answer #9 · answered by roxy81492 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry can't help ya..i hate rap music
but if you ever find out the answer to that question, or why people in general listen let me know.
2006-06-18 02:42:12 · answer #10 · answered by rockthearts 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