Texts from Bennett

oh boy this again huh guys awesome

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

"IM WORRIED ABOUT COOP"

http://images.wikia.com/twinpeaks/images/7/76/GordonCole.jpg

hah

http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/3-hangin-with-mr-cooper-1009-lg-48012979.jpg

who got this

he seems sad

well he was reading this thread

sometimes youre just not in the mood to hang

there is nothing outside the text

lol

what happened to the lols

this thread used to be about the lols

I don't even know who you are anymore

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

til the web takes down my tumblr

my balls are historically heavy

most ilx of all tho is the wandering eye rollers

― 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

my bad

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, 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"

my stance: if you dont have balls, if youre not sweaty, dont sing it

it's a feminist move, like aretha making otis's "respect" her own

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.

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

im happy to say that its inherently racist if that means that no one ever does it again

white college kids do anything is inherently racist

bringing this full circle was it racist when whiney went on stage w/ public enemy

I'm willing to go w/ 'yes'

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

tbf whiney is an irl 'public enemy'

maybe she's looking kinda pained while she raps because she is a white girl who is raping

errr rapping

uhhhh

rape/rap jokes are terrible when done on purpose but the accidental typos are always classic

white college kids do anything is inherently racist

― є(٥_ ٥)э, Thursday, December 29, 2011 2:50 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

fuckin lol'd

i like how lamp's username looks whilst italicized

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHlpbjflDok

's0 wasted'

"Wasted" being basically a 'lol white people' song to begin with makes that at least kind of thematically appropriate or meta or something

we need more videos of black college kids rapping bon iver songs

no we don't need anything "more" bon iver

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'

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

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.

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

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.

er hate crimes

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

aerosmith playing white devil's advocate here

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.

well i got that it was not a totally serious post yeah, but the way you phrased it got me thinking