Furthermore, we can see the trend of white appropriation of black music throughout the next generations of black inspired music: Jazz, Rock and Roll, and eventually, Hip-hop. ... Eminem, a highly respected white rapper, grew up in poverty in a black community. ... However, his successes were not only based off his skills as a rapper, but credit his success to his race and to his record label's intended audience: the white consumer. ... White people using black music and culture takes away the authenticity and meaning in which black people created the music for in the first place. ... Th...

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Fall and winter would bring another shift in music, with groups such as "Roadrunner and Wiley Coyote," with splashes of "Bonobo" and "Radiohead." ... Up to present, the soundtrack for this year is the music from the fire-levels of the original Mario Brothers on the NES. ... The rest of 2014 should be feel-good music. Ray Charles, up-beat country music, blues, classic rock, "The Gorillaz," perhaps a few interruptions of good techno, not that crap they play on stage from the comfort of their iPod's and laptops. ... My musical soundtrack would include a mysterious lack of rap music, and I wi...

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