Are White Rappers Being Herded Together?

<p>By&nbsp;&nbsp;Jordan Forrester</p><p>There has been a virtual well-spring of conversation about white Hip-Hop in the blogosphere recently.&nbsp; Nothing horribly analytical, just a collection of light-hearted pieces indicating its existence. Now I am aware that white people rap.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m also aware that white people listen to and purchase rap.&nbsp; However, I wasn&rsquo;t aware that white rappers had their own sub-genre.</p><p>When did this happen?&nbsp; I mean white folks have been rapping since coke spoon necklaces and the Bee Gees were hot.&nbsp; Blondie&rsquo;s Rapture is documented as the first rap record to reach the top of the pop charts.&nbsp; The Beastie Boys were dropping singles before LL took his first trip to the gym and 3rd Bass had folks Steppin to the AM before some of you had your first pair of hard-bottomed shoes. However, now there needs to be a line of demarcation between white rap and black rap?</p><p>I guess I find this hard to conceive because I remember when people started suggesting that Hip-Hop was not a purely African-American art form anymore. At a point in the culture&rsquo;s not too distant past, it became really bad business to say Hip-Hop was black music.&nbsp; Rap was incorporated into pop culture and it became an American art form.&nbsp; So it evolved into this multi-cultural love fest, spread from continent to continent and now there are hints that white rap is looking to secede from the same Hip Hop nation it elbowed itself into.</p>