strictly 4 my wiggaz
On Thursday I got a call asking if I wanted to go shoot the debut live performance of a friend of a friend's band. Said band was a side project of a local punk band but was "gangsta rap". As these were all white boys I took this as an ill omen and my friend's further description of them as "a joke band" didn't help but I hadn't operated a video camera in way too long and had no good excuse not to go so I said what the hell.
The band in question is the Otahu Pimpin Crew and their MySpace page will sear your retinas with its atrocious design.
Given this, I do not expect you to fully believe me when I say that this was actually an incredibly entertaining show. The secret is not that it's white boys who are talking about AKs and pimpin' when you know that they have no real life experience with such thing, but that they know that you know that they have no real life experience and therefore have no expectation that you take the whole enterprise seriously, a move of jujitsu that leaves you free to enjoy their rhyming interplay, their energetic stageshow, and reasonably diverse arrangements.
Between this and inadvertently stumbling into a jazz show on Saturday that was unexpectedly world-class, I believe that there is way more going on in Auckland than I really realized that is worth seeing and doing. There's just absolutely no infrastructure for sharing said information.
I wanted to include an excerpt from IDIOCRACY about the difficulties of pimping as presented in slideshow form, but I couldn't find it online, so here instead is the beginning of that very hit or miss movie.
The band in question is the Otahu Pimpin Crew and their MySpace page will sear your retinas with its atrocious design.
Given this, I do not expect you to fully believe me when I say that this was actually an incredibly entertaining show. The secret is not that it's white boys who are talking about AKs and pimpin' when you know that they have no real life experience with such thing, but that they know that you know that they have no real life experience and therefore have no expectation that you take the whole enterprise seriously, a move of jujitsu that leaves you free to enjoy their rhyming interplay, their energetic stageshow, and reasonably diverse arrangements.
Between this and inadvertently stumbling into a jazz show on Saturday that was unexpectedly world-class, I believe that there is way more going on in Auckland than I really realized that is worth seeing and doing. There's just absolutely no infrastructure for sharing said information.
I wanted to include an excerpt from IDIOCRACY about the difficulties of pimping as presented in slideshow form, but I couldn't find it online, so here instead is the beginning of that very hit or miss movie.
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I can't remember the name, but there's an Italian duo here that dress in nice suits and sunglasses and rap with strong Chicago accents (e.g. t'ree for three). Original gangster rap.
heh heh. that video is getting shared with all of my friends.
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