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Ras Trent
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The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Yes. This is kind of like Natalie rap, right? Where we have so many nice deep cut rap references, but for your lay viewer, they can just go, it's that girl who's in Star Wars, but now she's doing a hardcore rap.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
And this has the basic joke that I think everyone got, which is the stuff we just discussed about cultural appropriation when you don't really understand what you're appropriating and about that guy who's, you know, looks like Ross Trent in your college. And then there's just other things happening underneath it that are for just us and Rihanna.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Yes, exactly. Boom, boom, boom. New sizzler. Oh, over a real mixtape, over a mixtape of real shit.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Why is Andy squinting at his screen so hard? He's just squinting at the computer screen like it was like, what the heck is happening here?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
He says roller skates later, but right away, roller skates are a reference to a really famous Steel Pulse song called Roller Skates. Yep, I love roller skates. That's why he's on roller skates.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
So, but a ding, ding, ding, ding, whoa, is Barrington Levy. Yeah. And he does it in lots of songs, but most famously to us, at least, and I would assume to everybody, is a song called Here I Come.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Yes, it works for both things. Yes. Barrington himself would certainly agree. Okay. It's kind of funny when he does it. It's awesome.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
I'm sure there's a name for it in Pachua that we don't know.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
It was one of the most fun recording sessions, I would say, because we had done like fake ones and they came in and had to kind of like stay on the rhythm and feel the vibes and do it Do it for reals. Did you say who dem here?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
So before, Andy has this idea, and we're like, how are we ever going to get an authentic sounding reggae music? And we're very fresh to this thing that we're on a label. So we went, hey. You know, Universal Music Group, which Republic is under, also owns Def Jam and they also own Island, which is the Jamaican music label. And so we just asked, do you guys have any?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
And they sent over, you know, at that time it was still CDs, a CD of unused Sly and Robbie tracks. Sly and Robbie is one of the most famous reggae production musician duos of all time. Like full tilt legends. It's like if you were just dabbling in, I'm going to make a fake rap song. And they're like, well, here's a bunch of beats by Dr. Dre. Do you want to use one of these?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
It was the craziest thing. We could not believe it. It wasn't like we had gotten a bunch of other ones either. And we were like, what? The fact that Sly and Robbie made Ross Trent is so funny if you know who Sly and Robbie is.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Guys, Yorm's calling me. Should I loop him in? Is he going to be like, come to dinner? All right, caller, you're on live. This is the Lonely Island Seth Meyers podcast.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
It actually timed out good. You said I forgot, and they yelled, he forgot! It was like you could hear him.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Yeah, I'm at home, and yeah, we're right in the middle of it. All right, we're going to get back to it. Okay, goodbye.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Babylon, I mean, I don't have the right, I'm going to say it wrong, but it's like basically the Western system of capitalism and everything, right? Oh, sorry. Yes, I'm skipping steps. No, but that's fine. And so they don't, Rastafarian, they don't like that, the capitalism stuff.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
They don't like Babylon. So they might say fire upon it. Okay, here we go.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Wait, can I ask, did he tell you what was in the spray?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
I mean, Rude Boy, how would you describe a Rude Boy? And once again, we are not experts, but Rude Boy is like gangster kids.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
He's making his struggle story instead of being in the slums of Kingston. He's this Rude Boy who lives in these shanty dorms.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Yeah. And then he went on to work in the accounting department at SNL and still does.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Yeah, but he calls it a chalice. Yeah. Because that's just what they would do. It still makes me laugh, guys. He's admitting that it was just last week this transformation happened. Bumba clock's like one of the, as far as I understand it, is one of the, you know, it means period blood and it's one of, it's like motherfucker. It's one of the more offensive words you can say.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
50 seconds in, we get your catchphrase. Excuse I. Excuse I. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Oh, Hot Stepper. That's one of the songs that crossed over. I Need Kamosi. Yeah, I Need Kamosi. Here comes the hot stepper. I got American radio play. You would recognize it. Do you know what we're talking about, Seth, or no? No. If we were fast enough to edit this where we played it right now for you, you would go, oh, I've heard that at nightclubs.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Yeah, the hot stepper. Whenever he came out of the conventions, it played it. Tom the hot stepper.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Excuse me, Mr. Officer. Uha Stepper, you do so many Dutty crimes. Dutty is just dirty. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Now, in my mind, Nyabingi is a type of drum, but I think it also is a sect of the religion. I don't really know. I think that's right.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
And you're fully skylarking all the time. Andy... Skylarking? I'm trying to remember a good way to put what Skylarking means.
