Gangsta rap is modern-day minstrel show

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Gangsta rap was—and remains—controversial. One of the more striking criticisms about gangsta rap was that gangsta rap is a “modern-day minstrel show.” (Spike Lee and Stanley Crouch are two examples of prominent figures who have discussed gangsta rap in these terms.) Minstrel shows were an American musical theater genre popular from the early part of the nineteenth through the beginning of the twentieth century. Minstrel shows caricatured black people for the entertainment of white audiences. White performers would blacken their faces with burnt cork or greasepaint and then perform songs and skits that mocked African Americans as lazy, buffoonish, dumb, and superstitious.

[Before writing your post, please explore this website https://exhibits.lib.usf.edu/exhibits/show/minstrelsy for an in-depth look at minstrelsy.]

How do you respond to this criticism? Why do you think this comparison to minstrelsy was made? What demographic are/were the largest consumers of gangsta rap? What bearing does that have on this criticism of gangsta rap?

Given the sensitive nature of this topic, I will remind you all to be thoughtful and sensitive in your discussion.

Please write about 200-250 words, this topic is about Music Hip-Hop.

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