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Although hip hop
is a primarily music oriented culture, the political significance of race sometimes comes into play, with accusations of cultural appropriation against non-African American
—typically white performers, and charges of racism and self-stereotyping against black performers.
has said: "I hate music where white people are trying to sound black. The white music I like is white", but apparently West likes Eminem
because "he's talented and skilled".
Other artists reject such distinctions and argue that it's absurd to racially segregate music four decades after the civil rights movement.
Mainstream: Eminem
, Yelawolf
, Asher Roth
, Machine Gun Kelly (rapper)
, Lil Wyte
, Paul Wall
, Bubba Sparxxx
, Beastie Boys
,
, a rap group that consists of three Caucasian Jewish
emcees , were sometimes labeled under sub-categories of hip hop music, such as alternative. White hip hop artists have advanced the genre of rap by bringing in a larger and more diverse audience and recognition for rap as a musical genre; however, they have had much less of an effect on the overall musical trajectory of the rap scene than their counterparts, with the notable exception of Eminem. The Beastie Boys managed to sell millions of records while maintaining the respect of the hip hop community.
There are many Asian rappers. Some of the first include Mountain Brothers
and Jin The Emcee. They also include Far East Movement
. More recently many Asian rappers have become known through YouTube
, these include Traphik
and Dumbfoundead
.
Another notable mention is the classic Hip-Hop group from the late 1980s and early 1990s 3rd Bass
, composed of two white Jewish MCs, MC Serch
and Pete Nice
and their DJ, African-American DJ Richie Rich
.
The group had two critically acclaimed albums, 1989's The Cactus Album and 1991's Derelicts of Dialect
, both on the Def Jam label and both reaching gold
in record sales.
White Canadian rapper MC Shadow
(Get Loose Crew
and as a solo artist JUST Me
and not to be confused with DJ Shadow
, a separate white artist) is regarded as a hip hop music pioneer.
Wealth and class have always been significant issues in hip hop, a culture which was developed mainly among the lower and lower-middle class blacks and latinos of inner-city New York. Any view of money that can be seen in real life can also be seen in the lyrics of rap — just as there are rappers who often brag about their extravagant wealth or more specifically their "rags to riches" stories, there are political militants who decry materialism. Although most of hip hop's famous and influential rappers have come from inner-city ghettos, hip hop has always represented a variety of economic backgrounds. For example, Run-D.M.C.
, Beastie Boys
, Rakim
, Black Sheep
, and Kanye West
were middle-class when they began rapping. However, the issue of white privelege pervades white rappers and white audiences of hip-hop.
Race issues often intersect with class issues. Rapper Vanilla Ice
was born in Dallas, Texas
, but raised in South Florida. After gaining success on the underground scene, the rapper signed to major label SBK Records
, who manufactured a false background in promotional materials, including a biography written by his manager, Tommy Quon, and attributed to Vanilla Ice, claiming that the rapper was born in the inner-city of Miami, Florida
. Van Winkle has since regretted the book's publication, stating "I went overseas, I came back and people were asking me these weird questions and I couldn't understand them and then they said, 'well, your story is not matching with your bio,' and I said 'What bio?' and they pulled one out and I read it and I said, 'Who wrote this? Where'd you get this from?' And I had to hire these investigators to find out where the f*** this came from and nobody would really fess up to it [..] but the damage was already done. I was already labeled like a liar [...] I grew up in Dallas, I never denied that, I've never lied".
House of Pain
, an Irish-American crew from Los Angeles
, were assertive about their ethnicity, including footage of a St. Patrick's Day parade in the music video for their first hit single Jump Around
and name-dropping
prominent Irish Americans in their lyrics. They also incorporated time signatures associated with traditional Irish folk music
such as jig
s and reel
s into their songs—a major deviation from mainstream hip hop where virtually every song is done in 4/4 time.
The most recent mainstream exception to the skin color trend in mainstream rap is the white rapper Eminem
who grew up in the city of Warren, MI near Detroit. In his song "White America", Eminem attributes his selling success to his being more easily digestible by a white audience, because he "looks like them."
According to musicologist
Arthur Kempton, "Today 70 percent of hip-hop is bought by white listeners".. There are no demographic studies with consistent results to support these claims and some, such as author Bakari Kitwana, believe that these numbers are used politically in order to, for example, play down the buying power of young African-Americans.
Boots Riley
has criticized these figures, pointing out that they only count SoundScan
sales, which exclude the mom-and-pop record stores located in majority black and Latino neighborhoods that major music chains tend to avoid, and thus dramatically underrepresents the number of sales made in such communities.
