Rob Harvilla's take on "This is Why I'm Hot"

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Say what you wnat about the VV music section, but this is well-done. Amusing.

― Jiminy Krokus, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

That article is way more fun than the song.

― blueski, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

no it's not

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

but that's not really a failing of the article as nothing is better than mims

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

damning!

― blueski, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

it's like the 2001 monolith

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

we can merely swat at it with a thighbone

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

That's strange. I'd never noticed that before:

Nothing is better than Mims = There is no thing that is better than Mims
Nothing is better than Mims = Mims can only aspire to his own absence

Spooky!

― Pye Poudre, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

yet both are somehow true

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

I like the Skee-Lo reference. That's what hip-hop is missing right now. Think back to the early '90s, when there was avibe that anyone could strike with a goofball, smart fun-ass rap. Between Hammer, Digital Undergroudd Vanilla Ice, Positive K, Fu-Schnikens, Sir Mix-a-Lot and others, thems was just fun times.

― Jiminy Krokus, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

haha that's awesome.

what is a guap btw?

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gwap

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

I like diagrams but this smacks of the "let's translate biggie lyrics into ultra-correct grammar" chiz, ha ha, it is hilarious that WE, even ME, are writing about this stuff! Let us hyperextend our seriousness as a defense against feeling like we are wasting our lives writing about material that our fathers would consider beneath us! This review is fun but it's also (not-so-) slightly mocking about its subject. Which seems like a strange position for a music editor to take about a song he professes to like. The sarky half-serious tone just makes the whole thing weird - is "reclaiming" the word "hot" really an invaluable gift to us? I would bet RH doesn't actually think so. So why is he saying so?

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

[image]http://images.villagevoice.com/issues/0711/harvilla2-dia.jpg[/i]

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

FUCK

http://images.villagevoice.com/issues/0711/harvilla2-dia.jpg

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

posted in another thread but
https://www.algierz.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/gwopfrontandback_.jpg

― deej, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

fuck u village voice for messin up my zing
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/8018/harvilla2dianm0.jpg

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

I like diagrams but this smacks of the "let's translate biggie lyrics into ultra-correct grammar"

Except somehow it's sort of demeaning to Biggie's talents to do so, whereas here it feels perfectly appropriate.

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

There probably is some degree of mocking involved, but at least it's good natured. Harvilla's most famous stunt was the one in 2003 where he had a class of fifth graders draw pictures inspired (or distorted) by Radiohead's "Hail to the Thief."

― Jiminy Krokus, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

"This Is Why I'm Hot" is a lens that reflects something differently for everyone who looks into it. For some, it's the song that taught them about the phrase "guap." For me, it's the song that revealed how many people have never heard the phrase "guap."

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

My favorite recent occurence of "guap" is in Fiend's "What is U Saying" from his album last year...its not even in his verse, just the intro

― deej, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

to be fair, i thought he was saying "guac" the first dozen or so times

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

He shouts it in his sedated-Mystikal voice. good times

― deej, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

and i doubt i'm the only one.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

maybe if he re-records it for a chilis ad, he can get in on some of that outback steakhouse/of montreal money

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

If rappers talked about guacamole as much as they talked about money I'd probably identify with way more hip hop these days.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe someone (haikunym?) can reccomend some Chingo Bling songs about guac.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

more songs need to be about food period

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

al you racist

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

"Holy guacamole homie"
-T.I.

― deej, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

I'm gonna assume that's a Harvilla racism joke and that you're not actually offended by the insinuation that a guy who calls himself "the Tamale Kingpin" would know something about Mexican food.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

somebody photoshop mims in here:

http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/4/3/2/3/453234_170x170.jpg

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

i take message board racism very seriously

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

you really didn't reproduce David Byrne's skin tone very accurately there, dude.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

while he may not be what you're used to seeing in "scratch," i can assure that david byrne is in fact a white man

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

somebody photoshop David Byrne running over Mims with a tractor

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

this is why i'm scared of music

xxpost

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

rob and i actually hugged it out

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

aww

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

vague jokes about racism bringin' folks together, as always

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

that MF Doom & MC Paul Barman track "Hot Guacamole" is one of the funniest things I've ever heard

― bernard snowy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

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