Thursday, August 26, 2010
Crickets / Music Rappin' Grannies: the Next Level
Posted by Miles Raymer on Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM
America is blessed with a long, proud heritage of rappin' grannies, from the rappin' granny in The Wedding Singer to the rappin' granny on America's Got Talent. But like all arts, the art of being an old lady who raps will stagnate and wither if it isn't frequently injected with rule-breaking innovation. Here's a video by a leader of the form's new school. Appropriately she goes in on a Lil Wayne beat, as she is to rappin' grannying what Lil Wayne would be to actually rapping if he did two hundred sheets of acid.
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