White Girls Can't Rap

How many times have you been busting your moves, shakin' your booty, double-pumping your chest, just workin' your thang on the dance floor and as you go to sing that favourite line of your favourite R&B / hip hop track your mind vaguely wanders... "what the hell does that mean?".

Wonder no more, ladies. Understand Rap is your dictionary to the black world we all wish we were a part of every time we set foot on a dance floor. Check it: (hahaha)

• Kanye West's Through The Wire - "thought I was burnt up like Pepsi did Michael": Kanye is comparing the fearful, worried reactions people had after finding out he was in a car accident to the reactions people had when finding out Michael Jackson's hair caught fire on the set of a Pepsi commercial he was filming in the early 1980s.
• Vanilla Ice's Ice, Ice Baby - "chumps actin' nimble 'cause they're full of 8 ball": The "chumps" are quicker or hyped up because they are high on cocaine .
• Jay-Z Izzo - "H to the Izz-O, V to the Izz-A": he is spelling out Hova, short for J-Hova (Jay-Z's nickname for himself) which sounds like Jehovah (a name for God) because he is a God among rappers.
• OutKast Hey Ya - "Lend me some sugar, I am your neighbour": Let's have sex, I am someone you know well.
  

White boys can't really rap either. Except Eminem. And Flight of the Conchords.