Whiteness in hip hop

Whiteness in hip-hop is the idea in which music executives create black hip-hop music for white suburban children. From Eminem, Macklemore and Iggy Azalea, white hip-hop artists have been controlling the charts and making money off of the "Cultural appropriation" of African-Americans.
Although hip-hop music has become a global phenomenon, fans and artists continue to perceive hip-hop as part of African-American culture. African-American artists often spread this image of the real to frame hip-hop as a black expressive culture facing appropriation by a white-controlled record industry. An early example of this is Vanilla Ice who created a fabricated biography that he released to the press in 1990.
Cultural appropriation by white hip-hop artists is becoming a growing phenomenon. According to ', hip-hop is presently dominated by a white, blonde, female rapper named Iggy Azalea. Although Azalea is from Australia, her crunk- style hip hop emulates the accent of an African-American woman from somewhere around Atlanta, Georgia. The legendary Funkmaster Flex has called her music "trash", and Iggy's singles, while hits on the pop charts, have received little airplay on Top 40 "urban" (hip-hop) radio stations. While all of these things are true, Iggy Azalea is highly popular and receives top recognition. Iggy Azalea became the only artist since the Beatles, in 1964, to have her first two singles occupy the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and the fourth female emcee to hit no. 1 on the chart. Nicki Minaj, one of the top African-American female rap artists, has yet to claim the No. 1 spot. Iggy Azalea is accused of banking off of the impersonation of a Southern black woman, yet did not grow up as a minority subject in the United States.
Macklemore is an artist who accepted the reality of the success of his career like Eminem. Macklemore shared with HOT97

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