Since BET was blasting wall-to-wall PR for Nick Cannon's upcoming movie Underclassman this weekend I thought I'd be remiss not to drop a glossy and some commentary on west side shorty Roselyn Sanchez (who pretty much guarantees I'll be in the audience this Friday night) and the whole west side phenomenon in general. The writing is clear, y'all - the demographics are shifting. All you have to do is pick up a magazine (no not People En Espanol) or click on the tube and you'll see wall to wall west side shortys who keep bringing it hard - Vida Guerra, J-Lo, Sofia Vergara, Julissa Bermudez, Ms. Sanchez, and the hits go on. So is it any wonder old Tyrone is dusting off his old high school Spanish workbook and getting ready to drop some ducats on salsa lessons? I think not...
Just a couple weeks ago I was flipping the radio dial in the hoopty (stop gasping, y'all...I was testing out the FM transmitter on my iPod...) and stumbled across this bumpin' new station in Chicago - 93.5 (and sister station 103.1) called La Kalle (for y'all who actually took Spanish - or have a Puerto Rican girl...friend like Donte, you'll know that La Calle means The Street...). This joint is cranking out that emerging (in the US) west side crunk called Reggaeton, which is kinda a thumping Spanish/English hip-hop mix (with copious dashes of salsa, reggae and Jamaican dancehall). All I know is my radio dial hasn't left that joint since (when the iPod's not jacked in...). I was straight tripping on how they laced Spanish lyrics over the beats and hooks of current hip-hop jams and the cool side benefit is you can crank these joints with the windows down cuz none of my English speaking homeys (aka coworkers) understand the foul lyrics (which I assume are still foul but flow so smooth in Spanish...). It goes in sounding like "Spank my stank black a$$ be-yotch" and comes out like "Oy ye loca mami chula esta hoy manuelo - uh huh, uh huh - uh huh, uh huh". It's the perfect undercover flow, yo. Personally, I'm just vibing on how our cultures can connect - there's enough room for everybody. Can't hate on some tasty Latin spices sprinkled down on that thump-a-licious hip-hop. It's all good.
Anyway, getting back to Roselyn - how was it that I missed her very slick banana trick in Cuba Gooding Jr.s box office smash hit Boat Trip? Oh that's right... Hopefully, Underclassman fares better than that joint did. The trailer looks pretty good, though it seems to be trying to pull bits from Rush Hour 2 (namely Roselyn and the tired wise cracking south side under cover cop bit) and Bad Boys 2. We'll see. I heard in an interview that Nick Cannon is trying to shape his career in the mold of Big Willy Style (Will Smith) and that's not a bad mold to drop into given Big Willy's box office success, though somehow I think Nick's joint will gross just a bit less than $100 million - but that's just me thinking out loud, y'all...Peace@Least,
Tyrone
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