White Rappers Make Me Laugh
(Click to embiggen) Looks like we need an open thread.
Am I the only one who thinks this kind of stuff is funny as hell? In the same vein, this cover cracks me up. (From Reddit, where else?)
April 30, 2011 8:57 am
Posted in: Open Thread
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32 Responses
cathyx - April 30, 2011 | 9:15 am · Link
Hmm, would I still like “Hotel California” if it were sung in rap?
Thomas - April 30, 2011 | 9:25 am · Link
I think Stewart MacDonald should sue this guy.
http://www.stewmac.com/
Steeplejack - April 30, 2011 | 9:26 am · Link
You’ll love this.
RedDirtGirl - April 30, 2011 | 9:28 am · Link
Is that Opie from Sons of Anarchy?
Steeplejack - April 30, 2011 | 9:28 am · Link
And “Stewmac” sounds like an unsuccessful Dinty Moore product rollout.
djheru - April 30, 2011 | 9:32 am · Link
That is disrespectful and racist. If you want to hear a real white rapper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9b-ibeakUA
feloniouspopes - April 30, 2011 | 9:39 am · Link
Here’s something else on Reddit that’s awesome:
Amazing high quality color photographs from as far back as 1911.
mistermix - April 30, 2011 | 9:41 am · Link
@djheru: That’s a good one.
debit - April 30, 2011 | 9:48 am · Link
@feloniouspopes: Those are amazing. And people are still taking photos with those old cameras to this day. That’s just incredible.
sublime33 - April 30, 2011 | 10:11 am · Link
“Am I the only one who thinks this kind of stuff is funny as hell”
No. And this one belongs on the Mt.Rushmore of white people looking ridiculous acting black:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTYr3JuueF4
Hawes - April 30, 2011 | 10:14 am · Link
You want to see funny white rappers?
Try John Maynard Keynes and Freidrich von Hayek on for size:
http://econstories.tv/2011/04/.....sic-video/
Hawes - April 30, 2011 | 10:15 am · Link
@sublime33: I nearly choked on my tongue watching that.
Sammi - April 30, 2011 | 10:33 am · Link
He’s so damn good-looking that I just wanna have his baby
Can't help but wonder - April 30, 2011 | 10:57 am · Link
...are there truck nuts on that thing?
Tim, Interrupted - April 30, 2011 | 11:04 am · Link
This is all terribly racist. Where is ABL?
gene108 - April 30, 2011 | 11:10 am · Link
I find Kid Rock’s appeal to Southern whites ironic. A white rapper from Michigan, whose fans are mostly the same folks, who listen to country music a lot.
I wonder if Eminem and Kid Rock should do a tour together. The White Rappers from Michigan Unity Tour. Maybe Madonna can open for them, to keep the whole Michigan theme alive.
Also, too I think movie with Will Smith and Mark Wahlberg about rappers trying to get into acting would be cool.
Tim, Interrupted - April 30, 2011 | 11:11 am · Link
Also, too: Is saying that white people cannot rap different than saying black people can’t swim?
Omnes Omnibus - April 30, 2011 | 11:17 am · Link
@Tim, Interrupted: cf. Pat Boone covering Little Richard and Elvis.
sublime33 - April 30, 2011 | 11:20 am · Link
“Is saying that white people cannot rap different than saying black people can’t swim?”
No. The problem is you can’t really swim awfully – those people drowned. But you can rap awfully. And the black rappers get weeded out better than the white ones.
stormhit - April 30, 2011 | 11:38 am · Link
Given that it’s almost certainly a parody of old No Limit Records albums and not an actual rapper, finding it funny is probably appropriate.
Jay in Oregon - April 30, 2011 | 11:39 am · Link
How on Earth did we get a thread about white rappers without talking about nerdcore?
http://frontalot.com/
http://www.mclars.com/
http://www.optimusrhyme.com/
Jay in Oregon - April 30, 2011 | 11:42 am · Link
Here are some samples—didn’t want to fall into moderation by dumping too many links in the first post:
Rhyme of the Nibelung
http://www.myspace.com/badddsp.....g-27172834
Secrets From The Future
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA6kG-tOkBs
Ping Pong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Starfish - April 30, 2011 | 11:43 am · Link
We have made it this far without any covers of Gin and Juice?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4hGSR5njZE
I also like this cover of Straight Out of Compton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2EGOB9-lc
nota bene - April 30, 2011 | 12:26 pm · Link
I find the continuing phenomenon of ironic/self-referential “white rap” to be embarassing in light of the fact that Licensed To Ill is 25 years old….
Seonachan - April 30, 2011 | 12:30 pm · Link
J-ROC: know what I’m sayin’?
SLSmith - April 30, 2011 | 12:56 pm · Link
This by Jill Sobule is a favorite of mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN9ytfJkgIs
billy rae valentine - April 30, 2011 | 1:44 pm · Link
i also find at least the headline a bit offensive if not racist.
just say “THIS white rapper makes me laugh”. certainly, his whiteness plays a role in the comedy, but to say white rappers make you laugh comes off like all white rappers are inherently comedic. idk.
anyway, this cover IS hilarious. the pregant women? o my Lord. the wolf in the background is also Money.
gil mann - April 30, 2011 | 4:14 pm · Link
@billy rae valentine:
Not racist, just ignorant. We’ve come a long way from Vanilla Ice, but hey, if mistermix* can’t be bothered to listen to some Brother Ali, it’s his loss, not hip-hop’s.
People who lump all white rappers together? Give ‘em the Gas Face, I say.
*which totally sounds like the name of a white rapper, come to think of it
Jude - April 30, 2011 | 5:07 pm · Link
I’m glad that someone finally included the Gourds’ cover of “Gin and Juice.” Man, I could listen to that shit every day and still laugh my ass off each time I heard it.
Hawes - April 30, 2011 | 6:48 pm · Link
This is a classic, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
cthulhu - May 1, 2011 | 3:05 am · Link
It’s a fake but you’ve gotta love the detail like the beer and head fill of the name and the random and excessive sparkle effect. I suspect $tewmac would be perplexed by magnets as well.
binky Bear - May 2, 2011 | 1:58 am · Link
More of a reinterpretation than a cover.