In response to the now depressing trend of young women and girls gettin’ all gangsta pop on us (previously covered here and here), Oliver Wang had this response on Facebook: I think the new Black male swag should be acting like 9 year old white girls from the Westside. Watch the videos below, in descending [...]
“If you’re thinkin’ about my baby, it don’t matter if you’re black or white.”
At some point in the Nineties, I became fascinated by “rock” covers of hip-hop songs. For example, there’s the Gourds’ cover of “Gin and Juice,” the Barenaked Ladies’ version of “Fight the Power” and Dynamite Hack’s “Boyz-N-The Hood.” It was around ’91 when rap music really took off nationally, and we started to see artists [...]
Pop Musicians Who R What They Iz
We live in confusing times. Art that seeks the high ground seems to struggle to survive. Trash seems to flourish, whether in television, movies or popular music. We’re supposed to deplore this, right? But the thing about a pop artist like Ke$ha that is so genius – and I’m specifically thinking of her 2009 hit [...]