This is a fairly strange request, but I don't listen to a lot of popular music and I need your help.
Many months ago I did a little post comparing some particularly embarrassing rap performances by white girls. For reasons I won't bother explaining (yet) I need to come up with another handful of examples along these lines. So fire off in the comments – the topic is Horrible Rapping by White People. Discuss.
Please note that actual but laughably shitty rappers (Vanilla Ice, Snow, etc) are far too obvious, and therefore they are excluded.
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What I am looking for are instances of white artists who are not necessarily rappers deciding that they will give it a try to show that they are down with the black folks. Or something. Sort of like when Pat Boone made that "metal" album. Yeah, that happened.
I polled my band and they suggested Justin Timberlake.
And right now I'm horrified by the idea of having to listen to his music in order to verify this claim. If I don't post on Monday, rest assured that I have shot myself and it is all Justin's fault.
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Chris says:
Phil Collins sings along with Bone Thugs N' Harmony during a remake of "Home". I don't think he really raps. However, it is funny to see Phil Collins with Bone Thugs. And, he kind of makes some rapper moves in the video. Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoLB_U0YPOg
Fred Durst has always gotten on my nerves. He's a complete poser. Will Sasso on Mad TV does a good parody of him. Here it be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=notL4pcNjdc
Nick says:
It is all about Avril.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cQ25-glGRzI. She "breaks it down" at about 2:30.
Liz says:
Agreeing on Avril. Don't know what Nick linked to but please do check out the original version of "Girlfriend," and then, after you've recovered, check out the version on which L'il Mama guests and marvel at how it is improved.
Also please do not forget the canon example that is "My Girl" (ak among my friends a "My Jurl") by Joseph Lawrence.
Courtney and Peggy have a stronger sense of ironic adoration than I do so I assume that they will be all over this shit.
JDryden says:
I'm not sure if it quite falls into this category, but do we all remember Vincent Price's rapping in the breakdown of "Thriller"? Anything Price does is inherently cool, but the combination of idiotic lyrics ("the funk of 40,000 years") and an old man trying to *hit* the *beat* was pretty much the point at which I realized I would never take rap completely seriously ever again.
Amanda says:
There was a terrible show on for awhile called Celebrity Rap Superstar. It consisted of a bunch of C-List Celebs competing weekly to be crowned best rapper. I'm guessing you might find some good YouTube videos of these idiots.
Matthew says:
Okay, I know that sometimes white people rapping sounds a lot like "talking" but what Vincent Price does in "Thriller" has as much relation to rapping as his role in Edward Scissorhands, and I think it's sort of ridiculous to make a judgment about rap based on that.
J. Dryden says:
So, wait, are you suggesting that he *wasn't* rapping in Edward Scissorhands? Man, I gotta watch that movie again.
pmayo says:
Can't believe no one's mentioned MC Rove yet…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5RD9BhcCo
Evan says:
He's not famous by any means and he's not white, but he is definitely not black:
http://www.myspace.com/chenscott
Stop the stupid automatic MySpace music player and scroll down to the other music player below. Check out "The Queen (hip-hop)" and "The Road to the Cross (hiphop)." It might not be apparent at first, but he is singing in English. Wagonhalt, indeed.
Evan says:
I haven't yet decided if William Shatner rapping is horrible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yerCiByca4
It may in fact be awesome.
Kati says:
I'm not sure if you are looking for something more mainstream, but I know a couple of IU frat boys who think they are THE SHIT at rapping. They are both white and ridiculous. Here is there myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/groovemodulation.
G-mo…wtf?
Kati says:
Get rid of the period at the end of the link to make it work.
Peggy says:
Oh man. I do love stupid things, as MBL rightly points out.
Sample JT lyric: "When you cheated, girl / my heart bleeded, girl / so it goes without saying that you left me feelin' hurt / just a classic case / s-s-scenario / tale as old as time / girl you got what you deserved" (from "What Goes Around," Futuresex/Lovesounds).
Also: I have seen more than one instance of models rapping on America's Next Top Model and also nerds geeks rapping on Beauty & the Geek.
Tyra Banks rapping (I know, I know, she's black; still):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7DVSMF7XbAc
Random (white) contestant rapping at panel on ANTM:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rbQiSg5hlKM
Also, my personal favorite rap video EVER:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zpyROomZpcQ
I mean, that last one's supposed to be funny, so I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for.
I'm not sure if Britney's trying to rap or not in her latest single; it's entirely possible that she's just singing. very. slowly. …?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=89oS4SN4mNg
And then this parody of that:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rOQhTr7HK0U&feature=related
Okay, I have to go to class now (booo) but I will work on thinking of more. I really feel like MBL has thrown down a gauntlet here.
Dammy says:
Robbie Williams
http://youtube.com/watch?v=30fuj9ldnCg
Painful but catchy :o)
Jamal says:
I listened to the G-mo, they're actually pretty talented
Kim says:
Thre are a lot of good white rappers out there. Copywrite is nasty (www.myspace.com/odotrecords) so is jedi mind tricks (myspace.com/jedimindtricks). Both have been very succesful especially jmt.
I listened to some suggestions here and robbie williams is not rap. As for G-mo they a majority of those songs have low recording value but sounds like a lot of potential