Fuck the Security Guards
Sorry I didn't get one up yesterday—got a little busy. As recompense, I give you “Fuck The Security Guards”, by Niggaz With Hats, the fictional rap group from the sadly forgotten mockumentary, Fear of a Black Hat. Made in the early 90's, the genre hadn't really been played out yet—this was way after Spinal Tap (to which it is clearly homage--the go through a series of white managers, each one of who gets murdered), but still before Guffman and the recent spate of Office clones. The premise, basically, is to follow around a send-up of NWA as they get famous, break-up, and eventually reunite. Why NWH? Because it was a lack of hats that kept the slaves down, of course, they were too tired to escape at night because they had the son beating down on their heads all day. The music, while all parodies, is actually not that bad—in this case, the security guard riff seemed a lot fresher back then because it was long before the Mall Cop meme entered our national lexicon. Highlight of the movie, perhaps, is Ice Cold trying to explain the deep social importance of their misunderstood mega-hit, Booty Juice, or Pet That Pussy:
Ice Cold: "P", Political, "U", Unrest, "S", Stabilize, another "S", Society, "Y", Yeah.
For a second, I was thinking of CB4, which is awful. Man, I haven't seen this movie in YEARS. I'd like to watch it now. What's the over/under on laughs? Randall, have you seen it since the early days? Or, rather, daze?
ReplyDeleteI thought the exact same thing yesterday! I watched a couple of clips on youtube after listening to the song. The clips hold up, I think, because we contemporaries of this culture. I don't think kids today would find it very funny.
ReplyDeleteAlso, if you want some real laughs, you should read Sasha Frere-Jones' (the worst music critic in America by a ridiculous margin) latest essay/critique in this week's New Yorker. The man is a idiot of astounding proportions. He is the Colossus of Rhodes of idiocy, a guiding light for all the drooling imbeciles bent on crashing themselves into the rocks.
Saw it like five years ago or so for half an hour...one of my best friends is a devotee. Which is why I have the album. I still laughed...
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