Nicki Minaj says it's a great time to be a white rapper in America.

In a recent instagram rant Nicki Minaj posted a picture of the top ranking Hip hop artist's on the Itunes charts and said, "It's a great time to be a white rapper in America, Huh?!" This caused an outrage on social media as many of her followers did not agree with her outlook on the music scene. Seven of the ten songs on top of the Hip Hop charts are by white artists including Eminem, Post Malone, Macklemore, G-Eazy, and Machine Gun Kelly.Hip hop music, also called hip-hop or rap music, is a music genre developed in the United States by inner-city African Americans in the 1970s which consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.

This developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing. After many people critiqued Nicki's post she Said , " I'm blocking all u sensitive d#ck riders. It IS a great time to be a white rapper in America," she said. "I wanna sign one for my new label. U know anyone? I spk my mthafkn mind n if u don’t like it gtfo my page dick rida! Y’all can never wait to ride the Queen dick! Sensitive A## ig thugs. Gtfoh." .

In Byron Hurt's documentary Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, he claims that hip hop had changed from "clever rhymes and dance beats" to "advocating personal, social and criminal corruption."Despite the fall in record sales throughout the music industry,hip-hop has remained a popular genre, with hip-hop artists still regularly topping the Billboard 200 Charts. In the first half of 2009 alone artists such as Eminem, Rick Ross,The Black Eyed Peas, and Fabolous all had albums that reached the #1 position on the Billboard 200 charts. Eminem's album Relapse was one of the fastest selling albums of 2009 and is one of the top grossing Caucasian Hip hop artists of all time.

On July 17, 2017, Forbes reported that hip-hop/R&B (which Nielsen SoundScan classifies as being the same genre) has recently usurped rock as the most consumed musical genre, becoming the most popular genre in music for the first time in U.S. history.Hip-hop music has reached the cultural corridors of the globe and has been absorbed and reinvented around the world. Hip hop music expanded beyond the US, often blending local styles with hip hop. Hip hop has globalized into many cultures worldwide, as evident through the emergence of numerous regional scenes. It has emerged globally as a movement based upon the main tenets of hip hop culture. The music and the art continue to embrace, even celebrate, its transnational dimensions while staying true to the local cultures to which it is rooted. Hip-hop's impact differs depending on each culture.

Still, the one thing virtually all hip hop artists worldwide have in common, no matter race, is that they acknowledge their debt to those African-American people in New York who launched the global movement.Latinos and people from the Caribbean played an integral role in the early development of hip hop in New York, and the style spread to almost every country in that region. Hip hop first developed in the South Bronx, which had a high Latino, particularly Puerto Rican, population in the 1970s. Some famous rappers from New York City of Puerto Rican origin are the late Big Pun, Fat Joe, and Angie Martinez. With Latino rap groups like Cypress Hill on the American charts, Mexican rap rock groups, such as Control Machete, rose to prominence in their native land and other many nationalities have all played a major role in the hip hop movement.