"The Whistle’s Go Woooooo!"

Although the above news segment is apparently a few years old, it’s an entertaining look at a street trend and how it can grow quite rapidly with the help of willing small businesses.  Oakland area car shop workers talk about whistle tips, metal pieces welded into exhaust pipes that make a whistling sound supposedly audible up to a mile away, and the fact that they’ll keep making them as long as they’re legal.

It’s an incredibly annoying concept but there’s some really funny stuff in this video.  Via Melatone Music.

Trunk Boiz – Scraper Bike [Final Version]

I posted an earlier version of Scraper Bike by the Trunk Boiz but the topic of Oakland gives me an excuse to post the final version, especially since I really like the song as well as the video by Spencer Fortin and Robb Silverstein.

we always cumming out wit sumthin new n the O,
contagious trends and ideas dat go.

I’m not surprised but sorry to find that there have been numerous racist attacks on the video.  That’s especially sad in response to an act that geniunely seems to be focused on having fun, something that kids seemed to have room to do more of back in the day.