Friday, July 19, 2013

Kipling vs. RiFF RaFF (AKA the White Man's Burden)

Take up the White Man's burden—
 Send forth the best ye breed—

 VS.

What does a 19th century Victorian man-of-letters-cum-imperialist have in common with the Sunshine State's skeeziest (and whitest) rapper? Turns out they share a veritable caravan of aesthetic of preferences including: guns, swag, bitches, booze, phrenology, drugs, old whips, racialism, animals (alive or skinned), the hot Southern sun of exotic climes, and of course rhymin’. The differences lie, so far as I can tell, almost exclusively in the domain of facial hair. Following on the success of the popular and quite poignant Jay-Z Lyric or Line from The Great Gatsby quiz, I present the following little academic “compare and contrast”. Can you guess which DWM (dirty white male) dropped which verse?

Highlight the Miami hot pink answer text to see the answer!

1. "I seed im runnin by when the shots begun to fly"
Answer: Kipling  


2. "Sounding real good. Might work the wood.
      I'm'a broke em off like to make my own wood."
Answer: Riff-RaF


3. "Next week I'll have em fitted
     I'll buy me a swagger-cane"
Answer: Kipling (continuation is even funnier: "they'll let me free o' the barricks to walk on the Hoe again")


4. "Wet an drippin by the ford.
     Ford, ford, ford."
Answer: Kipling   


5. "The jinglety-jink o the chains -Tss! Tss!"
Answer: Kipling   


6. "Laying face down dress down
     We on the,
     On the other side of seven seas."
Answer: Riff Raff 


7. "Don't call your Martini a crosseyed old bitch."
Answer: Kipling   


8. "She knifed me one night cuz I wished she was white."
Answer: Kipling  


9. "Just me and my kin 
       In the salamander skin."
Answer: Riff Raff 


10. "We was goin most extended
       We was drivin very fine."
Answer: Kipling  


11. "Pirate ships and treasure, 
       Yeah I got that treasure."
Answer: Riff Raff


12. "Two yellow companions at my mansion mud wrastlin.'"
Answer: Riff Raff 


13. "It was crawlin' and it stunk,
        But of all the drinks I've drunk..."
Answer: Kipling   


14. "Cheetah skin outside the parka
       Propaganda propels us – ostrich feathers."
Answer: Riff-Raff 

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