"Holler If Ya Hear Me" closure after six weeks has been blamed on a lot of factors. The producers of the Tupac Shakur-inspired musical say the audience wasn't getting into it and that it would never make its money back. But if you talk to the star, there is a bigger problem at work.

"Holler If Ya Hear Me" star Saul Williams says there were indeed many factors that led to the musical's closure, but the root of it was the same subtle racism that made a rap star of Australian rapper Iggy Azalea.

"There's actually a generic response when I don't think critics realize they're playing into the hands of something that runs deeper than how this made you feel," Williams told Rolling Stone magazine. "There was something deeply embedded in a lot of the reviews that went deeper than just a dislike of the play".

"I am speaking to that American race psyche," Williams continued, "that thing that Harry Belafonte said to me after he saw the play, which is: 'You took an Afrocentric-themed play and placed it on a Eurocentric stage. The problems you'll face are larger than you think'."

Saul Williams says those problems that forced the "Hollar If Ya Hear Me" closure are similar to Iggy Azalea's current status in Rap.

"There is no disconnect between this and Iggy Azalea," says Williams. "An Australian girl rapping with a southern accent, being Number One on the charts. It's all related to where we are right now as a culture and within the culture of the arts."

The Broadway musical based on the music of Tupac Shakur closed after just one month and 55 performances.

Producer Eric L. Gold blamed the "financial burdens of Broadway" for the closure.

Gold continued, in a written statement "My hope is that a production of this caliber, powerful in its story-telling, filled with great performances and exciting contemporary dance and music will eventually receive the recognition it deserves."

"Holler If Ya Hear Me," written by Todd Kreidler and directed by Kenny Leon, is billed as "a non-biographical story about friendship, family, revenge, change and hope." Saul Williams stars as a former convict trying to turn his life around in the play.

But Williams wants to turn around the future of Hip Hop musicals on Broadway, Williams says, "Who are we fooling? More Hip Hop musicals are inevitable if Broadway wishes to survive."

"When you do something fresh and new," Williams said, "you're going to face obstacles and I promise you this story isn't over."