DJ's appeal: Kill The Whiteness Inside

[tiesto]

From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/25/AR2005082501818.html:

Tha Pumpsta, who happens be white, has built a following in the past few years by staging monthly "Kill Whitie" parties in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for large groups of white hipsters. His proclaimed goal, in between spinning booty-bass, Miami-style frenetically danceable hip-hop records that are low on lyrical depth and high on raunchiness, is to "kill the whiteness inside."

What that means, precisely, is debatable, but it has something to do with young white hipsters believing they can shed white privilege by parodying the black hip-hop life. In this way, they hope to escape their uptight conditioning and get in touch with the looser soul within them.

"I'm throwing this party, and it's obvious that I'm white and I'm kind of appropriating this culture but in an ironic way," said Tha Pumpsta, whose name is Jeremy Parker. The 25-year-old takes his Pumpsta moniker from his high-top sneakers. "Kinda poking fun at myself and my origins and white people in general," he said.

More at the link... I'm curious as to what you guys think about white hipsters listening to hiphop in an ironic, detached way .

[The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment]

Say whaaaaaat?

[Robo]

Isn't this sort of old-hat at this point?  See above post.

[Phoenix Dark]

Pretty old schitck.

[futami]

hipsters are worse than "wiggers."

[tiesto]

hipsters are worse than "wiggers."

Why do you say that? I'd vastly prefer to deal with hipsters than wiggers, then again the former is in short supply around here (they all just head over to Brooklyn) and we're overrun with the latter.

[futami]

because most hipsters are pretentious hip-hop purists who frown upon actual progression in this artform.

they, like those mentioned in the article, celebrate the elements of hip-hop -- rap -- that have soured many on its mainstream representation.