Prominent White Person Uses Hip Hop Vernacular
When, in his Times Magazine Q&A Deborah Solomon collage project, astronaut Buzz Aldrin revealed that he "just did a rap session with Snoop Dogg and a rap composition called 'Rocket Experience,'" I immediately thought, Oh God, here comes another "it's funny because it's a white person doing a black thing!" video. But perhaps I was too quick to judge. The video is now online, so see for yourself. Also, can we please have a moratorium on "it's funny because it's a white person doing a black thing!" videos? Because, you know, enough already. [Angry comment from David Cho coming... now.]
I'm sure Cho is busy coming up with more sexy pictures you guys can feature in the top banner to drive the traffic
The "white person doing a black thing" thing has only been funny to me when it's an elderly Jewish chap rapping about Mel Gibson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeLhkxUlc1w
GIBSOONNNN!
The actual rap parts are excruciating but the talking is fine. They should have cut the rapping, that's showing too much, that's like seeing into Marcellus Wallace's briefcase, eminently disappointing. But Buzz Aldrin is a stone cold space gangster and that cannot be denied. Or else he will punch you. But in general this video should not have been made.