Hip hop, as an art form, is predicated upon taking an artist’s real life experiences, and transforming them into relatable rhymes. In essence, universalizing the particular. With that in mind, we can think of no better particular to universalize than the ingrown toenail problems of this rapping, bus-riding, self-proclaimed “bald headed little Jew”.
Admittedly, he sort of loses the hip-hop thread towards the end, and ends up going full-on Borscht Belt comedian instead (“You gotta visualize the word ‘associate’… Looks like ‘ass’.”) But hey, what was Henny Youngman if not the Action Bronson of his time?
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