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8/30/2006

I say a hip hop, a hippy to the hippity hip hop

Last night I had the pleasure of introducing my 4-year old son to Rapper's Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang. Why? During his bath, I start singing from out of nowhere: "hip hop a hippy to the hippity hip hip hop you don't stop rockin' to the bang bang boogie say up jumped the boogie to the rhythm of the boogity beat". He started cracking up like nobody's business, so I told him I'd find the song on the internet. Moments later, we're looking at a YouTube performance of a short version of the song, which has some lyrics not 4-year old appropriate, but he was just totally transfixed. I had fun looking at the late-70s disco stylings too.....

1 Comments:

At 10:49 PM, Holly said...

You totally need to listen to the Ketchup song -- it's a spanish all-girl pop band doing a song that phonetically references the Rapper's delight chorus. It's horrendously addictive. Explanation hyaa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aserej%C3%A9, song hyaa: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=46396498. Enjoy!

 

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