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White people to black musicians: We are bored. Get back to work! Dalton Schweneker is packing away his thick gold chains and baggy pants. Schweneker, a white rapper who goes by the handle, "Double Jelly," said he's growing tired of rap and wants black musicians to invent some new musical style that he could shamelessly lift. "Yo. Yo. Yo. Here it is. I been rappin' and free-stylin' for 18 and some odd months, know what I'm saying," said Schweneker. "I'm tired, you know. I need somethin' fresh. And my parents want to convert my basement studio into a media room. That's cold. Mom and Dad. Cold." Schweneker believes black people, who revolutionized blues, jazz, rock and roll, reggae, rap, and, to their detriment, disco, are falling behind in their delivery of new musical trends. Without this infusion of alternative culture, Schweneker is afraid he may start playing blue grass, or take up the cello. "The ho don't flow to no Joe strapped up to a cello, ya know," Schweneker begins to rap. "Sorry about that. It's become almost a habit. Like Tourettes." Schweneker said he was diagnosed with cultural kleptomania last year and he's undergone intense psychiatric therapy. Jake Mathau, whose long dreadlocks frame his albino-white face and black t-shirt with a map of Africa, wants an updated form of music, as well. Mathau fronts a reggae band, "The Whiners," but says the band is waiting for new direction. "Then me aks you dis question: how can we be learning new songs if no songs be made by de black folk," said Mathau. "Fo de love of Jah, how many times do I got to be singin' 'I Shot The Sheriif'? We know, we know: it wasn't de deputy for Chrissakes." Previously Mathau stole blues songs from black musicians in another hopeless attempt to craft an independent identity away from his bland suburban existence. He had claimed that he wrote, "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom," as a junior high school project. Some black musicians say whites are on their own. Curtis Brents, a black singer songwriter, said he has gone in a different direction. "They're on their own," said Brents. "I just got a job as a chemical engineer."
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