Snoop Dogg describes Buzz Aldrin's rapping skills as 'hot'
Posted on 06/29/2009 7:15:14 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
It was probably one small step for Snoop Dogg but it was one giant leap for Buzz Aldrin when he teamed up with the hip-hop artist to record a rap single.
The white-haired astronaut, 79, has accomplished what he claims is his second great mission — becoming a rap star — with a track commemorating the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing next month.
The single, Rocket Experience, and accompanying video feature the second man on the Moon nodding his head and gyrating in time to the beat as he leans into a microphone to deliver lines such as: “I’m the spaceman, I’m the rocket man, it’s time to venture far, let’s take a trip to Mars, our destiny is to the stars.”
Snoop Dogg, who helped to make the track with the producer Quincy Jones and fellow rap stars Talib Kweli and Soulja Boy, is shown in the video commending Aldrin — who adopted the rap pseudonym Doc Rendezvous — on his vocal skills. “That’s hot right there, man. That’s gangsta,” he says.
The video switches between shots of Aldrin rapping — wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan “Buzz Aldrin, Rocket Hero” — and archive film of the Apollo 11 launch, his and Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon and recordings of crackly radio exchanges between the astronauts and mission control.
(Excerpt) Read more at entertainment.timesonline.co.uk ...
Very dignified, Buzz. Very dignified.
Snoop Dogg describes Buzz Aldrin's rapping skills as 'hot'
I have lost a lot of respect for Mr. Aldrin for collaborating with that lowlife.
I have lost a lot of respect for Mr. Aldrin for collaborating with that lowlife.
I guess now we know where he got the name “Buzz.”
Hell has indeed frozen over.
The guy that Buzz clocked had it coming. Good for Buzz for doing that! But trying to rap about orbital rendezvous in an effort to connect with our brain dead youth is just sad. Thanks to government schools, most of them dont even know what Apollo XI was. But they can talk about global warming or who is the new American Idol!
Odd future collaborations: Jackie Broyles and Sandra Bernhard, Lee Emery and Adam Lambert./Just Asking - seoul62.......
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