The Outbreak Of Think Pieces About SNL's "Narnia Rap"

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NY Times ("It is their obliviousness to their total lack of menace - or maybe the ostentatious way they pay for convenience-store candy with $10 bills - that makes the video so funny")

Slate ("it points up what's missing in mainstream rap—an awareness that it's OK to be goofy. Who needs Biz Markie and Tone-Loc? We've got Samberg and Parns")

What am I missing? Are middle-class white dorks rapping still funny? Is this a coordinated PR campaign for SNL or just a very, very slow news week?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I must supply the actual video, I guess:
http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=zLElfJ9YCh0

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

It's a free download on the iTunes music store too, it seems.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

that slate piece was particularly embarrassing and ugly. the same people wishing real hip-hop was this 'fun' or 'goofy' are the ones that bemoan 'my humps' or 'laffy taffy'.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

I can't listen to this at work, but that Aaron Burr line is funny.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

I just can't believe that this line has been written in almost-2006:

Some of the humor here derives from the fact that these whitebread guys—Samberg is wearing a John Muir T-shirt; Parnell looks like a 12-year-old accountant—are moonlighting in what's traditionally been a black medium.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

the same people wishing real hip-hop was this 'fun' or 'goofy' are the ones that bemoan 'my humps' or 'laffy taffy'.

sorta otm, but "my humps" is terrible!!!

― born-again christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

chet baker was a laff a minute

― born-again christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Everytime I hear "My Humps" blasting from a car, I laugh.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

What's a John Muir t-shirt? Is it significant?

― Borgnine Bourgogne (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Chuck, can I include this song in my 2006 P&J singles list?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc500/c530/c5307298lu1.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

holy jesus, that slate piece.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

i mean the video's pretty funny (esp the movie trivia bit) and parnell's weekend update rapping is even funnier... but i wonder if that slate writer's mother knows that from this he makes a living.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

The best thing about this whole deal was that the humor wasn't really "oooh it's white guys rapping" -- it was either normal punchlines (the Aaron Burr thing), funny local color (Magnolia cupcakes), retro shtick (the stop-motion frames), or the general cuteness of having a theme tune to commonplace events (which would be similarly funny if it was, like, heavy metal about taking your dog to the groomer). (Alternately this wouldn't necessarily be less funny if it were Kenan and Finesse doing it.)

Someone said elsewhere that this was basically just a Beastie Boys video, and then ventured how odd it was that once a decade and change has passed that would play as comedy -- but really, thinking back, the Beastie Boys were "funny" in exactly the same way. Which is to say, not funny-funny but likeable and amusing and fun. Which is exactly what this video is -- it's not like piss-your-pants oh-snap humor, it's basically just amusing and lovable and not a bad song, really. It's not hard to imagine why it'd make some people nostalgic for a time when there was more hip-hop working along those clowny local lines, like back when folks were rapping about trying to pick up girls in the mall food court and all. But whatever: Biz Markie had an album out last year, right, and Jay-Z's "Girls" was practically Kid'n'Play and I don't remember rap grumps rhapsodizing over that, and a twinge of nostalgia does not actually make a good argument to cover for why people don't like hip-hop as it exists in the here-and-now.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

hey nabisco dude
what's that on your ass? ten bucks?
YOU'RE ON THE MONEY

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

this one is better:

http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/statusainthood/archives/2005/12/snl_narniarap_s.php

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

"I like the beats but why can't they just talk about cupcakes and Mapquest and stuff I know about? I disapprove of dealing drugs when minorities are involved."

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

gah there's some song right NOW about picking up girls in the mall food court literally!!! i wish emily was here she knows its name. it is not 'revenge of sad-roc and sike d (geddit remix)' though.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Very true - the song and the video are no more comic, and no less deliberately so, than "No Sleep Til Brooklyn" - but that's part of my exasperation with the response this is getting. It's like Northern State all over again, except with less Xgau and more middlebrow punditry action.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thelonelyisland.com/bingbong.html

these dudes are not funny

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

isnt some cut about picking girls up at the food court? i think nitsuh meant albee square mall tho

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

i saw 'lazy sunday' as a comment on how the idea of 'city life' in new york right now is having a lot of its edge sanded away, but maybe i've been reading too much curbed.com this year.

