Jophiel wrote:
Samira wrote:
It is pretty tacky to co-opt someone else's culture because you're not creative enough to, you know, write your own Shit.
As I said, for every "ironic" white-boy rap song cover, there's probably a dozen hip-hop tracks sampling songs by white artists rather than being creative enough to write their own shit.
Isn't that analogous to joking down, though?
Either way, sampling or covers, it makes more sense that a minority would borrow from the parent culture rather than the reverse - to me, at least.