Our new mayor is cooler than your mayor.
The DJ had trouble queuing up the track so it takes about a minute for Michael Nutter to get in the groove as he knocks out the Sugar Hill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight.
As an aside, Michael Nutter has an uncanny resemblance to Digital Underground’s Humpty Hump.
Maybe Nutter will do that one at his second inauguration. But I guess it is a little too politically incorrect. You think? But political correctness didn’t keep Nutter from rapping about being the ladies’ pimp and schooling sucker MC’s.
Nutter’s got to be cooler than our mayor, (that is, town supervisor) — who thinks rap is something you do to fresh deer-meat before freezing.
1000 bonus Cool Points:
His DJ is Questlove (aka ?) from The Roots!
Well at least your mayor doesn’t allow his wife..an unpaid volunteer to call African American Women “mammy”…
http://www.tonyskansascity.com/2008/01/funkhousers-clandestine-smear-campaign.html
and appoints a Minuteman member without vetting her credentials ..
http://columbiatribune.com/2007/Oct/20071021News023.asp
and then his wife writes a Christmas letter about his prostate exam..
http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/9233
I think Kansas City would be happy to swap Philly for a Rapping Mayor..
heh.
no thanks.
please….Kansas City needs a cool mayor or one with a little common sense.
I was going to blog this with EXACTLY the same comments. he DOES look like Humpty doesn’t he?
The best part is the precedent it sets for future speeches. Crime rate goes up? Nutter can do “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash.
Has to break some campaign promises? Soften the blow with “These Are the Breaks”. When he runs for re-election, he can attack his oppponents with Run-DMC’s “You Talk to Much”.
The best part is that he didn’t even need a cheat sheet. It was obvious the mayor, who used to be a dj named Mixmaster Mike, knew the song by heart. He was in his 20s in 1979, maybe even a bit younger. Hell of a lot cooler than mayor street.
Maybe he should stick to the drums.
Yeah… It was a good party, I’m glad that someone snuck me in. I didn’t get close enough to really watch the mayor rap live, but I enjoyed the evening even though one of my friends who will not be named bailed on me….