Here’s another reminder that St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner. In Chicago, for instance, St. Paddy’s Day is a big deal. Windy City offices close for two days due to low productivity on the green day itself and the hangover time wastage which inevitably follows the next day. I never thought I’d miss those wild March days in Chicago, but I guess I do and this video has some serious three minute theatrical vibes to help you feel it too.
Some transcendant, exquisite, desirable and superlative post modern beats have been broken in Seattle in the last few years and the videos, hip hop and beyond, accompanying them, have been likewise antic, rascally, meritorious and fun. The first, best and most ancient example of Northwest regional hip hop was Anthony Ray, Sir Mixalot’s very old school jam, “Posse’s on Broadway.” A long period followed with little to brag about. But that’s over now. Here’s MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS’ “Irish Celebration.” This video is a thing of beauty, and the Volvo lovin’ Mr. Grynch (star of his own sterling, Seattle-produced video) makes an appearance.
Irish Celebration includes a wise temperance reference where the rapper/declarant, a self-professed member of the Haggerty clan, cracks, “I put down the drink. I couldn’t drink like a gentleman, but that doesn’t mean I can’t make a drinking song for the rest of them.” At last, a rapper who can put down the drink (or the whatever) and back away from the abyss.
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