I can’t really say my parents have been angry or threaten punishment because I listen to Asian music. They have teased me a bit. For example they ask me what an artist was saying and if I say I don’t know they’ll say something like: “It must have been dirty”

. But, overall it’s not that big of a deal.
My mom is a music lover. We both have grown up in the same area but when she was growing up it was whiter. Which I think left her open to different kinds of music. Our running joke has always been music wise “you're scaring the other black people”. I grew up listening to her mix of artists like Queen & Nas, Prince & Simple Red, etc. And if you got a hold of her MP3 player now you might find a few artists like Rain, Se7en, Jinusean, and Rip Slyme do to my “influence”

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Don’t really think Dad cares one way or the other. Just wish I could get him to stop calling them Chinese

. I don’t listen to Vietnamese music because he’s Vietnam vet. Don’t want him flipping out or having flashbacks. He too has some stuff on his player but I think it’s only because mom did it.