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Heaven help us: Ed McMahon’s a rapper
It’s a sure sign of the Apocalypse: Ed McMahon got a job as a rapper.
The 85-year-old former Tonight Show star will appear in two viral rap videos for FreeCreditReport.com.
In the videos, a tracksuit-clad McMahon gets chauffeured around L.A. in a Cadillac Escalade golf cart and waxes lyrical about his financial woes. (McMahon has been fighting foreclosure on his Beverly Hills mansion after falling $644,000 behind on mortgage payments. He recently agreed to deal with a private buyer.)
“When I retired, I was famous,” he raps. “I had money and glory/I bought a house for 6 mill/I thought nothing could touch me/Until my credit went south, and debt started to crunch me/Next thing I know, instead of playing gin rummy, I was scrambling just to make ends meet/It wasn’t funny.”
After being joined by two scantily clad women, McMahon goes on: “Got a bump from the media chumps, but that was temporary/Wife with bad credit was scary, so I got wise/I may have fallen, but I got back up/Now I’m back on the attack, like a ninja swinging nunchucks/I told the haters, ‘Go on, take a hike’/It’s my show now, and I can do what I like.”
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By Gangrene
September 25, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this
Instead of “busta rhyme” its “busta hip”