Let's look at his song WHITEBOY, one dealing with (you guessed it) Tom being a white boy.

What isn't fine and well is the fact that Tom's opinions are thinly veiled racism, sexism, and homophobia that he hides behind the shit excuse of 'it's just a joke'. He's also heavily anti-PC culture, as many of his songs accuse others of being 'too sensitive'.Īll that is fine and well, since an opinion's an opinion and such. A lot of his music, at least his more popular music, deals with his views on politics, race, and equality. Tom is, plain and simple, a political artist. He specifically targets those rappers who have come to rely heavily on namedropping to peddle their wares. The overall message the vocalist is making behind such statements is that his standing and talent is such that he does not have to rely on gimmicks, if you will, or even labels in the name of generating bread.īut, the title/chorus would imply that he’s more specifically dissing peers who are unable to generate the type of buzz that he does.Tom MacDonald is a YouTube rapper (i use the term lightly) who recently got a fair bit of traction thanks to two big songs Straight White Male and Lethal Injection, a diss track to another YouTube rapper, Mac Lethal. Of course, he’s not the type of rapper to drop a song without making at least one striking statement that’s intended to offend a particular group of people. In this case the target does appear to be mainstream rappers.

Rather, Tom really uses the opportunity of “Riot” to celebrate the fact that he’s, if we were to be honest, perhaps the most-successful independent rapper out there right now. Indeed it’s hard to remember when, if ever, MacDonald was backed by a major label. Yet he has been able to sustain a lengthy career largely through social-media results and, as forcefully noted in these lyrics, a very-loyal fandom.

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