How yall feel about this

[u/EnlightnedRedditor]

Idc too much for politics, just wanna know other peoples opinions on it.

[u/Fragzilla360]

Yeah he’s a racist. But he didn’t just become a racist overnight and a segment of hip hop culture has had this weird ass fascination with him for at least the past 3 decades. Not saying this is the reason why that number is so high or that it’s even a contributing factor, it’s just… shit I don’t know, some people are just weird as fuck 😂 and I’m not gonna try to speak for all of us.

I guess for me personally I really find it shocking that he has that high a percentage of women voters, black or white or Asian, and everyone else. Given his stance on women’s reproductive rights, proven sexual violence against women, treating of and referring to women as sexual objects it absolutely blows my mind every day that any woman in this day and age can consider him as a viable contender for the presidency.

[u/b3nd3r_r0b0t → u/Fragzilla360]

Facts about the hip hop culture having this weird fascination with him. How many different songs have "rich like trump" or reference staying in trump tower. Hell method man had him on an album. Sometimes we as a people only focus on money and not the dark shit with it.

[u/Ok_Concentrate_75 → u/b3nd3r_r0b0t]

That era, he was 1. Frequent in conversations on new younger Uber rich people 2. He was always being interviewed 3.His influence in the NYC/NJ area, where much of that rap sound was born from. So if I'm rapping about my area and I live in Brooklyn or Newark, I see a ton of Trump stuff.

[u/Fragzilla360 → u/b3nd3r_r0b0t]

From like the early 80’s through the mid to late 2000’s hip hop was awesome and weird at times and most definitely eclectic. Some of the people we would latch on to and reference could be so bizarre and cool at the same time. Like how many rappers back then referenced Patrick Swayze and the movie Ghost 😂😂😂😂 I loved that then about hip hop and love it now. (Edit: love the eclecticness part, not the trump part 👊🏾😆)

[u/thejaytheory → u/b3nd3r_r0b0t]

Yep materialism at its' finest

[u/Noirecissist → u/thejaytheory]

That what it came down to. Trump was an easily assessable metaphor for material success which has always been the central aspiration of most rappers. I don’t begrudge that goal, it makes sense for poor and working class people to want freedom from want. I just wish we chosen better avatars for that objective than someone who has consistently used black people when convenient, and usually to our detriment.

[u/Neo_Neo_oeN_oeN → u/Fragzilla360]

I'm convinced there's a portion of the population that value their own entertainment more than anything else and they'll go along with anything that amuses them until it no longer serves that purpose.

[u/thejaytheory → u/Neo_Neo_oeN_oeN]

Hit the nail on the head.