In today's second edition of "Don't Make That Rap Video," Katy
Perry covered Kanye and Jay-Z's "Niggas in Paris" over the
weekend. It is obviously horrible, but it did leave us with a
fascinating chicken-or-egg question: Did Katy Perry beget
Karmin, the white-people-rappin' duo featuring Perry
doppelganger Amy Heidemann on vocals, or did Karmin's
insufferable covers beget Katy Perry trying to be more like
Karmin?  We will never know, because now our ears are bleeding.
At the start of the video, Perry cops that the cover will be
"embarrassing," but it is far worse than that. "Niggas in Paris"
is simply not a throwaway cover. "Niggas in Paris" is the
ultimate banger of 2011, and it is (in part) about black men
celebrating their wealth in one of the most inaccessible cities
in the world. Jay and Kanye ended their shows on the Watch the
Throne tour by playing "Niggas in Paris" four to six (or 13)
times in a row, and the crowds only got more and more rowdy as
they heard it.  So you can't throw a white girl in a Y