the best rap records for young whites are the violently political or ‘Hard’ raps that are so much like getting fake-flogged by a mime, a for-art’s-sake dressing-down full of contempt and parody and vague menace… but all from the other side of a chasm we feel glad, if liberal-guilty, is there: some space between our own lawned split-level world and whatever it is that lends the authenticity7 to Schoolly D’s thuggish rip-offs of ’70s mainstream classics;
