while driving in the car today i turned on the radio; you know that thing we all used to listen to before cds, mp3s, xm, sirius, and ipods; and while flipping through the stations i came upon a song that i had never heard before. it had the most awful chorus that just kept repeating: ‘elbows up, side to side. elbows up, side to side’ followed by a horrible voice that really sounded like a bad voice-over saying ‘i lean like a cholo’.

that was it. i had enough. to begin let’s define what makes a cholo. according to our friends over at urbandictionary.com:

cholo - A cholo is term implying a Hispanic male that typically dresses in chinos (khaki pants), a wifebeater sleeveless teeshirt or a flannel shirt with only the top buttoned, a hairnet, or with a bandana around the forehead, usually halfway down over the eyes. Cholos often have black ink tattoos, commonly involving Catholic imagery, or calligraphy messages or family names.

okay, really a dirogatory song is one thing if it’s good; one need not reference dr. dre’s the chronic and the gratuitous use of the ‘n’ word. however this is nothing more than a modern day version of gene simmons sweatin to the oldies. let’s look at the lyrics shall we:

All the homies they know what i mean
baby let me show u how i lean(Like a cholo)

lay back bounce in the club
when we do a dance ya we do it like what

seriously. what, did you wipe your ass and come up with that? can you not put a full 16 bars together of cohesive words and make a decent song? do you need to make fun of people to get a hit? this is not music. this is music for an instructional video at best. music doesn’t just do voice-overs and give you instructions. this is what’s wrong with the music industry: shitty one hit wonders. this dude will be back flipping burgers in no time once they are done with him.

i wont even link to his video on youtube because i don’t want him to get any more than his 15 minutes. oh and in case you were wondering, the author of this post is not a hater.