White power hip-hop? Seriously?!

Unfortunately it’s true. Some white pride kids are trying to infiltrate the hip-hop community. What’s scary is that I bet some Ron Paul fans from the suburbs – a predominately white middle class group of kids growing like wild flowers – would rally behind white power hip-hop music. What’s even more scary is that I bet when you try to say who the real players behind the beats vibrating in their ears are, they’ll give you some type of excuse about their music tastes – just like most white kids responded in defense for Ron Paul when you’d tell them their biggest fan voted against the Civil Rights Act.

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Recently, Turn It Down – a national campaign against white power music – was asked to contribute an article to a magazine overseas regarding the existence and potential of white power hip-hop here in the United States. Several European nations are seeing a sharp rise in racist and nationalist hip-hop, and our sister organizations wondered if America is seeing a similar cultural absurdity, particularly since America is essentially the birthplace and epicenter of hip-hop.

A large portion of membership and participation in the Turn It Down Campaign (also found on myspace) comes from bands and fans within the punk and metal genres, along with indie, alt.country, and other subgenres of rock. This may be due to the fact that these genres are the ones most often hijacked by white nationalist music. Additionally, or perhaps as a reason for this tendency, white nationalists find their most fertile recruiting grounds among the fans of these predominantly white music subcultures. But hip-hop?!

Whether or not you’re a fan of the genre, it seems common cultural knowledge that hip-hop emerged from the black and Puerto Rican communities, initially in New York and soon after in Chicago, Los Angeles, and across the nation. The notion that hip-hop could ever find validation within our nation’s enclaves of white nationalism seems ludicrous. But believe it or not, there is white power hip-hop out there.

You may have heard of Woodpile. They were a blip on the controversy radar a couple of years ago when they were signed to West Coast Mafia Records, run by well-known black rapper C-BO. The band and the label have staunchly maintained that Woodpile, who market their music to incarcerated white listeners and often pay homage to ‘the Woods,’ a white racist prison gang, are not in any way racist. They admit that they encourage ‘white pride,’ but their lyrics stop there. If anything, we’ve concluded that Woodpile is a bit silly, somewhat contradictory, but not explicitly racist……

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