Comments on: Make you wanna slap your gramammy

Make you wanna slap your gramammy

cashman — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:43:56 -0800

I should tell your mamma on you.

By: cashman

cashman — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:45:13 -0800

Oh - [via]

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:16:07 -0800

he needs a mouthful of laffy taffy

By: Flex1970

Flex1970 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:19:14 -0800

I hate bad Hip-Hop.

By: longsleeves

longsleeves — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:34:50 -0800

swallowed a didgeridoo?

By: katillathehun

katillathehun — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:41:29 -0800

Eh, maybe I have no taste, but I actually kinda dug that.

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:45:59 -0800

oh hell yes

By: cashman

cashman — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:52:21 -0800

Eh, maybe I have no taste, but I actually kinda dug that. Yeah me too. It's hip hop, it's the blues, it's nothing but him and his body as an instrument. The timing is raw. I know they're going to sanitize things when they produce a record for him (and even this is previously part of an Eastsidaz song from a few years ago), but I wish they would just record him in all this raw creativity. It's zapp, it's weezy, it's rap, it's crazy. If you just listen and don't watch the video, you hear the claps, the clicks, the snaps. It's unreal. Now here we go a-gain.

By: sveskemus

sveskemus — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:59:20 -0800

This is fucking amazing. Great post, cashman!

By: Marisa Stole the Precious Thing

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:14:22 -0800

That was awesome. I really miss this sound, you know. The early 90s were great years for hip-hop. I mean, sure, you still had to hear I-95 or MC Hammer every other time you turned on the radio, but G Funk was a real breath of fresh air. I can't believe he threw a Cagney and Lacey reference in there, either.

By: The Loch Ness Monster

The Loch Ness Monster — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:25:05 -0800

I know they're going to sanitize things when they produce a record for him (and even this is previously part of an Eastsidaz song from a few years ago), but I wish they would just record him in all this raw creativity. I wish that about all musicians. Why? Why do they do that? I keep imagining an army of graduates from the Institute of Art and Sound Design who fuss over music until it's perfect, where "perfect" is to the music what blurring and backdrops are to an Olan Mills family portrait.

By: fleetmouse

fleetmouse — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:46:50 -0800

Yeah, an ambitious producer with a budget can really laminate the bejesus out of a performance. At least we'll always have this perfect moment in the parking lot.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:45:53 -0800

but the thing is, I mean he's emulating a vocoder. That's what's crazy, I mean he's taking the effects created by all the synthetics and recreating them himself. It's impressive, but if I heard this on the radio I'd be pretty bored, I mean it sounds like all the barely musical crap that comes out of some that particular genera of hip-hop (what is it called anyway, "krunk"?)

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:44:24 -0800

At 1:20 in the first link, was he peeking into the car to see if it was unlocked / anything worth stealing? It looked like it. And yes, I realise the lyrics at the time were "Nike"[?] and he wants us to think he was merely showing us his shoes... But there for the grace of God, go I. Being homeless. I'd possibly be looking into cars for stuff to steal as well! "16 in the clip and one in the hole. Warren G's about to make some bodies turn cold." /RANDOM LYRICS //MY PONY, GET ON IT

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:31:38 -0800

At 1:20 in the first link, was he peeking into the car to see if it was unlocked / anything worth stealing? It looked like it. You'd make a really shit thief. The dude had an audience and knew it. He wasn't just singing at random, for the pure pleasure of it -- he was busking. I assumed that there was somebody still in the car that he was showing his Nike's to, as part of his performance, but even if there wasn't, he was surely aware of at least two or three other people watching -- whoever was filming him, the bouncer/door-person who he asks to hook him up with Warren G. and whoever it was that drove up in the car and got out while he was singing.

By: penduluum

penduluum — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:08:40 -0800

Oh that's fucking outstanding. I had a homeless dude come up to me once and do the verse of Rapper's Delight that starts "Did you ever go over to a friend's house to eat" (for all the non-heads, that's like minute 6 of that song, by the way). I was in college at the time, and I know it was just a bit the guy had to pick up a couple more dollars, but singing with a homeless guy for a minute really made me feel like we bonded. It was a cool moment. Strangers should sing with each other more often. This guy I would empty my wallet for. And then go home and email Warren G or G-Funk or damn Kurupt or somebody for him. Glad to see somebody's putting him on.

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:15:45 -0800

You'd make a really shit thief. But an awesome crime fighter. Nothing gets past me, sizzlechest. The driver tumbled out of his car and waddled off at the 0:30 mark. I've replayed it and the rapper was definitely looking into the car. Maybe just to see if it was empty coz he was about to plonk his ass on the bonnet? The "showing the shoes" was a ruse. Heh heh. I'm a rapper too.

By: gnutron

gnutron — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:49:41 -0800

dirt nasty.

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:39:46 -0800

gnutron, never heard of the chap, but I did a search and got a bit of a chuckle out of 1980, cheers. The 3:10 mark reminded me of this sunscreen wearing Paul Hogan TV character from around the same year.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:55:19 -0800

Awesome, thanks.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:58:44 -0800

Ghost riding your hips ← ghost-riding the whip ← Ghost riding the ship?

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:54:19 -0800

Nothing gets past me, sizzlechest. Aside from the person in the passenger seat moving about -- visible between 0.10 and 0.12?

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:11:34 -0800

That is me moving about. Preparing to kick your ass for being a DAFT TAFFY.

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:13:01 -0800

Peter, could future replies be it rap? Lest I pull out my gat.

By: Bookhouse

Bookhouse — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:41:47 -0800

I am now obsessed with this. It won't work in the recording studio any more than Rahzel does, but if he were busking I'd throw the bigger bill I had.