This article is way out of touch. At first I was interested. Then just annoyed.

Now, there isn’t anything particularly unusual about young white kids identifying with hip-hop culture. That’s been happening since the beginning. But the performance of hip-hop culture as a normalized part of white identity is fairly unusual.

That’s been happening since the 1990s. Probably since the 1980s, but went mainstream in the 90s. Vine and the internet had nothing at all to do with that.

The part about black contributions being downplayed or minimized is correct, though, and has been happening since forever.