DJ Rhettmatic talks about Asian Americans and Hip Hop

HardKnock.TV takes you Behind the Scenes into the Beat Junkies studio while Rhettmatic and Buff1 work on their new collaborative album; self titled "Crown Royale".
In this segment DJ Rhettmatic talks about coming up in Hip Hop as an Asia American. Rhett says that he thinks Filipinos and Asians in general are starting to get their just due in Hip Hop. Rhett remembers that coming up he was hated on by some Filipinos who called him a fligger and asked him if he wanted to be black. At the same time he got hated on from the hip hop community until he showed and proved that he belong. Rhett goes on to say that people try to call him an Asian American Hip Hop artists but that he rather think of himself as a Hip Hop artists that happens to be Asian American. Rhett goes on to talk about some of the Asian Americans doing big things in Hip Hop like Ill Mind, Chad Hugo, DJ Q-Bert, Jabbawockeez and more.

Crown Royale album is in stores now! Interview by Mark Anthony Jenkins and Nick Huff Barili.

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[jhood75]

music of all genres

shouldnt be about race

it sucks that it can be lead to profiling

cool interview

[AYOoitsAD]

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Dedicated to all filipinos!

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[EVERYTHINGVISIBLE]

PLEASE cut the political correctness skip all that garbage these RAPPERS keep feeding you about the ALMIGHTY UNIVERSAL HIPHOP culture and it's unifying all races cultures colors and creed . no matter how HOOD/GHETTO/SWAG/CERTIFIED HIPHOP PERSONIFIED you are or appear, blacks laugh at the site of you FOOLS if not behind your backs because YOUR NOTHING MORE THEN AN IMITATION! of the BLACK mans CHIP ON HIS SHOULDER his EGO his "it's our culture " and if thats not the TRUTH HIPHOP is all LIES

[EVERYTHINGVISIBLE]

i would like to personally say a big THANK YOU to all the "HATERS" that come on here and every other video on youtube that involves asians and hiphop especially the afro-american's in particular that type your racism and hate towards asian b-boys/girls because i know and deep down inside most asians know that as much as we feel accpeted or embraced by other black people as being apart of the so called HIPHOP culture. all you haters actually represent how the majority of blacks feel REAL TALK!

[lilskratch]

How many philipino he said?

[QuranGoodmanVa]

he look like dj babu he can be his brother lol

[KillaAvon]

00:53 lol

[emceefocus]

wow how do they not mention jin or mountain brothers

[1natgeo]

to black n asians...type n paste.....epic racist moment on game show......this video r the countrymen of this pretentious wanna be phillpinos or asians..ugli gook sraight fugli....no matter what u said jealousy can kill you....just keep praiise your fake wrestler.....you ppl use american lastname even only some of you are half whiite i guess the under territory immigrant fuk

[1natgeo]

you ppl samoa hates black, asian..n yu all trolls on the internet ....black are better than samoa ugli fat gook......stop frontin..philpinos are asians ....stop putting category bcoz everyone know...dumm..look the list of pacific islander people....you..samoa, micronesia tonga etc..even micronesia your own brothers you ppl hates them too instead marry them you ppl chase white assess n you ppl hates blacks and anyone except your ugliassess n caucasians ...ssshole