Yesterday, New York‘s Vulture put up a post briefly outlining the history of white rappers, thanks to recent activity Asher Roth and Eminem making the whole enterprise two-thirds of the way to trend-piece worthiness. Friends of Idolator Christopher R. Weingarten and Sasha Frere-Jones spent much of yesterday afternoon picking over the list, noting omissions like Malcolm McLaren’s “Buffalo Gals” and Wham!’s “Wham! Rap”–but no point was more salient to this raised-on-morning-zoo observer than Weingarten’s 140-character rant about how Andy Milonakis was for some reason singled out, while “Rappin’ Rodney” and Joe Piscopo got ignored. After the jump, Chris helps me give crucial ’80s novelty raps their due. More ยป