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

i dunno i been on parnells dick a long time and that skit was funny for real but im tired of hearing about this shit

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

and other dude can eat a dick, who the fuck is he?!

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

ethan you'll want to avoid the ile thread where the bloomberg indie yuppies (ie. ile) are going on about how this proves 'rapping doesn't take talent'.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

hahaha

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

sorry ethan, the fact that the skit was filled with nyc in-jokes = it'll be on the pundit radar until at least the next hbo original series has its season premiere

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

see the sad thing is that i actually laughed when it first played but now like 2 weeks later shit is real suspect how every whiteboy on the planet cant stop jizzing on a 2 minute hipster rap parody, wasnt there shit like this on mtv like every night at 2am in 1996??

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

i saw 'lazy sunday' as a comment on how the idea of 'city life' in new york right now is having a lot of its edge sanded away

You know, I had an instinctive "oh, come AWWNN" reaction when I read your comment, but you're actually OTM regardless of the authors' intent.

By the way, I always thought of Magnolia bakery as a touristy thing that the locals tend to stay away from (much like no Fort Greeners actually eat at Junior's).

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

(also the why bloggers are like rappers' piece that is linked from the bottom of the slate drivel is horrifically worse ...

"For starters, both groups share a love of loose-fitting, pajama-style apparel. Still not satisfied? Bloggers and rappers are equally obsessed with social networking. Every rapper rolls with his entourage; every blogger rolls with his blog roll. Women can't win an audience in either profession without raunching it up like Lil' Kim or Wonkette."

ROLL WITH THE BLOG ROLL)

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

dr morbius = ile?? calm down blount

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

it was never LOL OMG funny. but it's still funny.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.vh1.com/shared/media/images/amg_covers/200/dre900/e918/e918915we8t.jpg
http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/dre000/e021/e02172f6uw6.jpg
http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drd500/d573/d57362p1658.jpg

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

My bum is on the rail
Bum is on the rail
Look at Me
My bum is on the rail
My bum is on a man
Bum is on a man
It's alot of fun to put your bum on a man
My bum is on a step
Bum is on a step
Don't fall down the steps you might hurt your bum!
(Insane Laughter)
And thats not very fun
If you fall down and hurt your bum
I like to put my bum on things
It's fun for everyone

My bum is on the cheese
Bum is on the cheese
If I get lucky I'll get a disease!
My bum is on the Swedish
Swedish, Swedish, Swedish
My bum is on the gum
My bum is on the gum
I can blow a bubble with my bum bum bum
My bum is on the ship
The battleship
I hope they don't shoot the cannon in my bum
I'd shoot POO all over the place
POO POO!!

Cause that isn't very fun
When they shoot a cannon in your bum
I like to put my bum on things
it's fun for everyone
My bum is on the dog
My bum is on the cat
My bum is on the phone
My bum is all alone......

The rail is all alone
The man is all alone
The Swedish is all alone
My bum...is all alone....
(Loo in the background)

1,2,3,4
My bum is all alone
My bum is all alone
My bum is all alone
My bum is all alone
My bum is all alone
My bum is all alone
My bum is all alone
My bum is all alone
My bum is all alone
My bum is all alone
My bum is all alone
My bum is all alone
Get the poo off my bum!
I need the POO off my BUM!!
I've go to get the poopoo off my bum
I want to hear the cannon! (Loon in the background)
No, let me hear the cannon! (Loon in the background)
NO NO NO, no, not the loon!
My bum is all alone
My bum is all alone
My bum is all alone
I WANNA HEAR THE CANNON!
I WANNA HEAR THE CANNON!
I WANNA HEAR THE CANNON NOT THE LOON!
(Cannon Explodes)

Yea! The cannon!
Now get the poo off my bum coo coo
I want the poo-poo off my bum bum...
(Whining)Can I hear the loon again, too.

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

ethan i thought you liked that shit

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

ts: 'lazy sunday' vs. the video of mindless self-indulgence's 'bitches' set to pokemon clips

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.com-www.com/weirdal/pix/cover-ap-small.jpg

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

(Ha Ethan I'm not sure what track I was thinking of there, but now that I think about it more it's not a mall food court, it's a fried chicken joint. And the dude gets a Coke poured down his pants, or something. Whatever, that general era of clowning one-strap overalls middle-classy high-school rap.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.com-www.com/weirdal/pix/cover-pent-small.jpg
he looks like benzino

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

this thread is a think piece on the outbreak of think pieces about snl's narnia rap

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

just reminding you

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

you win the internet

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

its no 'lost idm classics'

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

don't forget my boy:

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

i still love midnite vultures

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

as well you should!

cutty - i know i'm being a bit lame, but the double punch of slate and the ny times just killed me.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

btw blount i just heard my humps for the 1st time last weekend - fun song!

