What Is "Black" Music ?

So Weezy wants to be a Rock Star (No, not as in a "crackhead").
And Kanye releases an album that sounds like Phil Collins or Genesis and looks like a Grace Jones video.
Black Rock is nothing new.
Most would even say that Black Rock is the original rock.
Run DMC called themselves the "Kings of Rock" - not rap.
LL Cool J wanted to "Rock the Bells".
Hip-Hop (like punk) is just the illegitimate child of Rock.

Chuck Berry was a double O.G. rocker.

Hendrix was experienced as "The Rocker".

Thin Lizzy ("The Boys Are Back In Town") had a brotha'.

The Specials (Widely credited for their song "Free Nelson Mandela" getting Nelson Mandela freed.) even started a movement called Two-Tone that included both Black and white members.

The Two-Tone movement was in answer to the Rockabilly (Teds) and Punks (Skinheads) who were more racist in there choices of music.

L.A.'s Fishbone had a mix of Ska, Punk, Rock and Funk (Kind of a Black version of the Red Hot Chili Peppers).

Even in spandex, In Living Color had a few hits in the late eighties.

Slash is the only credible member of Guns-n-Roses.

Lenny pulled Denise Huxtable - so I gotta' give him his big ups.

And no one can leave "His Purple Badness" (Okay, so it's Salma Hayek - But I had to post this shot.) Prince from any rock list.

So Lil' Wayne and Kanye are just being what they intended be.

Rock Stars.