Hip Hop has evolved from bootleg parties at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx to the biggest genre in the world. But often times, people forget to honor its predecessors.
In an attempt to do so, Offset sparked a Twitter debate after he reminded his followers where Hip Hop started.
“Sorry but hip hop is black culture,” he wrote. “don’t speak or give game if u don’t have black culture duh.”
When Offset’s initial tweet appeared to cause some confusion, he attempted to clear up his comments.
“Don’t make rules on what goes in hip hop when u don’t know the history,” he added. “it’s pain music story music we the biggest genre in the world off our struggle and hustle yesssir proud of my people that’s all of u mad than sorry but no sorry took a lot for us to get here but we here!!!!”
Naturally, Twitter was divided on the Migos rapper’s sentiments. Par for the course, people quickly threw in their two cents.
Some delivered a few low blows, stating Iggy Azalea could out-rap Offset’s wife Cardi B and Eminem could easily smoke Offset. Some also accused Offset of hating, but others were more understanding and conceded to his point.
Check out some of the reactions below.
All the closet and behind the screen racists that love to come here and comment are about to go HAM on this topic
Yeah…I thought so too.
But my popcorn is cold now.
Kinda disappointing, racists out there!
Come and entertain us!!!
Loooooooool…It’s still early though, or maybe we B. Rabbited them…took the power away from them by clowning them before they could respond
Spoke too soon…I see one of them reared their ugly head already…what up Noname
Racists……Come out and playyyyyyyayyyyyyy lol
whatup
hello! racist here… white people are the new jiggers, and blacks are the new whites (racist and thieves)
He’s correct, hip hop is black culture. Nothing wrong with what he said.
whats the point in saying it tho? everyone, literally everyone, knows where hip hop comes from. no one has ever in history argued that. ‘dont make rules’. whos making rules? the fuck he talking about?
Knowing where it comes from and RESPECTING it are two different things. People out there still think Elvis invented rock n roll. LoL
People think basketball started in a Harlem park lol
Literally look at the comments. This clearly does need to be said because hip-hop is getting so saturated with thankless white millenials and hipsters who haven’t done any research into the history of hip-hop and to be clear that history IS rooted in Black struggle but you have all these little butthurt kids triggered by the term “black culture”. Shit is sad
He’s not wrong, hip hop was born in an area where white people couldn’t even walk through or even wanted to.
yeah, but at least they rapped about it, not mumbled.
Its sounding more and more like black people dont want white people involved in anything they create. not realizing literally none of it would be possible without white people. we gave you the pain that translates to great art. youre welcome.
stop letting black artists perform at festivals that are created and run by whites.
stop promoting black artists on networks created and run by whites.
stop selling black music in stores or on platforms created and run by whites.
stop allowing black people to use any instrument, recording device, etc that was created by whites.
biggest genre in the world but wouldnt be without whites.
and yea i know theres a lot of stupid shit in this post, but thats the point. if black people wanna be that stupid, they need to realize how bad shit would really get for them if whites decided to be THAT stupid.
It’s okay that hip hop is black culture. You don’t have to lose your sh*t buddy. Everything is gonna be fine.
youre right but im not wrong. yea my response seems too much, but it is getting ridiculous how black people are having a negative response to whites enjoying and partaking in hip hop. its stupid. we, as humans, cant keep saying ‘this is our culture, you cant be in it’. thats stupid. especially when black people benefit so much from white culture. cant we share?
You sound like a bitter ass jealous white person! He never said other races can’t participate, he just stated that Hip-Hop had it’s origins in the black community and he’s right! He’s saying this is our culture and that for years many whites have stolen cultural aspects from different communities and claimed it as their own, such as rock and country! And please….Europeans are not the pinnacle of society as you state they are! Many “white customs” were stolen from other cultures. And European Christian Imperialism belongs to the darkest pages of human history! So stop giving white culture that big “pat on the back” like you are and learn some history! Wit cho punk ass!!
Y’all already enslaved us & beat us to death, freed us, then inserted Jim Crow. Got our black a$$es still kneeling & ish. The real problem is white ppl have benefitted off of black culture far more then we have. We set the standards for cool in this country & in plenty of others. What this generations of those “who aren’t Black” is seeing is a new generation who is fed up with it! Do we hate white ppl? Absolutely not! Will we continue to let white ppl & other cultures “use” our culture to benefit, cut us a small piece of the pie, then walk away with the rest? Absolutely not! It’s not gone feel good & y’all not gone like it! But we NOT asking no more! We telling! We demanding! And we taking! .
Amen to that brother. We’re the ones who taught them how to be gangsters lol. This is the thanks we get? Fuck em. They want to see white devils? I say we show em some.
lmao wtf does migos know about hip hop?
