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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.
Posted on January 26, 2009 via Dan Gurewitch with 77 notes
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I’m sorry, really? How is it surprising to people that CH is putting out stuff that is racist, which this definitely is....
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funny, not racist. it takes some measure of intelligence to understand satire. you would think a humor site geared...
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Jesus. Most of the video I could almost giggle (enh, okay, not really, but I could go “oh that was a joke”), and then...
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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...
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