On his 2008 album "Hey, Guys! I'm Still Relevant! Wait Up, Guys! Please, Wait Up!", Robert Van Winkle lays down an aggressive guitar-heavy version of House of Pain's hip hop classic "Jump Around."
It's not awful... it's not.
But, the relentless bassline and repeating squeal of a tenor sax found in the original were gone... and, because they were the backbone of the song, and what undoubtedly made it ridiculously infectious, efforts to spice this remake up with rock rap unions fell almost as flat as a Dr. Pepper left uncapped in the sun for too long.
I respect the hustle of MC Vanilla, though, and his clawing himself out of total obscurity. Otherwise, we'd have no "Vanilla Ice Goes Amish."
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