1 Comments

hip hop dancing
Everyone knows rap is not a White Man's game. Yes, Eminem can do it just fine. And the Beastie Boys are legends in their own right. And, okay, Asher Roth is an arguable success. But, really, true hip hop lies in the hands of the Black men and women who took the musical genre and turned it into a worldwide phenomenon central to the cultural zeitgeist.

Deena, however, would likely disagree. Somewhere, the Caucasian gal's kids begged her endlessly to stop wearing track suits, renting studio space and soft lighting and camera equipment and an editor to make her look like a superior hip hop dancer. Pleading, they sat on their knees, sobbing to Deena in hopes that she'd stop trying to adopt some modicum of culture she'd seen from a distance at the mall, lowering her sunglasses from inside the minivan.

"Mom," cried her daughter Tanya (probably, right?), "This has got. To. Stop."

And, yet, Deena danced.