According to political rapper Zion of Zion I
, socially conscious hip hop in particular has a majority white audience: "...so many black people don't want to hear it. They want that thug shit." In addition to Zion, several other underground rappers such as Boots Riley of The Coup
, report nearly all white audiences.. Zion was denounced for his racially-oriented thinking.
Rapper Pitbull described hardships breaking into the Rap industry because he is a white
Cuban
.
In the UK
, there has been a rise in white or asian rappers such as some members of N-Dubz
and Roll Deep
. As well as soloists such as Devlin, M.I.A.
, Example, Plan B, Professor Green
, Tyga
, Cher Lloyd
and The Streets
.
Brother Ali
is infamous for purposely distorting and obfuscating his racial background. Audiences often assume that he is an African-American Albino rapper due to his name ("Brother" is a word used by black people in reference to other black people; "Ali" is an Arabic name), lyrics ("Beneath the outer layer the train is black", for example) and his Muslim faith (similar to other black rappers such as Freeway
, whom has collaborated with Brother Ali). The 'truth is' that Ali is actually a Caucasian Albino.
Hip hop
Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...
is a primarily music oriented culture, the political significance of race sometimes comes into play, with accusations of cultural appropriation against non-African American
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
—typically white performers, and charges of racism and self-stereotyping against black performers.
Overview
By the United States 2000 Census, three quarters of the United States' population is white, while one eighth is black. However, most mainstream rappers in the United States are black. Some believe this discrepancy is a good thing; popular rapper Kanye WestKanye West
Kanye Omari West is an American rapper, singer, and record producer. West first rose to fame as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records, where he eventually achieved recognition for his work on Jay-Z's album The Blueprint, as well as hit singles for musical artists including Alicia Keys, Ludacris, and...
has said: "I hate music where white people are trying to sound black. The white music I like is white", but apparently West likes Eminem
Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III , better known by his stage name Eminem or his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. Eminem's popularity brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition...
because "he's talented and skilled".
Other artists reject such distinctions and argue that it's absurd to racially segregate music four decades after the civil rights movement.
Mainstream: Eminem
Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III , better known by his stage name Eminem or his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. Eminem's popularity brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition...
, Yelawolf
Yelawolf
Michael Wayne Atha , better known by his stage name YelaWolf, is an American rapper. He is currently signed to Shady Records, Ghet-O-Vision Entertainment and Interscope Records...
, Asher Roth
Asher Roth
Asher Paul Roth is an American rapper.-Early life:Asher Roth was born and raised in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, a small town about 20 miles northeast of Philadelphia. His mother, Elizabeth , is a yoga instructor, and his father, David Roth, is the executive director of a design firm...
, Machine Gun Kelly (rapper)
Machine Gun Kelly (rapper)
Richard Colson Baker , best known by his stage name Machine Gun Kelly or MGK, is an American rapper from Cleveland, Ohio. His stage name was given for his rapid-fire lyrical flow. He is known for his two mixtapes, 100 Words and Running and Lace Up. He also has been featured in XXL. In mid 2011 MGK...
, Lil Wyte
Lil Wyte
Patrick Lanshaw , better known by his stage name Lil Wyte, is an American rapper from Memphis, Tennessee. He is a member of the rap collective Hypnotize Minds.- Early life :...
, Paul Wall
Paul Wall
Paul Michael Slayton , better known by his stage name Paul Wall, is an American rapper. He is currently affiliated with Swishahouse Records, having released several albums under the label as well as...
, Bubba Sparxxx
Bubba Sparxxx
Warren Anderson Mathis , known by his stage name Bubba Sparxxx, is an American Southern rapper. His biggest hit is "Ms. New Booty" featuring The Ying Yang Twins which peaked at #7 in the United States...
, Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys are an American hip hop trio from New York City. The group consists of Mike D who plays the drums, MCA who plays the bass, and Ad-Rock who plays the guitar....
,
Discussion
Successful artists such as the Beastie BoysBeastie Boys
Beastie Boys are an American hip hop trio from New York City. The group consists of Mike D who plays the drums, MCA who plays the bass, and Ad-Rock who plays the guitar....
, a rap group that consists of three Caucasian Jewish
Judaism
Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...
emcees , were sometimes labeled under sub-categories of hip hop music, such as alternative. White hip hop artists have advanced the genre of rap by bringing in a larger and more diverse audience and recognition for rap as a musical genre; however, they have had much less of an effect on the overall musical trajectory of the rap scene than their counterparts, with the notable exception of Eminem. The Beastie Boys managed to sell millions of records while maintaining the respect of the hip hop community.