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

i hated the lispy fake rap tracks on midnite vultures but that skynyrd/kraftwerk one was hot

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

i didn't call anyone lame

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Hey so Ethan I have a rap-history question for you: who were the first people to start talking about the actual act of writing rhymes as being all deep and poetic? Like not the content themselves, but that Rakim-style thing where the rapper is all serious and mythical with his mind sinking into the paper and all. Was that just Rakim? Cause sometimes that seems like that biggest transition in rap, and yet everyone likes to pretend that desperate-serious thing is just some kind of gangsta "being tough" deal.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

well look the vid was pretty funny but the discussion coming out of the punditariat is the kind of stuff ("white guys goofy rapping ehh funny kinda yes maybe nyc parochialism etc etc") ilx has been chewing over for like 5 years. i just figured no one really felt like rehearsing it all again, until today, for whatever reason

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

hey nabisco, it's "the message" innit

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

well considering i was like 2 yrs old in paid in full dropped im not really qualified to answer but you can see a weird shift towards more metaphysical boasts in treacherous 3, especially kool moe dee

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

yeah and the message, ghostwritten by caz

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

hey anyone who thinks the narnia rap is funny should definitely check this out! lolz

http://scoopsnoodle.com/fufufu.html

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

also maybe grand puba on early masters of ceremony shit??? that dropped after rakim though, hes the father of every muslim rapper

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

actually though
isn't it l.l. cool j
with "i need a beat"

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rahul.net/van7ter/dance/dancing_baby_b.gif http://www.spilya.com/albums/media/all_your_base.jpg http://blog.creson.com/uploads/sound/songs/mahirplay.jpg http://www.rahul.net/van7ter/dance/dancing_baby_b.gif

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

every time chris parnell raps, god kills a kitten

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

It was a long-ass while after "The Message" that this really started turning over, though. And yeah, I do remember Kool Moe Dee cutting a much deeper figure than everyone else. It's hard to tell, since most of my rap intake at that age was MTV-mediated and so obviously overall-friendly and Heavy D-leaning and all that, but ... when was "We're All in the Same Gang?" Cause that seemed to fall right around the mainstream turning point for this stuff, where it finally seemed like some of the participants didn't seem "serious" enough to pull it off, and some kind of desperate "depth" started to seem like a bigger value all across the board.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

something being memorably funny on snl IS kinda newsworthy though, don't you think? and they had TWO that week, what with Smigel's Jewish Christmas film.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

all in teh same gang is like 90 right? not long after 'self destruction' obv

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Okay, so that'd be the ultimate mainstream tail-end of the flip-over, then.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

i'm thinking overall rap was more a result of native tongues and delicious vinyl. to be honest all of it might've been either native tongues or delicious vinyl.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

well the sad/racist/fucked up thing bout slate & nyt & blogs goin crazy over this is that theres about 327832463537463 current rap songs about peoples everyday lives, they just arent middle class nyc hipster white guys - "real rap" as a whole essentially begins & ends w/ that kinda observational shit ("rappers delight"--> "it was a good day" --> trillville rappin bout milkshakes at south dekalb mall)

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

& yeah native tongues/delicious vinyl of course, hands up anybody would rather watch the snl clip again over passin me by or bitties in the bk lounge

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

bitties in the bk lounge might be my favorite piece of pop music ever

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

either they don't know, don't show, or don't care about what's going on in the hood

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

bount = http://adweek.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/pillsbury_boy.jpg

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

... or all three.

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

sp blount

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

if only you were the first to make that comparison :(

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Ha, I was gonna use BK lounge as a food-court example but this being ILM I figured it'd get vexed by "De La is middle-class hipster" complaining! Similarly every Del track where he can't meet girls.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

1990 yo. (I actually liked this song quite a bit - mostly for the Digital Underground verse)

{*gun is cocked and fired*}

(I'm King News and I come to you with the truth
The mean streets took six more lives overnight
all the result of gang-bang stupidity
By the way, you gangsters should know
one of your victims was a three year old girl
Well, you gang members, you still don't get it, do ya?)

