pretty chords and one of my best melodies." With only Dre's and Snoop's sagas of endured betrayal, the hook—chiming "ain't shit but hos and tricks" best fit to "suck the dick"—sounds, in Folds's view, "like a sad Johnny Cash song with a lot more vulgarity." In some views, his piano version, alike a minstrel show, mocks blacks, or, exposing "musical misogyny" as "absurd bullshit," takes the original, "flips it on its head, and makes Dr. Dre look like an idiotic buffoon." Yet by consensus, it parodies Ben Folds "whiteness." "It's touchy," he says, "because someone could say, 'You think all rap is like this.' But no, it's specifically gangsta rap." Calling his own genre "punk rock for sissies," he depicts a man "hurt" or "wrecked." About the rap song, he asserts, "Dr. Dre is no dummy: there's comedy in it, there's Quentin Tarantino, and then there's also serious stuff in it." Composition The cover version, while importing lyrics, is a new composition. Ben Folds on piano, Lindsay Jamieson on drum kit, and Jared Reynolds on bass guitar, the song sounds like classic Ben Folds until the middle eight—traditionally, an interlude of eight bars markedly diverting from the song's established sound—which adds a synthesizer, played at high pitch, evoking the rap song's eerie ring ubiquitous, "the funky worm." More specifically, where the Snoop verse recalls abrupt separation from his beloved "bitch named Mandy May" by jail time, the rap song—whose funky worm simply endures—reintroduces "The Bridge" instrumental sample, which plays across these two bars. Lacking a sample to reintroduce there, the rock song starts its middle eight, commonly but perhaps falsely called "the bridge" of a song. These eight bars also span release from jail, "news" about his "girl," and need to assault whomever the complicit man. Thereafter, the Dre song's Snoop verse—totaling 22 lyrical lines arranged on 22 musical bars—spans six more lines/bars, which meanwhile vary the bass riff. In the rap Snoop verse, his journey to her house and arrival with handgun span two bars of bass riff absent, then his kicking the door in and shock by the sight span two bars of bass riff halted—with the bass strings strummed till each bar's midpoint but there stopped of resonance—whereas his uncocking the gun and forsaking "a bitch" span two bars of bass riff normal, how it remains in Snoop's immediate hook recital, then, and thereafter. By contrast, the