There are many Asian rappers. Some of the first include Mountain Brothers
Mountain Brothers
Mountain Brothers was an American hip hop group originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Named after the legend of 108 mountain bandits depicted in the Chinese novel Water Margin, the group formed in 1994 after all attended the Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania.The...
and Jin The Emcee. They also include Far East Movement
Far east movement
Far East Movement is an Asian American electro hop quartet based in Los Angeles. The group formed in 2003 and consists of Kev Nish , Prohgress , J-Splif , and DJ Virman...
. More recently many Asian rappers have become known through YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
, these include Traphik
Traphik
Traphik , also known as Timothy DeLaGhetto, is a rapper, comedian, and videographer. Aside from rapping, Traphik also makes online parody and comedy videos.-Filmography:-Youtube Channels:...
and Dumbfoundead
Dumbfoundead
Jonathan Park , better known by his stage name Dumbfoundead, is a Korean American battle rapper originating from the Los Angeles Underground's Project Blowed...
.
Another notable mention is the classic Hip-Hop group from the late 1980s and early 1990s 3rd Bass
3rd Bass
3rd Bass was an American hip-hop group that rose to fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and was notable for being one of the first successful interracial hip-hop groups.-Career:...
, composed of two white Jewish MCs, MC Serch
MC Serch
MC Serch is a Jewish-American hip hop MC and former member of 3rd Bass.-Biography:Serch grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens, attending Far Rockaway High School, and graduated from Music & Art High School...
and Pete Nice
Pete Nice
Prime Minister Pete Nice is a former hip hop MC who was most noted as a member of the group 3rd Bass.-Career:...
and their DJ, African-American DJ Richie Rich
DJ Richie Rich
DJ Richie Rich , is a former record producer and turntablist who was best known as a member of the New York-based rap trio 3rd Bass. He was also known as Daddy Rich. He was part of The "Supermen" DJ crew which also included other top DJs such as Scratch, Clark Kent, Miz, Supreme, and Alladin...
.
The group had two critically acclaimed albums, 1989's The Cactus Album and 1991's Derelicts of Dialect
Derelicts of Dialect
Derelicts of Dialect was Queens-based emcees 3rd Bass' second LP and final studio album, released on Def Jam Recordings...
, both on the Def Jam label and both reaching gold
Music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...
in record sales.
White Canadian rapper MC Shadow
MC Shadow
Kory Neely, better known as MC Shadow is a Canadian rapper, producer and author, who achieved fame for being the first white rapper in Canadian musical history . His group The Get Loose Crew was the first Canadian rap group to produce a mini LP and the the first to effect international sales...
(Get Loose Crew
Get Loose Crew
- See also :MC Shadow- Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCanadian hip hop- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...
and as a solo artist JUST Me
Just Me
-Peak Positions:-End of year charts:-Certifications:-Release details:-Personnel:*Tina Arena – vocals*Richard Bailey – photography*Ian Dench – guitar*John Fortis – bass*Erik Godal – keyboard, programming*Simon Hale – conductor, string arrangements...
and not to be confused with DJ Shadow
DJ Shadow
Joshua Paul Davis better known as DJ Shadow is an American music producer, DJ and songwriter. He is considered a prominent figure in the development of instrumental hip hop and first gained notice with the release of his highly acclaimed debut album Endtroducing....., which was constructed...
, a separate white artist) is regarded as a hip hop music pioneer.
Wealth and class have always been significant issues in hip hop, a culture which was developed mainly among the lower and lower-middle class blacks and latinos of inner-city New York. Any view of money that can be seen in real life can also be seen in the lyrics of rap — just as there are rappers who often brag about their extravagant wealth or more specifically their "rags to riches" stories, there are political militants who decry materialism. Although most of hip hop's famous and influential rappers have come from inner-city ghettos, hip hop has always represented a variety of economic backgrounds. For example, Run-D.M.C.
Run-D.M.C.
Run–D.M.C. was an American hip hop group from Hollis, in the Queens borough of New York City. Founded by Joseph "Run" Simmons, Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels, and Jason "Jam-Master Jay" Mizell, the group is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential acts in the history of hip hop culture.Run–D.M.C...
, Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys are an American hip hop trio from New York City. The group consists of Mike D who plays the drums, MCA who plays the bass, and Ad-Rock who plays the guitar....
