I'm white and with that come certain stereotypes and cliches that are well, sadly true. The first being that in the early days of rap white people were horrible at it (and to some extent we still are). So horrible that anytime I heard a white dude rhyming lyrics on television or in commercials, I felt deeply ashamed for myself and the rest of my people.
To counteract this shame and sorrow, I turned to black culture to satisfy my need to hear poetry broken apart in intense and beautiful ways (I will always give credit to Eazy-E's album Eazy-Duz-It as a contributing factor to my life-long love of rap) and, like being wrapped up in a comforting and warm blanket, black rap artists allowed me to move past the incredible embarrassment of watching a white man rap in a safe and secure way.
That is until I stumbled across the following video from the television show Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future (which ran from 1987-88 on syndication) which describes the show via Rap.
And now I'm back to feeling horrible inside, so thanks bad Sci-Fi television show for reminding me of how bad white people are at rhyming.
Video after the break.
Source: Topless Robot
