"The Real Enemy Is Post Malone" | Reaction

[@professorskye]

Wow, blushing over here! Really appreciate the support and the continuing collaboration.

[@divinedemon86]

Skye, I'm from Nashville and Ol' Opry was the last thing that came to mind as a comparison to the cookout 🤣

[@1PROUDGLAMMA67G]

I really enjoy your commentary. Thanks for seeing things for what they really are💪🏾

[@DiceB]

You already know how I love and respect you @professorskye

[@zerofox3075]

professorskye is more hiphop than he gives himself credit to.

[@aqustks]

Keep doing you professor!

[@DarkshadowXD63]

Lol, im by no means a Logic stan but damn I hate how they hated that man, but let Post get away scot-free.

[@follhues9962]

for real

[@groalerable]

Unfortunately likability is that strong of a factor for a lot of people. Being seen as weak or lame is sometimes worse than actually doing anything negative.

[@3self]

Maybe if he didn't remind us that he was black every fucking five minutes 😂

[@10Trillion707]

Fuck logic he talks greasy as fuck about black rappers. That’s why we got him the fuck outta here.

[@jimboshrump]

Nah he made it too easy to hate. He was all things wack.

[@DrUmarsBurner]

“Alexa, play Not Like Us on repeat indefinitely….until further notice”

[@TheCompanyMan]

😂😂😂 thank you!

[@roachdoggjr4648]

Post Malone's comment of "Don't listen to hip hop if you want to think about to life" not only is obviously ignorant to the core and roots of hip hop as a genre, but is an obvious self reflection of how he views and made his own vapid music in the genre. I don't think there would be the same level of backlash if he never dragged hip hop, but just moved on to make other music he enjoyed.

[@NEIGH6699]

💯

[@rellyrelishes]

So true. And his statement is completely false. Hip hop can make you cry. It can stir all types of emotions. Unless you strictly listen to trash artist like post Malone

[@Outage00]

You are correct. I didn't even know that he said that. I just thought that he moved on and wasn't upset with him at all. Now that I know this information, I am a lot more disappointed in Post Malone.

[@craigpegasus]

And then he started making country music, a genre which ACTUALLY has no soul or substance nowadays

[@kh7688]

There would be backlash, there are corners of your community who would still hate on him. Em does nothing but give flowers to your community and the culture that raised him. Yet, even he is dragged through the mud. If Post Malone went silently into the night. He would still be chastised for setting foot in Hip-Hop, even if for a moment.

[@mrdanieldavis003]

Post Malone: Justin Hunte: I HATE THE WAY THAT YOU WALK, THE WAY THAT YOU TALK, I HATE THE WAY THAT YOU DRESS

[@danielnelson3136]

Post Malone is the Keanu Reeves of Hip Hop, he's a very kind hearted person, so much so that Chalramaine hated him. The culture vulture angle I see but let's be real here, Justin Hunte-Company Man is hating on him the exact same way Charlamaine does.

[@MrJBraham1]

The Post Malone conglomerate bled hip-hop dry of profits and bounced. And for his comments about “don’t listen to hip-hop if you want to think about life”, he clearly never listened to Lupe’s Tetsuo and Youth/Drogas Wave or Common’s Be.

[@TheCompanyMan]

The dissing of hip hop is the worst part. He's literally dissing something he's making money from. Inexcusable.

[@MrJBraham1]

@@TheCompanyMan big facts!

[@AnimeProfilePicture]

Slippin by DMX is a good one

[@3self]

If he was talking about modern wrap, he would have a point, but he's grouping hip-hop in general, he's tripping

[@jimboshrump]

​@@3selfyoure correct. The entire comment he made went right over the company mans head. Post was a troll trying to find a niche and found it and went with it cuz it worked.

[@naheemquattlebaum2267]

This is why "Not Like Us" was so important and such a breath of fresh air. For the community it was about more than just Drake. It was about us gaining back a bit of our identity in public zeitgeist.

[@user-mc3qv4pw1p]

it brought the culture vulture conversation to the mainstream in the best way possible. we were forced to examine rap and how the genre is colonised by white people who care little about the culture of hip hop. i think its why tyler gained the confidence to go on that interview and call ian out for appropriation and received mostly support for it.

[@ArthurGreat-v6t]

You right

[@zahvage1204]

Get over yourselves. There are 194 other countries that most have people make rap music in different languages. It is no more a culture abut a music style now. The love for victimhood in America is appalling.