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Ras Trent
Real dreads do not have a bad odor. You would have to be very dirty and it would be, it's like almost a stereotype that they're dirty dreads. Like it could be offensive. So I want to clarify that we do not think dreads are dirty or smell. His do. Ross Trent's do because he's doing it wrong. He's dirty.
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Ras Trent
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Ras Trent
I don't even want to make any generalizations. I'll just say Ross Trentz.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
All right, we've got your horns coming to life here that you hummed. And I mean, we see Simon Rich in the center. His show is on Broadway right now.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
And then the other two guys, I'm sad to say I don't remember their names, but they all both were behind the scenes SNL tech guys and crew guys. They were all just cast by their collegiate look.
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Ras Trent
Do you want to just come in and talk about this experience of holding a deck?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
He's also the first one that's ever noticed, because he's like, have you ever noticed that bald heads suck? Yeah. This is an observation I just made.
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Ras Trent
Yeah. He's just trying to separate himself because God forbid someone thinks he's a bald head. Yeah. All right.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Me and my bald heads are going to go get some malt liquor and drink it. Oh, don't mind me. Just a bunch of bald heads coming through. Don't mind us.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
And we're like, it's a giant bong in the middle of New York Street. Go over and smoke it. And it just is incredible. How did I blow out smoke? It was just so cold. No, you lit something. Look.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Dude, this is back when they would just, you could just, we were so low rent. You could walk into a Cold Stone Creamery and be like, hey, can I get behind the counter for a sec? Oh my God, it is a real Cold Stone.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
If it was, it was like Nick Malardi or Dina just calling and being like, hey, can we come by today? It was like, they would have had no warning. Maybe it was prearranged and he was like, oh yeah, the one on this one said we can go back there. Maybe it was. We'd have to ask them. Let's ask them for a voice note.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
You know what? Let's... Let's make sure Dina listens and she'll have the receipts on that.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Dub is like a instrumental style of reggae. Again, somebody that listens to this is going to know more about reggae and correct us. But I know when you buy like a dub plate, like essentially a lot of times the people that make rhythms, which are their beats, will actually let many different reggae artists do a song on the same rhythm.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
So you might hear 10 different songs that all have the exact same music, and then one might become a hit. But you could do a whole DJ set for 30 minutes where the music never changes, just different artists come on to do their song on top of it. And then dub style is basically those
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
like instrumentals and you can buy whole albums that you've liked and now it's a dub style and sometimes they will put in very quietly the lyrics that used to be there or just like the ad-lib hypes. So you might be listening to a song you've known and then every four bars it just goes like, like an echo of the last syllable.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
And then there's people that just made whole albums of just vibe albums that were like King Tubby was probably the most famous one to us at least, where you would just buy whole albums and it's just the music with very little lyrics.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
It's like the linchpin of the entire video. It's the moment the whole point of the whole thing comes across to everybody.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
No, the song, on Monday of this week, it went, it was loud.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Ride bike path of righteousness. Yeah, please guide me upon your bike path of righteousness.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
But yeah, so... Shaka, Demas, and Pliers have a very famous song called Murder, She Wrote. Oh, yeah. You know that one, Seth.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Were we recording when we talked that Jorm's not here this week? I mean, I know Seth said we were starting after that.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
You actually do? Yeah. There's a bunch of these dancehall ones that you have heard in your nightclub days where we do a dancehall set.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
He's shooting a commercial. Okay. I saw that it's with Beck Bennett, because they sent me a photo. I don't know anything else.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Last time we talked about Thrive Market, you talked about that you like eating meat sticks. Tell me more.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Right. They did all the AT&T ones before Beck was on SNL. All the ones where he was with children talking about cell phone plans or something. If he was here, he would talk about, he's very passionate about products. That's why he does the ads a lot.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Yeah, who's yagga, yagga, yagga, yow? Is that Anthony B?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
It could be Beanie Man, but I think it's Anthony B. Again, our listeners will clearly put it all, correct me and let me know.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
