CRAZY RAPPERS

(and I'm not making any silly Pete Doherty=DMX direct comparisons Dom, just noting that focusing on erratic/"crazy" personas of stars is not unique to rap)

Anyway, they like novelty-rap because novelty songs are the best!

Oh, I get it, this is all a parody.

I think this is the key sentence/question; I don't think the impulse behind the type of appreciation you're talking about across these various genres is appreciably different. People like watching "crazy" people, regardless of whether they're actually crazy or not. The point where it gets murky/tricky is when you wrap race baggage up with the already existing "I like looking at things that resemble train wrecks" baggage; people start ascribing craziness to ethnicity/gender (see also the cult of Tori/Kate/Laurie for examples) and then everything becomes a total "seriously, did you really just say that with a straight face?" cringefest.

Make 'em say "Ugh..."

We used to call this guy Master P-nis. Get it?

I sure do miss those chintzy, Photoshopped album covers, though. Everybody was jocking that "fresh off the color copier at Kinko's" look.

Comment by: SnowWhiteTrash at May 10, 2006 - 8:57am

If I'm not mistaken, Nathan Rabin is black.

What's the difference between something being "off the hizzity" and "all gravy train"?

Well, I'm no E-40-type cunning linguist, but "all gravy" is like a state of utter contentment, while off the hizzety simply means that something is the bomb diggity, and perhaps "all gravy" to boot. Incidentally, all my slang I borrowed from William F. Buckley. That brother got soul by the pound.

I'd have to say my favorite ebay purchases have been the ones where after I received the item I said to myself "Now why the fuck did I want this in the first place?". Such items include a 2Pac can cooler (for all those instances in which you need a thug in your life to keep your cans cool) and a Dream Warriors sand sieve. The Dream Warriors, incidentally, were a Canadian rap group that rapped about rolling the twelve-sided die, which makes them, officially, the coolest people ever.

Who is killing all the great chefs of Europe?

I think they all died from inside jokes run amok. Also, George Segal was involved. Also, Hootie. Have you seen that Hootie is trying to re-invent himself as an R&B lover-man? His new single is even called "Wild One", as in "I, Hootie, the doughy poster-boy for wussy folk-rock stylings, fancy myself a wild one on account of my lascivious and decadent lifestyle". Well, I tell you something, Claire: I'm twice as wild as Hootie. Maybe even three times as wild.

You have written for B.E.T. Did you have to pretend to be black like the guy in "Soul Man?" I assume that's how your name appears on the "Anarchist People of Color" website as well.

No, no, I'm afraid I did not have to engage in any comical mischief to write for BET. I may have to engage in some comical mischief if they're ever to pay me however. I hope this interview makes clear just how much time and energy I devote to thinking about when I finna get paid. Also, how much I care about the babies.

What's a nice Jewish boy from the Midwest doing knowing so much about hip-hop?

Claire, I'm from the streets, so it's second nature for me to kick knowledge about the rap game, which, incidentally, is alot like the crack game. No, honestly, I've always been attracted to the genre's anti-authoritarian bent. Also, the sheer number of big booty freaks currently waiting for a brother such as myself to get his mack on old school. All of which is to say that we should all put the interests of the children first.

DMX barks like a dog...
listen to "Where My Dog's At?" if you really want to laugh
this guy is convinced he's an actual dog.....unbelievable

iggy pop ACTUALLY WANTS TO BE YOUR DOG....unbelievable

the baha boys actually don't know who let the dogs out.....unbelievable

baha MEN

unbelievable

I believe every word of it! Unbelievable!

baha boys becoming baha men
baha men becoming wolves

werewolf baha mitzvah

You really think the indie press treat TORTURED POET OF OUR GENERATION Pete Doherty in the same way they treat DMX ("I say, wouldn't it be funny if he'd said "I am not doing my seatbelt up... nigga!")?

-- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, May 17, 2006 11:04 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

i say!

All-time classic Passantino post there.

3. People who primarily listen to a certain type of music (in this case, I guess, indie rock, but I've known just as many who were into emo, trance, metal, and more) but listen to hip hop when they aren't really in the mood for whatever their chosen "serious" music is, like at house parties, certain club nights with offensive themes in certain parts of New York City, and wherever else they might be kicking back and drinking and/or doing drugs.

if only being a tokenist was actually this cool.

Are you not familiar with the horrors of Kill Whitey Night?

i listen to a lot of rap during Kill Whitey Morning & Afternoon (ie my commute)

i hate that awkward overrhyming bullshit he does - wait why did dude just say 'scrappy doo is gonna break the china'? oh now hes saying 'happy you got on a fake vagina', very clever

-- and what (ooo), Wednesday, May 17, 2006 12:31 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

still like doom but this is L.O.L.

Zwan, you're the elusive Type 4 whose favorite craaazy rapper is Fred Durst.

-- Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:09 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

not to pat myself on the back but lol @ this (and at jess's screenname at the beginning of the thread)

Buzi father of Ezekiel

CRAZY ILXORS

PPS I am also the proud owner of a "CRUNK'S NOT DEAD" Neigborhoodie

-- bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:38 (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

CRAZY ILXORS

-- The Reverend, Monday, 14 April 2008 23:58 (Yesterday) Link

REV OTM

-- CERTAIN TYPE OF RAP LISTENER (whineyg), Wednesday, 17 May 2006

in light of the best album of 88 poll lol @ this

i coulda sworn i was on this thread but come to think of it i was prob intimidated

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would love to revive this for more discussionz but im too!! busy!! some tard plz say something we can argue about for 400 posts :-)

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1603642/20090127/lil_wayne.jhtml

Wayne is the most interesting rock star in the world. By a mile. In fact, here's an even better one: He is Axl Rose. It's not that great of a leap. Both could kindly be described as "eccentric" (or full-blown batsh--). Both promised (threatened?) to release ill-advised vanity projects, neither listening to the doubters who sniggered that it would never happen and the advisers who said it would be a terrible idea. To extend the comparison, Wayne's Rebirth is basically Rose's Chinese Democracy, minus 15 years and millions of dollars. ("Prom Queen" actually sounds like one of the more industrial tracks on Democracy.) It will probably garner the same reception, both critically and commercially.

why didn't i make the connection before?? it's so obvious

is Lil Wayne an anagram of something rude?

"alley win"

wily anel?

wine yall

"wallin' 'Ye" could describe his relationship with Kanye West

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http://gifsofpopularrappers.tumblr.com/ <---- so goood!!

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goonie goonie moony juney purple spoonie killa noonie

there are some funny gifs on that blog but goons could do much better if we knew how to gif

I keep copying posts and every time I scroll down to paste them in the goddamn post box I see another post I want to copy instead and now I'm typing this bullshit

goonie goonie moony juney purple spoonie killa noonie

this thread somehow remained unbumped through the whole Lil B era

lol