I was glad to learn that he didn’t become Lil Wyte when he joined the Hypnotize Camp Posse but that the name dates back to when he first formed a tag-team with a partner who called himself Lil Black in high school. It is disarmingly honest and charmingly naïve.
With a moniker like Lil Wyte, Patrick Lanshaw sort of has it coming to him. Like the self-appointed “King of the Burbs” John Brown with his half-baked “Ghetto Revival” gibberish. On the other hand if they don’t keep a certain respectful distance, they are liable to get things mixed up. A highly educational piece of television, it showed us that aspiring rappers can only benefit from connecting with the roots of the artform.
Exploiting the apparent oxymoron ‘white rapper’, it was based on the premise that America’s melanin-deficient MC’s still don’t quite fit into the overall picture and have to earn their place in both the hip-hop culture and the rap game. Like a reality show is supposed to, ego trip’s _The (white) Rapper Show_ from a few months back was all about an unlikely combination. Let’s start by acknowledging that both Vanilla Ice and Eminem, each in his own way, made it (even more) difficult for white rappers. But I’ll gladly address the topic, especially when the artist himself makes the first step. Even yours truly, who can be said to be harping on the subject, is perfectly able to review an album completely color-blind. But rap music is at a point where they don’t have to be brought up every single time.
When you read a review of a rap record (particularly one on the text-only ), do you sometimes wonder if the rapper in question is white? Have you read write-ups that you feel failed to spell out the obvious, that the rapper is white? Or that you thought irrelevantly pointed out that the rapper is white? Does it occur that you’re curious whether a reviewer who covers rap is white or not? These are legitimate questions.
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