A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
AL YANKOVICI’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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