When I watch a National Geographic or Discovery Channel show I only see white people discussing other cultures. It’s not just that whites are the only people allowed to have the scholarship, but it’s that everything is described from the prism of privilege.

I think that damages the HISTORY of Hip-Hop when people with no connection to it’s origin are given the podium for describing it’s cultural values. It doens’t mean that anyone should be banned from discussin it or how it makes them feel, but there should be an understanding of it’s beginnings.

You can’t understand Hip-Hop’s origin without accepting that supremacy is the root cause for the music. The poverty that exists in America is caused by supremacy’s economic model - capitalism. To ignore that is to forfeit your true legitimacy as a historian and documentarian. That was my issue with Breihan.

Hip-Hop music was always a globally recognising genre. DJ’s sampled platters from everywhere. Anyone can love Hip-Hop and write about it, but if you don’t want to recognize why it was born you do a diservice to the culture.