I like and have a fair amount of trip hop, but it’s just a goddamned shame how much nice music like this has been trashed by rap vocals. I don’t give a shit how relevant your lyric is, if you can’t sing, STFU and get someone who can.
Ray Charles, when asked if he’d ever do a rap song:
“Aw, now why would I wanna go and do somethin’ I coulda done when I was 8 years old.”
Oh…NOW I get it. It’s funny because it’s a bunch of middle class whites pretending to be rural dumb hick whites pretending to be middle class black rappers who pretend to be poor urban black street thugs who make music about the poor urban black street experiences they never had, which is bought mostly by middle class whites with no connection to the poor urban black street experience in the music, other than turning their baseball hats sideways and affecting gang signs, so their friends will think they’re cool.
July 8, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Will Oldham is so gangsta.
July 8, 2008 at 7:52 pm
That’s Will Oldham?!? Then who is the skinny guy with the mustache?
July 8, 2008 at 8:05 pm
More of this, please.
Brake yo’self and brace yo self fo this phat stoopid dope skunk-truck, dawg. This and that, that and this, super big tractor, pickle fist.
awwww yeah?
July 8, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Nope. Don’t feel a bit better.
July 8, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Zip Zap Rap?
July 8, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Ring, rang, wrong, wring?
July 9, 2008 at 5:08 am
That’s Will Oldham?!?
Uh, no. That’s comedian Zack Galifianakis.
July 9, 2008 at 6:21 am
This made me miss Homer and Jethro.
July 9, 2008 at 7:45 am
Zack’s dad was the guy Jesse first defeated for Senate.
Apparently Kanye really likes this version.
July 9, 2008 at 9:23 am
Luvs me some hip-hoppin’ Heidis!
July 9, 2008 at 9:55 am
So sucked.
July 9, 2008 at 10:02 am
Homer and Jethro FTW, Max. I wish I could find my grandparents’ LP copy of “Country Comedy: Homer & Jethro.”
And this video is indescribably beautiful.
WF
July 9, 2008 at 10:35 am
Uh, no. That’s comedian Zack Galifianakis.
There’s two guys. THERE’S TWO GUYS!
This is just like the end of Chinatown.
July 9, 2008 at 11:50 am
Nope. Don’t feel a bit better.
Failure of the will.
July 9, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Failure of the will.
You must continue Sucking. On. This. in order to demonstrate to the terrorists that they will never break our resolve. Pack some Chap Stick.
July 9, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Would you appease your tonsils? And once you’ve given the terrorists that beachead, you can expect the dhimmitude of your nether regions.
July 9, 2008 at 1:20 pm
So I’m confused, which one of these guys was in “Chinatown”?
July 9, 2008 at 2:08 pm
The other one.
July 9, 2008 at 2:45 pm
The voice of dissent will be heard.
I like and have a fair amount of trip hop, but it’s just a goddamned shame how much nice music like this has been trashed by rap vocals. I don’t give a shit how relevant your lyric is, if you can’t sing, STFU and get someone who can.
Ray Charles, when asked if he’d ever do a rap song:
“Aw, now why would I wanna go and do somethin’ I coulda done when I was 8 years old.”
July 9, 2008 at 2:59 pm
By the way, what is the BTKWB limit for congress? There approval rating is now in single digits.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/congressional_performance/congressional_performance
Pretty amazing, no?
July 9, 2008 at 4:16 pm
There’s two guys. THERE’S TWO GUYS!
Ah, Oldham is the beardless one?
I loved his live version of R. Kelly’s “Ignition.”
July 9, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Now that’s some righteous shit.
July 10, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Oh…NOW I get it. It’s funny because it’s a bunch of middle class whites pretending to be rural dumb hick whites pretending to be middle class black rappers who pretend to be poor urban black street thugs who make music about the poor urban black street experiences they never had, which is bought mostly by middle class whites with no connection to the poor urban black street experience in the music, other than turning their baseball hats sideways and affecting gang signs, so their friends will think they’re cool.
THAT’S different.
July 10, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Forget it, grandlaff, it’s Chinatown.
July 11, 2008 at 5:40 am
Grandlaff, are you available to perform at children’s parties?
July 11, 2008 at 10:00 pm
I get a little white circle that goes around and around, apparently forever. That’s it?
July 12, 2008 at 1:16 am
Grandlaff – Now you’re on the trolley. That is EXACTLY why it is k-rad.
July 13, 2008 at 6:24 pm
For a minute I thought I was getting it.
But no.
Don’t get it…
mikey