Thursday, April 24, 2008

Stay with me here

So I was at the office, looking for my car keys and while I can't remember what I was watching, the opening chords to T.I. "What You Know About That?" started running through my head...

Yes, that same T.I. that decided instead of attending a premier of "American Gangster", he would try to play the role for real and buy guns from "The Man". Real smart.

Anyway, I went and found the video on YouTube, which according to Lewis Black is the greater root of all evil compared to porn.

So I'm watching the vidoe, realizing the song was off the "ATL" soundtrack. While realizing how horrible the first 20 minutes of that film were (That's all I could make it through and I watch a lot of bad films).

The draw of YouTube, as many of you know, is the related video section, but I'll get back to that in a moment.

I start thinking of other catchy tunes, finding the video for Bring Em Out and then thinking of other tunes that grab your ear mostly because of the hook.

So I went and found that Busta Rhymes song, Touch It, with all the remixes with random people like Mary J. Blidge and Winky Wright.

Which in turn lead me to find a verse from "Cannon" by "The best rapper alive", or so self-proclaimed, Lil' Wayne.



Although after listening to this, you almost want to say he's got a point, especially when he says "I've got duck tape and rope, I'll get you missing like the f*^#*% O'Bannons"

Which brings me to the final point of this rant, whatever happened to the O'Bannons?
Ed O'Bannon was NCAA player of the year, leading UCLA to the 1995 championship and was the No. 9 pick by the New Jersey Nets.

His younger brother, Charles O'Bannon, was a starter on that same UCLA team and was a Piston for a hot second before starting his real career with Toyota Alvark in Japan.

So if you were wondering where the O'Bannons were, there you are. Now where are my car keys?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

isn't rap dead?