Culture Vultures In Music

Whether you’ve heard the term or not, the “Culture Vulture” label has been fairly or unfairly assigned to several people throughout the history of music. Artists such as Vanilla Ice, Macklemore, Post Malone, Logic and many music label executives have been accused of exploiting culture. Although the culture vulture term is used quite heavily in the hip hop/rap community, it may extend far beyond that. This conversation attempts to take a further look into defining what it means to be a culture vulture and whether it truly matters in the grand scheme of things. Let's discuss.

This clip is from Ep. 140 of The ill-advised Wise Guys Podcast: https://youtu.be/gl6Lsy3AfcA