musings on the popularity of southern rap music

"no one seemed to give a shit about Crime Pays, which was the shit, for a Cam’ron album. I enjoyed it about as much as I did Purple Haze, despite the shittier production. Maybe it was so good it was hard for white people to appreciate ironically, and that’s why they’ve since moved on to Gucci Mane." -byron crawford

this must be the case. watching an illiterate 12 yr old, a la soulja boy, dance and generally buffoon his way about provides most white people with their image of black people. if gIrLs nItE out at suny albany is basically on the same ignorance level as soulja boy, and the concept of irony not fully understood by either party, weirder still is the fascination of certain segments of the rap nerd population's infatuation with gucci nd other such persons.