Rick Steves Raps!

[TheMightyFavog]

I’ve found that the most effective way to annoy my kids is to act like someone from their generation. Slang, greetings, gestures...you name it, if I try something from their generation and not mine...look out. It’s tight.

So, back when Jackie’s high school radio station asked me to fund the purchase of some of their gea...r with a donation, in return for an ad on their station, I said, “Sweeeet...on the condition that they help me produce a rap.”

They recorded their voices over the first 30 seconds and left the last 15 seconds for me to finish. I happened to be at my audio-recording studio in Seattle (finishing up a TV show soundtrack) with a cool young engineer who jumped at the chance to coach me and produce my bit on the rap to finish the audio ad. I emailed Jackie’s classmates this file (which I like to think far exceeded their expectations).

Enjoy the Rick Steves’ Europe rap. Yeeeah, boy.


http://www.ricksteves.com/radio/streaming/ricksteves_rap.asx

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. "Rick Steves" and "rap" do not belong in the same sentence

But this is funny.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Rick Steves is responsible for Lady Gaga.

Several months ago on his NPR radio show the topic was pop music from around the world. Steves decided to play a fresh new song that was all the rage in Switzerland, "Pokerface" by Lady Gaga. Apparently some American promoters were listening, because two weeks later it was all over American radio.


































































Fuck Rick Steves.