QUOTE (mouse1 @ Dec 2 2007, 12:24 AM)

leave rap to the blacks. k?
What the hell? There's no law that only black people can rap. People all over the world make good rap these days, and not only blacks in North America can make good rap, either. If you can rap, you can rap. It shouldn't matter if you're a Korean man from Hamilton, Ontario, a black woman in Philly, a white person in Miami, the son of Senegalese parents in a Paris suburb, or whoever. If you have the skills then why can't you use them? Art forms should be about skill and message, not about skin color or where your ancestors are from. And rapping isn't 'trying to be black' if you rap about what
you know.
Now, I'm not a
huge fan of this track because I found it too easy to tune out (though the message isn't bad and the beat isn't annoying), but that has nothing to do with J-Reyez's race. It's not bad, but I liked Intentions of Rap better.