Biz's Karaoke

I definitely identify with Biz Markie. I hope that I'll eventually be the Biz Markie of my chosen field: not impressively or even technically skilled but so jokey and defiant that it passes as excellently-thought-out. His alias is a pun beyond what he seems capable of after hearing Toilet Stool Rap - goofy flow, daffy rhymes, Puffy AmiYumi scratching - but that's most of his charm! In his song, Chinese Food, wherein he names good dishes, Biz Markie sends a Rest In Peace to Aaliyah and then shouts out Bruce Lee and Jet Li. My other deep connection with Biz Markie is his love for Gilbert O'Sullivan [another GR8 moniker] which he professed with an unofficial and unauthorized cover of Alone Again (Naturally), for which he was later sued. The lawsuit burned when rubbed into the financial failure of his album, I Need A Haircut, but four years later Biz Markie was healed by his own classic rendition of Elton John's Benny and the Jets. He sustains an entertainment value throughout the whole song without proving a pinch of musical competence, which, for me, is awfully inspiring.

Great Lakes

I met Claudio through Atiya because they had been best friends in high school. [This is Atiya's traveling pants blog with her roommates.] It was freshman year and I had just started a MySpace account but Claudio was already famous on MySpace. He told us that once when he was at Disney World, a girl saw him in line for a ride and recognized him from MySpace and yelled out his alias. On MySpace he goes by C. Maddox, which I always took to be a reference to one of Angelina Jolie's babies.



Recently Claudio has been making music videos and putting them on YouTube under the name CMaddoxBiitch [because another user had taken CMaddoxBitch]. They're really different from the other videos I watch on YouTube.



This one is my second favorite: