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Friday, June 16, 2006

How you gonna piss off Jay-Z?

It turns out that Chappelle's Show season 1 is the top selling DVD ever. I love both seasons (Season 2 is the third highest seller), but I wonder, what makes them so popular? Is it his style of humor, or the fact that the sketches never seem to get old? Is it word of mouth? Why is the second season the third highest selling DVD behind Dirty Dancing? Just kidding, I have no idea what the second highest is. Maybe America is ready for someone to poke fun at racial barriers, in an attempt to break them down.

The show is over, for ever (I think), which is just as well because Dave would have to rewrite his R. Kelly songs. Cris rhymes with piss, but alas, Dom and Krug do not. The makers of Cristal, which I have never tasted, recently made disparaging comments about the champagne's popularity among the hip-hop culture. I guess the president of Loius Roederer, the company that makes Cristal, was worried about the brand losing its status or something because rappers enjoy it. Whether this is true, or whether the author of the Economist article just spun it that way, Jay-Z is pissed and pulled Cristal from his shelves, and you can bet from his songs as well. Krug and Dom are to fill the Cristal void. Sell your stock in Louis Roederer.

This is quite a departure and will require new rhymes. I can't think of anything that rhymes with Krug. However, opportunities abound with Dom. First is the obvious, the second name of the champagne, Perignon. it rhymes enough, but it's singsongy. Also, there's "Dom is the bomb." Mom, prom, Tom, I suck at this, but the point is Cristal fucked up and they just lost a bunch of customers.

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