I edited it, because I wasn't being specific enough. I'm not talking about gangsta rap. It's been a long time since rap was exclusively about living in the projects and being hard. I don't steal their vernacular, I don't say nigga in casual conversation, I like their (meaning hip-hop artists of all creeds) music.

When you see someone else's culture and try to integrate yourself by copying vernacular you just look like an asshole.

I'm trying to sing the same song, that's pretty much where it begins and ends. Culture is pretty cool, but it's not gospel. If you're trying to tell me I can't sing along to songs I paid to hear, songs that are part of mainstream American culture, then you're the asshole.