, Rakim
Rakim
William Michael Griffin Jr. , known by his stage names Rakim , Rakim Allah, R.A.K.I.M., and The Master, is an American rapper. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential and most skilled emcees of all time. Eric B...
, Black Sheep
Black Sheep (hip hop group)
Black Sheep is an alternative hip hop duo from Queens, New York, composed of Andres "Dres" Titus and William "Mista Lawnge" McLean. The duo is from New York but met as teenagers in North Carolina, where both of their families relocated. The group was an affiliate of the Native Tongues, which...
, and Kanye West
Kanye West
Kanye Omari West is an American rapper, singer, and record producer. West first rose to fame as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records, where he eventually achieved recognition for his work on Jay-Z's album The Blueprint, as well as hit singles for musical artists including Alicia Keys, Ludacris, and...
were middle-class when they began rapping. However, the issue of white privelege pervades white rappers and white audiences of hip-hop.
Race issues often intersect with class issues. Rapper Vanilla Ice
Vanilla Ice
Robert Matthew Van Winkle , best known by his stage name Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, extreme athlete and home improvement television personality...
was born in Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
, but raised in South Florida. After gaining success on the underground scene, the rapper signed to major label SBK Records
SBK Records
SBK Records was a record label of the EMI Group that was founded in 1988.Stephen Swid, Martin Bandier, and Charles Koppelman formed the production company SBK in 1989 after they purchased the music publishing division of CBS Records in 1986....
, who manufactured a false background in promotional materials, including a biography written by his manager, Tommy Quon, and attributed to Vanilla Ice, claiming that the rapper was born in the inner-city of Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
. Van Winkle has since regretted the book's publication, stating "I went overseas, I came back and people were asking me these weird questions and I couldn't understand them and then they said, 'well, your story is not matching with your bio,' and I said 'What bio?' and they pulled one out and I read it and I said, 'Who wrote this? Where'd you get this from?' And I had to hire these investigators to find out where the f*** this came from and nobody would really fess up to it [..] but the damage was already done. I was already labeled like a liar [...] I grew up in Dallas, I never denied that, I've never lied".
House of Pain
House of Pain
House of Pain is an American hip hop group who released three albums in the 1990s before lead rapper Everlast left to pursue his solo career again. The group's name is a reference to the H.G. Wells novel The Island of Dr...
, an Irish-American crew from Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, were assertive about their ethnicity, including footage of a St. Patrick's Day parade in the music video for their first hit single Jump Around
Jump Around
"Jump Around" is the title of a song by the band House of Pain, produced by DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill. This song became a hit in 1992, reaching Number 3 in the USA. A 1993 re-release of the song in the UK, where the original had been a minor hit, peaked at Number 8. On VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of...
and name-dropping
Name-dropping
Name-dropping is the practice of mentioning important people or institutions within a conversation, story, song, online identity, or other communication. The term often connotes an attempt to impress others; it is usually regarded negatively, and under certain circumstances may constitute a breach...
prominent Irish Americans in their lyrics. They also incorporated time signatures associated with traditional Irish folk music
Music of Ireland
Irish Music is the generic term for music that has been created in various genres on the island of Ireland.The indigenous music of the island is termed Irish traditional music. It has remained vibrant through the 20th, and into the 21st century, despite globalizing cultural forces...
such as jig
Jig
The Jig is a form of lively folk dance, as well as the accompanying dance tune, originating in England in the 16th century and today most associated with Irish dance music and Scottish country dance music...
s and reel
Reel (dance)
The reel is a folk dance type as well as the accompanying dance tune type. In Scottish country dancing, the reel is one of the four traditional dances, the others being the jig, the strathspey and the waltz, and is also the name of a dance figure ....
s into their songs—a major deviation from mainstream hip hop where virtually every song is done in 4/4 time.
The most recent mainstream exception to the skin color trend in mainstream rap is the white rapper Eminem
Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III , better known by his stage name Eminem or his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. Eminem's popularity brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition...
who grew up in the city of Warren, MI near Detroit. In his song "White America", Eminem attributes his selling success to his being more easily digestible by a white audience, because he "looks like them."
According to musicologist
Musicology
Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...
Arthur Kempton, "Today 70 percent of hip-hop is bought by white listeners".. There are no demographic studies with consistent results to support these claims and some, such as author Bakari Kitwana, believe that these numbers are used politically in order to, for example, play down the buying power of young African-Americans.
