Li’l hip-hop review: White & Nerdy
I was thinking about getting all serious-like and talking about how cultural relativism makes it hard for me to judge the immorality of gangsta rap that glorifies crime. And I’ll still rant just a bit. But really my main motivation is to shout out props to Weird Al for his new song "White & Nerdy". (For extra entertainment, watch the questionably-legal video at youtube, at least until they take it down.)
It’s parodying a song by Chamillionaire that glorifies smuggling drugs. Nice work dude — way to be a positive influence on other people’s lives. This is one of the reasons I really love Eminem. He sings about how crappy life in the hood is. You can call me white and nerdy for liking white rappers, and you wouldn’t be far off — I got a soldering gun and I edit wikipedia. But I don’t encourage strangers to pick up my bad habits. Like Eminem says, keep off the addictive drugs.