Here’s a little email diddy that FRANK and I had back and forth today:
Forwarded conversation
Subject: UDC
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From: FRANK
Date: Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:27 PM
To: Hot Dog
These guys sent me an email at the Muffin to try and get promotion. It doesn’t look like they are signed but they aren’t bad. And they play shows in LA. We should try to do stuff with them as our styles seem similar.
http://www.thecoolcatz.com
-FRANK
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From: Hot Dog
Date: Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:07 PM
To: FRANK
Here’s my idea:
Get their disk, we’ll rip samples of a few of their songs, I can lay down some raps over them, we’ll basic remix the shit, send it to them, and be like “hey let’s do a couple tracks together”
End conversation
So, basically I read FRANK’s email, downloaded their free tracks, liked it okay, and then wrote back to him. Then I listened to the Ratatat remix a second time, and decided to buy their shit on iTunes. It’s worth five bucks, so you should probably buy it if you like non-thug rap in any way.
Then I decided, “well, I guess these guys probably aren’t going to get on the Muffin very easily, even though I like them. So I’ll do a drunk post about them and show them a little love.” And maybe I can smoke them out while we lay down a track together sometime soon. I totally gave them cash money for their EP, a link back to their web site, and a favorable review. And I’ll rip up their god damn mic.
Of course I’m too lazy to embed their songs and shit, but I did find the Ratatat mix as the background music for the crazy little redhead dancer kid, so I’ll post that for you to heart.
Cheers Cool Catz, keep rhymin’
=hot dog the rapper
OH My GOD…..
Please tell me that is a home video of you dancing when you were a bunny… and you just added the CoolCats audio on top..
It IS to me.
Sick moves Little Hot Dog.
Love.
B
First, you drunkin fool – the song in that video is “Nitro”. WHich is also the song they sent to the Muffin for promotion.
And the Ratatat song is simply them rapping over a remixed Ratatat beat. And they spelled it “Ratat Remix”. They are losing points quickly…
Whatz good FRANK? This is Pow aka PM COOL of The Cool Catz. So that’s me and my Partner In Rhyme your talkin about. I just wanna let ya know, The Cool Catz IS NOT the weak, fake, wanna be rap music. It’s real, from the heart and soul, original HIP HOP. I encourage you to buy our album “Catnip” from our website http://www.thecoolcatz.com. It’ll be worth EVERY penny. As far as misspelling Ratatat, we give them MUCH RESPECT!!! I like to think we didn’t simply rap over that beat, I hope we set it off on that beat. Peace.
I’m not gonna lie – we were listening to you guys last night at a BBQ party. Everyone was feeling it. You guys make good music. And the Ratatat song is actually really good. You win this battle PM COOL.
I bought their ablum twice — once on iTunes, once on Amazon — to see which version was better.
They were the same. But I like both of them a lot.
=hot dog the rapper