(With your badself)

[King Tee]
It's straight up madness everywhere I look
Used to be a straight a student, now he's a crook
Robbin people just to smoke or shoot up
Used to have a crew cut, now he's a pooh-put
Dropped out of school and he joins the neighborhood gang
Hangin on the streets sellin caine
To his own people
Now when I say people I mean color
You a stupid muthaf...
I'm tryin to stress the fact that you're dumb
Get yourself presentable, son, and just come
Together, you better, cause pretty soon it's gonna be too late
A message from King Tee The Great

[Body & Soul]
Sisters, since we are the mothers of this earth
It's time we start being good mothers from the birth
Of our children, no time for sleepin
Teach em to fight and win for the right reason
It's your time, it's your life, live it
Proud to be black, young and gifted
Lifted by the knowledge and takin the right route
Gang violence needs to be wiped out
A-l-m-i-g-h-ty C and E-z-i-r-e
We see the f-u-t-u-r-e
Should be a positive thang
Body & Soul and you, we're in the same gang

[Def Jef]
One and the same
Everyone came in the same chains
Caught with the same aim
Brain games and names changed
To protect the innocent by-stander
Lies, slander and the master-planner
Destroy the black male
Crack jail and semi-automatic
For static if the crack fails
So since we all talk the same slang
Stop killin, my brother, cause we're all from the same gang

[Michel'le]
Don't you know we've got to put our heads together?
Make the change cause we're all in the same gang

[Tone-Loc]
Now as a youth I used to get my bang on
And on the ave get my part-time slang on
Upon a time for me was no joke though
They knew I was crazy, so they labelled me Loco
Khakis creased, golf hat, feelin sporty
Low ridin and tossin up a forty
Thinkin in my mind that no one could handle us
The downest brothers ever touched Los Angeles
I found life was much more suitable
Cause I'm the brother that makes black so beautiful
I ain't slippin or down with a head trip
I'm talkin to all the Bloods and all the Crips
Throw down your rag and get on the right track, man
It's time to fight, unite and be a black man
Tone-Loc is on a positive change
Cause remember, we're all in the same gang

[Above The Law]
Bein the pimps that we are
We're here to speak on a situation that has gone too far
Here at home in the ghettos of LA
Where a young black brother's not promised to see the next day
Cause we used to clock on the streets before we made beats
But fools just lay and prey on the weak
It don't depend on the color of a rag
Cause if you got what they want you know they gonna take what you have
Cause violence don't only revolve from drugs and thugs
And gangs that bang
Most times it's a political thang
Yeah, a couple of spots'll get popped
And if the government wanted to freeze it it could all get stopped
But they don't because they want it like that
Because the system been set up to hold us back
Yeah, Above The Law means that we can do whatever
So why don't we stick together?
(You got it)

[Ice-T]
Ice-T rippin the microphone the way I do
Listen close, my brothers, cause I'm talkin to you
The problem is we got a suicidal lifestyle
Cause 90 percent of us are livin foul and wild
I say job, you say ([Hen-G:] bad joke
I rather jack another brother, watch the gun smoke)
Livin in the fast lane flippin like you're insane
You won't stop until your blood runs down the street drain
I got an idea, give me a minute
And if it makes sense, then get with it
What if we could take our enemies, feed em poison
Undereducate their girls and boys and
Split em up, make em fight one another
Better yet, make em kill for a color
All my brothers need to know one thing
No matter what you think, we're all in the same gang

[Michel'le]
Don't you know we've got to put our heads together?
Stop the fighting
(Make the change)
Because we're all in the same gang

[Dr. Dre & MC Ren]
Yo, we're not here to preach because we're not ministers
We're tellin like it is cause Ren and Dre is like sinister
Reality speaks for itself when it's spoken
A basehead cluck can't blame nobody for smokin
Yo, bullets flyin, mothers cryin, brothers dyin
Lyin in the streets, that's why we're tryin
To stop it from fallin apart and goin to waste
And keepin a smile off a white face
N.W.A never preachin, just teachin
The knowledge of the streets to each and
All that don't understand, that's why we came
To let you know that we're all in the same gang

