Optimus Rhyme April 16, 2008
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It’s one of my life-goals to start a band that plays other people’s rock covers of rap songs. A rock cover of a rap song is exactly that. It’s different depending on the band, but most bands make the song faster and more beat-heavy than the original, and sometimes even change the harmony, only leaving the original words. Some bands that have done it are:
Bowling For Soup - London Bridge
Sum 41 - Get Back
Incubus - Still Not A Player
The Automatic - Gold Digger
The Racontuers - Crazy
Travis Morrison - What’s Your Fantasy
The Gourds - Gin And Juice
Zolof The Rock And Roll Destroyer - Ridin’ Dirty
The Vines - Miss Jackson
Lorene Drive - Hey Ya!
Just Surrender - SexyBack
Ben Kweller - Ice Ice Baby
Editors - Feel Good Inc.
Some of these songs would be interesting to do, especially the Incubus and The Vines ones. My old band, Slur, played Ridin’ Dirty by Zolof to end our shows, it was a lot of fun. Which is where I go the idea of a rock rap cover band. I already have someone who agreed to play bass if the need ever arose, and I would do the singing parts of the songs and the guitar. So I’m lacking another guitar, a drummer, and rappers. I would probably want a keyboard player, too. I would actually like to have a different rapper for each song that still has actual rap in it. To mix it up a bit, you know?
I would name my band Optimus Rhyme, and it would rule the world.
