# ATTN: Nerdy White Guy bands **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 23, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586 "2005-02-23T21:21:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/1 "2005-02-23T21:21:11Z")
OK, the joke was funny the first 500 times we heard it. It’s no longer funny. You no longer have to do any rap covers and display how white and nerdy you are. I’m talking to you Dynamite Hack, Baby Dayliner, Travis Morrison, and I think They Might Be Giants might have done it too. Ha ha. Joke’s over. It’s officially dinosaur turds. So stop it. Now. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/2 "2005-02-23T21:40:08Z")
Has Dynamite Hack released another song a la _Boyz-n-the Hood_, which was released in _2000_? I love that song, by the way. Thanks again, Casey1505. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/3 "2005-02-23T21:51:13Z")
And what was with that [Charlie Pride](http://www.delafont.com/music_acts/Charley-Pride.htm) guy anyway? ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/4 "2005-02-23T22:27:53Z")
So only black people can rap, eh? ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/5 "2005-02-23T22:32:39Z")
If it wasn’t for the assholes listening to that drek, we’d never hear of them. Fucking kids. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/6 "2005-02-23T22:50:50Z")
> [@SPOOFE](#): > > So only black people can rap, eh? The OP isn’t about rap. It’s about other-genre rap covers. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/7 "2005-02-23T23:33:54Z")
I dunno, hearing Rehab do _Gin and Juice_ is funny as hell. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/8 "2005-02-24T00:05:20Z")
BareNaked Ladies is a _Canadian_ Nerdy White Guy Band and yet their concerts are famous for rapping. Venue-related, seasonal, tour city, whatever strikes them as funny gets rapped about. Good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/9 "2005-02-24T00:29:36Z")
The Gourds’ bluegrass cover of “Gin and Juice” is a marvelous thing. There can be no doubt! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/10 "2005-02-24T00:30:50Z")
Conform. CONFORM!!! ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/11 "2005-02-24T00:39:06Z")
What about Ben Kweller covering Vanilla Ice - white guy on white guy violence? For what it is worth, I actually do like his cover of Ice Ice Baby; nothing really funning about it. Just the hotness, fo sho. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/12 "2005-02-24T00:39:52Z")
> [@andros](#): > > The OP isn’t about rap. It’s about other-genre rap covers. And it’s about reinterpreting rap songs to other genres just to be funny, which kinda stops being funny after a while. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/13 "2005-02-24T00:40:05Z")
> [@SPOOFE](#): > > So only black people can rap, eh? I don’t think that’s what **Knowed Out** is saying. I think the whole “white boys can’t rap” thing is a belief held by those particular bands. They think, _“We’re white and we play emo crap and we wear emo glasses and cry about how we can’t get girls. Lots of rap stars are black and they are smooth with the ladies. In other words, they are different from us. If we tried to be like them, it would be funny.”_ It’s not that **Knowed Out** thinks that only black people should rap, it’s that these bands think that only black people are able to rap well and that it’s funny when white people try to be black. And then they play the whole thing for laughs, as if they were so clever and self-aware and meta and everything. And it probably was funny the first few times, but now it’s annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/14 "2005-02-24T00:40:56Z")
Richard Cheese is still OK though right? ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/15 "2005-02-24T00:43:27Z")
But of course, immaculately suave white guy bands like Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine are exempt. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/16 "2005-02-24T00:43:29Z")
> [@AwSnappity](#): > > They think, _“We’re white and we play emo crap and we wear emo glasses and cry about how we can’t get girls…”_ Um, I’m sure that was very creative writing and all, but exactly what bands are you talking about? Rehab, the Gourds, Hack and TMBG are emo crybabies? Are you fucking stoned? ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/17 "2005-02-24T00:44:32Z")
OK, that was a very vaguely creepy simulpost… ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/18 "2005-02-24T00:48:50Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Um, I’m sure that was very creative writing and all, but exactly what bands are you talking about? Rehab, the Gourds, Hack and TMBG are emo crybabies? Are you fucking stoned? No, but I wish I was. TMBG is the only band I was familiar with. And when I hear nerd in relation to music, I think “emo”. I was more interested in getting a point across than familiarizing myself with those bands’ entire oeuvre. So sue me. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/19 "2005-02-24T00:50:40Z")
**Already in Use** : …Simulpost? Not an actual reply? Yeah, that was creepy. And here I was feeling all affirmed and everything. They say that great minds think alike, but I don’t know what kind of minds think of Richard Cheese at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/20 "2005-02-24T00:50:42Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s not that Knowed Out thinks that only black people should rap, it’s that these bands think that only black people are able to rap well and that it’s funny when white people try to be black. And then they play the whole thing for laughs, as if they were so clever and self-aware and meta and everything. And it probably was funny the first few times, but now it’s annoying. And how is it any more annoying than ACTUAL rap? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586.md?page=2)