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From Vanilla Ice to Macklemore: understanding the white rapper's burden

In this excerpt from his essay collection They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Hanif Abdurraqib traces the interplay of privilege and guilt through the careers of hip-hop’s great white hopes, and wonders whatever happened to Bubba SparxxxIn the music video for the 1991 3rd Bass single Pop Goes the Weasel, MC Serch and Pete Nice are beating an actor playing Vanilla Ice with baseball bats. The actor, with large blond hair and Vanilla Ice’s signature American Flag track jacke...

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10:55 on October 8 2018

From Vanilla Ice to Macklemore: understanding the white rapper's burden

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