Boots Riley
Boots Riley
Boots Riley is an American musician, vocalist, writer, and public speaker most known for being the front man and producer of The Coup as well as the front man for Street Sweeper Social Club.-Biography:...
has criticized these figures, pointing out that they only count SoundScan
Nielsen SoundScan
Nielsen SoundScan is an information and sales tracking system created by Mike Fine and Mike Shalett. Soundscan is the official method of tracking sales of music and music video products throughout the United States and Canada...
sales, which exclude the mom-and-pop record stores located in majority black and Latino neighborhoods that major music chains tend to avoid, and thus dramatically underrepresents the number of sales made in such communities.
According to political rapper Zion of Zion I
Zion I
Zion I are a hip hop duo from Oakland, California. The duo consists of producer DJ AmpLive and MC Zumbi. The group is known to its followers for Amp's futuristic production techniques, using a mix of live instrumentation and samples, and Zumbi's positive and socially conscious lyrics. Zion I...
, socially conscious hip hop in particular has a majority white audience: "...so many black people don't want to hear it. They want that thug shit." In addition to Zion, several other underground rappers such as Boots Riley of The Coup
The Coup
The Coup is a political hip hop group based in Oakland, California. It formed as a three-member group in 1992 with emcees Raymond "Boots" Riley and E-Roc along with DJ Pam the Funkstress. E-Roc left on amicable terms after the group's second album but appears on the track "Breathing Apparatus" on...
, report nearly all white audiences.. Zion was denounced for his racially-oriented thinking.
Rapper Pitbull described hardships breaking into the Rap industry because he is a white
White American
White Americans are people of the United States who are considered or consider themselves White. The United States Census Bureau defines White people as those "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa...
Cuban
Cuban American
A Cuban American is a United States citizen who traces his or her "national origin" to Cuba. Cuban Americans are also considered native born Americans with Cuban parents or Cuban-born persons who were raised and educated in US...
.
In the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, there has been a rise in white or asian rappers such as some members of N-Dubz
N-Dubz
N-Dubz are a British hip hop group from Camden Town, London. The group consists of members Dappy, Tulisa Contostavlos and Fazer.N-Dubz were previously signed to Polydor Records before joining All Around the World Records...
and Roll Deep
Roll Deep
Roll Deep are an Urban Music Awards-winning London-based grime music collective. They were founded in 2002, by a group of MCs including Wiley. Roll Deep were also closely associated with Boy Better Know with members in both. Their debut album, In at the Deep End, was released in June 2005...
. As well as soloists such as Devlin, M.I.A.
M.I.A. (artist)
Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam , better known by her stage name M.I.A. , is an English singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, painter and director of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. Her compositions combine elements of hip hop, electronica, dance, alternative and world music. M.I.A...
, Example, Plan B, Professor Green
Professor Green
Professor Green , better known by his stage name Professor Green, is a British rapper. He was signed to The Beats, a record label run by Mike Skinner and Ted Mayhem, until 12 February 2008, as the label went under. He won the inaugural JumpOff MySpace £50,000 battle rap tournament in July 2008...
, Tyga
Tyga
Michael Stevenson , better known by his stage name Tyga , is an American rapper signed to Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records and Universal Republic Records. He is of Vietnamese and Jamaican descent...
, Cher Lloyd
Cher Lloyd
Cher Lloyd is a British singer and rapper from Malvern, Worcestershire. Lloyd rose to fame in 2010 when she participated in reality TV series The X Factor, to which she finished in fourth place. Shortly afterwards, Lloyd was signed by Simon Cowell to Sony Records subsidary SyCo Music, releasing...
and The Streets
The Streets
The Streets were a British rap/garage project from Birmingham, United Kingdom, led by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Skinner and has included a myriad of other contributors most notably drummer Johnny Drum Machine, vocalist Kevin Mark Trail and the Italian-American beatmaker Leroy.The...
.
Brother Ali
Brother Ali
Ali Newman , better known by the stage name Brother Ali, is an American hip hop artist signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment.-Personal life:...
is infamous for purposely distorting and obfuscating his racial background. Audiences often assume that he is an African-American Albino rapper due to his name ("Brother" is a word used by black people in reference to other black people; "Ali" is an Arabic name), lyrics ("Beneath the outer layer the train is black", for example) and his Muslim faith (similar to other black rappers such as Freeway
Freeway (rapper)
Leslie Edward Pridgen , better known by his stage name Freeway, is an American rapper. Best known for his tenure on Roc-A-Fella Records and his affiliation with Jay-Z and Beanie Sigel, he is recognized by his high-pitched delivery and for the long beard he keeps due to his Muslim faith...
, whom has collaborated with Brother Ali). The 'truth is' that Ali is actually a Caucasian Albino.