[JJ Fad]
The J double, F, the a, the d, that is
And if you want the solution to the quiz
What's black in black, yo, and kills another?
An ignorant sucker that isn't labelled as a brother
But another
So now it's time we evolve
And get together and solve it
Cause the world is revolvin
Around a terrible situation
One will kill another for a reputation
So it's time we stop and realize that we're all the same
Yo Dre, tell em (We're all in the same gang)

[Young MC]
Brothers killin other brothers
I thought the idea was to love one another?
Open up the paper to one more death
If y'all keep this up then there'll be no one left
I try my best to set an example
Sayin hype lyrics over hip-hop samples
Not just a bragger to boast but to inform
Cause we're livin in the calm before the storm
You see, I believe that the children are the future
But what's it all about if in the future they shoot ya?
We're all human beings, if we're cut we'll bleed
And I want to see all young people succeed
Do 9 to 5, not 5 to 10
Just go to work and not the state pen
Cause you live better when you're out there free
And that's comin straight to ya from the Young MC

[Digital Underground]
I'm in a rage
Oh yeah? Yo, why is that g?
Other races, they say we act like rats in a cage
I tried to argue, but check it, every night in the news
We prove them suckers right and I got the blues
America...
Get busy, Humpy
The red, the white, the blue and
The blue and the red
For Clips and Bloods
The white for who's got you doin
Time bustin caps on one another
The Underground's down for peace among brothers
Kill a black man?
What?
Yo, what are you retarded?
Tell em, Hump
Yo, do you work for the Klan?
Do what you like
Unless you like gangbangin
Let's see how many brothers leave us hangin

[Oaktown's 3.4.7.]
The gang that should hang is the one that contains
The sisters and the brothers who are all in the same frame of mind
Now listen, get loose, it's unity time
Yeah, yeah
Peace is a presence that we all need
The future's in our hands, in word and deed
I'm Terrible T and I'm Sweet LD
We're 3.5.7. totally

[MC Hammer]
Kickin on the ave 'bout a quarter to 9
All the homies gettin blind in an eight ball line
Now on this tip they started runnin at the lip
Jumped in their deuce and took a little trip
Hit the block about 12 on the tick
The windows went down and the nines went click
People started yellin, bodies started bailin
Bullets cold flyin sendin some to hell and
It's gotta stop, we don't need all the violence
Peace in the hood and a moment of silence
We got together not for ego or fame
We got involved cause we're all in the same gang

[Eazy-E]
Last but not least, yo, Eazy's no sell-out
And if you can't hang in the streets, then get the hell out
I'm not tryin to tell ya what to do
You have your own freedom of choice who to listen to
You knew good from bad, fair from foul, right from wrong
Now your mother's singing that sad song
(My baby ain't never hurt nobody!)
But he still got smoked at Bébé's party
But you're not the first or the last
You're nothin but a short story from the past
You're dead now, not number one but a zero
Take notes from Eazy-E, the violent hero

[Michel'le]
Don't you know we've got to put our heads together?
Don't you know we've got to put our heads together?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

i owe my robust physique to your tubes of triple bleached goo!

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.impawards.com/1992/posters/bebes_kids.jpg

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

"let's see how many brothers leave us HANGIN' " with the neck-at-a-broken-noose-angle motion = best thing dude ever did

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

too bad sons of the p was so dire

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/63/229563_thumb.jpg

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

http://www.atari7800.com/joe/raiders/cosby.jpg

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

i think eazy got the best verse on that but obv king tee, atl & ice-t go hard

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

haha ts: burgers vs baconburgerdogs

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

siiiiiiiiiippin on a fooooooorty......

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bide-et-musique.com/images/pochettes/5490.jpg

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

i knew all the words to amish paradise

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

which made me very popular in 7th grade

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www.blackfilm.com/i3/movies/s/snakesonaplane/004_l.jpg

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

truest img url ever

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.theboxset.com/images/reviewcaptures/1526capture_indianajones06.jpg

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

indiana jones rap

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

http://jackwolak.com/7/7697.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

you guys seen fat albert yet? it's not bad, got lots of heart.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aohhla.com+%22hate+snakes%22

― $#@, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

http://www.imosh.com/NOVELTY/images/A1688%20RAP%20SUCKS%20TEE.jpg

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00015HV4C.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

http://members.aol.com/WernerVWallenrod/fun/granny.jpg

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

After years of being indirectly involved with Hip-Hop music, actor/pop singer Patrick Swayze is finally experimenting with rap music.
Swayze recently said he was experimenting with “rap rhythms as an emotional undercurrent for ballads.”

