I've always loathed hip-hop. I'm with Bill Cosby, black music has taken quite the nose dive since the days of the jazz. I'm afraid the wife has it right, the annihilation of American-Jewish masculinity by the dominant gentile culture creates the White Negro phenomenon in a farcically extreme form. Unless American Jews start making peace with their masculinity and stop allowing themselves to be castrated by a culture that demands they act like effeminate neurotics, they're only going to get more and more ludicrous in their attempts to mimic the masculinity of other minority groups. Or they can simply repair to Israel where we all think, somewhere deep down, that we're really Jonathan Netanyahu. But that's a whole other article...