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Journeyman

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2. He might have listened to those tracks, though one suspects he'd relate better to. . .
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 03:40 PM
Feb 2013

The Offspring's "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)."

. . .the song ("Pretty Fly&quot ridicules a "wannabe gangsta" who is immersed in hip-hop culture not because he truly loves or understands it, but because it is trendy, makes him feel tough ("friends say he's tryin' too hard, and he's not quite hip/but in his own mind, he's the - he's the dopest trip&quot and makes it seem that he can get all the girls ("and all the girls say I'm pretty fly - for a white guy&quot . The song openly mocks the middle-class suburban youths who listen to rap music for this reason.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Fly_(for_a_White_Guy)
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