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Monday, August 10, 2009

Conflict of Interest / Video / Teh Internets Blaow!

Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:44 PM

Too good not to mention:

Do you maybe remember that, some almost 8 years ago, The Stranger briefly had a 10-year old film and theatre reviewer on the payroll- a Mr. Sam Lachow? Anyone? OK. well he recently popped up on the 206proof.com forums- not to mention the newly minted Game of Rap blog- with his rap group Shankbone- claiming an old chestnut: to be the Future Of Seattle Hiphop. (Also acceptable: "putting Seattle on the map".) As such- and as a former employee of The Stranger, it's only fair that homie clocks his due shine. Tunes come after the skit.

This is their song "Blaow"! (That's vintage rap gun onomatopoeia there that you might hear 90's Wu-tang cats saying, it's pronounced like "wow".)

(Epilogue: later, the real (?) Mr. Lachow popped up on The Proof afterwards admitting that "Blaow" was "corny", a "dumb, catchy, happy song about everything finally going right for a teenage white boy in seattle. It is supposed to appeal to mainly high school kids and I could totally see getting pissed off by this song if you are older." He went on to add that the first Lachow who initially posted the video to be a fake, a fugazi, a fraud. Do we all have evil-spirited dopplegangers out there? Heavy shit.)