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* White rapper Kreayshawn, born Natassia Zolot, is receiving a lot of criticism for this. She is being accused of appropriating black culture. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131010065106/http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2011/06/kreayshawn-another-case-of-appropriating-black-culture/ This] criticism of her says that even the way she dresses is a [[Double Standard]], since if a black female rapper were to do the same thing they'd be accused of being ghetto and uneducated.
* Yelawolf is an aversion; like Eminem, he came from an impoverished background and happened upon hip-hop naturally by way of going to school in the Nashville projects and becoming acclimated with the music there. Furthermore, his topics seldom touch upon the inner city and focus more on the unpleasantries of Deep South life, which is what he was used to.
* The [[w:Nerdcore|Nerdcore]] scene is an aversion, as while it is composed mostly by geeky white men rapping, they actually rap about themes that interest them like scientific concepts, role-playing games, and nerd-oriented media. The genre can be defined as what happens when nerdy teenagers who grew listening to 1990s gangsta rap decide to create music about their interests in the same musical genre they love.
* Way too common in the [[K-pop]] scene, as their dominant music style is based in R&B, hip-hop and rap fusions, and where it's considered obligatory to have at least one rapper in every pop group even if said "rapper" is only taught the technique and hadn't ever listened to American rap. As a result, there are a lot of groups that copy and even blatantly appropriate Afro-American rap aesthetics, while at the same time dropping racist remarks against anyone who isn't ethnical Korean.
** [[BTS (band)|BTS]]'s rappers are one of the few groups in the industry that are self-aware of this trope and how it applies to them. While the rappers have actual knowledge on influential American rappers (even name-dropping their influences in their self-written songs) and at least two of them were part of the underground local scene before being recruited as idol trainees, their initial concept as "hip hop boy band" had them wearing outfits that practically could put them as the postcard of this trope. They began to shed this image since the year after their debut (more specifically, after they filmed a reality show where they were coached by actual rappers in Los Angeles), and have reportedly apologized for every gaffes they had
* Renato Carosone's 1956 song "Tu vuò fà l'americano" (better known by its 2010 remix "We no speak Americano" by Yolanda Be Cool) it's about a post-war Italian young man who tries to pose as a modern American guy by doing things like smoking Camel brand cigarettes, drinking whiskey and soda, listening to rock-'n'-roll and playing baseball, while actually being a [[Basement Dweller]] who finances this lifestyle with his mother's purse.
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