I didn't go to last night's City Hall Hustle event, but apparently Wells Dunbar included a scripted rap battle as part of the format. The video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Now what's interesting about this is that considering how McCracken's campaign is presenting the contrast between he and the much older Leffingwell, Leffingwell and his team clearly understood the format better and seemed much more comfortable in it, with threats, insults, self-referential boasts, et al.
McCracken, on the other hand, basically treats this as a poetry reading, with some sincere but wack material about the 80's, his corporate partners and the pecan street project, and on the occasion when he does the dozens his heart just doesn't seem in it. And maybe that's a credit to him, I don't know.
This has nothing to do with who should be mayor, of course, but it's pretty clear that Leffingwell had a better handle on the event.
Now, Dunbar's back-up track (as anybody between 25 and 40 should know) is the instrumental of the epic Mobb Deep Classic, "Shook Ones Pt II".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
It's no sin not being able to kick a freestyle. But watching McCracken push through this thing, I immediately thought of the chorus of the song:
"Son, they shook...
'cause ain't no such things as halfway crooks
Scared to death, scared to look
They shook"
Seriously, though, mad props to both campaigns, especially McCracken, for agreeing to it and having fun with it. |
