This is irrelevant to the discussion at hand. The most famous, wealthy, and successful rappers are black. By far. There is no question about that. Your argument has no relevance because white people not only lack an advantage in the rap industry, but actually have a disadvantage. Rap has gone mainstream, and black people have not been put at a monetary disadvantage because of it. i will not discuss what could happen, because I know what HAS happened. But there's no point talking about that. That's not what the article was about, it's was about how people are upset that a white guy performed songs of a traditionally "black" genre. Don't start trying to go back to "white people have such an advantage". This has nothing to do with white advantage in the rap industry, and there is none, but with one "culture" stealing another's. And you simply proved my point. I stated that rap as it is commonly known, with the "curse words, slang, etc." you mentioned, is considered black culture. People, as this articles mentions, are upset white people are performing this genre. Thus, they are saying rap should be kept to the black community. They make black people feel bad about "changing" or "being white" for not producing the type of music associated with "black" songs. This attitude puts immense social pressure on young black men to "act black". Sadly, many white people grow up under the same conditions of poverty, and many black people grow up outside of the "black experience" described in these songs. Thus, we have a system where black people are generalized into one specific stereotype, where criminal and lewd behavior is known as a "black thing", creating the social barriers you mentioned, which is what I meant when I said the genre was segregated to the black community, preventing integration of their culture into what is generally referred to as "American culture". Because the stereotype is created that it is "black culture" to be a criminal, a harmful divide among races arises. The true disadvantage black people have in this context is not in making as much money as a white rapper, but in the fact that a genre of music popular among white and black youth alike, but unpopular among the white majority, is being assigned to black culture only. This creates a harmful racial divide. Since black rappers have become successful nationwide, we need to stop pretending that the subject matter of current rap, having little to do with the particular black experience and more to do with poverty, is relevant to not just blacks but whites as while. Until we do, we create societal pressure on black people, as we have defined black for them, and a racial divide, as we frame the lifestyle of poverty as a "black thing".