[@user-mc3qv4pw1p]

@@zahvage1204 ^ exhibit A of the confidence non-black ppl have to disrespect and speak over black ppl on their own culture

Yeah but drake ain’t the one to hit like that. His daddy is a funk pioneer

[@FrancisWilly96]

Give Darius Rucker his flowers, held it down in country for a 20+ years now. Idk how this dude isn’t brought up in convos of black luminaries in the genre.

[@aatiti2011]

Agree...

[@gxtmfa]

He isn’t?

[@kh7688]

Country fans love Darius Rucker. Especially the white ones. He's the black Eminem of country music.

[@damonm.]

Post is this generation's Kid Rock.

[@brentrazz6355]

But kid rock was likes when he first came out and was always kinda rock and country. Post is a literal vulture

[@damonm.]

@@brentrazz6355 Nope his 1st group he ever was in was a Hip Hop group. He then was aligned with D-Nice, Esham, and Insane Clown Posse

[@jimboshrump]

Kid rock is straight shit music. Get the fu k outta here

[@oso1165]

Fax

[@LembeckIsStaying]

​@@damonm. This guy knows his history. 🍺

[@celondelon351]

Post Malone is not rap artist he a scam artist

[@mwlammbi2650]

With the hopes of being accepted.

[@astrotrain3332]

Tommy Hilfiger stood out

[@henriettebopda5895]

And a fuckin racist

[@hush-615]

, but FUBU never had been your collection.

[@jsun7972]

"People said Kendrick was being racist against Drake. J Cole doesn't have these problems. Theses are action based critiques." Gems like this is why I'm a TCM fan. Speaking nothing but honest facts.

[@thatdjiswild]

Funny how ppl forget where Country music came from

[@YizzERR]

Ayyyy, the first cowboys were black too. 🤠

[@marlondavis9450]

Wish we could just forget the genre in general

[@Astavyastataa]

The Scots Irish, Mexicans, and blacks?

[@ivandovranic5834]

@thatdjiswild in very broad strokes, from Ireland and Germany. I believe you mistook it for Rock and Roll. That was indeed Blues, authentic Black music, crosspolinated with Country. But Country itself, no.

[@rsyoutube9252]

I hate how people make music a race thing a color thing instead of a HUMAN thing

[@OGNICKMARSH]

I called Post Malone the modern day Vanilla Ice when I was psychotic at the very beginning of 2018, a few months after my 19th birthday. As late as February of this year I've had people leaving comments on that piece about how I'm racist for implying that Post Malone seemed like he was striving to be a caricature of black folks at the time. I just reread what I had to say, and while I would've approached it differently if I were to write about it today, I still of course agree with the sentiment that Post Malone is a blatant and egregious example of culture vulturism. I remember being baffled at his success and the relative lack of pushback on him. We really do need to bring back gatekeeping to an extent because shit is getting out of hand. This is how we get dudes like Ian, man.

[@OofieDooples]

The difference is Vanilla Ice actually had a better claim to participating in the culture than posty. He actually put his time in as a back up dancer, recording mixtapes etc. He just wasn't prepared to even understand the racial criticism that were going to be thrown his way

[@KCAssassin98]

Eh.. it's still basically a non-issue. I'm more surprised anyone ever thought of post Malone as a rapper at all. He's made pop music from the start.

[@elijahdonb7553]

@@KCAssassin98he collaborated heavily with hip hop artists, he dressed himself similar to how many rapper ar the time did, and he used beats that were mainly trap and hip hop influenced. Idk if anyone considered him a rapper, but he was definitely benefiting heavily from associating himself with that culture

[@User2637dsk]

Skye and Justin are a deadly duo. Internet Dudley boyz

[@UuhhDuuhh]

Them and F'd sig would be a great collab

[@ThoseMixedFilms]

sir, the white version of a cookout is a picnic.

[@rustyray420]

Country equivalent would be a good ol southern BBQ

[@charlespeter5610]

That was NOT why Fantano called the album unreviewable. He called it unreviewable because of his antisemitism and anti-black racism. He basically said there’s no point in reviewing it because everyone has already made up their mind about him and if you haven’t checked out on Kanye now, nothing will get you off the Kanye train

[@KamasiFitzgerald]

exactly, it's that the function of reviews as he sees them are not fulfilled by talking about vultures. The quality of the music is almost irrelevant.

[@wjpmitchell3]

Glad someone corrected this. That's a really important nuance and I was going to correct it if you hadn't.

[@Sognafar]

They always call him antisemetic, but never a liar 🤔

[@charlespeter5610]

@@Sognafar that’s like saying “oh we don’t call the Klan liars, just racist.” Does that mean the Klan is right all of the sudden?

[@charlespeter5610]

@@Sognafar it goes without saying, clown.

[@taylorfenton3960]

The revisionism the internet does on Post Malone’s rise to fame should be studied. Once went back and forth with someone who tried to act like white Iverson, the dreads, and the grills never existed.

[@GroovyFlacko]

It’s just nasty to see countless times. Miley Cyrus and Post Malone both profited from hip hop and were quick to admonish the culture once they obtained their “black fanbase” They jump into the space, get their ends, diss us and run back to country🤷🏿‍♂️

[@samirasoto96]

As a white person who has previously fw some of Post Malone's music, as soon as I realized he was using "Black Cool" to make a name for himself before moving on, just like Kid Rock did, I haven't listened to a single song of his. I'll never give him another stream. The fact he has a song in the Top 10 right now with a dude known for saying the n-word on camera in public in 2022 says all you need to know.

[@ahhhstain]

@@NobodyzJellyhip hop has been and will always be black music.

[@ahhhstain]

@@NobodyzJellynot to say white people can’t make hip hop of course. however the most important/innovative artist come from the roots.

[@williamk6605]

Post Malone was actually exposed for saying the n-word on camera.

[@BravoShow]

U know what man... my respect level for YOU just went up. Not that it was low to begin with, but u are spot on about Post Malone. U pretty much said almost everything I've been wanting to. Big Props homie.

[@roachdoggjr4648]

Modern country music is THE most vapid music I've ever heard. It's just as hedonistic as some hip hop music, and far more inane. I'm Finnish-Canadian, whiter than snow, and hip hop was my escape from all the country bullshit around me. Every song is about drinking, trucks, or women. I seriously feel an empty void in my soul every time I have to hear modern country, it makes me feel like life has no purpose. Hip hop is real music to me. I want music that tells me something I don't know, not just vapid shit that glorifies alcoholism.

[@poetthinkersd]

I'm black from the Caribbean and I enjoy country music I only enjoy about 10 to 15% of it because of what you just described LMAO. It's empty and shallow like the people who listen to it

[@bribro23]

@@poetthinkersdI’ve recently been finding ALOT of newer black country artist that blend hip hop & country like shaboozey

[@gxtmfa]

@@bribro23Rhiannon Giddens is a black artist who pulls from black traditions

[@bribro23]

@@gxtmfa they are on my list!

[@rustyray420]

Old country is nice, this new modern shit is just cringe. Just like phony rappers, these country singers are phony country

[@aubreyyoung4610]

Prof Skye is amazing. On top of being extremely musically knowledgeable, he approaches hip hop knowing how he fits into the culture yet STILL approaches it with the utmost respect. Hats off to the man.

[@karaminalee]

F post malone. 🗣️🗣️🗣️ He took it, used it, threw it back, and then worse yet slammed and minimized it. Love love Skye!! Always right on.

[@NaajiRahmbah]

Somebody said I was “missing out” after I said I never listened to his music. There was always something unsettling to me about naming a song “White Iverson”. Iverson is one of those culture shifting guys to me. The league has to change the rules because of him and he is the definition of the word heart. Post Malone who got his rap name from a generator is saying he’s the white version? C’mon man. Foh

[@1988jeffy]

White rappers need to do what young Eminem did - he treated white rappers who did Genre hopping, or showed any hint of it, with seething contempt. His treatment of everlast was ruthless. Even as an old man its obvious that his static for MGK was related to this. He antagonized marky mark too lol. Young white rappers need to follow suit lol. Self police.

[@Lucarioguild7]

The question though is there a single young white rapper that even actually cares about hip hop as a genre now?

[@JTLowry]

where does this leave Nelly?

[@Prince_Luci]

@@Lucarioguild7Mac Miller is dead.

[@BOAYang]

Don’t forget what he did to everlast

[@xamp_exclammark]

His static for MGK was before MGK genre hopped.

[@QueendomCome621]

I agree with your points about Post Malone. I don't care how good the music is, once I see that an artist is a culture vulture it's an immediate turn off. No support from me of any kind. I'll even turn the station when it comes on the radio.

[@rodneygillespie6316]

I've been saying this about post for YEARS. I never really cared for him from when he first blew up for all the reasons you laid out in this video. I NEVER forgot when he said hip hop isn't a genre to listen to if you want to feel emotion. From that point on I always knew he didn't really care about rap. I always knew he was just cosplaying. Like out of all the rappers he collaborated with for his first two albums how many of those artists do you see him still chilling with to this day? When was the last time you saw him even comment on Hip Hop? And unfortunately this mindset has trickled down. I had a roommate in college who was trying to be an artist and he once asked me to give him a list of up and coming rappers he could try to collab with and the reason he asked me was because he "Didn't really listen to hip hop." I'll always say this: being a culture vulture isn't about skin color, its about how you treat the genre and the culture.

[@OofieDooples]

Drake didnt jump genre to genre is a crazy bar. Drake did jump genre to genre? Dancehall drake? Uk drill drake?

[@roachdoggjr4648]

The reason people don't see it the same is because those genres are more adjacent to hip hop than modern white country music is. I agree with you tho.

[@erboch7124]

Drake, despite being a watered down version of what he used to be, still makes hip-hop.

[@3self]

EDC drake , bachata drake

[@dynasty006-y9e]

Pretty much every mainstream rap artist tried it with UK drill when it became mainstream.

[@Dannyyschh]

Drake has never abandoned hip hop and clearly has a genuine passion for it no matter what else we may say about him

[@w1lsons482]

I 💯 approve this message. When Post Malone first came out, I wasn't feeling him at all. Mylie Cyrus did the same thing he did!

[@BravoShow]

U definitely rite. I never liked em either. He looked like a clown ta me. Like a caricature. I couldn't understand how and why people were ever taking him seriously 😒

[@ForeignAffairzVevo]

Post Malone is definitely a culture vulture. Boy started out with a grill and cornrows rapping about Iverson now he’s playing beer pong in cowboy boots and vest with painted nails and dirty old pigtail braids 😂😂😂

[@christinathein951]

On the topic of country allowing post in, maybe it has partially something do to with the ridiculous amount of TOP TOP country artist features his album contains. Not sure if he bought all those feature or how he got so many but the track list includes Tim McGraw, Dolly Parton, Hank Williams Jr, Blake Shelton, Morgan Wallen, Brad Paisley, Luke Combs, AND Chris Stapleton…all on his one album is insane.

[@Day-ZDuke]

0:24.....not a Post fan by any means at all, but I recall an interview where he said he used a “rap name generator” app or something and it gave him “Post Malone”, he liked and ran with it.... But that probably just serves your point as well, he’s so fraudulent he used a “rap name generator” opposed to an actual nickname / handle he earned or was relevant to him

[@khaifea8829]

Didn’t Childish Gambino do the same thing. He used a Wu Tang name generator. I’m not claiming he’s the embodiment of Hip Hop/ rap but just wanted to point this out and say there’s plenty of more suitable other reasons to call out Post Malone.

[@Day-ZDuke]

@@khaifea8829 fair enough. Although I wasn’t intending to call him out per se, I made the comment because the creator said that Post named himself after Karl Malone, so I was just clarifying that wasn’t the case. It just occurred to me as I was writing it how kinda phony that in itself seemed, the fact he used a “rap name” generator

[@greasy13]

I blame Post Malone for making Crocs popular again that alone is a crime.

[@DJHubcap]

My Grandkids: "Grandpa, how bad was Drake for the Culture?" Me: "He's not Post Malone, but.."

[@TheEmbessyNetwork]

Havent liked Post Malone since I first saw "White Iverson" and thought to myself, "why is this guy wearing braids trying to look like Iverson and mocking hip hop?" And I've been asking that about him ever since.

[@dashuntas.m4045]

5:50 “I don’t know how Post Malone got in there in the first place” the fact that you said that with a straight face really got me 🤣; also, coincidentally, every time I’ve commented on your videos it’s always in criticism of Post Malone lol

[@makingmediamatter]

I think something else important to note is that Beyonce came into country with co-signs, but she largely did it as a true artist. There were songs on her album that incorporated other artists, but they were often unique picks and there we’re plenty of solo tracks where she held the spotlight beautifully. Post Malone literally came into country with a feature of pretty much everyone who is big in the industry or has been in the last decade, Morgan Wallen, Blake Shelton, Luke Combs, Brad Paisley, Tim McGraw, Chris Stapleton, etc. I love country music and even enjoy some of those artists, but Post really just ran through a laundry list of successful country artists looking for instant acceptance. We can talk all day about how fans we’re too quick to accept him, but I think there’s also a conversation about how quick the industry was to bring him in and how he weaponized that so strongly.

[@Tigercam24]

@5:55 🙋🏿‍♂️😮‍💨😮‍💨 I know how Post Malone got into the rap industry. Kendrick alluded to it but the real conversation behind it is not being had in my city. I'm ashamed, but the truth of the matter is, in the 2010s Atlanta created an incubator for culture vultures. Fat Man Key aka Key!, legendary underground Atlanta rapper, is how Post got in. Look it up. 😔 We need to ask why have so many people like Drake, Post, etc. been able to run to Atlanta when they needed a few dollars 😔😮‍💨

[@ChocoBeauty8]

Yo, don't forget about T.I. and Iggy Azalea. I'd also mention Timberland with Bubby Sparks, even though he wasn't too bad. And Pink, she's not exactly hip-hop, but she was definitely labeled as Urban on her first few albums before she went full-on alternative rock.

[@Alwaysbelieve619]

Y'all need to stop putting Drake into that category. Drake and Post Malone aren’t viewed the same. White artists usually can vulture because they are the ones who control the industry. No matter how many of us complain about it, we can’t control who’s popular or not. Most of the executives and listeners are white. Unfortunately, we don’t have a say.

[@anthonyrowland9072]

When you find out it's tons of actual Country fans who think Post Malone/Jelly Roll are bastardizing an already bastardized genre.

[@TheCompanyMan]

Really?

[@anthonyrowland9072]

@@TheCompanyMan The country music boom in the 90s was built on the Neo-Traditional revival of then. It got fully comidified after the Telecommunication act of 1996. Several mainstream artists from then that had their careers ABRUPTLY curtailed in the late 90s in favor of more controllable and poppier artists.

[@joeperez4128]

When bro went off on the “cat drowning” tangent I was rolling “bow -dizzle to the bow-sizzle!!!”

[@thafo6309]

Bowsizzle to the Bowdizzle

[@cliftonjohnson1990]

Thanks for coming out with this channel. I know you from the DX days. I think i saw a video you did about the 3-lane theory. Which i believe was the case until… ITS JUST BIG ME. Anyway, I love the channel. It’s quickly becoming my favorite hip hop coverage channel because the opinions are always level-headed. Just keep rockin the way you rockin and if nobody else shows up I will. lol

[@VinnieDangerous]

No respect for Post Malone AT ALL! A textbook culture vulture. His picture should be next to the definition in the dictionary

[@RebelWithoutABoss]

A lot of us knew he was on bullshit long ago. I'll never understand why we need to learn the culture vulture lesson every few years.

[@seaberry11]

This is why I get aggravated when people call Eminem a culture vulture. Em studies Hip Hop, he knows more about Hip Hop than a lot of Black People I know. He also always acknowledges that he’s just a guest in the house, and that he would probably have only sold half the records he sold if it wasn’t for him being white. Now Post Malone on the other hand not only used Hip Hop, took the last name of a Black Man, but also used another Black star to launch himself into superstardom. Then once he got that fame…he dissed the whole genre. Which shows he knows nothing about Hip Hop because Lupe, Common, Ye at the time, Kendrick, Cole, Big K.R.I.T and many others were making thought provoking music…way better than the crap he was putting out. I knew he was a culture vulture when I found out he was a failed folk singer in that first Breakfast Club interview. Hip Hop is large jump from folk singing, I knew he was only using it because it was the hottest thing going. The time was right, he came in right when young people stopped caring about lyrics, and we’re all about good beats…he wouldn’t have made it five years before or after.

[@noclipp]

professor skye does great reviews too, people should be checking him out. thanks for also covering this

[@IllDawgable]

Like seeing you showing love to other youtubers Hunte. Saw your comment on Top5Troy's video.

[@usthefolksmusic]

Never could rock with Gross Malone. He always seemed like a gimmick and his music didn't move me even before knowing about his personality 😂

[@TreFKennedy]

0:16 nailed it Justin, never found buddy appealing nor his music

[@Honeybadger007-hklrkch]

The real enemy is the BP that think he is the best rapper ever and buy and support him over authentic underground hip hop artists 😮😮😮😮

[@Uebermenschman]

Drake ABSOLUTELY genre hops. I'm not forgetting this man's dance hall phase. 😭

[@Dannyyschh]

He’s never abandoned hip hop though

[@bribro23]

But that makes more sense than him in hip hop. Canada is full of Jamaicans, half of Canadian slang(like the UK) is just watered down Jamaican patois. So I can understand him doing that genre more than others. But he definitely hops around

[@Koduhhhh]

We extend way too many invites to the proverbial cookout…we need to stop. Collectively

[@CRSGamin]

Love to see the support, two of my favorite youtubers right here!!! You both inspire me to keep creating!

[@MindsetOnMMA]

Found you through professor skye. I love how you guys shout each other out.

[@318Skoota]

Did Miley Cyrus do the same thing?

[@namenlosNamenlos]

She did. Exactly.

[@318Skoota]

@@namenlosNamenlos ok I remember her hanging out with all the rappers twerking but I don't remember her leaving moment

[@henriettebopda5895]

@@318Skoota hell yeah!!

[@FlameForgedSoul]

@@318Skoota Her "run" was much shorter and she stuck her foot in her mouth far less.

[@yourdadhasadogfilter2505]

​@@318SkootaOnce she had her fun, she came out and said that all hip hop is vapid, and that Humble was the only song she liked

[@Bdonlee15]

Glad to hear your take on Professor Skye’s amazing vid. He got a bit of push back for what he said, but I’m grateful he spoke up

[@blazedroots]

Professor Skye is pretentious, arrogant and is often a prisoner of the moment, i find him to be totally unwatchable

[@SoA_Shepherd]

Mannnnnnn I’ve been saying this shit for so long ppl told me I was hater! Another banger! 🔥🔥

[@blazedroots]

gatekeeping is nothing to celebrate

[@icygt]

@@blazedroots it is when it comes to defend a culture from people who will directly harm it

[@QuinnBJones]

Country music gatekeeps the way I wish hip-hop would 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@AnthonyAnalog]

No it doesn't. It trap music with auto tune now. 😂 Only thing they kept in tact is the coded Klan language like "try that in a small town".

[@SlottiexBob]

County music doesn't gatekeep nothing, stolen from blacks watered down then made soulless.

[@3self]

@@SlottiexBob country music was stolen from Black people ? Elaborate. I'm curious.

[@SlottiexBob]

@@3self go check out Chuck Berry.

[@TakverReturns]

Country just let Post Malone stroll through the gates, whistljng (while barring lil Nas X)--and Post Malone isn't country, so that's some pretty patchy and selective 'gate-keeping' if you ask me.

[@Flonnethefallengyal]

"I wasn't raised to manipulate" I felt that

[@NatureBoyMk6]

It’s impossible to Gatekeep Hiphop at this point. It’s already been co-opted.

[@donmacmilly]

There was a country artist that won country song of the year for a old song a black woman made 30 years ago and had grammys. The fact a white guy can take a old song and not even better than the original and win country awards tells you everything about country music

[@hoodiemike210]

yelawolf let yall kno along time ago about this cat on bloody sunday diss song

[@namenlosNamenlos]

Right message wrong messenger type of guy all because yelaw0lf is r@cist his damn self. (Look into: Royce Da 5'9 & yelaw0lf few years ago hip-hop beefs.)

[@CED.Dweller]

Man, the self-awareness take is SPOT ON. Yeesh!

[@sammydubourg8421]

LL's new album is FIRE!!!

[@PAIDforeverRob]

It’s weird they gate kept Queen B from country and she’s from Texas and Post Malone gets in but he’s from Syracuse New York lol I get it tho thugger

[@bribro23]

I won’t lie as a blk person that does listen to country(all genres really) for years I just don’t think her album was that good, there a good number of blk country artist coming up now who I think all make better country music. She even had a couple on her album. But I do understand being mad that they won’t let her in when blk ppl allow any race into hip hop to be mediocre & still succeed

[@SoundsOfTheWild3]

Culture vulture is a problem with hip/hop because it has a very low bar of entry compared to the other popular genres. First off, it's a genre focused on solo acts rather than groups/bands. Second, its easy to use programs to make beats. Third rapping itself is a lot easier to get to a passable delivery compared to singing. This is evident by all the tiktokers and youtubers with no music background being able to make terrible rap songs, but those same people wouldn't be able to make a song with singing. Hip/hop has always had a lower bar of entry than the other big genres but it dealt with this by gatekeeping. I think of it similar to punk rock, which came to prominence as an antithesis to progressive rock. Progressive rock has almost no gatekeeping culture because the music itself serves as the filter. However, punk rock music is very easy to play (Generally, there is some difficult punk rock). In turn, punk has some of the biggest gatekeeping in rock music, even developing similar words like "Poser" which came out of the 70s London punk scene. The thing with gatekeeping is that it becomes harder to do the more mainstream the genre becomes. Also, the real problem with modern times, is that gatekeeping hip/hop now is almost impossible. Thanks to the internet and social media, it is very easy to bypass gatekeepers today than back then. This makes culture vultures a particular problem to modern hip/hop since gatekeeping in the modern age is very hard and the other genres have much higher bars of entry making culture vultures illogical for them.

