#christmassong
(Outro)
So here's to Christmas, silly and bright,
Laughter and joy every night.
Merry and buffed, outrageously,
May your Christmas be a comedy!
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#christmassong
(Chorus)
Jingle smells, socks so ripe,
Santa stuck in the door, what a sight.
Dashing through the snow in a rusty sled,
With a fruitcake hat on my head.
(Bridge)
Gingerbread house, a sugary dream,
Sprouted legs, ran off like a scheme.
Snowman made of ice cream so sweet,
Melted away in the winter heat.
(Chorus)
Jingle smells, socks so ripe,
Santa stuck in the door, what a sight.
Dashing through the snow in a rusty sled,
With a fruitcake hat on my head.
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#christmassong
Santa's workshop, full of glee,
Elves rapping gifts, like a Christmas spree.
Rudolph's nose, a disco ball,
Frosty's doing the worm, having a ball.
(Chorus)
Jingle smells, socks so ripe,
Santa stuck in the door, what a sight.
Dashing through the snow in a rusty sled,
With a fruitcake hat on my head.
Mrs. Claus baking, cookies in tow,
Santa eats so many, stuck in the dough.
Reindeer in sweaters, set on fire,
Prancing around, causing quite a pyre.
A year ago, I spent 6 days maddeningly creating a #Christmas song, inspired by a 2020 Mike Shinoda livestream. The prompt was essentially "Evanescence Christmas Song," and he threatened to put #Vocaloid vocals on it, but his chat was soured on the idea.
I wasn't.
So I wrote and recorded this song, then drew pictures and edited a video to accompany it, again, all in 6 days. And on the 7th day, I posted.
Setting the tone for this #HipHop#AdventCalendar is Kam's Holiday Madness - I believe rap's most in-depth treatment of America's relation with its public holidays, including Christmas:
Kam, a cousin of Ice Cube, came out of the latter's Lench Mob stable with his excellent 1993 debut Neva Again, which has this song on; you may know him from stealing the show on Ice Cube's Color Blind, too.
Famously, Debbie Harry shouts out Fab 5 Freddy (graffiti writer, early #HipHop conceptualiser, later presenter of Yo! MTV Raps) on Blondie’s Rapture — turns out they made a Christmas remix of the track together, too! This has the coolest and hippest F5F intro, and its slowed-down groove from the original works really well.
Putting together this year’s #HipHop#AdventCalendar, one of my favourite discoveries is the wonderfully awful Christmas at Luke’s Sex Shop. It’s a great collection of 2 Live Crew and related acts relishing in all the imaginable joys of the holidays.
Kurtis Blow’s Christmas Rappin’, Run-DMC’s Christmas in Hollis, Snoop Dogg’s Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto, and Run the Jewels’ A Christmas Fucking Miracle are all Christmas classics, but there can be only one Greatest Christmas #HipHop Track Of All Time, and it is this one.
I came across this too late to post it on December 5, which would have been more appropriate, as it includes discussion of the racist Dutch origins of several Christmas traditions. #ZwartePietIsRacisme#KOZP
Probably the most widely known #HipHop#ChristmasSong is also the one you didn’t realise was a Christmas track until you hear it. Even though you may well have rapped along with its Christmas part.
Cut Beetlez for me have been the #HipHop producers of the year — responsible for Kurious’ Monkeyman album, and now following suit with a track with Godfather Don which holds promise for more. From 2019 comes this #ChristmasSong, Namusia.
Surprisingly, I don’t think there’s a Bad Boy Christmas album; they may have figured Snoop already cornered that market? There’s this #ChristmasSong though, with Puff and Ma$e, and once again Snoop, and also with Onyx, Run-DMC, Keith Murray and Salt-n-Pepa.
for Christmas 1988, Marley Marl gave us the earliest use of the brilliant Booker T and the MGs’ Hip Hug-Her sample (later jacked by Ice Cube for Givin’ Up the Nappy Dugout)
tomorrow’s #HipHopAdvent is a track I only discovered today, so it bumped a track I can now give you as a BONUS #HipHop#ChristmasSong! I guess it requires a CW for sexually explicit lyrics.