"Ghost riding the whip" - a stunt in which a driver gets out of his car and dances around and on top of the slowly moving vehicle to a thumping hip-hop beat - has gotten at least two people killed, led to numerous injuries and alarmed police on the West Coast and beyond.Apparently, the answer to the question, "If the song lyrics told you to jump off a bridge, would you?" is yes.
29 December 2006
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Hip-Hop Car Stunt Leaves 2 Dead (Garance Burke, AP, 12/29/06)
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Is there anything good to be said about Hip Hop? How did this blight upon culture ever become so popular?
Beware the Discombobulation!
The whole point of pop music is to épater le bourgeois. HipHop succeeds brilliantly at that. Of course, once John Kerry made his inane "I'm intrigued by rap" comment they had to go find something new to add to it.
Years ago, while driving on a rural road in Tennessee, I watched three 'youts' climb out of a pickup (in sequence, so that one was always driving) and jump into the back of the truck and then dive back in the other side. Eventually, one of them fell off and got pretty bloodied up (they were probably going about 30 mph).
But the worst part of the story is when I stopped at the sheriff's office, only about 2 miles down the road, and the clerk didn't even want to hear about it. I told her the guy was standing up and didn't appear to have any broken bones, but he was a mess. And all of them were surely drunk.
Not a hip-hop moment, but strange nonetheless.
The John Kerry comment reminds me of Howard Dean's declaration that Wyclef Jean was his favorite 'group'. Surely he could have at least picked Vanilla Ice.
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