Top 10 hip hop albums of all time or by year? Think it’s been a good year, Kilo Kish, Noname, Azealia Ba ABANDON POST.
Any particular reason? She is making a deal out of nothing at all as far as I can tell. I don’t care what colour she is.
Was all-time
Tempest is the only person who immediately makes me get up and mute the radio. I just can’t have it.
Cheers - will do
Seems a bit overbearing of her
Her name makes me think of this:
I miss being able to and then for everyone to ^this it
Because there’s a pretty long history of white people dismissing POC’s complaints of racism out of hand, and it’s not really something you should want to side with. Like fair enough if you wanna engage with it and say why you disagree or whatever, but dismissing it without engagement isn’t really on
I wonder if the sincerity thing is key.
Like, Kate Tempest (going by Wikipedia) is equally middle class - dad lawyer, BRIT school, English degree at Goldsmiths. But no one accuses her of black face for using rap as her medium.
Very disappointed this is not Baby Dee.
I’m not
Yeah, like I think Tempest is utter shit, and there’s probably something to be said about her being championed over the masses of hip-hop made by BME people in London atm. But I don’t think there’s anything problematic about her schtick. Because, unlike Honey G, hip-hop/rap/black culture isn’t there as a punchline
Yes, indeed. Cher Lloyd (a few years back) was a pretty awful rapper but she wasn’t taking the piss. At least, not deliberately.
I assume it’s cos she doesn’t look like an extra from the Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) video.
Sincerity is definitely a part of it.
If anything, Tempest comes across as a little too try-hard.
“Tempest’s influences include, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, W B Yeats, William Blake, W H Auden and Wu-Tang Clan.”
Oh my god she’s so, so shit
Read some Byron, Shelly and Keats, Recited it over a hip-hop beat
