Minority Under-representation In Punk and Rap Scenes
One thing that grinds my gears about a lot of artists' interviews is that their formative years were shaped by participation in a social scene. It feels erasing for people who come from a conservative immigrant family, to hear that the teen years were years of liberation for other artists in the scene.
When I first attended hip hop and punk bars in my 20s, I sometimes heard: "What does this Asian guy know about Rock and Rap?" It was weird and also 80% of people and 90% of clean cut people at the Hardcore Rock gigs were Central American FOBs whose English language skills were nil. I tried to use rusty high school Spanish skills, and failed.
So when I read interviews with individuals like Hood Celebrityy and Princess Nokia and they talk about their formative experiences growing up in the scene I get pissed. These people were never warm to me like that. Well I never got to be that "NYC teenager that drank beer and smoked pot". In fact [I]the pot smokers in my college, were bullies.[/I]
Another one of my friends, age 42, who was a musician and vocal libertarian broke his hand because he fought with his dad for putting his Iphone in water so our attempt to start a band failed.
Another thing that happened between me and the libs was that I was labeled a reporter at Occupy Wall Street for asking too many questions and nobody would talk to me. FWIW, I noticed that there weren't any people at the encampment who appeared to be Chinese, Indian, or Jewish there who weren't dressed like emo freaks. I was obviously being racially profiled due to appearing only after 6 PM.
This cemented my loathing of the liberals. Later on when I went to the bar, I realized there was also a massive crossover between the Rock and Rap people I met at the bar, and these hippies.
When I first attended hip hop and punk bars in my 20s, I sometimes heard: "What does this Asian guy know about Rock and Rap?" It was weird and also 80% of people and 90% of clean cut people at the Hardcore Rock gigs were Central American FOBs whose English language skills were nil. I tried to use rusty high school Spanish skills, and failed.
So when I read interviews with individuals like Hood Celebrityy and Princess Nokia and they talk about their formative experiences growing up in the scene I get pissed. These people were never warm to me like that. Well I never got to be that "NYC teenager that drank beer and smoked pot". In fact [I]the pot smokers in my college, were bullies.[/I]
Another one of my friends, age 42, who was a musician and vocal libertarian broke his hand because he fought with his dad for putting his Iphone in water so our attempt to start a band failed.
Another thing that happened between me and the libs was that I was labeled a reporter at Occupy Wall Street for asking too many questions and nobody would talk to me. FWIW, I noticed that there weren't any people at the encampment who appeared to be Chinese, Indian, or Jewish there who weren't dressed like emo freaks. I was obviously being racially profiled due to appearing only after 6 PM.
This cemented my loathing of the liberals. Later on when I went to the bar, I realized there was also a massive crossover between the Rock and Rap people I met at the bar, and these hippies.
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