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I will never understand the affection many young white kids feel for emulating black urban culture....maybe because it's sort of verboten or the snarly aspect makes em feel tuff and swaggering...anyhow it's not for me. Now when I was young (in the 1800s)...we liked Smokey Robinson(still do actually) and Superfly but we didn't want to dress or act like them.

You're more socailly liberal(I don't mean that as a flame) than me. I love R&R Animal ...I remember it very very well...summer 1974. I still have it on CD. Steve Hunter of Alice Cooper played guitar on it. But the lyrics are not something I would encourage on my kids. My folks didn't have a clue I was living in a haze myself then. I do.

maybe because it's sort of verboten or the snarly aspect makes em feel tuff and swaggering

I can understand the verboten appeal -- after all, that was why I grew my hair, dressed in opportunity shop suits and went out of my way to annoy my elders when I was Squirt's age.

The hard part to understand is why he can't "rebel" in a way I approve of. Whenever I gripe to my own dad, he just starts laughing his head off, muttering something about "the sins of the father being visited uppon the son." And then he laughs even harder and tells me I deserve some grief for all the agita I gave him.