If said black woman was terrible at rapping even after 4 years trying to, yeah, she’d probably be told not to rap and to try to be an autotuned pop singer instead.

Uhhh, black women are told they are not welcome constantly, from all different sources in all corners of American society. Including in hip hop.

I think it is an extensive article with plenty of sourcing (and I appreciate the author for it). I also think your response is nuanced up to the last questions. The answer to the last questions are what you are getting from others in this subthread.

You’re missing the point that she has been told, many a time, by many different people that her rapping just isn’t very good.

Your takeaway is “poor white girl wasn’t welcomed with open arms”?

I know it’s received good reviews, but this sounds awful.

The point you seem to have missed is, at the end of the day, pretty or no, she’s wack. Got no lyrics. No bars. Motherfuckers like you think you can be cute and just show up and the world is supposed to support you.

I don’t know how people are missing this...Eminem...the answer is Eminem. No one gave a shit he was white after he proved he had the talent

It doesn’t matter how hard you work at something if you’re bad at it.

Being white definitely hurt her and kept from doing what she wanted, but not in the way that idiot thinks. Her white arrogance got all up in the way to hurt her and keep from doing what she wanted and she still hasn’t learned.

There will always be people on Jezebel who will defend any white woman over anything it seems.

Um, men who were/wanted to fuck her literally looked at her and said “She is white and “exotic” looking. She should have a career.” That’s not how it works for other artists. She had a bunch of Black men kissing her ass, teaching her, and pushing her simply because they were infatuated with the idea of a white female…

A decade of work with people who knew what they were talking about telling her that she really wasn’t good enough to do what she was trying to do...not that she was too white to do it, but that she didn’t have the talent and needed to shift focus a little. And still she made it on the charts and still she got paid.

“Would a black woman who wanted to rap have been told to do pop instead?”

...and she was still bad at it. That’s what you seem to be missing.

Nobody is crying any tears for this poor, beleaguered white girl who was handed a music career based on her whiteness, while a few people tried to steer her away from the cultural appropriation she so needed to commit. Fuck her.

...Man, I think I’m going to keep coming back to this piece all day, thinking about it more. Upon reflection, this bit is really sticking with me:

Wonderfully written, Clover. You rock!

This is amazing — thoroughly researched, relentlessly argued and really compellingly written. Thank you for making my morning with it!

Don’t you have soap to make?