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The question seemed so weird. "What?"

"Do you like rap music, Delilah? Do you know any rap songs? I want you to rap for me. As fast as you can."

"Why—"

"Just trust me, kid."

I did kind of like rap, but the only one I knew was "Baby Got Back", and I told Julius, but he insisted anyways. So, panicking, with the room tight and my breathing ragged, I did. Thinking about this old white man in his seventies kneeling before a sobbing, shaking white girl in her twenties while she raps Sir-Mix-A-Lot's hit song— it still makes me smile.


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