Where Are All The White Rappers?

by Big Freeze

Question: Where are all the white rappers, and why are they so fucking unpopular?

With the exception of Eminem (and maybe Asher Roth and Paul Wall), I can’t think of any currently relevant white rappers. But before examining the current state of Caucasian rap, let’s take a brief look at the history of whites in the rap industry.

Remember the Beastie Boys? They were the shit back in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Probably the coolest Jews since Jesus and the wise men. “Sabotage” is still one of the sickest records ever.

And what about Kid Rock? Before he turned into a country-rocker-heavy-metal singer or whatever the fuck he is today, Kid Rock used to be a popular rapper on the Detroit scene. He was never that good at rap or rock, but he did end up fucking Pam Anderson, so he’s a winner in my book.

Everlast – former House of Pain member – had a hit song once in the late 90’s called “What it’s Like.” It’s actually a great song, but he fell off the map after Eminem murdered him on a diss track. RIP Whitey Ford.

Bubba Sparxxx was popular for a minute too. I always disliked his music, but he hit it off with the southern-white market for a while there. “They Aint Ready” is the only track I ever felt, but that is solely because Jadakiss was homicide on the Timbaland beat.

What about Lil Wyte, remember him? Naw, me either.

Ever hear of Necro? If you’re into death-rap, then he’s probably your hero. He makes Eminem’s “3am” seem like Tickle-me-Elmo. When I say Necro’s music is sick, I mean it literally makes you sick. Rapping about sex with colostomy bags just isn’t cool.

So that’s a quick rundown of the history of white rappers. For the most part, they all suck except Beastie Boys.

As far as the present and future goes for Anglo-rappers, it looks bleak. I consider Eminem the only relevant white rapper out right now. Asher Roth is cool for the stoner-college kid crowd, and Paul Wall is…. well, he’s Paul Wall.

Did any of y’all ever see “The White Rapper Show” on VH1 a couple years back? It was fucking hilarious. Do you remember who won? Of course you don’t, because he is cleaning the fryer at Wendy’s right now.

The point is if you’re white and you want to be a rapper, I wouldn’t suggest putting all your eggs into that basket, bro.

So why are successful white rappers so rare?

 
 
 
 

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dedication314 days ago
I remember Lil Wyte’!

“Oxycotton – Xanax Bars – Percocet and Lortab
Valiums – Morphine – patches – Exstacy – and it’s all up for grab
What you want – what you need – hit me up I got you mane
What you want – what you need – hit me up I got you mane”
-Oxycotton

Classic song right there. lol.
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wrongidea14 days ago
I remember that shit too. He was ok, and that’s when the South wasn’t as big in rap, before Gucci Mane and Soulja Boy really Blew up. Damn i miss those days..
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pmoney314 days ago
shamrock won the white rapper show and my nigga john brown was the runner up. Hallelujah Hollaback!!!
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phillyrap4214 days ago
yea lil wyte is pretty sick actually the song talkin aint walkin and pretty much his album the one and only is his best shit, and u forgot some other sick ones namely Vinnie Paz of JMT and Brother Ali but besides them roth and Eminem there aint that many good ones
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h2otriplethreat13 days ago
I’ll tell you why there arent a lot of white rappers; its cause most of them suck. They all try way too hard to sound like Eminem, which is what does them in, cause nobody can do Em better than Em.

If a white rapper was good and had the right backing, they’d be popular right now. The White Rapper show, John Brown got robbed by Shamrock. John Brown was the most skilled out of all of them, Shamrock was the white gucci mane. Thats why white rappers suck, haha.

But yeah I wanna see more white rappers and asian rappers and female rappers, the more diversity the more hip-hop can grow.
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blowxxme13 days ago
I think the reason why most white rappers suck is because 99% of them seem to be fakin’ the funk.

Nobody likes wanna-be gangsters.

Eminem actually has merit. He dosnt seem phony to me. Dosnt try too hard.

Some white rappers are ill though. They just dont sell well.

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phreshbreath13 days ago
there are alot of dope white rapper/mcs out there, their just on the undergrond scene…go check out qwel, ra the rugged man, vinnie paz, aesop rock, braille, esoteric, and alot more
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50kingz13 days ago
anyone else notice Pamela Anderson’s nips?
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livethrumusiq13 days ago
That’s what it is son. The backing of a white cat aint being done which is why none of the people you named (or myself) have hit the mainstream. Whoever signed Roth took a big risk and Roth is pretty dope. But seems like it’s taboo to sign white artists to hip-hop. It aint like I make up the shit I say in my music….hip hop is OUR music. Everyone who relates is relevant and other just fade away. People scared to sign white dudes tho real talk cause I guess they feel like their can’t be another eminem. what they fail to realize is we’re individuals. I don’t wanna be eminem. I wanna be myself.



