Saturday, May 26, 2007
FINALLY I got my FEMA check
One of the most awesome discoveries made by LL Cool Jew and BigBagel during their stint on the Gulf Coast was the song "FEMA Check" by Lo-Key and Ayatollah. This brother-sister duo, while spending their time acting as security guards on the destroyed wreckage of a Biloxi casino barge, decided to pen some lyrics about all the ridiculous shit they spent their FEMA checks on, including some new braids, a new wife-beater, a "bottle of drank," a new grill, a new phone, a new couch, a bag of oo-wee, and (naturally) a baby mama new weave. This shopping spree was warranted because the FEMA check was insufficient to cover Lo-Key's rent (her rent exceeds "2 G's"? Who knew that Biloxi's real estate market was on par with New York City's?). Lo-Key also got a Gamecube and some spinner rims, but didn't pay for them on account of it "being the right place, right time...everybody started a riot." When she observed this fortuitous looting spree, she figured, "Aw, hell, might as well," and admittedly "hopped out the store with a set of Sprewells." Ayatollah may have convinced a woman to purchase him a drink at club in Hotlanta by asserting, "Girl, please, I'm a evacuee...you should be buying one for me," but since he never describes whether or not he actually got the complimentary drink, I don't know whether he had to put some of that FEMA check toward his own Hyp-and-Henny or not.
Anyway, LL Cool Jew mailed me a homemade CD of "FEMA Check" that she purchased at a Gulfport mall and it was on heavy rotation in my lab for awhile. It also was a RAZZY.org Hysterical Lyric of the Month back in 2006. BigBagel e-mailed a while later informing me that he'd just picked up a copy of the "FEMA Check" video and it was, in his words, "ridiculously ghetto." I have been waiting and waiting for this gem to appear on YouTube, and tonight, since I'm staying in to nurse a fairly brutal cheap Pinot Grigio hangover, I searched for it again on a whim.
YES! The video is finally on the internets and available for embedding. BigBagel's review was quite accurate. The set consists of them dancing around some of the more thoroughly Katrina'd parts of the Gulf Coast, and Genesis "Lo-Key" Briggs is actually wearing an OLD NAVY zip-up hoodie as she raps about how Hurricane Katrina destroyed her undoubtedly fictional "new drop top." I particularly like the statistical factoids about hurricanes, President Bush, FEMA, and the Red Cross at the beginning and end of the video. Do yourself a favor and enjoy this masterpiece of the relatively unknown but nonetheless awesome subgenre I call "disaster rap."
FEMA, Red Cross, government assistance...welfare, food stamps, can I get a witness?!
Anyway, LL Cool Jew mailed me a homemade CD of "FEMA Check" that she purchased at a Gulfport mall and it was on heavy rotation in my lab for awhile. It also was a RAZZY.org Hysterical Lyric of the Month back in 2006. BigBagel e-mailed a while later informing me that he'd just picked up a copy of the "FEMA Check" video and it was, in his words, "ridiculously ghetto." I have been waiting and waiting for this gem to appear on YouTube, and tonight, since I'm staying in to nurse a fairly brutal cheap Pinot Grigio hangover, I searched for it again on a whim.
YES! The video is finally on the internets and available for embedding. BigBagel's review was quite accurate. The set consists of them dancing around some of the more thoroughly Katrina'd parts of the Gulf Coast, and Genesis "Lo-Key" Briggs is actually wearing an OLD NAVY zip-up hoodie as she raps about how Hurricane Katrina destroyed her undoubtedly fictional "new drop top." I particularly like the statistical factoids about hurricanes, President Bush, FEMA, and the Red Cross at the beginning and end of the video. Do yourself a favor and enjoy this masterpiece of the relatively unknown but nonetheless awesome subgenre I call "disaster rap."
FEMA, Red Cross, government assistance...welfare, food stamps, can I get a witness?!
Labels: BigBagel, I LOVE IT, intentional buffoonery, LL Cool Jew, natural disaster, rap
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