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)
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)
― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)
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)
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)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)
― Borgnine Bourgogne (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)
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)
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)
http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/statusainthood/archives/2005/12/snl_narniarap_s.php
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)
these dudes are not funny
― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)
― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)
― maura (maura), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)
― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)
― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)
― maura (maura), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)
― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)
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)
"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)
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)
― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)
My bum is on the cheeseBum is on the cheeseIf I get lucky I'll get a disease!My bum is on the SwedishSwedish, Swedish, SwedishMy bum is on the gumMy bum is on the gumI can blow a bubble with my bum bum bumMy bum is on the shipThe battleshipI hope they don't shoot the cannon in my bumI'd shoot POO all over the placePOO POO!!
Cause that isn't very funWhen they shoot a cannon in your bumI like to put my bum on thingsit's fun for everyoneMy bum is on the dogMy bum is on the catMy bum is on the phoneMy bum is all alone......
The rail is all aloneThe man is all aloneThe Swedish is all aloneMy bum...is all alone....(Loo in the background)
1,2,3,4My bum is all aloneMy bum is all aloneMy bum is all aloneMy bum is all aloneMy bum is all aloneMy bum is all aloneMy bum is all aloneMy bum is all aloneMy bum is all aloneMy bum is all aloneMy bum is all aloneMy bum is all aloneGet the poo off my bum!I need the POO off my BUM!!I've go to get the poopoo off my bumI 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 aloneMy bum is all aloneMy bum is all aloneI 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 cooI 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)
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)
― maura (maura), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)
― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)
― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)
― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)
― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)
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)
― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)
― $#@!, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)
― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)
Proceed.
― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)
― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)
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)
http://www.cruftbox.com/cruft/images/pepper/pibb.jpghttp://www.homeroom.com/imgs.homeroom/stratum1/helpgifs/plus_sign.gifhttp://www.candy2you.com/images/products/redjarlg.jpghttp://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)
― save the robot (save the robot), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)
― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 04:09 (twenty years ago)
-- 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)
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)
― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)
― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)
― Curmudgeon Steve (Steve K), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 29 December 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 29 December 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)
― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 29 December 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 29 December 2005 07:15 (twenty years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 29 December 2005 07:17 (twenty years ago)
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)
Suddenly the world makes so much more sense.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:40 (twenty years ago)
it's not new.
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:55 (twenty years ago)
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)
― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 4 February 2006 00:49 (twenty years ago)
― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 4 February 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)
― Tracer "sonned by slate" Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 4 February 2006 01:48 (twenty years ago)
contrast vs. say, "still fly" which is for real funny.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 4 February 2006 06:23 (twenty years ago)
Portman Unleashed
― Jimmy Mod: The Prettiest Flower In The Pond (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 6 March 2006 02:53 (twenty years ago)
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 6 March 2006 03:37 (twenty years ago)
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)
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:01 (twenty years ago)
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:02 (twenty years ago)
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)
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:07 (twenty years ago)
― Jimmy Mod: The Prettiest Flower In The Pond (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:11 (twenty years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:13 (twenty years ago)
― Jimmy Mod: The Prettiest Flower In The Pond (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:16 (twenty years ago)
― Jimmy Mod: The Prettiest Flower In The Pond (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:17 (twenty years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:17 (twenty years ago)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hJREeZWA8Pw
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 02:19 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 04:40 (twenty years ago)
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)