Scream.
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acestar13 days ago
Brother Ali = Dope White (Albino) Rapper
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hempsteadny13 days ago
Iron soloman is a beast
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yunghaze1813 days ago
What about John Cena?? Physc he is one of the worst buffest rappers I ever heard..
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50kingz13 days ago
Cenas a better rapper than wrestler..with unlimited lyrics and only 5 moves
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yungmayo1813 days ago
u 4got yung mayo freeze.
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cypressds12 days ago
there are a bunch of really good underground white rappers but as far as mainstream there arnt any really
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mswbp198312 days ago
obviously if anyone is unaware of the talent and inspiration that white mcs, producers, b-boys, and graph artists have brought to the hiphop scene they are simply unaware, probably ignorant from being so caught up in mainstream hype, and have never taken the time to learn where our culture comes from. Although there many less white mcs out there there are still plenty who have immeasurable talent and make groundbreaking progress in the evolution of hiphop. I’m not even going to waste the time and space to list names. If you want to find white talent in hiphop… its out there. You will just have to put the time and effort into finding it just like you always have, because lets face it rapping is always going to be a black mans market. But there’s nothing wrong with that. Every race plays its role in hiphop, some roles just arent as big in some elements.
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sk5511 days ago
Anybody hear of a guy named EVIDENCE??!?! Guess not.
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whitemamba2414 days ago
white people need to stick to nascar and accounting and shit, and leave the hip-hop and the athletics to the pros!
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kingml21314 days ago
thats not true.

blackmamba24.
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callmehdre13 days ago
wtf whitemamba props to dat nigga??….
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blackmamba2413 days ago
well that includes you then cracka snake 24…
its my first stan … great !!

@king213 fail dawg.. as usual ..
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livethrumusiq13 days ago
Man I would kill you lyrically. Lol, I aint shit for driving cars tho but I’m bout my fuckin money.




-ScrappaZ
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50kingz13 days ago
yeah black people are only entertainers? that’s basically what you’re saying..while you’re a professional jizz mopper/gas pumper..
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sparkfirehot14 days ago
Good blog but i can say drake is close enough to being a white rapper look at him his brighter than day. lol
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justus14 days ago
Drake is so bright he could be his own skittle color. That nigga more high yellow then low fat butter.
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harleykanabo13 days ago
man, i actually thought drake was white!
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prokeds200012 days ago
drake white enough, fool from canada, came from degrassi a canadian version of saved by the bell haha!
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pmoney314 days ago
sparkfirehot look at you lookin all tough with your puerto rican bandana around your face tryna act hard when really you took this pic on your fancy laptop while sittin on your couch watchin fresh prince of bell air reruns
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sparkfirehot14 days ago
??
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callmehdre14 days ago
no bullshit eating bean pies n shit
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yunghaze1813 days ago
Pfunny3 thats not puerto rico dumbass..
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pmoney313 days ago
^^ and you look like osama bin ladens brother
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cypressds12 days ago
yea im pretty sure that might be a haitian flag bro
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killwhitey14 days ago
Ha ha ha, white people are lame. Fuckin infadels.
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alwaysffadedd14 days ago
whats up with all the suck ass new black rappers? same topic same lame shit
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cali76013 days ago
hahaha Co-sign!
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stons04champs14 days ago
+1 for the Pamela Anderson nipple
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callmehdre14 days ago
Pussy ass crackas gave my nigga 100 years- Freeze No Bout Dat
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callmehdre14 days ago
too many crackas on defsounds
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pmoney313 days ago
co-sgin
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yunghaze1813 days ago
and dont forget fags like pfunny and callmehGay..
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callmehdre13 days ago
^post a rapper dats gettin money dogg redman broke fuck nigaa
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prokeds200012 days ago
nigga u broke as fuck!
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livethrumusiq13 days ago
LOL this motherfucker said “Fuckin infadels”….which is hilarious. But it’s “infidels” bro, just to be straight w/ you. Anyway, I’m white…I rap (get your laughs out) And the problem w/ these cats tryna rap and they’re white is just that they don’t have a motivation in my opinion. Like right now I’m caught in this military shit cause it was the only way to get out my neighborhood back home @ the time. But I got my studio set up in my room….I got money saved in the bank and counting. And as soon as I get out this bitch I’m on my grind. These other cats is just playin man…and they try to play the fact that they’re white too much. Like obviously for whatever reason it’s more difficult for white dudes in the game to be seen as relevant so why keep bringing the shit up? But for real tho I think Asher Roth just opened alot of eyes w/ him breakin like every rule about rap artists (college, white, long curly hair) Not that nobody ever went to college but you know what i mean…We’ll see what happens tho. Anyway, I got a joint posted in the singles column called “A Storm Is Brewing”….check it out and let me know what you think.




