Chet Haze, the young son of Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks, scoffs at critics who mock his burgeoning hip hop career and criticized those who stereotype hip hop as being solely black and from the streets. For Haze, love of hip hop transcends race and background and he should be given the same opportunity to succeed as an artist as anyone else who picks up a microphone.
"See man, the stereotypes, what they really come from is, I'm a white kid from the suburbs, from a well-to-do family, and that's about the last thing your average middle American thinks about when he thinks about hip-hop," Chet told SOHH. "There's just a lot of cliches out there. People associate hip-hop and the music of hip-hop with being from the hood and being gangster. That's a portion. That's something that's affected hip-hop but what people need to know about me is that hip-hop is something more than white and black. Hip-hop is not only music, but a culture. And if it speaks to you, then it speaks to you. Hip-hop has spoken to me since I was a little kid."
"No matter where you're from or who you are, if the music and the culture speaks to you, it's gonna have an effect on you," Haze continued. "That's what's happened to me. It's something I love and it's something I do."
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Haze is right. I don't know how good an artist he is, but as long as he has listeners and he likes to do what he do, then he needs to keep on pushing. Bravo.
Tell him to tell Tom I said hey. He's my favorite actor. The Money Pit was awesome.
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