Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Marquette is in the sweet 16, so they made a rap video


Deadspin - Well, since the Big East bellyflopped in the tourney's first weekend, we have two teams—UConn and, uh, Marquette—left reppin' the supposedly superior conference that started with 11 teams on Thursday.
Which means instead of hearing, say, Syracuse grad Lou Reed (or his heirs apparent upstate), you get the mellifluous tones of Marquette's finest, the Spanish O'Donnells. Which is cool if you like autotuned white college rap and hearing the word "buzz" over and over again, usually as a proper noun. But you probably will not like that at all.
What the hell, why not humor the Spanish O'Ds for now? We know John Henson's wingspan will swat the song off the web come Friday night.

What is going on up in Wisconsin that leads to so many people making YouTube rap videos about college and sports?  In the last six months we have multiple videos from the Badger fans, a Packer "Green and Yellow" video (which I almost shouldn't count because there are so many of those, but this was one of the better ones) and now this Marquette "Buzzin'" video.  I guess drinking beer, eating cheese and brats, and making rap videos is just a good time.

Also, it's pretty clear to me after watching this video that UW-Madison has a much better music/web video department than Marquette.  The rapping just isn't as good as "Teach Me How to Bucky" or even that terrible "We're Smelling Roses" song (which clearly should have been named "We Smellin' Roses" to make it seem authentic)It also would have been nice if they put some actual video, in their video.  I will give them some props though, I kind of liked the beat and sample.

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