[@JPmamaboy98]

You know i don’t love Jack Harlow but he has shown more integrity and respect than post Malone ever has and Posty out here telling sob stories, like he didn’t profit from our culture!

[@BOSSMOSS21]

Big facts on all your points, i remember Pink kind of doing the same thing n MGK is another one. This has got to stop.

[@JonathanIsrael708]

Nah, give Pink some grace. Pink was being forced by her label to do "black" music. She never wanted to, but LA Reid felt she had the voice for blue eyed soul so sent her down that path.

[@BOSSMOSS21]

@@JonathanIsrael708 Fair enough I should have said Kid Rock or somethin ,but the list is long.

[@JonathanIsrael708]

@@BOSSMOSS21 it definitely is tho. Miley Cirus is a more recent one. She blatantly dissed the culture after she was on rap songs, twerked on stage, and all the shenanigans.

[@bribro23]

@@JonathanIsrael708but she was never a rapper, she just got into things that would be considered rap culture. Everyone knew she was a country girl…. Who’s currently acting out.

[@bribro23]

@@JonathanIsrael708I felt he was right but it was also just her singing sounds, not her attitude or demeanor. She was still very much presenting as a grungy white girl who has a soulful voice

[@AybeeFrmCt]

U just described Drake 😂😂

[@clrs6576]

Definitely looking forward to the next collab 👌🏾

[@Ria-sd2ex]

The fact he just did a song with Morgan Wallen of all people speaks VOLUMES about what type of time he's on. Kid Rock 2, electric bugaloo.

[@TheoConway]

40 seconds in and YES!!!!!!!!!! My thoughts exactly

[@cuseyeti_one8three]

I’d boycott Post, but I never really liked him anyway. Never gave him a cent, not starting now.

[@jacksampsonforever]

Justin, just do another collab with Skye, please. You guys have such great chemistry together. Edit: I just saw the end of the video. WOO!

[@PHR94]

Preach it, my man! No matter who doesn't want to hear it. As a matter of fact, say it louder for the ones in the back acting like they didn't hear what that vulture said about our culture.

[@johnfrancispederson]

This whole conversation is way more nuanced than this. Think about Post Malone's age and think about XXL. "Why do n***** lie in 85% of their rhymes?" -Jadakiss. It's the Boosie Badazz vs Fat Joe comparison. Some of hip-hop is lived experience, but most people know that a lot of it is not. Perhaps it would have been better if he said, "In my opinion, hip hop is not the best genre to listen to if you want to think about life because so many rappers embellish their experiences in their lyrics" Obviously there are some rappers who stand by most of what they rap about, like Boosie. But even some of the best raps are completely fictional. Given the context of the dawn of mumble rap (which TENDS to be less lyrical) I have to cut Post some slack for those comments. Is every multi genre artist guilty of being a culture vulture if they choose to do multiple genres?

[@esmanmusic2204]

As a white fan of hip-hop and the culture as a whole. Guys like Post Malone are insulting to guys like me. I genuinely love eveything from LL, to Rakim, to Nas, to Eminem and eveything in between. Nothing wrong with being experimental, Tech N9ne does that, Everlast combines elements of hip hop in his solo stuff, hell all the timeless collaborations between rappers and bands. Think Run-DMC and Aerosmith, Public Enemy and Anthrax, Linking Park and JAY-Z, and they even collaborated with Rakim too. But what Post is doing is completely obvious, he’s distancing himself, not growing artistically. There’s a big difference and that’s my hot take.

[@pex3]

Not about Post Malone but I think it's completely wrong to put Drake in the same category at all. He's a Black man who spent a chunk of his life in Memphis growing up with his Black American family. Plus it's not like Toronto doesn't have a huge Black community... The idea that he's a colonizer only makes sense to Americans who don't know what Toronto is like.

[@TPoynt100]

I’m more surprised this backlash took so long than that it happened. Post Malone has always been open about the fact that the only reason he became a rapper and not a rock musician is because rap was more commercially viable than rock by the time he started making music. It’s always been about the money to him. But because he didn’t really understand the cultural significance of rap as a genre and only saw it as a means of making money, he saw that country is currently trending upwards while rap is trending downwards, switched genres to keep chasing the money, and then was surprised that it caused people to think less of him.

[@bkburnaz]

Ayyye brotha I don’t know why the algorithm never pushed your stuff my way I would of been on your channel good stuff

[@TheCompanyMan]

Thank you brother🙏🏿

[@jkarnold100]

3:13 As a white guy who DJs mainly doing chopped & screwed, this is huge. I always try to have this be my default lol

[@zambeazy]

nikolas nameolas just made a video about culture vultures and brought up post malone. can’t believe bro is still making music tbh

[@callmekady2731]

5:48 LETS TALK ABT IT!!! I agree hip hop should be gatekeeping like country but i think this is a perfect example of when you where talking about a lack of cultural boundaries with black art!

