Call Tom Green!

Shock comedian Tom Green has become a rapper, plans Canadian tour
VANCOUVER (CP) — Tom Green’s cellphone number is (310) 717-1919. Call him, and he’ll tell you about his special passion for rapping about naked ladies.
This, he says, was his true calling long before he became a famous shock comedian on MTV.
At a quiet Vancouver restaurant he showed elderly diners exactly how much he loves to rap, cranking up beats on his boom box and singing a song about Hooters off his new album.
Grey heads craned over their scrambled eggs trying to figure out what was going on as Green shouted: “I like naked ladies! I like making babies! I want to make them with girls all around the world! I like to go to Hooters.”
“Hi there,” he added to a man at a table next to him.
This is just a taste of the rap show tour he will be taking across Canada in January.
“What we want to do when we tour across country is we want to bring some of that silly, fun, madness, circus-like atmosphere to play some shows around Canada. It’s giving me an excuse to go get on stage and go tour Canada.
“I’m so heavily focused on my website and my blog right now. The shows are going to give people a chance to come out and watch something live.”
He says his hardcore fans, the people who check his website www.tomgreen.com every day, aren’t surprised he’s reinvented himself as rapper.
Green, though known as an obnoxious comic jerk, actually has a background in rap with Organized Rhyme, the trio he started at Colonel By High School in Ottawa. They were nominated for a 1993 Juno award.
In sets he’s played recently in his hometown, he’s done the Juno track, Check The O.R. in encores.
His new album, Prepare for Impact, has an old school sound. Green uses famous DJ EZ-Mike, the super producer behind groundbreaking albums like Paul’s Boutique by the Beastie Boys.
Green says the most serious song on the record is My Bum is on Your Lips.
“It’s based on a song I did on MTV, on my show, called the Bum Bum song. It was something we did just on a whim that ended up catching on and went up to No. 1 on Total Request Live. It wasn’t even a record. It wasn’t something we put out, it was just something we did on my show.
Later, rapper Eminem talked about the Bum Bum song in one of his mixes, and took the gag further, saying my bum is on your lips. For his new album, Green turned that line into a whole song.
“That’s probably one of the more serious songs on the record in the sense I’m talking about real things. They are things everyone knows that I never really talk about,” he said, referring to his connection with Eminem.
Green is looking forward to start travelling across his great big country and playing the songs to crowds which will hopefully know the lyrics. Most times he’s done gigs lately, people think they’re coming to see a stand-up comedy show.
So far, he says the response has been good.
“People like it. The beats, the music’s good. This is one of the least weird things I’ve ever done if you really think about it. It’s actually kind of semi-serious in the sense we’re taking our hip hop seriously. No, we’re not really. We’re not taking it too seriously.”
No one would expect a guy like Green to take anything seriously. Not after he invited the viewers of MTV into the operating room during his battle with testicular cancer. Green somehow managed to make even that dark experience into a joke. The comic, after living life as a skateboard enthusiast in Ottawa, shot to fame as host of MTV’s The Tom Green Show. He has starred in a hit movie; wrote and directed his own film, which was soundly trashed by the entertainment press; married and divorced Hollywood royalty.
One would assume he holds nothing sacred. But that’s not true. His relationship with ex-wife Drew Barrymore is not up for discussion. They haven’t spoken in five years.
Call his cellphone and you can talk about anything else.
Green will be playing dates across Canada starting in January. They have not yet been announced. The album comes out Dec. 6.