People have a problem with me, cause I ain't lazy...

April 16, 2005 3:27 PM

"I Ain't Lazy"(lyrics NSFW) featuring Skratch Bastid, John Smith & Pip Skid. A day-in-the-life indie hip-hop video directed by Jason Lapeyre featuring another top notch crew of PCRs.
posted by boost ventilator (16 comments total)

Thats wierd, I didn't know the Beastie Boys changed their name.
posted by cyphill at 3:41 PM on April 16, 2005

Beastie Boys = 3 mcs and 1 DJ
posted by boost ventilator at 3:46 PM on April 16, 2005

Sarcasm boost, sarcasm.
posted by cyphill at 3:47 PM on April 16, 2005

See, this is what happens when you fight sarcasm with sarcasm.
posted by boost ventilator at 3:51 PM on April 16, 2005

haven't yet listened to this one, but i've had 'better ask smebody' for awhile now & i like it a lot. i'm not sure if cyphill is busting on these montreal boys or on the beasties, but i know i don't get it.
posted by beelzbubba at 4:46 PM on April 16, 2005

I wasn't busting on anybody, I was merely noting a similarity in the style. I like the Beastie Boys and the linked song wasn't bad. I'm not exactly sure how my comment was interpreted as an insult but in the future I'll be sure to put all my sarcastic statements in italics, thereby preventing any further problems.
posted by cyphill at 5:03 PM on April 16, 2005 [1 favorite has favorites]

Well this goes some way to proving my theory that in every country there exists a band similar to The Beastie Boys.
posted by Kattullus at 5:27 PM on April 16, 2005

Could someone please add Beastie Boys to my tags? And maybe put Eminem and Elvis there as well.

Oh, and here are the (apparantly) relevent MetaFilter Beastie Boy Threads since day one to bring the rest of the users up to speed. One of them was even mine and I didn't think to reference it!
posted by boost ventilator at 6:01 PM on April 16, 2005

cyphill: I'm not exactly sure how my comment was interpreted as an insult

i wans't sure how to take it. my first take--given the way it was framed--was that skratch bastid et al were simply beastie wannabes.

but, that reading could have been to harsh--maybe, as you said, you were simply noticing the similarity in style (although i think a lot of white rappers get that comparison).

anyway, like i said--i didn't get the comment, but your further explanation helped. thanks
posted by beelzbubba at 6:36 PM on April 16, 2005

Never heard of them before - enjoyed the video/song. Thanks for the link.
posted by Melinika at 8:25 PM on April 16, 2005

boost ventilator: I like the song and the video. It's just something I've observed from watching music video channels while travelling, there's always a band that's similar to The Beastie Boys. Doesn't make them bad, just goes to show that The Beasties created some sort of universal archetype.

There's also always a Bruce Springsteen figure.
posted by Kattullus at 3:42 AM on April 17, 2005

I will forever hate Skratch Bastid for stealing my scuba certification.
posted by jon_kill at 7:29 AM on April 17, 2005

I've seen Scratch Bastid a few times; he's really talented.

It's rare that the East Coast of Canada produces someone with that much talent.
posted by dflemingdotorg at 12:53 PM on April 17, 2005

Jay Lapeyre's the P.I.M.P. of Winnipeg, yo.
posted by The Card Cheat at 1:17 PM on April 17, 2005

Lapeyre's also known as DJ 6:59, so that's a neat bit of tagging there at the end of the video.
posted by The Card Cheat at 1:26 PM on April 17, 2005

Word!

Jay Lapeyre once filmed part of a Pip Skid video ("Hypochondriac") in my living room and kitchen. I got to be in another scene in the video, but I don't think I made the final cut: I was filmed standing in a Shopper's Drug Mart wearing a Velociraptor mask and a "Mobb Deep Rules" t-shirt.
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 5:20 AM on April 18, 2005 [1 favorite has favorites]