Do I need this cup or am I just another sucker? April 25, 2010 9:55 PM Subscribe
Da N-Viro Thugz Present "The Answer", examining the plastic coffee cups sold at Humber College along with your drink. Reminiscent of those Bill Nye the Science Guy music videos. Random trivia: most, if not all of the students involved in the Humber video is in their jazz program.
The sorta-ironically-not-hiphop-types-doing-a-hiphop-(or-whatever-that-is)-type-song (about something sorta ironic) trope is really played, and I couldn't make it through the whole thing, but the name "Da N-Viro Thugz" is pretty funny. posted by dammitjim at 10:04 PM on April 25, 2010 [2 favorites]
Plastic coffee cups? Is this something you'd need to be Canadian to understand? posted by birdherder at 11:15 PM on April 25, 2010
Rexdale usually has better rappers than this -- maybe they're from the Lakeshore campus.
But it's a serious message: everyone should just carry a reusable travel mug with them at all times, no excuses. posted by jb at 11:38 PM on April 25, 2010
Or for that honest-to-goodness super-hyphenated gums-to-gullet wake-up experience, just drink it straight from the spigot and recycle a little of your excess stratified squamous epithelium. posted by pracowity at 12:04 AM on April 26, 2010 [1 favorite]
I'm just another sucker. For watching the first minute of this... posted by Joseph Gurl at 12:07 AM on April 26, 2010
There are so many silly white people mugging a hip-hop style for presumably humorous purposes these days that it feels like 1989 all over again. posted by koeselitz at 12:14 AM on April 26, 2010
I'm totally not hating on this.
Is it brilliant rap? No. I mean, I'm probably not the best judge on the planet, but there's some hip-hop which makes even this rock/folk/industrial/classical person perk up his ears. This is not it.
However... it IS socially conscious, seems to be asking a serious question about a specific societal problem, isn't gansta (and reflects me back to the social hip-hop of the 80s in some strange way)...
I think it's great that someone saw something which was bugging them and made a (catchy if not actually good) song about it which addressed the problem with a certain amount of humor and creativity. We used to sing about our social issues all the time, going back to the pre-Pete Seeger days, and forward through most of the popular music of the 20th century, give or take a vapid series of years here and there. I'd love to see a lot more of this kind of thing happening. I think it's good for us.
I wonder what kind of effect it's having on their campus? posted by hippybear at 12:26 AM on April 26, 2010 [3 favorites]
I wonder what kind of effect it's having on their campus?
is this what young people are protesting about now? i had no idea...sad... posted by billybobtoo at 4:46 AM on April 26, 2010
"Children are dying every day, so bring your own fucking cup" might be one of the finest lyrics ever written. posted by uncleozzy at 5:52 AM on April 26, 2010 [1 favorite]
Man, I really thought that said Da N-Vitro Thugz. I expected fertility clinics. posted by echo target at 6:45 AM on April 26, 2010
Someday I'd like to see a post about hip-hop on metafilter that wasn't a schticky ironic group of white kids making fun of rap, or doing some kind of ironic fluff. I think i've made the point before. posted by lkc at 11:38 AM on April 26, 2010 [1 favorite]
I was considering applying to Humber.
I don't think I'm going to now.
It's not because of the cups. posted by Sys Rq at 4:34 PM on April 26, 2010
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