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Yo the A/C vent knobs look like some oreos!
A lot of rappers tend to rap about how much money they have and feature their fancy whips in their music videos. Not Seattle rapper, Grynch, whose song, “In My Volvo” is possibly the best music tribute to the Volvo 240 “The Brick” that’s ever existed.Interview from Billboard.com
Your lyrics are honest and self-deprecating; your best-known track, “My Volvo,” is a love letter to your ‘86 Volvo. Why stay honest and not spin yarns about babes and sports cars?
Man, I’m from [middle-class Seattle neighborhood] Ballard. There is nothing bling or gangsta about someone from Ballard, and I just can’t front like that. It doesn’t make sense to me to lie about who I am or what I love. I rap about my car and the fact that Ballard is gentrifying and Denny’s is now a condo building because that’s what I know. Don’t get me wrong, I listen to Jay-Z and I love hearing him talk big, but at least he really lives it. A lot of guys, it’s all borrowed for the photo shoot.
V-O-L-V-O.
V-O-L-V-O…. my Volvo.“I’ve laughed in that car/I’ve cried in that car/Knock on wood, man, I’ll probably die in that car.”
Tags: ballard, grynch, oreos, rap, seattle, v-o-l-v-o, volvo, white rapper
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Auto-Tune The Slap Chop (with Vince, the ShamWow guy!)
DJ Steve Porter has some fun with a voice modulator, a phat beat, the Slap Chop, and the ShamWow guy, Vince Shlomi. You know, the guy who beat up a prostitute and had no problem cleaning up afterwards.Not to ruin it or anything, but two things to note:
- A special cameo by the b-boys from Breakin’.
- The line, “you’re going to love my nuts” gets a pretty sweet remixEverything DOES sound better auto-tuned! This is just classic. Thanks, AdFreak!
Here are the lyrics:
Hi it’s Vince with Slap Chop
You’re gonna be in a great mood all day
Cuz you’re gonna be slapping your troubles away with the Slap Chop
Slapping your troubles away with the Slap ChopNow look, here’s a potato, one slap
You got big chunks for stews
Two slaps? Homefries in a second
Now look at this, you add a mushroom
the more you do it, the finer it gets
You don’t have to switch any bladesNow, you love salad, you hate making it
You know you hate making salad
That’s why you don’t have any salad in your diet
Watch this, one slap, saladSoup, cole slaw, stuff you want
Five seconds– four, five seconds, it’s doneThis thing, this tuna, looks boring
Stop having a boring tuna, stop having a boring life
Add this tuna, put it like this
Now you’re have an exciting life nowHere’s a hard boiled egg
One chop, add the pickle, you add the green onion
And what you can do, you can mix things together
You add the ham, and you’re gonna love this
You don’t have time to make breakfast
Breakfast to goWatch this
You’re gonna love my nuts
Watch this
You’re gonna watch this
What about fruit?
Put a mango
Watch thisLook at that, isn’t that beautiful on your ice cream?
The reason you’re going to slap away every day
Is that it’s so easy to clean
1… 2… and it pops open like thatNow the other ones that you seen in the stores
Bacteria gets in the food
All the stores have this
You can’t clean it, you can’t open this up
It’s worthless, forget about itNow, take the Slap Chop, put it back together
Just put the Slap Chop right there
The skin’s at the bottom
The skin comes right offAlright, put a tomato in there
Add your cilantro, your hot peppers right there
You hit it like thisGuys, we’re gonna make America skinny again…
One slap at a timeHi it’s Vince with Slap Chop
You’re gonna be in a great mood all day
Cuz you’re gonna be slapping your troubles away with the Slap Chop
Slapping your troubles away with the Slap ChopIt’s easy
You just got one hand and
Chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop…Watch this
Tacos, fetuccini, linguini, martini, bikiniAnother great thing from the actual infomercial is this great line:
“Life’s hard enough as it is, you don’t want to cry anymore”
It was the inspiration for State Shirt’s new SongFight submitted song (and video), I Am A Target
So I just kinda started piecing together parts of the original Slap Chop commercial, and found that some of the voice samples were downright somber when taken out of context. Started to write a song around the samples and quickly realized that this track could work out well as a SongFight entry. After some guitar, piano, synths, drums and vocals, the song was finished in a few hours.
Songspeak is rooting for you.
