The post-Black era is filled with these sorts of cross-cultural mashups—from The Grey Album where Jay-Z’s vocals are mixed with Beatles music; to white singer-songwriter Nina Gordon’s cover of N.W.A.’s “Straight Outta Compton,” slowly singing their vulgar autobiographical rhymes over sweet acoustic guitar to Chappelle’s “Clayton Bigsby” sketch where a blind Black man believes himself a Klansman,
