The Game hits back at Abu Aardvark!

I don't get why white nerds feel such a proclivity to overanalogize and overanalyze rap music.

The Lynch article used too many words to make a point. I felt Lynch was trying too hard, like Vanilla Ice[land]. Since the 90s, academics have struggled to get out of the confines of academia. They want to become public intellectuals or pop phenomena. But the problem is that most of the world could care less about what a pasty white guy has to say about two black rappers. It's not like TMZ is going to be waiting outside Lynch's office during office hours, looking for his response to The Game's non-response.

Anyway, I am a sociologist by training and presently doing a study on the affinity of upper-middle class Jewish males under 40 for rap music. I think I will interview Spencer Ackerman, another poseur.

Few things are more ridiculous than obviously white people writing about hip-hop. (I'm reminded of a Rolling Stone feature a few years back that used then-semi-current hip-hop jargon to explain the then-current hip-hop landscape to the magazine's predominantly white, middle-aged readership. Hilariously stupid.) Adopting bits of urban black lingo only worsens the effect. This looks like apt fodder for Stuff White People Like. Please refrain from dragging hip-hop into any further analogies about world events. I'm guessing the conjunction between hip-hop fans and FP blog readers is pretty small (much as, say, death metal listeners and FP blog readers would be -- and an analogy dragging Cradle of Filth songs into foreign events analysis would be just as silly).

There's nothing strange or unusual at all about white people commenting on black culture, or any other non-white culture; white people have been analyzing and commenting on non-white cultures for centuries. Just because the subject of the analysis is recent in occurence, as opposed to in the 1800's, does not make that white person any less capable of drawing conclusions.

I think a lot of people misinterpret what's been written. I agree with Lynch, and have thought so for a while, that nation-states, NGOs, transnational terrorist groups, et cetera do not act as rational entities; they act as individuals, with competing, irrational motivations, like jealousy, hatred, and fear. Analyses of national-level actors through the prism of individual human behavior is in my opionion an intelligent methodology, and one which should yield new insight. As Jay-Z would say, "Sensitive thugs/ You all need hugs." Big ups to the 609 and 504.