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Friday June 16, 2006 2:45 am

VH1 to Air “White Rapper Show” Reality Competition




Posted by Christina Furtado Categories: Music, Reality, Cable,

Starting in 2007, VH1’s The White Rapper Show, from the producers of America’s Next Top Model, will bring the search for the next Eminem to living rooms across America.  The Reality Show Twist™?  According to Variety, rapper wannabes “will live together in the South Bronx as a series of challenges test their music talent and ability to mesh with black culture.”  Yes, that’s right; along with $100,000, the winner will also have won the privilege of having a vacation in the South Bronx for a few weeks.  Now, I lived in the Bronx for three years.  Though it wasn’t the South Bronx, I definitely didn’t earn any street cred in all that time.  I wish the rapper wannabes luck, though does anyone else find the potentially racist implications of this bothersome?

Read More | Variety

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