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Powerbook: Rappers
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The funny people
Meet the cast. 1
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
I got movie ideas for Penitentiary 4 and a letter to the organ donor board.
Plus, I got my lawyer's phone number, my lawyer's pager number,
Oh yeah, and a note to myself. Get some tickets to see Chorus Line.
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Styled as an Apple PowerBook ad, the piece peeks into the laptops of two hip-hop celebrities. The first, an impression of a rapper facing a parole hearing, reads out his notes to himself: stop writing certain lyrics, email a religious leader, pitch ideas for a prison-themed sequel and fire off a letter to the organ donor board. The second, a caption-labeled Snoop Doggy Dog in a black robe, boasts about his gangster lyrics before reading a long run of numbers for his lawyer, from pager to girlfriend's house, plus a list of another rapper's conquests and a reminder to buy theater tickets. An announcer closes on the PowerBook slogan.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:00
Speaker 2
Your PowerBook?
- 00:00
Speaker 1
I got a note to myself to stop calling these hoes is killing me. Hey, that make a good song. Anyways, I gotta email the Minister Muhammad. Got to get some religion before my parole hearing. I got movie ideas for Penitentiary Foe and a letter to the organ donor board. Them suckers best put me at the top of that list for a new nut. Oh yeah, gotta list all the hoes that Eazy-E slept with. Yo, brother gotta protect what he got left, you know what I'm saying?
- 00:29
Speaker 2
Snoop Doggy Dog, what have you got on your PowerBook?
- 00:32
Snoop Doggy Dog
I got some straight-up gangster lyrics for all the OGs, pimps, hustlers, and hoes. Plus, I got my lawyer's phone number, my lawyer's pager number, my lawyer's cell phone number, my lawyer's home number and address, my lawyer's number at his girlfriend's house, my lawyer's number at the Trizac.
- 00:50
Snoop Doggy Dog
Plus, I got a list of all the hoes Eazy-E slept with. Probably got to protect his Jimmy in '95, know what I'm saying? Oh yeah, and a note to myself. Get some tickets to see Chorus Line. Yeah.
- 01:03
Speaker 2
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