Comments on: Flaming garbage cans in hip hop videos

Flaming garbage cans in hip hop videos

Demogorgon — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:15:40 -0800

Flaming Garbage Cans In Hip Hop Videos. Pretty self-explanatory; a blog that tracks the use of the flaming garbage can in hip hop music videos.

By: cashman

cashman — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:32:55 -0800

Does what it says on the flaming lid.

By: mannequito

mannequito — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:35:21 -0800

Sweet sweet synchonicity - I was just headed to AskMefi to ask for blog recommendations on flaming garbage cans.

By: box

box — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:37:57 -0800

Carman & DC Talk know how to hold it down and keep it real.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:44:17 -0800

That looks like a woman's fur coat Slick Rick is wearing. Who needs a flaming garbage can when you've got a woman's fur coat to keep you warm anyway?

By: DecemberBoy

DecemberBoy — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:52:04 -0800

That looks like a woman's fur coat Slick Rick is wearing. Hey, when you release a record as great as The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, you can wear whatever the hell you want. He could rap in a clown suit and it still wouldn't take away from the fact that he wrote "Children's Story".

By: baphomet

baphomet — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:57:34 -0800

Who needs a flaming garbage can when you've got a woman's fur coat to keep you warm anyway? Isn't that the point? He doesn't need the flaming garbage cans, but he's got them anyway. That's straight pimpin'.

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:59:22 -0800

I got on the wrong subway, I'd gone way off course, and decided I'd better just jump out and grab a cab. Emerging at street level, there they were: burning garbage cans, and gruff men with gloves that have the finger tips cut off. Wow, this must be that place, I thought. Burning garbage cans are inversely correlated with available taxis, by the way.

By: humannaire

humannaire — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:12:02 -0800

That coat was one of the Slick Rick signatures. See pimping.

By: Tube

Tube — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:12:18 -0800

God I miss Beavis and Butthead.

By: noriyori

noriyori — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:14:33 -0800

pure genius. there needs to be more blogs like this.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:21:16 -0800

Any other iconography that rappers share with hobos? Ill fitting clothes, perhaps? Anything else? I've never seen a rapper with a bindle.

By: mannequito

mannequito — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:28:19 -0800

well, they certainly like their dogs.

By: mannequito

mannequito — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:46:42 -0800

also, meet Howie B. Dewin, "the world's latest and greatest hip-hop hobo".

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:57:43 -0800

Whoa, Howie B. Dewin is wearing Slick Rick's clown suit!

By: qinn

qinn — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:33:20 -0800

Yeah, well, rock bands posing against brick walls and train tracks.

By: Catblack

Catblack — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:39:08 -0800

I would like to see someone document how many times the 'neck snap' is used in tv and movies these days.

By: orme

orme — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:42:01 -0800

When you're a cold-blooded mutha fucka, you're gonna need a flaming can to stay warm. Everybody knows it.

By: P.o.B.

P.o.B. — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:49:13 -0800

Keep in mind the majority of these videos (are really old and) were directed by (white) people who had no idea about what the hell they were trying to convey. They just wanted it to look cool, or their idea of what they thought was cool. If you look you can see a number of these videos shot were of groups or rappers that resided in Los Angeles. Last I checked, starting a fire to keep warm in LA would be rather redundant. I think this would be a lot more interesting if you cross-refernced the appearance of some of these props (like guns, kind of clothing, jewelry) to popularity of certain styles or people. You could also do this with any genre. That would be interesting, otherwise color me unimpressed

By: criticalbill

criticalbill — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:51:53 -0800

Pretty self-explanatory; In one way its self-explanatory (what it is); in another, it is totally unself-explanatory (why the hell they bothered)