Where’s the bling-bling?
Interesting post by Ted over at Crooked Timber:
“I’ve been fascinated for a long time by this: quite a few black and Latino rappers fill their albums and videos with images of ostentatious, even cartoonish wealth. With the possible exception of Vanilla Ice rolling in his 5.0*, I’ve never seen a white rapper portray his success in a remotely similar way…”
Read the whole thing…
October 27th, 2003 at 3:31 pm
Bling Eye for the White Guy
Every self-referential message in rap records about which producer and crew is on wax in this year (going back to ‘87) is a spit in the eye of White Mr. Money-Minder and the old-boy network of the music industry.