The 53-year-old Swayze had a massive hit with the song “She’s Like The Wind” from the soundtrack to the film "Dirty Dancing" in 1987.

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Ice-T is to produce David Hasselhoff's first hip-hop album.
The pair are neighbours in Los Angeles and are said to have struck up a close friendship.
Hasselhoff has had some success as a singer, releasing seven albums. He's also said to be very popular in Germany.
Ice-T, who was one of the first real hip-hop stars in the late 1980s, said: "The man is a legend. And we are going to show a whole new side of him."
The rapper is said to be convinced that the 51-year-old for Knight Rider and Baywatch actor can take on the biggest names in rap, reports The Sun.

Ice-T added: "He's gonna come out as Hassle The Hoff - I promise you. The Hoff will surprise people with his rap skills and humour."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hoopshype.com/YJ_LetGetIt_cvr_ex_3x3.jpg

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

i can't wait for the 'law and order: svu' episode w/the hoff

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

what the fuck is a jeezy.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Young Sweezy - Trap Roadhouse

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

jeezy sonned by 'shaky mo collier'

― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

shaky mo laffy taffy

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

btw the 'ghost like swayze' line was done already by pmd on business never personal

― $#@!!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

http://www.prometheus6.org/images/weezy.jpg

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/news/jimcrow/newforms/amos.jpg
ihttp://emi.fi/pics/gallery/Beastie%20Boys2.jpg

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

yo is it true parnell got sonned by a wite kid in think piece beefe???

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

that convenience store clerk girl in the SNL skit video was cute!

the skit itself was funny but why does anyone read Slate anymore?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

dude this article is weak. rappers are funny all the time!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

maybe we should just mount a big mirrored wall around manhattan so that it's easier for it to admire itself endlessly

― Elder of Zion (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

i think they got daniel libeskind working on that

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Ah, yes, sure, mild modest Brooklyn will have its revenge!

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

It was funnier than blount's perpetual hard-on for me.

i been on parnells dick a long time...and other dude can eat a dick, who the fuck is he?!

A much cuter Jewish boy than any of the Beasties?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Maya Rudolph and Paul Thomas Anderson have a kid? Where the hell have I been?

― erklie, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Ah, yes, sure, mild modest Brooklyn will have its revenge!

bahahahaha

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

http://idollimits.tripod.com/kidrock.gif

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

A much cuter Jewish boy than any of the Beasties?

i think parnell is kinda hot.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

morbius was talking about andy samberg

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

I actually kinda like the NYT one because it's not so much a "think piece" as it goes into how the sketch was made and who wrote it, etc.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

oh. yeah whoops. the jewish one kinda looks like ashton kutcher.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Thanks to blogging, there's too many "think pieces" in general.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Indeed! (if he was less generically stunning) I wondered about the guy's mom asking if the vid was "about weed," and then I saw he's from Berkeley.

I think it's funny there was apparently a mild hurrah when SNL hired the writers from this Lonelyisland site, and they've gotten TWO sketches on the air this season. Everyone who hasn't gotten a career out of that show seems to agree it's hell on earth.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

I rock peas on my head but don’t call me a pea head.
Bees on my head but don’t call me a bee head.
Bruce Lee’s on my head but don’t call me a Lee head.
Now please excuse me, I gots to get my tree fed.
You wear name brands and I make my own clothing.
I hang out with an apple who loves self-loathing.
“I hate myself.”
Pancake on my face makes me extra happy.
I like shampoo bottles that sit on my lappy.
Cause it’s my show you can’t tell me what to do.
When life hands me lemons I make beef stew.
So yo I gotta go, it’s time for me to rock it.
I put bologna in my left pocket.
Smear some cream cheese in my gold locket .

― DR. O. RLY? (eman), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

When life hands me lemons I make beef stew

BRILLIANT.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000A1IKLA.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― DR. O. RLY? (eman), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

dude needs to sue the shit out of his tattoo artist

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Doesn't Ice have ANY friends to tell him when he's fucking up?

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

that cover is seriously bananas. it's like a holy objet.

