Here, let me give you a few concrete examples:
In Soulja Boy Tell 'Em's classic hit, Crank Dat there are a lot of lines that appear to make no sense. One in particular that stands out to the uninitiated is
"I got me some Bathing Apes"
A white person might think "Goodness, this young man is retarded" or "So that's what these rappers are into now? Monkeys trained to wash them? No thank you, I am going to go listen to Nickelback instead!"
However, I know that Bathing Apes are a Japanese designer sneaker brand which has recently gained popularity in the hip-hop culture, mainly because they look fucking sick.

A llama is a gun you guys.
So my knowledge of hip-hop culture is actually interfering with my ability to write a funny rap blog. Ironic, huh?
I mean, not that you guys would notice if I didn't know these things. I feel like my likely audience for this blog is basically reading to reconfirm for themselves that rap is meritless and to laugh at the stupid rappers. I don't want this blog to be about that. I love rap music and I want you to too.
The take home point is, in the interest of educating white people, I'm going to do a series of entries explaining rap culture and slang. Droppin' Knowledge.
To make up for this long and serious post, have some more out of context rap lyrics. I tried really hard to make sure these make no sense to anyone.
1 comment:
yay for droppin' knowledge! you've got a lot of that floating around.
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