You've got to be pretty stupid or totally off your face on sugary sweets to even consider rapping over a video game beat. Regrettably, the Cocoa Brovas (aka Smif-n-Wessun) were both. Feeling invincible after releasing one of the best rap albums of 1995, they decided it would be a great idea to urinate all their credibility up a wall and rhyme over a song originally composed for the ears of 8-year-olds. The result was Super Brooklyn.
Listen to the rap version: Super Brooklyn
Listen to the original sample
Super Mario Bros, NES
Memorable line
"You can't play me, I'm a general, baby."
Verdict
Like the brothers Mario, the Cocoa Bs were credible in the
underground scene (arf!), they hailed from Brooklyn, and most importantly,
they were related, so this should have been a musical master stroke. Unfortunately they put all their talent
and creativity to one side, sold their hip-hop souls to Satan and delivered one of the biggest sonic travesties of all time.
Even the original Mario Bros version was better than this tripe.
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Anonymous 8 March, 2011 03:58
"So when is Rory gonna stop writing crap for cnet?"
my favorite comment, better than the article. Most of these aren't bad at all, obviously something is wrong with the writer.