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“You know it’s hard to survive when you’re living in this concrete jungle and these girls keep passing me by”. Truly inspired words. Spoken by a street poet named Skee Lo, in 1995. You know Skee was big time because his Wikipedia entry describes him as “a rapper who was moderately popular in the mid-1990s”. Damn. That’s kind of cold…
Regardless, “I Wish” is a great song, and the video still holds up, in spite of the Forest Gump opening.
A question popped into my head while I was listening to this: Why were rappers obsessed with 1964 Impalas? Skee wished he had one. Eazy-E cruised down the street jacking bitches and smacking hos in one in “Boyz in the Hood”, and his son Lil Eazy-E urged us to “Drop that ass like a 64 Impala” in “Gangsta Shit”. Plus every rap video in the 90′s had at least one. I don’t get it. They’re not cool cars. Seriously, I need someone to explain to me why this car is cool:
