99 Problems link, right here. Dude's a genius.

Labels: hip hop, Jay-Z, rap

or; I got the Johnson's Baby Powder and the Polo cologne

Worked out. 30 minutes on the elliptical. Music: Lily Allen, Gwen Stefani, and The Killers. I mentally mash up "When You Were Young" with "Hey Jealousy" by The Gin Blossoms. You kids with your mashups, back in my day, we had to do the mashing up ourselves, by singing over other songs. Jimmy was a big fan of adding "woo" and "yeah" from "It Takes Two" by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock to just about any song.

Which reminds me of a nickname I was given (adding to the list).

When I was stationed at OSIA, I would get to work by 7:00 AM. I drove the Beltway, it was either wait at work and drink coffee or wait in traffic and sweat being late.

So, after dropping my gear off, I would go around back with a fresh cup of mud and take up my position in the smoking area near the newspaper machines. (WaPo and WaTimes, $0.25 each. What a country.) I would light up and by 7:20 YN1 Vern N. would drive up. He'd walk up, slide the cover off his head, light up a Salem, smile out of the corner of his mouth, and start:

I wanna rock right now

and then I'd start

I'm Rob Base and I came to get down
I'm not internationally known
But I'm known to rock the microphone
Because I get stoopid, I mean outrageous
Stay away from me if you're contagious

Vern was curious about how a white guy from Austin knew all the lyrics to so many rap songs. (When I was in the Navy I would just say I was from Austin, since I lived there five years before I signed up and I had no family in Houston anymore.) I tried to explain to him how I was in high school when rap broke and we all thought it was the greatest thing. I listened to the Roxanne Wars as they unfolded on Magic 102. I used to know all the words to La-Di-Da-Di.

Vern honored me by calling me Rob Base from then on.

I've updated the soundtrack.

Labels: Jimberly, Jimmay, music, Navy, Nicknames, rap