this video is brought to you by surf shark stay tuned to find out more you know this is a culture i grew up around and in and fell in love with at a real early age you know and i never you know knew anything but that this is all i you know this is all i loved all i ever saw myself wanting to do in life you know so it's not like you know i'm just doing me you know and that's all that's all i can do that's all i know how to do you know it is what it is if there's any area of the entire world where white people are both outnumbered and overmatched it's the world of hip-hop rendered the outsiders and the culture that was created for and by the black community it's one historic art form in which they've never been able to truly co-opt in the vein of others after all rock and roll was invented by black people but the average person may think of that genre and immediately envision a gallery of long-haired white dudes but when it comes to rap music the genre's star power and the capacity to shift the culture generally remains in the hands of those who first pioneered the sound and brought it to the masses now the biggest form of music in the entire world the sound that was devised in the inner cities now fascinates those in the suburbs like never before and with the notable exception of eminem its superstars are hardly white sure there's vets like lp asap rock and atmosphere or occasionally you'll get an mc that has a fleeting moment in the sun like macklemore or asher roth but bearing the late great mac miller the past decade or so has seen little to no white artist being clutched to hip hop's heart in the way that m or regional legend like paul wall was so much so that in the case of machine gun kelly it took a transition to another genre for him to become the superstar that he'd always foreseen himself as but if any caucasian mc has been a staple in hip-hop recently at least in commercial terms it's been gerald earl gillum better known as g-eazy or at least that was the case until the successor arrived with bigger hits and more importantly a greater appreciation from the culture that was missing from his run in jack harlow after initially entering the industry as a producer during his days at new orleans loyola university the bay area mc commenced his career as an mc in NUMBER_TOKEN with the self-released fresh ep and the tipping point mixtape that followed following on from the successful vans warped tour which was generally an outlet for pop punk and rock axe by september NUMBER_TOKEN g easy's impressive run of success as an independent and self-governed artist resulted in the majors predictably knocking at his door entitled these things happened his first record under rca peaked at number three on the billboard charts and came complete with collapse from bay area icon eNUMBER_TOKEN as well as then rising star asap ferg but from the very moment that success set in and he appeared to be making inroads to hip-hop culture at large it was clear that he hadn't passed the muster in the eyes of some and in NUMBER_TOKEN he
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