Future NFL Hall of Famer Ray Lewis of the Ravens, listens to Phil Collins to get "psyched up".

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Quoth Lewis, from the Dec. 27th issue of Sports Illustrated:

"That song ("In the Air Tonight") depicts everything you've always dreamed of, every moment you've dreamed, the places you are at and where you want to be. Phil Collins is a short guy with a lot of power. I fell into the song long ago as a child when it was played on Miami Vice. Once I got older, I started understanding I could use it for motivation. You ride off your heart and your heart is where your treasure lies."

Discuss.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

Wait, is he the one that stabbed those dudes?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

That is awesome. Reminds me of the interview with DMX where he just drove around Queens all night listening to "Smooth Operator" on repeat!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

I hope Phil Collins dedicates "In the Air Tonight" to Ray Lewis at an upcoming concert and then shines an accusatory spotlight at his face in the crowd.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

In case it hasn't been discussed lately:
Bitchin' import only R+B Collins tribute CD with Lil' Kim, ODB, Kelis, Montelle Jordan and Deborah Cox.
Phil got love in the hood.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

"I Don't Care Anymore" by Kelis ... that's gotta be hot

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

Anybody got this on soulseek? Holla!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

Phil Collins = Drums, Vocals & Production = HIP HOP

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

Whoa, that totally makes sense.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

some rap blog had odb's 'sussudio' up; it's brilliant! best is when the vocoder chimes in for the 'dirty stinkin like doodoo' part

― jake b. (cerybut), Thursday, 6 January 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

ray lewis ain't no hall of fame lock!

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 7 January 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

some rap blog had odb's 'sussudio' up
That would be me.

ray lewis ain't no hall of fame lock!
Short of him killing somebody, gambling on the game or embracing fascism, I'll bet you he is.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 7 January 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

1. Ray was acquitted in the Super Bowl stabbings.

2. Jaymc - great allusion to one of my favorite urban legends ever.

3. Yup, Ray's a lock unless he goes OJ.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 7 January 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

But isn't "In the Air Tonight" about how Phil Collins' girlfriend got raped, and he witnessed it, and then years later he saw the rapist drowning in a lake, and Phil decided against saving the guy, and he died?!?!?!?!?

Godheadsilo did a cover of "In the Air Tonight" that was pretty gnarly. Maybe I will start an MP3 blog and post that fucker. Is there room for another MP3 blog?

― Chuckling at the Tomkat's Marquee (Ben Boyer), Friday, 7 January 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Wow...really? I never knew it was about that!

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 7 January 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

(Ian, reread the mention of 'urban legends' above.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 January 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

Or just ask snopes.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 7 January 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

Are the lyrics in between the verses "Oh Lord" or "Hold on"? I know what the spambot lyrics pages say, but my tin ears still hear "hold on."

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

"Phil Collins is a short guy with a lot of power."

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 2 July 2006 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

I guess I always kinda hoped that Ray Lewis would listen to Ray Stevens to get psyched up.

― js (honestengine), Monday, 3 July 2006 08:21 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

"Phil Collins is a short guy with a lot of power."

― fifteen minutes of iguana time famous (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago)

ray lewis ain't no hall of fame lock!
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, January 6, 2005 7:56 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^ Is this some sort of joke? The place would take on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame levels of stupidity and irrelevance if Ray doesnt make it on the first ballot.

― Bill Magill, Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:29 (fifteen years ago)

Oh, Ray Lewis listens to In The Air Tonight to get psyched up. That, I understand.

When I spotted the thread, I thought maybe he got psyched up by listening to Illegal Alien or I Can't Dance. That would be just rong.

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:30 (fifteen years ago)

I fell into the song long ago as a child when it was played on Miami Vice

ray lewis otm

― I don't know if it's just the smurfiness of it or what (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 19 November 2009 23:34 (fifteen years ago)

love the little fade-up-and-down on 're-MEMBAH'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5C4N7UwVS4

― Plasmon, Friday, 20 November 2009 04:06 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/10/17/next-gen-nba-2k14-trailer-has-been-waiting-for-this-moment-for-a/

― there's no camera to capture that yelping moment! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:52 (eleven years ago)

honestly, when i read the thread title, i assumed the "pump-up" song was "sussudio"

― da croupier, Friday, 18 October 2013 00:27 (eleven years ago)

"psych-up," rather

― da croupier, Friday, 18 October 2013 00:28 (eleven years ago)

this may be one of the reasons i'm not a future nfl hall of famer

― da croupier, Friday, 18 October 2013 00:28 (eleven years ago)

terrible thread, never saw this before

i met ray a few months ago though XD

― deez so unusual (some dude), Friday, 18 October 2013 01:11 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

https://vine.co/v/ea0OwvPTx9l

― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 27 April 2015 00:53 (ten years ago)

"Phil Collins is a short guy with a lot of power."

― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 27 April 2015 00:54 (ten years ago)

The Rolling Stone article about George Clinton said there was a copy of a Phil Collins LP on the turntable in his house.

― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 27 April 2015 22:29 (ten years ago)

five years pass...

"Phil Collins is a short guy with a lot of power."

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 28 August 2020 15:55 (four years ago)

five months pass...

https://player.vimeo.com/video/412937729

― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 30 January 2021 06:13 (four years ago)

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