Blog: The Needle Drop

A video from the increasingly popular parody rapper Krispy Kreme. Yeah, there's been a lotta joke rap in the past, but what makes Krispy Kreme so interesting is that he blurs the lines between making legitimate modern hip hop and and a straight up joke. I'm not sure what that says about modern hip hop, or contemporary humor, but a lot of what Krispy says in his rhymes isn't too far from what a "serious" rapper would try to put across, but because it's being rapped by a short white guy with snot running out of his nose, it's [...]