Tags: as seen on tv, auto-tune, autotune, b-boys, breakin', chopper, dj steve porter, infomercial, rap, rap chop, remix, shamwow, slap chop, slapping your troubles away, vince shlomi, voice modulator, you're going to love my nuts
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Yes! Ed McMahon raps on new FreeCreditReport.com commercials
When I read about this, I thought it was a joke, but it’s true. The newest commercials for FreeCreditReport.com feature Ed McMahon rapping. They will air throughout October. Does this mean that Eric Violette just isn’t cool enough with his own rap video for FreeCreditReport.com? (See the MSNBC article, “Sing It, FreeCreditReport.com guy!”)
From the AP:The 85-year-old former “Tonight Show” sidekick will star in two viral rap videos for FreeCreditReport.com, a financial Web site owned by credit bureau Experian. The videos feature McMahon wearing a tracksuit, being chauffeured around Los Angeles in a Cadillac Escalade golf cart and waxing lyrical about his very public financial troubles.
“I knew I could sing the blues, but I didn’t know I could rap,” McMahon said Wednesday…
…After being joined by two scantily clad women, McMahon continues: “Got a bump from the media chumps, but that was temporary/Wife with bad credit was scary, so I got wise/I may have fallen, but I got back up/Now I’m back on the attack, like a ninja swinging nunchucks/I told the haters, ‘Go on, take a hike’/It’s my show now, and I can do what I like.”
We’ve seen the FreeCreditReport commercials where Eric Violette dresses up like a pirate in a seafood restaurant, rolls around in a used subcompact, marries his dreamgirl, and rides around on a bicycle.
And of course, here’s the latest rockstar rap video with Eric Violette:
Here’s to hoping McMahon’s rap skillz measure up, son. Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere’s Money.
Tags: 00s tv commercials, bad credit, cadillac, credit rating, credit report, credit score, ed mcmahon, eric violette, escalade, experian, freecreditreport.com, golf cart, johnny carson, L.A., los angeles, media chumps, rap, rapper, rapping, rockstar rap, tonight show
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Andre N. Jones speaks!
In an interesting twist to the mystery of who sings background vocals on Kid Rock’s All Summer Long, we received a comment from Andre N. Jones indicating a case of mistaken identity.On 09.17.08 andre wrote these pithy words:
Hey everybody,
I’m as shocked as everybody else! Although the background vocalist on the song has the same name as I, those vocals are not me. I wish I could claim that it was but it’s not. Thanks guys.
-DreWhat have we done? The biggest mistake has been made… and the search to identify the other Andre Jones, the person credited with singing background vocals on All Summer Long, continues.
But, mistake or no, we’re glad we had the chance to become more familiar with Andre N. Jones, A.K.A. Drizzrod, a spoken word musician who has a style all his own. He was good enough to answer a few questions for us.
SONGSPEAK: Being a prolific poet and spoken word artist, it must have surprised you to see that others mistakenly credit you for singing background vocals on Kid Rock’s All Summer Long.
ANDRE: It surely did surprise me but it was also very humbling. I mean, Kid Rock is a major act. I’d love to work with him…Tags: all summer long, andre n. jones, background vocals, clearchannel, delaware, drizzrod, hip-hop, kid rock, mistaken identity, new punisher movie, new.com, philadelphia, poet, punisher, punisher movie, rap, spoken word artist, verbal light, war zone
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Biological didn’t bother with The Shaq
This past Friday was the Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2008 induction in Springfield, MA. For some reason, reading about basketball in the news this weekend made me recall some basketball stars who have explored other opportunities career-wise…Michael Jordan has hawked everything from underpants to sneakers and steaks. And then there’s Magic Johnson, who has his hand in tons of businesses and charities, had a short-lived talk show and had a hand in the deliciously tasty Fatburger franchise. Even Dr. J is selling Dr. Pepper these days. These players have had some level of success in the business world by NOT RAPPING ABOUT THEIR DADS.
Shaquille O’Neal though, had desires to become a rapper. And he rapped about his dad… his REAL dad. Check out this gem, Biological Didn’t Bother.
The Shaq didn’t have a very illustrious rap career. But at least he gave his his best shot (har har har– I kill me!)…
His other aspiration was to become an actor, but he never really had any slam dunks with his film career either. Sorry– that joke was a little out-of-bounds. It’s too bad, because many would argue that there are some fine fine moments in Kazaam, still it was Academy-overlooked.Bastards. (more…)
Tags: basketball hall of fame, class of 2008, doctor j, dr. j, earving magic johnson, fatburger, hanes, kazaam, magic development, mass, massachusetts, michael jordan, new york, nike, philip arthur harrison, rap, rapper, shaq, shaquille o'neal, sneakers, springfield, steakhouse, underwear
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