-ScrappaZ
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emgee42013 days ago
eminem set the bar too fuckin high
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birdsofbalt13 days ago
What about Apathy??? that mans sick
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cypressds12 days ago
same with celph titled
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alwaysffadedd13 days ago
we got the dude from atmosphere, R.A. the rugged man, jmt, la coca nosta, ill bill, necro
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andrei18713 days ago
vanilla ice paved the way for white rappers everywhere
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junetheman8813 days ago
Co sign
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youngviz13 days ago
go ninja go ninja go ninja go! haaaaahahahahaha
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bigfreeze13 days ago
good call, i forgot about vanilla ice. i never liked him or considered him a real artist though.

i remember he was popular when i was in 2nd grade, and all the kids knew the words to “ice ice baby” except me. i felt left out, but now i realize that i was the winner in that situation because vanilla ice was a fucking failure.

suge knight shoulda dropped his ass off that hotel balcony.
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livethrumusiq13 days ago
Lol. all this talkin’ and still no comments on my track over @ the singles page??





Haha….you know I gotta self promote.


-ScrappaZ
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moody2813 days ago
Mannnnn, there are PLENTY of dope white rappers out there! Problem is, they all in the underground, and none of them are marketable! I dont have a problem with white folks, but the truth is, they just dont have the chemistry, swagger, vocal textures, and urban aura that it takes to make it in the record bizness. Even Eminem doesnt have those qualities, but when ur one of the best wordsmiths to ever touch a mike…u get a pass! lol!!! Like i said..in the undErground, from IRON SOLOMON and THE SAURUS, TO DIABOLIC and MADNESS, its lot of dope white mcs. None of them are marketable tho’….at least for now.
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cali76013 days ago
damn you can see Pam Anderson’s tities
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tysonjones13 days ago
The best rapper/emcee in the game right now is arguably eminem, enough said. Skin color doesnt matter to me. I thought em was black when I first heard him on the radio. I just didnt comprehend a white person being able to rap like that at the time. Asher is the bomb as well, a softer version of em in my opinion. No white rapper is going to live up to eminem’s standards though, which is why guys like fat joe and bubba’s career don’t last very long.
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livethrumusiq13 days ago
Fat Joe is puerto rican son
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livethrumusiq13 days ago
and he been around a minute too. Since like ’93 or some shit.



Food for Thought.


-ScrappaZ
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yunghaze1813 days ago
Leave the white boys alone they just wanna be black.. not much worst then black people tryna be white..
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livethrumusiq13 days ago
Why it gotta be like that man? Why I can’t just tell my story lyrically same as everyone else? I aint seeing race so much as I’m seeing we all broke as fuck, limited future, gov’t is corrupt as a mofo…..(which is fuckin ironic that im in the military and all that shit) But for real, I rap…and I aint tryna be black. I’m just tryna tell my own story you feel me?
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harleykanabo13 days ago
i agree with livthrumusiq, here in britain, white rappers are nearly as common as black rappers, there are a lot more collabs between the two, but because integration isn’t really an issue as much here, the lives are jus as gritty disregarding race.

it has nothin to do with the fact they want to seem big, or want to be black
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cypressds12 days ago
culture not color bro and quit trying define people by there skin
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yunghaze1810 days ago
I was jokin on that one.. I am not saying all white rappers I am saying the ones that are tryna be thug just because mtv says its cool.. Rap needs white people belive it or not.. Who manges these dumb niggas money when they cant?? Who is they sound engineer?? Who promotes their music to the media?? Who blogs these niggas in the papers?? Not all them are white but there is alot of them..
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christian87813 days ago
you never see any succesful mexican rappers either
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livethrumusiq13 days ago
man diversity is everywhere. Try to be diverse and see where it lands you at. You’ll be more cultured and alla that. Check out SPM tho….he’s mexicano
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livethrumusiq13 days ago
Will a motherfucker please holla @ me w/ some feedback on the single??? Instead of fighting over fuckin semantics. Holla




-SrappaZ
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theimmortal31313 days ago
You forgot to mention yung mayo and the vanilla emcee.
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bigfreeze13 days ago
ha ha at vanilla emcee. where is that weirdo?
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jaffar13 days ago
eminem isn’t the best white rapper alive, he’s the best rapper alive. period.
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countrycracker13 days ago
what song did Eminem diss Everlast in? I cant think of it..
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rodlonc1113 days ago
the only one i can think of is that"I remember" song when shady was singin in the 1st two verses..
Still pretty dope tho by the end of the song ur vibin to it
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harleykanabo13 days ago
he did a ‘hit em up’ gettin at a few rappers
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rodlonc1113 days ago
99% of white people trying to rap(cant even call them rappers) Suck or they are really bad and can emulate what rap should sound like.. But they never have that IT factor because they are wack and just trying something that they think is “Cool”… Fuck that, Niggas aint tryna see no phoney ass white boys more than we have to..They have all the good jobs and shit, they inherited a boatload of shit(think!!!), somewhere down the line Somewhere they have a legitimate corporate connect,and so on! So Fuck white boys tryna jump in a cypher rappin,when rap initially came about from the struggle the rawness,the gutter basicly…Like Wigga get yo white ass out my face and go fax some papers..We don’t believe you,You need more people. and frankly We dont really like you, You are just entertaing me for the moment, And my niggas plz know that them white folks dont really like us either!!!They see wats profitable and ride with that!!

