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joshruben:dangurewitch:

I feel like this comes from a really bad place, and I don’t respect it. [I’m not calling anyone at CHTV a racist; what I’m saying is that they know not what they mock, and are doing it in poor form.] Gangsta rap is so easy to make fun of - just look at how funny they are with their guns and rolled-up pant-legs, their ridiculous ‘bling’ and anti-white talk! - and yet, the gang at CollegeHumor manages to screw it up so badly…and with so little charm. It is a caricature of a caricature of black culture from 1991.

This is no Lazy Sunday, which worked so well because Magnolia cupcakes and nerd-movies would’ve been so foreign to someone like Eazy-E and, yet, Parnell and Samberg rapped it with the same conviction as the LAX-con. This, however, is a two-minute refresher course in blackface, with stereotypes presented as jokes. There’s no nuance here. No thought, either. It is, in essence, a LOOKIT THE BLACK MAN DANCE FOR US video.

And, to get my Scratch cap on, the rhymes are completely boilerplate, and the beat is straight outta ATL circa 2005.