January 8, 2007

{     Gangsta Rap Coloring Book     }    

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you have seen this before and this is not really new and this and that. Ok, you are right, this book was published some time ago, but we are not all on top of the coolness food chain as you are, you know? So start feeling priviledged and shut up while we, the uninformed, uncool loosers, admire you for being so on top of the game and absorb the wonder of this colouring book, likely the only real match in this book category of the 60s classic The Executive Colouring Book.

The Gangsta Rap Coloring Book collects line portraits of Big L, Notorious B.I.G., 2Pac, Ice-T, 50 Cent, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre and lots of others, old-schoolers and not, whose names I have never heard before (sorry, hip hop is not my thing: E-40? What's that? A new virus? WC? Yes, I know what that is, I am just not sure why it has a face. Wait: now I get it... The Gingerbread Man? You seriously tellin' me a rapper chose that as a name?).

But the good thing about it is it does not matter how much you like hip hop, if you do at all or how deep is your worship for some of these mythical figures. Because the pleasure of turning the perfectly ugly face of overexposed and likely overrated Snoop Dog into a Pippy Longstockling drag impersonator (red upward braids and fracles included) is uncomparably sweet.

Yo. You will never look at the man in the same way again. And I believe it's a good thing.

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