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

i seemed to have missed hearing about this one from 2003

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00009LW0Q.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Track Listings
1. Hip Hop (Intro)
2. Hip Hop Rules
3. O.K.S.
4. Dirty South
5. Hot Sex
6. Unbreakable
7. Detonator
8. Elvis Killed Kennedy
9. Insane Killas
10. Tha Weed Song
11. Get Your Ass Up
12. Crash and Burn
13. Vampiro
14. MC & Slasher
15. Anthropology
16. White Trash

― DR. O. RLY? (eman), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

is that britney??

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

looks like Hanna-Barbera doodled on his arms.

― DR. O. RLY? (eman), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

8. Elvis Killed Kennedy

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

reedonkulous

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

The most depressing thing to me about all of this is the proliferation of "journalists" that don't actually want to get off their asses and find real stories, and the publication of said journalists in reputable periodicals.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

Thread useless w/out Dee Dee Ramone, I mean Dee Dee King

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

This is the part of the thread where I stop and say "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOF."

Proceed.

― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

Alright. That Dee Dee King record is AMAZING.
ps: The Ice is on tour in Europe now w/ ICP.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

Also, if rap weren't held back by people who don't know how to have fun (i.e. black rap dudes and music critics and the reborn beastie boys), wouldn't this world be amazing?

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

How come there wasn't awesome internet pieces about what "more cowbell" means for the state of rock music?

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

Marissa Marchant charging $1000/cd (for only a few months, a long time ago) made the cover of the SF Weekly.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

Marissa Marchant charging $1000/cd (for only a few months, a long time ago) made the cover of the SF Weekly.

The story wasn't really about Marchant, though you wouldn't know it from listening to her.

And doesn't Slate generally run commentary/opinion pieces? It's not really a news publication.

― save the robot (save the robot), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

Just to play Devil's Advocate for a minute...

http://www.cruftbox.com/cruft/images/pepper/pibb.jpg
http://www.homeroom.com/imgs.homeroom/stratum1/helpgifs/plus_sign.gif
http://www.candy2you.com/images/products/redjarlg.jpg
http://www.ottawa.rasc.ca/astronomy/chasing_eclipse/equals.jpg http://louisvilledemocrat.com/images/question_mark.jpg

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

So how long will it take them to develop a movie around this? It'll be the Lazy Sunday Movie Guys movie, and we'll learn all about their backstories.

― save the robot (save the robot), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

xpost: Crazy Delicious?

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)

Beyonce: Crazy Delicious.

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 04:09 (twenty years ago)

And doesn't Slate generally run commentary/opinion pieces? It's not really a news publication.

-- save the robot (chri...), December 27th, 2005.

Well yes, but I think even an opinion writer ought to dig up something genuinely worthy. The Slate piece seems lazy in more than one way -- suggesting that this little, likely short-lived internet morsel will or even should have ANY impact on hip-hop or our culture at large is lazy thinking, and writing a piece about something so insignificant and facile seems lazy in itself. But that's pretty much what everyone has already said here.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

Well anyway, it's a t-shirt:

http://www.spreadshirt.com/shop.php?sid=5699&search%5Btext%5D=lazy+sunday

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

It wasn't too bad in the context of how abso-fucking-lutely terrible SNL is at this point (witness the shit-bag that is Weekend Update - both uncharming and unfunny), but lemme tell you, that spelling bee bit about "business", wherein there's that 5 minute barrage of consonants. That was the funny shit. Up until Jack Black and pal came on and ruined it.

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

i found it charming and the men sexually attractive, but not really attached to hip hop, as far as my little understanding allows for

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Josh Levin, the writer of the Slate piece, also has written for the Washington City Paper(he had a cover story recently on the new planned stadium for the Nationals), so he may be based in DC.

