Telephone Hip Hop.....A New Medium?

[Armstead]

Had an interesting telephone call Saturday night. Had a few friends over for dinner when the phone rang about 9 p.m.

Some young teenager (I think it was a female, but it could have been a pre-voice change male) began reciting a hip-hip poem. It was pretty good from what I could tell. I put it on the speaker phone so my friends could hear it.

It went on for about a minute. After it was done, I said a lighthearted "Thank you" and hung up.

Is this a new form of prank call? Or a new creative medium? Or a little bit of both?....Back in the day, we used to call people with the famous question "Do you have Sir Walter Raleigh in a Can?" Not very creative.

I wouldn't want to see "Telephone Hip Hop" become too popular, as we're already too innundated with telemarketers. But I must admit I kind of admired the spirit, as the kid really put his/her heart into their little rap.

[TlalocW]

1. One of the guys from the Onion

Did a book called, "Tough Call," which were transcriptions of prank phone calls he did, and one of them was about a Telephone Rap-o-Gram (can't remember exactly) that the friends of Gladys (the lady he called) had bought her as a gift. After convincing her it was free and getting some info from her about her hobbies (knitting, crocheting) he did a freestyle rap for her (Aww, yeah, your name is Gladys/Kitting things tighter than a DNA lattice). She hung up on him before he was finished.

Maybe it's just now catching on? Are you somewhere in the midwest? It takes things longer to get here.

TlalocW

[Armstead]

4. In a backwater of the northeast.

I'm in the trendy northeast, but a region of it where things take a while to reach us.

[Warpy]

2. Sad to say, it was probably a wrong number

but thanking the poor kid saved him/her from being crushed. You may have contributed to a budding artist.

I doubt the call was repeated to its intended destination, though. Remember how easily discouraged you were at that age?

[Armstead]

3. That thought had occurred to me.

I did wonder whether it was a wrong number or not. I think, though, at first when they stopped to0 take a breath I asked something like "Who are you calling?" but the person kept on with the poem.

Dunno.