oh boy this again huh guys awesome
― not great at breathing (henrietta lacks), Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
like it took a month to shoehorn a rehash of the Nina Gordon/Straight Outta Compton thread into the sandbox and you're calling Mac Lethal slow
most ilx of all tho is the wandering eye rollers
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
"IM WORRIED ABOUT COOP"
http://images.wikia.com/twinpeaks/images/7/76/GordonCole.jpg
― amon, Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
hah
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/3-hangin-with-mr-cooper-1009-lg-48012979.jpg
who got this
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
he seems sad
― not great at breathing (henrietta lacks), Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
well he was reading this thread
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
sometimes youre just not in the mood to hang
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
there is nothing outside the text
― amon, Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― not great at breathing (henrietta lacks), Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
what happened to the lols
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
this thread used to be about the lols
I don't even know who you are anymore
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that girl sweetly singing "til the sweat runs down my balls" was definitely just exploring the melodic possibilities of the lyric for purely musical reasons
are you seriously arguing that people need to treat a lyric like "til the sweat runs down my balls" w/reverence and respect for the historical weight of sweat running down people's balls
― undervalued aerosmith tchotchkes sold in bulk, Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
til the web takes down my tumblr
― amon, Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
my balls are historically heavy
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:36 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
yeah i don't know who henrietta is but drive-by smh-ing is the worst
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
my bad
― ~connecticut~ (henrietta lacks), Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
― undervalued aerosmith tchotchkes sold in bulk, Thursday, December 29, 2011 2:08 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
um no, not at all? my post was in response to resident devil's advocate iatee saying "I'm not getting the sense they're doing it for lols"
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
my stance: if you dont have balls, if youre not sweaty, dont sing it
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
it's a feminist move, like aretha making otis's "respect" her own
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
ya I'm just skeptical that 'white college kids do a cover of a rap song' is this inherently racist thing, like obv it can be a lot of the time but I'm not willing to assume it always just is. that clip wasn't a bunch of kids posing and making gang sings. doing shitty covers of things is an important part of american college culture, see: acapella.
― iatee, Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not getting the sense they're doing it for lols, they probably think their 'get low' sounds really good. I didn't get that they were nec mocking something.
― iatee, Thursday, December 29, 2011 11:31 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
i really thought this post was shooting down the idea that there was any humor in the "Get Low" cover, not whether that humor was of a mean-spirited or racist nature
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
im happy to say that its inherently racist if that means that no one ever does it again
― max max max max, Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
white college kids do anything is inherently racist
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
bringing this full circle was it racist when whiney went on stage w/ public enemy
― iatee, Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
I'm willing to go w/ 'yes'
― iatee, Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
anyway maura's thing about karmin chick looking kind of pained while she raps and then delighted when she gets to show she can REALLY SING, Y'ALL was a good summation of how this stuff inevitably has a kind of condescending attitude toward rap that's not very tied to race per se
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
tbf whiney is an irl 'public enemy'
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
maybe she's looking kinda pained while she raps because she is a white girl who is raping
― iatee, Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
errr rapping
uhhhh
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
rape/rap jokes are terrible when done on purpose but the accidental typos are always classic
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Thursday, December 29, 2011 2:50 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
fuckin lol'd
― undervalued aerosmith tchotchkes sold in bulk, Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
i like how lamp's username looks whilst italicized
― ~connecticut~ (henrietta lacks), Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHlpbjflDok
's0 wasted'
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
"Wasted" being basically a 'lol white people' song to begin with makes that at least kind of thematically appropriate or meta or something
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Thursday, 29 December 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
we need more videos of black college kids rapping bon iver songs
― max max max max, Thursday, 29 December 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
no we don't need anything "more" bon iver
― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Thursday, 29 December 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
it's pretty hilarious when kanye has charlie wilson dub backup vocals all over bon iver's parts on his songs to make it sound as if he's 'soulful'
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Thursday, 29 December 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
why do black ppl never want to bon iver?
i couldnt find it but there exists a p rad 'rap' version of bon jovi's wanted dead or alive somewhere on youtube i know it oh im sure of it
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Thursday, 29 December 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
Can we put together a sliding scale of how racist ironic comedy covers are? I'm trying to figure out if that Gourds' Snoop cover is more or less racist than Karmin.
― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Thursday, 29 December 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
there's just this really weird fuckin dynamic to me tho in white dudes on the internet doing the finger-wag about anybody doing a "funny" rap cover. (to the best of my knowledge everybody on this thread calling out texts from bennett is a white male.) it's like white rap heads seem to think that rap = the whole of the black experience in America, and therefore doing a piss-take on a rap song is racist, which is a weird thing to thing - rap's a black art form but it doesn't stand in for blackness necessarily, right? (can, in the mouths of racists, obviously, but to accept that is kind of to accept a questionable premise.) and to conflate the two at 100% seems bizarre to me. I don't contest that like 100% of "hilarious" rap covers suck ass, that's kinda clearly true, but I'm with iatee, it's not necessarily racism that's at work there, and I think there's a weird sort of...racism? at work in insisting that if somebody does a dumb rap cover, they're being racist. which isn't to deny that there are doubtless a trillion nakedly racist "hilarious" rap covers, I'm sure there are & fuck 'em all, but at some point ppl are going to have to accept that rap is the most dominant, most widely-enjoyed form of music on the planet, and that means that people are going to cover it in all kindsa ways, and find shit funny about it.
tl;dr some white rap heads sound like caricature "that's not funny!" angry feminists about this kinda thing and I say this as a caricature angry feminist
― undervalued aerosmith tchotchkes sold in bulk, Thursday, 29 December 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like there's a weird assumption that EVERYONE calling these things wack/unfunny/etc. is agreeing they're race crimes, which is really not the case.
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Thursday, 29 December 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
er hate crimes
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Thursday, 29 December 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
of course the very reason you can't do a 'sliding scale' of Racism is that it's a superword that once introduced into a conversation can't be qualified or blunted the slightest bit
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Thursday, 29 December 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
aerosmith playing white devil's advocate here
― uncle bannmee who can recall his past logins (dealwithit.gif), Thursday, 29 December 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
This is the part when I get confused and wonder if ships got the sarcasm in my post or not, it was really just a roundabout way of reminding everyone of "hilarious" bluegrass covers of rap songs from jambands.
― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Thursday, 29 December 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
well i got that it was not a totally serious post yeah, but the way you phrased it got me thinking
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Thursday, 29 December 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link