I love this game. Fine. Every culture gets to keep what their people created, no sharing. I guess blacks don’t get a written language, the wheel, modern medicine, the Internet, democracy, capitalism, or white women. Enjoy your Migos album!
We had all that considering blacks where Egyptians and Jesus was also dark skin
Bro. Please. I love you. But Egyptians are not, and were never, black. Have you ever seen an Egyptian? Have you ever called an Egyptian black? Try it some time and see how that works out. Also, Jesus? Jesus.
Also, you don’t want to rep Egypt. Otherwise your ancestors would be responsible for a whole LOT of slavery. And then you wouldn’t get to keep complaining about all of that slavery that you never experienced here. (And let’s just pretend like there aren’t millions of modern slaves in Africa today)
The Egyptians before the Arabs moved in. There are a lot of dumb shits in these comments. Do you guys even read…dumb fucks
I don’t know what kind of propaganda you’ve read, but scientists have sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA, and it turns out they weren’t black. They were most similar to modern Egyptians and Southern Europeans. Unfortunately, you were not a king.
You right off set hip hop is BLACK Culture no white washing here. Stick to country music and you can have nas x
Country and rock n roll were created by black people. This is exactly why we need to put a stronghold on our creations. These cave dwellers pervert everything… especially their grandfather to their grandchildren
Country is black lmaoooo u must of got ur knowledge from an ex con prision muslim eho did a 12 yr robbery stretch. U culture vulture lmao
As a white man Ill leave hiphop alone when blacks including migos stop wearing and repping gucci. Prada. Versache. Stop driving our cars. Playing our sports and using our tech..
Until then ill do w.e i want in hiphop bitch!!
Um please y’all don’t have a culture. Y’all tio busy stealing other’s people culture. Cave dwellers
We take whatever we want bitch. You either give it up or get dead.
Technology is a part of culture. Your people didn’t know how to build multi-story buildings without us. We’re pretty decent at building civilizations, too. Name one majority Black Country you’d rather live in.
You need a history lesson and a geography lesson. The more I hear white people’s thoughts. The more I despise you creatures, bitch
Who cares how u feel bum lmaooo
But hip hop is black culture. It’s NOT debatable. He only stated the OBVIOUS.
Of course hiphop is black culture…why do these simple ass morons state the obvious and act like they got the inside scoop? So now that we’ve wasted time distinguishing something that has never been doubted, we really gonna act like only black people can “speak” on hiphop? When you dumbfucks return all the money from any other culture that bought your wack ass music, and we divide up all the cultures who are the only ones that can use or speak of their own creations…then we’ll move passed simply acknowledging black people created hiphop, and get into your vision of segregation again. How one generation can regress so badly when afforded the opportunities we have been, is what kills all hope I have for a reasonable society. Imagine if black people felt this way in the 90’s…hiphop wouldn’t be here anymore. What a disgrace
Instead, white people were shamed for “not speaking about hiphop enough” and trying to “hold it down”…Offset just retarded, so treat him as such and shoo him away like a dumb child. This dude thinks they created Bone thugs style for christ sake, why is he still taken seriously enough to publish a story on him?
You sound dumb as fuck. People are disputing the origins of hip-hop culture. Read the Twitter feed. To be completely honest, pop culture is black culture. We make everything cool. From the way people walk to the way people talk and dress. We are tired of you cave dwellers trying to steal everything we touch. I’m all for black people moving away and starting our own country away from you unseasoned swine
Who exactly is this “we” you’re talking about? The actual artists invovled made the culture cool. You didn’t do shit but sit on your ass and consume it like those “unseasoned swine” you’re crying about. Stop being a bitch and get over yourself.
You have several black-majority countries to choose from. Good luck!
Many people don’t believe that it is. Tell them that the Black community created any genre that they’re a fan of they would lose their shit and physically get mad cause it brings them out of this inclusive bullshit. Maybe its time for Hip hop to return back to the beginning, you know where White folks hated it and it wasn’t so damn inclusive and shit.
Cardi B isn’t Black. Both parents are far from it. She is a guest in the house of hip hop.
Cardi’s father is Dominican (Black)
Her mother is Trinidadian (Black)
No division
Offset is right and if you didn’t know that your a fuckin idiot. Simple.
Offset is the biggest idiot in rap music. And same goes for his buffoon rap group Migos. You are killing a culture you claim to own? GTFOH. And I am black, by the way.
This is the same idiot that is killing HipHop everyday!
Ha ha, offset thinks he’s part of the culture.
Then blue jeans are white culture. See how ridiculous this sounds. It’s American culture!
No its fucking not American culture. White America said it was a far and wouldn’t last. People have been killed for immersing themselves in the culture. You dickheads who don’t know shit about the culture want to call me around 40 years later and try and tell the creators of this culture what is and isn’t the culture. You sound fucking dumb.