Eminem and the Beastie Boys are the only exceptions i can think of rite now..Em actually is in the discussion for GOAT!!! and sincerely at that! Props to Shady!!!
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cypressds12 days ago
how you know, do you know 99% of whit rappers? its the same thing with everybody in general 99% of people who think they can rap cant
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rodlonc1112 days ago
obviously i mean all the white boys i heard you idiot!!
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harleykanabo13 days ago
Its because the people making the big deals are huge millionaire white people who don’t know shit about rap so they just look for the stereotypical black rapper and just don’t realise potential in white people just what would appeal to the cell phone playing youths (soulja boy fans).

Eminem became big so early because he was white and Dre signed him (so it was like the opposite of a normal white man signs black rapper) the decision came from an expert in the rap game. nowadays, though people realise that white rappers can make it and they take advantage of that, but it was good because it was rare and a novelty and very few white rappers are real coz they play they’re fake gangsta street thing off.

i personally think white rappers SHOULD be rare coz then only the best get sieved out and they make a huge impact on hip-hop.
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harleykanabo13 days ago
btw comment about drake wasn’t meant to be there,

anyway what i was meant to be sayin is rap has nothin to do wiv race, jus about how fucked the world is and what people can relate to
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yungmayo1813 days ago
british monkey white boys shouldnt rap! they suck n i hate your canadian accents.
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weezysucks13 days ago
Mic Stylz & Esoteric – Bringin’ It Back
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skeazaleo13 days ago
lil wyte is STILL hot…I don’t fuck with him personally, but I know alot of ppl who do…He with 3 six right?


and secondly…anybody seen Paul Wall lately? I saw his video called bizzy body with webbie…How the FUCK did Wall get so fuckin FAT? He fell off…lol
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moodmuzikmobb13 days ago
yo there’s real hip-hop from white boys for e.g Brother Ali and Slug from Atmosphere check them out
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bigpark8713 days ago
aesop rock is good
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drosephstalin12 days ago
BEST WHITE RAPPER—>ANGRY MIC—>WWW.MYSPACE.COM/BIZOANGRYMIC
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hedgehog5612 days ago
Great blog man. Shit had me laughin.
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njrock11 days ago
Vinnie Paz is pretty good
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drunkmonk11 days ago
theres a ton of good white underground rappers . vinne paz from jedi mind tricjs , slug from atmosphere , the grouch , mac letheal , to name a few
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drokrap11 days ago
Aesop Rock, Copyrite, Paul Wall, Eminem, Asher Roth, Sabac Red, Ill Bill, Slaine, Vinnie Paz, Esoteric, Everlast, Necro, Diabolic, Skinhead Rob, Brother Ali, RA the Rugged Man, Apathy, Celph Titled, Sage Francis, Slug from Atmosphere, Cage, EL-P, Beastie Boys, Fort Minor (half white half Japanese), Lil Whyte, Swollen Members, KottonMouth Kings, Big B, Dirtball etc. etc.

Those are all white dudes that made a name for themselves. Idk why people try to say that hip-hop has to be all black cuz that’s where it started. People were doing rhyme battles in scottish pubs in the 1800s.

Also I see some ppl here say that the balck rappers are gritty and real or whatever not the white ones. But I dont see complaining when they rhyme over a white producers beats….Alchemist etc.
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shwabster11 days ago
company flow – funcrusher plus one of the best rap records ever
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wrongidea10 days ago
Aww..did your panties get all bunched up cuz you didn’t like my comment?Then you shouldn’t make blogs.smh
I’ve never dropped anything on your personal page dog so stay off mine….and take your Midol, it’ll help with all those craps you experience at this time of the month.
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wrongidea10 days ago
oh And don’t get me wrong and think that I don’t like white rappers Brother Ali, Em, Lil Whyte (was) and fort Minor are pretty dope. Shit I even fucked with some of Fred Durst’s shit back in the day. “N 2gether” was my shit.lol
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steezclothing9 days ago
Lil Wyte hasnt had a record in a minute, but he was the shit in Memphis back in the day. Still one of the most lyrical southern rappers.
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