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Attention "New York": Novelty Hip-Hop By White Guys Did Not Start With The Internet

Attention "New York": Novelty Hip-Hop By White Guys Did Not Start With The Internet 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 [...]
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