Unlike you who sounds so intelligent.
LORD JEROME 2.0!!! Go ride your big wheel and drink sprite. Wait! That’s white culture though more so than black. I dunno.This shit is so trivial. FUCK OFFSET. He should be more focused on learning how to rap well. Bubble gum rappers.They don’t last SMH LOL
Dudes from Migos…his opinion literally means about as much as Trump saying he’s not a racist.
Bullsh*t you hip-hop artist.
Also I’m white and I’ve been listening to rap for 20 years…I’m only 27.
White people stop buying black artists music, concert tickets, and streaming. Watch how fast hip hop becomes a culture for everybody.
Nahh when u take all that away true artistry will come back to it. ? they pay for what they wanna see. They wanna see a black man disrespecting his woman and talk about killing his brother. ??♂️
That why hip hop a black culture cause ya white ass dont understand the music white boi
Sure he does, as do most of us, its a damn circus show. Has been for quite some time. Folks act as if rappers weren’t on that gang gang shit, even back in the 90s. Selling poison to their own, robbing from each other, and devaluing women and property every chance they get. Now you had exceptions like Tribe called quest and De la soul, but for the most part, it was destructive ass music, for people who were either living/accepting that way of life, or those that wanted some crazy entertainment (similar to action, gangster/mob movies).
Good call. Why should we support this garbage when they’re determined to hate us no matter what we do? Time for whites to wake up.
Shut ya white ass up all yall do is copy everything we do if yall can steal our skin yall would steal that??
Who is “we”. Do you rap? DJ? Breakdance? Write graffitti? No? Than shut the fuck up. You can’t claim any part of a “culture” which you have not contributed to. There is no “we”. Just you, ya bitch.
This is you completely missing the point.
That’s just it, for some reason white People can’t stay out of black culture long enough to do what you suggest. Had you knew hip hop was black culture your silly ass would know that it was never intended to grow as it did. Black People did hip hop as a black only pastime to over come white oppression. So if whites were to completely get out of hip hop would be doing black People a favor because the culture was not about money and business. White corporate thugs brought that into it.
I love white dick!
We know
I’m sure his ancestors are looking down on him with pride, knowing he’s carrying on that plantation mentality…
Such pride indeed.
Racist asshole…
So acknowledging a genre that has always been Black when it was first created is “racist”? That’s bullshit and you know it! The brother simply reminding all of the guests in this genre that what they are now fan of comes from people that their parents and Grandparents probably never had anything positive to say about us when Hip hop was born. Hell, decades later those same folks are still against it.
If you really look up the history of b boys and amd hip hop there were many Ethnic groups involved In its creation and evolution Puerto rican Cuban and African Americans.. Rap and hip hop are American culture that’s where it got its start that’s where it manifested that’s where it evolved..
PUERTO RICAN ISNT A RACE!!! Many Hispanic people are BLACK….. Its not mutual exclusive…
SOME Hispanics have SOME BLACK in thier DNA. Hate when Hispanics try to claim only part of their DNA as if the other part doesn’t exist.
I mean, he kinda has a point. True the origins of hip hop included contributions from black and latino kids in new york. But i would agree, hip hop is rooted in a predominantly black culture. Slang, fashion, style originate within black culture. If you’re mad, you either don’t know history or are racist.
You are so brave. Listen fruit, black people don’t appreciate your white savior complex. They don’t need your help, and encouraging this type of racial grandstanding only furthers the divide between us. Leave your progressive echo chamber once in a while, it’ll do you some good.
So lemme get this straight- we went from Sugar Hill Gang to Each One Teach One to this statement being controversial 30-40 years later. It’s a sad day when black culture gets exported and commodified beyond recognition and now you got white people tryna All Lives Matter a music genre that they are guests of. These comments are probably the people that voted for Post Malone’s album to win. Damn shame.
Real Talk Queen))
It’s crazy this is even a question. HIPHOP IS BLACK CULTURE. THE WHOLE GENRE WAS MADE AND PERFECTED FOR BLACK PEOPLE BY BLACK PEOPLE. I doesn’t matter whether everyone likes it now,it doesn’t matter that any race can rap. Black people did it,they defended it for themselves while white America talked their shit. Eminem might have made a profit off of it but it wouldn’t be possible without the black men and women that created that inspiration. That put in that work,put their heart and souls into it. And wouldn’t you know,a BLACK man put him on. Hip-hop can’t discriminate and keep other races OUT but those races can’t steal and rewrite history. Just because a white man cooks some good ass soul food doesn’t turn it “everyone’s culture”. What if white people start remixing slave songs should we give them that?? They want a piece of every damn thing like the world isn’t enough.
Truth be told Bruh!!!
