MY BROTHER KNOWLEDGE DROPS SOME KNOWLEDGE

"I'm actually saying that listening to rap doesn't make you black, not listening to rap doesn't make you white.  But your objection in a weird way actually proves my point.  Identity issues are the domain of the privileged precisely because they are exposed through money and extra cultural ties to "non black" things.  In "lower" class black worlds, the culture is all thats really there.  You're not offered a menu of options of who to be, so you end up being like the people around you.  Wealthier black kids however, are often faced with a choice at some level.  And the way they make that choice (or show what choice they made) is in what they consume.   So in my view they overvalue the popular culture aspects of black culture (opting in), putting undue emphasis on the shit graham is talking, and place little to no value on other aspects of black culture because in their worlds those things don't lend any authenticity.  Its the old story of kids from the burbs pretending to be menace when there ain't no men in em (womenaces?). "

*Knowledge*