It's ok to be proud of your heritage and culture. It's not ok to ignore the mainstream appropriation of it. Being a "real one" or "gang" is nice, but radical racists truly believe their genetic superiority and tend to show mercy to legitimate arguments about it.
What's even worse than ignoring the appropriation is the rappers that seem to agree. Especially the African American audience. Affirming stereotypes can be empowering, but it can also be damaging when people are acting mean due to ego.
RapIndie has a very strong "blog-reading" following, but most rappers have and cater to "street-life followings". It's a very unpleasant mixture that the platform can't and shouldn't be expected to fix ON ITS OWN. If you don't get a sense of pride from this experience, I'm sorry. If you're trying to get a sense of pride from this experience, try to identify with something you have in common with these artists instead of trying to argue your superiority.
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