[@spacedproduction4084]

A nice late night one. "I wasn't raised to manipulate." thats a bar.

[@droppedoutbeatz]

You should do a Livechat man! I could see that being a fun, interactive, thoughtful experience that I'm tryna participate in

[@yorkqueer]

to this day I don't understand why people were so upset with what Charlemagne was saying, Post Malone comments were incredibly weird.

[@KSharpIAm]

I was already a huge fan, but I just became even more of a fan when you said the Red Dead Redemption song 😂 best game of all time

[@rawmakers]

So why do black hip hop artists not only make music with white hip hop artists, but also befriend them and treat them like family? Not everyone feels that hip hop is black only music, and it’s not just white people who feel that way. Also, why aren’t people pressed about That Mexican OT making hip hop? He’s Mexican but I don’t hear anyone calling him a culture vulture. Hip hop is a global genre now, which is actually a very beautiful thing that so many people love it and make it. Why can’t everyone enjoy it? Also if only black artists can make it, shouldn’t that mean that only black people can listen to it? But then that means all those white people buying tickets to rap shows would be excluded and now the artist is making less money. Idk man, seems kinda weird to base everything on skin color. What about people from Africa that recently came to America and started making rap? They were never apart of the foundation of rap music and didn’t live through slavery and segregation, so are they allowed to make it? These are all genuine questions and thoughts, I’m just trying to understand where we’re drawing the line and what criteria someone has to fit to be able to make rap music. It really does seem as though rap has gone beyond culture

[@Bigblessed]

Another great conversation about a topic that need to be discussed, to make people think for themselves and not the narrative the main stream is trying to push on us! Thank you sir

[@crabbuckets7506]

I wouldn't have agreed once upon a time. Hearing all this stuff over the years, I now agree. Now that he's doing country, my most hated genre, it clearly shows he'll do anything for the bag. So sad. Not even mad. Should have known he was a coloniser.

[@DiceB]

Facts we in HipHop should gate keep a lot more

[@virginiawatts4B]

I love when someone just says how they feel

[@Death2cornbread]

Hip-hop gate keep (that part) been feeling that way for years. Most will come in and use black in their videos... and as they raise up in the genre. You will see the background company changes.. not all, but most.

[@Maple_Syrup]

My favourite professor on KZbin!

[@ess-pee-arr]

First off I really mess with Professor Skye's content. This channel actually put me on to him. I not only appreciate his takes but the fact that he shouts out other content creators such as Fat Charlie. Fat Charlie's video was phenomenal. As far as Post Malone goes he always gave me descendant of Vanilla Ice vibes, so I always stayed away from him. This might be a hot take, but I really believe we could use more Wynton-Marsalis-like figures in Hip Hop.

[@TheCompanyMan]

What do you mean by WM like figures?

[@ess-pee-arr]

@@TheCompanyMan I realize he had some negative things to say about Hip Hop, but I'm speaking more to what has been called his gatekeeping of Jazz music due to his strict definition of what Jazz is. I'm not saying we'd want all of his traits in a Hip Hop representative. I do think he has a bit of aversion to criticism. But I think more, possibly controversial, opposing takes about inclusion would at least get thought and conversation started around what is acceptable.

[@TakverReturns]

Funny thing is, I don't think Vanilla Ice and Post Malone are guilty of the same thing. Vanilla Ice was pop-rap who faked his street cred, but I don't remember him ruthlessly genre- hopping or going on to discredit the genre.

[@TheCompanyMan]

​@@TakverReturns Ice turned into a punk artist

[@TakverReturns]

@@TheCompanyMan I stand corrected. 😏

[@colorsred2771]

Action Bronson is legit one of my favorite humans. He’s just a queens dude, if you ever meet a Greek or Balkan dude that grew up in Astoria they’re just like him

[@greenheadblackvoodochild2487]

This is so crazy cos I watch you and professor religiously lol

[@peterbadami4872]

I don't get the double standard for Post Malone. When Aloe Blacc transitioned from Hip-Hop to Soul to Pop no one gave him shit about it. Most people enjoy more that a single genre of music, so if an artist is talented enough and has the ability to be successful in multiple different kinds of music, why limit them from reaching their creative potential?

[@TheCompanyMan]

Aloe Blacc never shitted on hip hop after using it to build his brand.