Nyck Caution. Absolute animal on the microphone and has that old school hip-hop vibe. Yes, he is white but that shouldn’t change anything. This example of cultural appropriation had a positive effect on it rather than a negative. He is from Brooklyn, NY and his style of music fits perfectly with his background too. The reason why this is cultural appropriation is because the style of music is considered a “African-American style” of music but seeing as he’s white he’s often looked at differently and people think “wait this kids white?” so assumptions and stereotypes definitely come into play when it comes to making hip-hop music. He changed some of the aspects and elements of the original hip-hop sound and adds his own two-sense into his music which makes it incredible.
Diamond is one of my favorite songs by Nyck, it has that 90’s hip-hop beat to it and he murders it. Nyck could be an inspiration to many people out there who think that they wouldn’t have a chance in making it in the music game just because of their skin color and thinking that they will be judged because of it. Perhaps he could create a change in modern hip-hop and it could be another calling for perhaps different ethnicities and races of artists that are going to be up and coming in the game. “Doubted I could spit, now you shoutin’ for a feature” so it’s clear to me that he understands that he is the minority in this situation but he’s doing his own thing and destined to make it big.
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