Yes, yes, so we're looking at Friday, today's Friday the 31st of May 2024, coming to the end of the month and what is it that I have to say? Well, one thing that I was thinking about is representation and perception I guess, especially when it comes to rap music in the UK music
industry, so to speak. So like, we've had examples of this many times before in the US, let's say for example, a black artist is very much celebrated by a white community or a white artist is very much celebrated and embraced by a black community.
Because of these examples that we've had before in the past, there is almost like an unwritten expectation within our habitus to, I'm not sure, it's like we have an interpretation of who somebody is on the basis of what they sound like or what they look like. So in other words we can be quite prejudiced. Now let's say for example if me, a black artist living in a relatively white community, effectively makes a name for myself and I'm embraced by mostly a white audience, the outside perception or the uneducated ignorant perception so to speak will be like well
this guy effectively has a majority white audience because he's not particularly that great. Like you to but again, you look at black communities for example, like black people are not going to dismiss Afrobeats, they're not going to dismiss Bashment or Dancehall because that is their own genre, that is their own sound,
that is what they have cultivated. So whenever you find a position or a fan base where there isn't that many black people listening, it usually means that the music that was actually made by this black person, for example, was made for white people and usually there is
terms thrown out for that kind of definition which is I believe coon or corny or whatever it is and you know I guess I don't have a lot of time to talk now but it's one of those things where like it's interesting because again like you know I'm coming from South East London but I'm now living in Kent in Gillingham or whatever it is and I don't know how to describe the demographic here, but I've genuinely from what I've been doing in my journey so far I've noticed and I've discovered that the likelihood of my music like, you know
The likelihood basically the demographic that is most likely to embrace my music is going to be young white boys Unless like, you know, there's black boys around that might want to be able to I don't know Now this is just basically based on my observation, but it's going to be interesting because again at the end of the day I don't get to choose to a certain extent who gravitates towards my music. I put my music out there and it gets embraced, the people who like it like it and the people who don't, don't. But it's always going to be interesting to see how people take that when they look at my demographic and see what it is that they have to say.
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