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Inspiration:  This post from one of my favorite blogs, Stuff White People Like.

Though it is very acceptable and common for the right kind of white people to dress and act as though they were Japanese, Chinese, or European, it is completely unacceptable for them to act like rappers [...]  The brilliant solution they came up with was to appropriate hip hop words and mannerisms and filter them through a white appropriateness system.

This?  True.  What makes it even funnier, or so my African-American friends tell me, is when I do it in the style of Eddie Murphy impersonating a white man.. an impersonation of an impersonation, if you will.

Also:

This is also an excellent way to make white people like you.  If you can recite rap lyrics with perfect enunciation, they will always find it funny.  As a rule of thumb, the more popular the rapper, the funnier it gets.  Best options: 50 Cent, Tupac, Biggie Smalls, or Jay Z.

It’s not just white people, folks.  One of my bestest friends when we were in Alabama, a short-of-stature black mother of three, would recite DMX lyrics with me, downtempo and with perfect enunciation.  It was the only funny thing in that office, many days.  Sunshine on a cloudy day, if you will.

Note: avoid Kanye West as the irony of reciting his lyrics with perfect english is not as great.

I would pay good money to see Kanye West avoiding recitation of Kanye West lyrics.

This random snark has been brought to you by the distraction of getting USA Network’s east coast feed and loving it.