Found this quite amusing, thought some of you might enjoy this story. This really shows how common interests in music can create connections on different levels
So last night (4/11/09) I'm trying to make my way home from a club in Hollywood. I couldn't find my friend who drove us there, and I needed to get home early cause I had stuff to do early the next morning (which is today, and which I'm still working on...). But anyways, I start hailing cabs... 1, 2, 3 pass by, and finally this cab in the opposite traffic flow busts a bitch (performs a U-turn) and pulls up to me.
We start choppin it up (talking leisurely), and it turns out my cab driver just turned 27 that day. Happy birthday. The brotha just came from Russia earlier this year, hoping to become an actor, but soon hit that wall of reality. Pretty cool guy though. Eventually he asks what kind of music I listen to: hiphop and jazz mostly, I said. He smiles and replies, "Oh yeah? You want to hear some Russian rap?"
Homie pops in a cd and he starts bobbin his head to some Russian rhymes. Sounded pretty dope, and the instrumental style was real unique. So I ask, "Can you spit?" ("Can you recite raps well?")
and...
YouTube - Spoken Word Sundays: Kash the Cab Driver
I spit a couple of freestyles along with the guy, and it was just a cipher circle in the car, from english to russian... it was great. I get home, and the guy was cool enough to take $10 off my tab. We exchange e-mails, and called it a night.
That's L.A. for ya.
So last night (4/11/09) I'm trying to make my way home from a club in Hollywood. I couldn't find my friend who drove us there, and I needed to get home early cause I had stuff to do early the next morning (which is today, and which I'm still working on...). But anyways, I start hailing cabs... 1, 2, 3 pass by, and finally this cab in the opposite traffic flow busts a bitch (performs a U-turn) and pulls up to me.
We start choppin it up (talking leisurely), and it turns out my cab driver just turned 27 that day. Happy birthday. The brotha just came from Russia earlier this year, hoping to become an actor, but soon hit that wall of reality. Pretty cool guy though. Eventually he asks what kind of music I listen to: hiphop and jazz mostly, I said. He smiles and replies, "Oh yeah? You want to hear some Russian rap?"
Homie pops in a cd and he starts bobbin his head to some Russian rhymes. Sounded pretty dope, and the instrumental style was real unique. So I ask, "Can you spit?" ("Can you recite raps well?")
and...
YouTube - Spoken Word Sundays: Kash the Cab Driver
I spit a couple of freestyles along with the guy, and it was just a cipher circle in the car, from english to russian... it was great. I get home, and the guy was cool enough to take $10 off my tab. We exchange e-mails, and called it a night.
That's L.A. for ya.
Russian rap is total drivel. That was awful! 
