Guest writer Dalton Higgins shares a different fatherhood-inspired hip-hop video each day this week
Howdy Bunch familia,
The name is Dalton Higgins – Daddy Dalt, to my friends – and my aim is to take you on my hip-hoppy, digitally-inspired, multi-culti journey through fatherhood, as my fourth book, Fatherhood 4.0: iDad Applications Across Cultures, does. It’s a world where Bill Cosby, George Lopez, Ozzy Osbourne and Barack Obama get equal mention.
I am a Hip-Hop Pop. And what is a Hip-Hop Pop you ask? Well, for starters, it’s time to face facts: it’s a hip-hop world, and you’re just living in it! Hip-Hop Pops like me rap, and we’re receding! Rap dads of my ilk still rock Liberace-style jewelry like our kids want to (with inspiration from Jersey Shore and BET). And we get overly impressed when the president – America’s Big Poppa – uses Jay-Z rhymes in his speeches. The Hip-Hop Pops fraternity is large and growing, and is littered with dads fully tapped into their child’s daily need to listen to Drake and Willow Smith. We act goofy most of the time despite our advanced age. Forget Little Jimmy, it’s all about Lil’ Wayne (Weezy)!