― Curmudgeon Steve (Steve K), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

Same guy? Not to sound anti-Semitic or anything, but there's a helluva lot of Josh Levins in this business.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 29 December 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

slate's owned by the washington post

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 29 December 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

I propose that ILX no longer uses "OTM" but instead "true" and then the proper response is "xpost DOUBLE TRUE"

― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 29 December 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

We could even make t-shirts.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 29 December 2005 07:15 (twenty years ago)

wrong board for proposals

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 29 December 2005 07:17 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I finally watched this. Mildly amusing at best. That's greater expectations than I've had from SNL for a long time, so I guess that's why the excitement. I'm not terribly surprised to hear that it relies a lot on NYC in-jokes (and seriously, if cupcakes is the big new foodie trend, the infantilization of culture is nearly complete) but of course they are totally lost on me, having never visited NYC. As for all the discussion about silliness in rap and the sketch having an actually good rap beat, I think something has been missed here. It has a decent HARDCORE rap beat. Silly rap songs - of which there have always been and still are plenty - almost always match the music to the mood of the lyrics. A silly song gets a funny beat, to state it briefly (Girls Ain't Nothin' But Trouble, Ya Mama, My Humps). It's not so much the disjunction of white nerds rhyming as it is the mismatch of subject to early NWA style thump that's the source of what humor I could find in the video.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

he looks like benzino

Suddenly the world makes so much more sense.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sickanimation.com/imagesandflash/gorilsmall.jpg
Torrible.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:40 (twenty years ago)

"and seriously, if cupcakes is the big new foodie trend"

it's not new.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:55 (twenty years ago)

How did I miss this thread? Jesus. At around 11pm, some dorks at the New Years Eve party stopped the music so that they could play this on a laptop for everyone. (I'll quit my grousing about how they wanted "dance music" and "not rap" but mobbed to turn off The Knife and Presets in order to put on Young Jeezy. If I'd known they wanted Young Jeezy, I woulda played Young Jeezy...)

How do you get to write a think piece like this? I mean, how the fuck do you pitch it? Because I think I can get high and toss off one like Slate's before noon.

― js (honestengine), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:57 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

http://www.youtube.com/w/Lazy-Monday?v=rkcqPbTxTWY

― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 4 February 2006 00:49 (twenty years ago)

It is ... weird. And impressive. Although not so well sync'd.

― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 4 February 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

according to slate, i have no friends.

― Tracer "sonned by slate" Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 4 February 2006 01:48 (twenty years ago)

having now watched this, nabisco totally off the money. lots of the humor is a dig at the usual suspects of hardness, cash, weed, etc. and an implicit "people who dig rap but have random average nyc lives are pretending to be something they're not" msg. concommitant with this.

contrast vs. say, "still fly" which is for real funny.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 4 February 2006 06:23 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tQ7bJQGlfJY

Portman Unleashed

― Jimmy Mod: The Prettiest Flower In The Pond (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 6 March 2006 02:53 (twenty years ago)

wow, milk much? real Boss. Every qualm raised in this thread is hereby validated and goes more than double obv.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 6 March 2006 03:37 (twenty years ago)

Sigh, that Natalie Portman sure is cute.

This is everything the Narnia rap wasn't. The squeaky-clean whitey rapping like one of those ruffian black guys! In '06 this shit is perplexing.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Monday, 6 March 2006 03:45 (twenty years ago)

Dear God, I've fallen in love with her all over again.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:01 (twenty years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c488/c4885427n93.jpg

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:02 (twenty years ago)

Dear God, I've fallen in love with her all over again.

Yeah, me too. But I just realized this is the best thing she's done sinc The Professional.

― Jimmy Mod: The Prettiest Flower In The Pond (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:06 (twenty years ago)

i just like when she talks about doing yay

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:07 (twenty years ago)

You WOULD

― Jimmy Mod: The Prettiest Flower In The Pond (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:11 (twenty years ago)

i'm only human

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:13 (twenty years ago)

I liked the part where she said she wanted to fuck me too

― Jimmy Mod: The Prettiest Flower In The Pond (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:16 (twenty years ago)

We're just diffferent people, I think.

― Jimmy Mod: The Prettiest Flower In The Pond (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:17 (twenty years ago)

she looks uncannily like sinead o connor in that vid

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:17 (twenty years ago)

old link dead. new link (prob dead soon too)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hJREeZWA8Pw

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 02:19 (twenty years ago)

I think the central joke of this one (Natalie Portman turning out to be someone who tells little kids to "suck my dick") is a lot funnier than the central joke of the Narnia rap (Hey, it's white guys rapping about un-rap-like subjects!)

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 04:40 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

funny thread

― and what, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

lol @ "he looks like benzino" re: Weird Al

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

pre-white & nerdy, dude

― and what, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

no, that would've been "he looks like the guy from the Mountain Goats"

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

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