We got that whole class to say, are you there, Ja? It's me, Ross Trent. They were great. It was definitely Rachel's brother's class.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
And of course, that's the famous reggae book, Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Yeah, we went to the real library and fake played the horns. I wonder what college this was.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
All right. So we just watched him walking past six real Jamaican Rastafaris. And Nick Mallardy, who worked with Dina and would help out on the shorts, when we were like, hey, how can we find people that are not
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
background actors who then we dress up and it's going to look like a fake SNL version how do we and he was like oh no problem and I forget if he lived in the Bronx or Brooklyn he's like there's a store right by me and there's always a bunch of them hanging out I go there sometimes I forget what he said he bought there he knew exactly where to go and he went there I don't know what conversation they had but he immediately had six real Rastas who were super nice and we told them what the bit was and they were like yeah but they had thick as I can't I'm not even going to pretend to be able to do it
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
the thickest true Jamaican accents and we're super down for it and thought it was funny and did it perfect.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
It was a little bit nerve wracking and embarrassing on our end because it was happening in real life. And here they are. And we're like, we're going to be walking by and playing this reggae song and he's going to do this.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
And they were wonderful. And it was, yeah. Props to Nick.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
There we go. It's an important line in the song, but I guess we had our backup plan, which is that you would just stand on the street and they can't stop us on the sidewalk and you were just going to point to the sign. Yeah, it was going to be a Magnolia sitch. It was going to work no matter what.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
But the fact that we got to just go behind because it was a bunch of teenagers working there, they're like, sure.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Red Stripe is, of course, Jamaican beer. Just doing another, that's another Cool Runnings, basically. Mm-hmm, and Fussing and Fighting is a song. Shabba, Shabba Ranks. He's just a famous artist. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Now you're on the Judy Blume book. It's a nice, made it a visual callback to a joke from a little while ago.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
but nobody want to plant the corn everybody want to raid the barn and that's a fucking great song it's great no one wants to do the work but they all want to eat the food you know yours kind of makes it sexual that your nice nurse your night nurse never wants to plant the corn it's just it's just he doesn't know what he's talking about he's just quoting stuff which is also admittedly what we were kind of doing skiddly skiddly whoa back to barrington levy yeah
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Ras Trent
I think there was some yellow man, like Zunga Zunga Zunga Zang that we were debating all the time and just couldn't find a place to put it in. Yeah. Like all the people that did good scatty nonsense stuff. So there you have it. All right, that was it. I think we've been waiting however many years it's been to tell people what was actually in it.
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Ras Trent
I'm sure on Genius, RapGenius.com or whatever, I'm sure they have some of that. Yes.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Was this on the pot already, Andy, that you told the actual that there was a person that said... like a very patois line to you? I feel like it's, did we, you already did it, right?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
I want to say disclaimer that we are not experts on any of this either. Like we just are fans of the music. And so we, but we could just sense, like, it's not like we're masters, like know what it is much about being Rastafari, but we know they're not. We know enough to know that.
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Ras Trent
While also saying they didn't know much because they probably knew about as much as us.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
So also that they're adopting it as a personality trait, but also don't know even exactly what they're saying or adopting.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
That's a perfect way to put it, being grunge or being goth or being Rasta. That's how they're thinking of it, and it's not that.
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Ras Trent
It's just going with that Eddie Murphy white guy voice. Yeah, exactly.
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Ras Trent
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Ras Trent
But you were saying it to be kind of flowery and funny in the wording, but not necessarily just straight up that he's jizzing down your throat. Well, who would ever say that? And I gave you grace. Thank you. And you deserve it, and you've earned it on this podcast especially.
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Ras Trent
Okay. I mean, right away, what was that college we went to? We went to a real college, and those are real students who are sitting in a real college. One of our interns maybe went there, or maybe somebody's niece went there.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Yeah, and we just went into a real college class and shot with real college students.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Ja Rastafarianism. Immediately off the bat, he's on the wrong foot.