Hip Hop music is from and for everybody. Every race played and plays a role in the progression of it. Offset talks big shit but I bet money he can’t even drop a line from any classic hip hop album before 2000.
Hip hop is black culture period. Who created? Where did it come from? Who built it? Answer that. Don’t think it won’t survive without you. It survived when no one else supported it other than black people. So, if you don’t want to listen then don’t. But, If you CHOSE to be apart of it, that’s fine. It is inclusive. It wasn’t created out of hate, but to tell the stories of the communities America doesn’t give a fucc about. But like anything else you chose to be apart of, know where it started, who started it and why it was created. And respect it.
Rick Rubin was a huge part of hiphop becoming what it is today….he was white smh
Lyrically, who would you compare him to?
U clearly have NO idea who rick rubin is
The conversation is about the origin not who came along. The origin is the Boogie down Bronx. The people who created it was the tooth of the Bronx. The faces of the origin was Black, may have included Brown. But this isn’t new. Let me give you examples, blues music. Today’s blues artist that are being pushed to the front of the genre is white. Where they the original Crafters? HELL NO! You need to look at the slaves and sharecroppers in Mississippi for that. Did they receive the credit, was their stories stolen hell ya! Next genre, ROCK MUSIC! The music that have been portrayed as a white genre. The original crafts where Black! A spin-off from the blues don’t believe me, check or Chubby Checker, Little Richard. Elvis was NOT the originator at all. He was an observer and a colonizer to the genre. Check the records for yourself. And someone mentioned country music, a genre that is also a spin-off of the blues. So no Lil NasX didn’t appropriate country he just reclaimed it and they didn’t like it. Now, diversity is great and welcomed but keep it real and get it if the fantasy that the originators went Black. All he/we’re saying is give credit where credit is due. Keep it 1-hun!
I swear y’all are the first to always segregate yourselves. Pretty sure some Puerto-Ricans were also there in the beginning but you don’t hear them saying “THIS IS OURS, WE CREATED IT!”
Why shall we be so damn inclusive. No one else is doing the same thing but as soon as we say anything about what we create it’s a problem.
How many black guys where polo that’s white culture. You eat a cheeseburger white culture. You wear tight jeans white culture. Lol point of my story is who cares. Culture shouldn’t matter anymore in the USA. It doesn’t for whites anyway. Who gives a crap mad cuz Eminem is garbage and still a 1000 times better then he’ll ever be. Oh ya church white culture His I.Q. is lower than his standards for women. Is he mad at Cardio for taking black culture. Oh no that’s what they named their son. Haha he’s ruining his culture.
that was a dumb response. shut up!
I expected a response like this. Shows low IQ. No substance to what the man just said. Just attack. Smh.
He definitely neglected to mention Latinos playing a part in bringing the culture to the masses. I for one will always remember that, being a former member of the UZN. Lessoning about ourstory is important.
Latinos are black people
For the sake of fake diversity they try to rob you of your uniqueness and culture and also lessen your impact on the world
First off we dont gotta give a explanation
to anybody outside our Culture…Hip Hop is Black dress code language and music it’s our own reflection of our Urban life style…Its Black Culture all day, yall mad because Offset told the truth…F#% to bad, yall copy cat everything we do and say….FACT TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
It’s a true fact…end of story!!
Yeah, hip-hop arose out of the black community..as I see it, it came from a need to express Social injustice & oppression, as a political tool to give a voice to the voiceless, as a means to bind community together and to relieve the immense stress caused by systematized poverty, hatred and the ignorance of the masses who were blind and apathetic to their suffering. The theory of the origin of the music styles and rhythms are many, but a lot of people see it’s start as an offshoot of disco music; many people of color were denied access to white disco clubs and various evolution and mutations of that style evolved from clubs that were created by black people for black people.
As one other commenter wisely noted, music itself belongs to all people…on hip hop, I think it’s one thing to say hip-hop belongs to a people and another entirely to say it originated from a people. One gives the sense of exclusion, the other is just an acknowledgment of its origin.It may be worthwhile to also reflect on the differences between something being stolen and something being influenced by. At what point do you make a differentiation? Everyone’s getting up in arms about their sense of identity being attacked, I say, ignore all the hate and division in these comments if your reading them in despair. To me, the true spirit of hip-hop is meant to overcome division and speak truth. It’s a family. It’s philosophy, poetry and spirituality. It can be used as a tool to express this if you know it’s spirit. It can also be used to lie and spread hatred. If you love hip hop, it doesn’t matter what color your skin is. Consume wisely, know what your listening to, disregard hate and follow what feels good to your heart.
Peace to all of you.
But it would be problematic if I said rock and roll wasn’t white culture. (Technically it’s not) check the influences and stolen music.
Eminem is garbage.
2pac is the Best hip hop ever see to this day 2020