Originally Posted by selah david

Whites by no means started hip hop. They did capitalize on it because we allowed them to. All the labels you named are imprints and are distributed by either a white company or by a company who's under the publishing umbrella of someone who is white or not black. Eminem is good but he is not a necessity to hip-hop and I think we could survive just as well if not better without him.And then if you wanna get super technical blacks(african americans) didnt start hip-hop either. It was jamaicans...