Appropriation, Again...

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The "hip hop" music seems to have a common theme of expressing malcontent and taking no personal responsibility.
However I don't listen to it much, so maybe I am wrong.

What I expect from "hip hop" or maybe it is "rap" music ...

Life is hard cause they make me do A
Life is hard cause they are always doing B
Life is hard cause they are always saying C
Life is hard cause they don't understand D

So, it seems like you need to be a malcontent to enjoy the music ?

So I?m not a fan of hers. A lot of people would assume that?s because I?m a Southern black woman who is ashamed of this little white girl stealing rap and acting like a caricature of black people. That?s nowhere near my reason, and I?m here to explain why I think that?s a bad reason to have.........

............But the vitriol that Iggy Azalea gets seems like her critics are looking at her with blinders on. If they were more consistent in their critiques?if they treated her like a rapper and acknowledged that all of her questionable behaviors are common in that scene for everyone?I wouldn?t care. But they act like she?s some racist white girl stealing the style just to make money and appropriating something beautiful and wonderful and faultless. Rap culture is not faultless, guys. It?s, to use a word that we liberals love, very problematic. And it?s not just her, so you can stop acting like rap is perfect and it?s just Iggy Azalea f*****g it up with her white-girlness. People say that she?s racist because she?s acting like a caricature of hip-hop culture when, in reality, all she?s doing is indulging in genuine hip-hop culture with all of its good points and flaws while also being white. Which, of course, makes her horrible. When you do it, Iggy, it?s a caricature. We when act the exact same way, that?s just us being ?real.?

Now that the most important thing that needed to be said has been said, I would like to make a few points:

1) The author is not complaining about white people doing hip-hop. She's complaining about a white woman who isn't even American putting on a Southern US accent when rapping, taking a character trait from other people and using it to sell records.