A couple of weeks ago, we all enjoyed the video for Bangs's "Take U 2 Da Movies," and since then it has gone on to become a Genuine Internet Sensation. Everyone loves Bangs's gentle lyrics about buying popcorn, not to mention his tight flow. (Take notes, Chamillionaire.) He's our generation's Eli Porter! Now, an Australian news site has an interview with the Best Rapper on the Internet. From Channel 9:
A 19-year-old Melbourne rapper says he "feels amazing" after his song "Take U 2 Da Movies" -- an ode to cinema dates and popcorn -- became a global internet sensation.
The music clip has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube since it was featured on popular viral video websites this week.
Ajak Chol, aka Bangs, told ninemsn he has been offered several record deals with major labels in Australia and the US since his career skyrocketed.
"It's crazy. First there were 30 or 40 views. Now it's getting more and more every day," Bangs said.
"Hip hop is in my heart and soul, I'm so happy."
Yessssss! It's the feel good story of the morning! You the best for this one, Bangs. But there is more than just joy in Bangs's heart, there is also some words for the haters:
The Videogum "Tracy Morgan Promise": NPR's Fresh Air• Tracy Morgan appeared on Fresh Air with Terry Gross today to talk about his book, I Am the New Black, and kept it so real that he ended up breaking down in tears. No joke. Listen here.
One can easily imagine a world in which Gwyneth Paltrow, Katherine Heigl, and Charlize Theron were three humorless garbage peas in a nightmare pod. They would go around together on weekday afternoons to various sidewalk cafes after shopping with their personal trainers for "motivation" dresses two sizes too small, applying Israeli mineral oils bottled at the Dead Sea to their perfectly tanned skin as they drink white wine out of the skulls of the less fortunate. Over a dish of caviar canapes they would trade self-congratulatory anecdotes, all of which taper off in a directionless stream of compliments and petty complaints. Afterwards, they would each kiss each other on both cheeks and insist that their personal assistants arrange the next outing, while condescendingly making some kind of remark, like, "I don't know what I would do without [my assistant], the truth is that I consider us complete equals." And then they would each get into their respective hybrid-fuel helicopters to fly back to their Victorian castles.
But somehow Charlize Theron seems different. Unlike those other two, she seems to have a sense of humor, and a certain amount of self-awareness. Plus she won the silver medal at the Olympics, so.
I'm sure Rihanna and all of America feels better now that Chris Brown spent an hour on national television insisting to an old man that he could not talk about (or even remember) what happened on the night that he destroyed his girlfriend's face in a parked car. It's called closure, and he's great at it. HUH? What I don't understand is if he didn't want to talk about it, or if he didn't remember it, then why did he GO ON THE SHOW? With his mom, and his lawyer, like a little bitch. I don't usually like it when people refer to other people as "little bitch," it seems like a junior high taunt with deep threads of homophobia and misogyny running through it. But it's the most appropriate in this case.
Little bitch!
Oh, sure, he claimed many times to be sorry for what he had done, WHATEVER THAT MAY HAVE BEEN. But did you notice how every attempt to take responsibility for things (indeterminate as those things may have been) (because he worked hard to keep them indeterminate) was followed up with a back-handed attempt to weasel out of it? When Larry King asked him how he felt about the leaked police photos of Rihanna's bruised and battered face, Chris Brown said, "I didn't know what to think at the time, I was like what?! Cuz at the time I just didn't know honestly what to think and I didn't know if the pictures were altered, I didn't know if they were real, I didn't know what, so I was just like man, I just felt so disappointed in myself." You felt disappointed in yourself so much that six months later you're still raising the spectre that the photos might not be real? Perfect. (His mom quickly echoed the statement that she didn't know if the photos were altered, because Chris Brown's mom is Professor Photos.) Or how about when Larry King raised Chris Brown's violent history and both Chris and his mother insisted he had never been charged? Because you have to be charged for violence to be real? But perhaps the strangest incidence of this was when Larry brought up the point that children raised in violent homes often become violent adults, and Chris Brown's mom said that she didn't believe that was always true. Uh, sure, it isn't always true. BUT IT IS TRUE IN THIS CASE!?
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