January 03, 2006

• Ah, grover, why'd you have to do that? Links to 3 incredibly slow loading pdf's, all on the the same site - I gave up on reading them since the screen stayed white for too long. Then, on reading the CNN link, so this about product placement in rap music, and how "they" drive Mercedes drunk and with guns, according to your summary? I'm beginning to think that the Reverend, Livewire and grover all all the same person - I'd add Insolent Chimp, since I'm expecting him to chime in any time now. Oh, and Crockpot, I mean Crackpot. A bad day at Monkey filter!
• Huh? Wha? I thought it was an interesting link. Someone take the time to note products in all of the Top 20 on the charts.
• Jack the rims of your Lexus snatch your necklace sell it off and give the homeless a hot breakfast Dead Prez (It's bigger than hip hop.)
• *off
• overcoming my conviction that I should just really shut the f*ck up, I have to say that your theory is very intriguing path...havent' thought about the others but the idea of livewire and rev crockery as the same person is mighty interesting.... and we are so grounded when mom gets home.
• Tracicle's gone? So long, pants!
• Oh look. The carpet doen't match the wallpaper!
• Why am I being mixed up in all this?
• path, I don't think that's very fair. Yes, 3 links to .pdfs is bad form, especially without warning. But that doesn't make him the little bitch that Livewire was. The huge amount of product placement, in rap/hip hop vs. any other music genre is an interesting topic.
• I did say they were pdf files...please look again. I do not want to be grouped with the Rev, LC, and IC. See the (pdf)...cry sob cry
• grover, the warning looks like only the first is pdf, and the others aren't. But even if there was no warning at all, it's still not fair to put you in the same company as those others. The website is interesting. It's shocking and disheartening to see the disparity in product placement. I think it harms the whole genre to be so deep into the pockets of big business, but maybe that's what's keeping the genre alive.
• I was wondering if AK-47 is really a brand? Isn't it just a model of gun? Definitely an interesting post grover - I think you must have just been caught in the blood-lust as the pack was in full cry :)
• It's a good topic. I listen to rap and/or hip hop all the time, and if I hear one more Cristal/Pistal rhyme I'm going to bust a cap in my own head. Also, a lot of buying of designer clothes for goldiggin' hos goes down. The Cristal thing is right up there with the classic pain/brain/rain/insane refrain in rock,(in country, sub in train with pain and rain, and you're good to go) and with saying fascist in any hardcore or politico-punk tune. You don't even have to rhyme that sucker. Though I image "bash us" got in there. See also it's too late/police state. Ooooh!Ooh! you don't love me no more/walkin' out that door is country's fault. C'mon! I want more! I know you guys got some. Cheer me up, I'm sickly.
• oh lord, won't you buy me, a --- -, my friends all drive --, i must make amends. worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends. so lord, won't you by me, a --- -. an ak-47 is an "automatic kalashnikov 1947 model". it was sort of a brand, but i think it has become a generic term for an assault rifle. probably most of the guns called "47s" nowadays are actually later designs.
• shite, by -> buy in fourth line.
• ...I'm sickly. maybe you could fix that if you were: drinkin' Courvoisier with your Canadian posse, eh?
• drinkin' Courvoisier Never mind that crap -- Pass the Lavoisier!
• Oh look. The carpet doen't match the wallpaper! Carpet? This is hard wood. [God Layne, don't post that!] [Shut up, SuperEgo! Do it Layne, it'll be hilarious! You'll be a folk hero! They'll write songs about you!] [Don't listen to Id, Layne! NOOOOOO!]
• I wonder if musicians get money for product placement like movie producers. All da boyz in da hood Love Layne's hardwood They be drinkin' Cristal While the pants all fall All da latest trends Point to Mercedez-Benz No one can tell if my ride's good or bad, oh, Da grille fell offa my 94 Dodge Shadow
• I'm going to bust a cap in my own head I don't think that's where the cap goes. But then I'm not really sure.
• Actually, sometimes they do get paid. Could've sworn this was discussed here before, but in lieu of that, there's the first googled thing I could find...
• I'm guessing 1986 was a great year for White Castle Furthermore, is Kompressor (the "German" industrial musician and author of the Red Robot themesong) a personified product placement? He mentions Mercedes Benz in his songs, and shows an image of Superior German Automobile on his website.
• Man, I've been away awhile...this place is really getting quite elitist. Don't project your residual anger at LwC upon poor Grover. After all, he's one of teh finest Muppets ever conceived.
• Wow, Good job on killing that geocities link monkeys! In case you missed it, I meant to link to the lyrics for the Beastie Boys' License to Ill, an album described thus: "Their debut LP is an obnoxious, infectious fusion of hammering metal guitars and potent hip-hop beats which produced several hits. Lyrically, the boys tackled such universal topics as girls, beer, White Castle, and bragging about being a bad ass."
• drinkin' Courvoisier with your Canadian posse, eh? Damn you Knickerbocker! Damn you and your libellous lyrics straight to Hell! For your information, Sirrah; I drink nothin' but Cristal wit mah bitches at the mall. Word.