"In the first place, so much of the aesthetic is based on gangster culture. Black gangster culture specifically"

Most of "Black" gangster culture is appropriated from Italian and Irish immigrant thugs/mobsters/gangsters. Stop giving Black people credit for being the source of all this. or creating or inventing it.

White people invented the building blocks of what we think of as catchy rap songs. Patter vocals, vaudeville, musicals, The Music Man, Meredith Wilson. and going further back, the Scandinavian practice of flyting. Obviously, Black people in the USA (and their Jewish handlers) remixed these things into something distinctive.

"In the first place, so much of the aesthetic is based on gangster culture. Black gangster culture specifically"

Most of "Black" gangster culture is appropriated from Italian and Irish immigrant thugs/mobsters/gangsters. Stop giving Black people credit for being the source of all this. or creating or inventing it.