Like most 55 year-old Caucasian males Allen Samuels is one thing by trade and something completely different by passion. But unlike your dad who sells insurance by day and restores old typewriters on the weekends (still pretty weird if you ask me) A. Sams is an Atlantic City casino host whose purpose in life is to come into his own as a hip hop artist in his mid-fifties.
His first single, “Livin De Life,” has dropped, and it’s a train wreck meets a car crash meets Chet Haze meets that time your dad sang karaoke at your birthday party. And before you ask, yes, the track is available on iTunes.
If — like most viewers of “Livin De Life” — things get too awkward and you have to look away I’ve included some running notes from my inner monologue to keep you distracted…
0:13 – Michel Must be equally stoked to be the inspiration for your French guy impersonation.
0:20 – Quit. Pointing. At. Me.
1:06 – Look away! Old awkward white guy dancing.
1:21 – Race Relations = Solved.
1:34 – Tunnel rapping seems reckless.
1:50 – Buckets!
1:53 – Look away! Even older, awkwarder white guy dancing.
2:17 – Worst. Comped. Show. Ever.
2:40 – Cop: “You can’t film in the park.”
3:01 – “Out of the hood”? Ballsy play, A. Sams. Ballsy play.
3:10 – Jason Terry thought he was getting a suite upgrade, not a cameo.
3:17 – We clearly have a different definition of who “MJ” is.
3:33 – Between-the-legs Buckets!
3:45 – Director: “Some guy on the tarmac says he’s calling the cops if we don’t get outta this plane.”
And as an added bonus, my favorite screengrabs…
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Rebecca Black finds this trite.
gtfo. you are wrong. this is everything that is RIGHT with the world and the ‘net. dude is just living the dream. can’t hate him for that.
Another hip-hop crapper. As if the genre wasn’t swimming in enough shit already.
Go this guy! I hope he sells a million. I’ll listen this any day instead of some middle class black BS artist trying to tell us how many people he shot on his way home to Mommy’s basement last night. This is what hiphop used to be about – real people.
What I like is the fact that he’s 55, looks 35, and he can make a rap video when he’s a casino executive. Saying “Phuck y’all, I get to live the way I want to live. That’s the real beauty of it, which is also the message of the song. However, perhaps he should stick to producing and not performing?
As far as “ruining hip hop for everyone”? Uh, Hip Hop already sucks..