Yelawolf Can Get It
Vibe magazine wants to know: Is Hip Hop Finally Color Blind?
Vibe’s year-end issue features Eminem and Yelawolf on the cover. I haven’t paid too much attention to this Yelawolf character. But this cover is makin’ me feel a certain way. Dude can hit it. Hold on, let me Google him to see if he’s still hot minus Photoshop…..oh, no. He’s not. :-(…..Nevermind the headline to this post. Abort mission.
Meanwhile, I told ya’ll a couple of weeks ago that the future face of Hip Hop is not the Negro element. Ouch.
VIBE: Eminem, what advice do you offer, if any, on being scrutinized for being a white rapper. Do you guys ever talk about race in that way?
Eminem: We make jokes about it, but I don’t think we talk about it in depth. As I was listening to his music, I am not even thinking about any of that shit. It’s just the music. That’s one of the things that’s great about it. I’m not even thinking about it when I hear the music.
Yelawolf: We do poke fun of it because it’s funny. Like, he calls me White Dog.
VIBE: Oh, you called him that on the BET Awards Cypher. I didn’t realize it was an ongoing joke?
EM: Yeah, or Beige Sheep. [Laughs]
YW: Cracker Nuts. Whatever, I think it’s kinda unspoken.
EM: We deal with it enough as it is. So now, let’s make music.
YW: Let’s make great records. At the end of the day, that’s all there is to do.
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