Shreveporter Chris Dooley, aka Hurricane Chris, has a tune climbing the hip hop club charts, says Steve Johnson of USA Today. It's called "A bay bay."
Johnson interviewed Dooley and found "It just means 'fa' sho,' " says Chris. "Like, 'Are we going out tonight?' 'A bay bay.' Or you see a car you like. 'A bay bay.' It means 'I'm with that' or 'I'm riding with that.' "
"The song pays homage to DJ Hollyhood Bay Bay, who spins records at KoKo Pellis, a club in Shreveport, La. The crowd would chant "Hey, Bay Bay, hey, Bay Bay" whenever he'd enter the club, and it soon became part of the local lexicon," wrote Johnson.
Shreveport's Lava House Records will release a ratchet compilation album under the Polo Grounds umbrella.The drum- and bass-driven track exposes Shreveport's ratchet movement to a national audience. "Ratchet is our whole swagger and our attitude about ourselves," says Chris, who wrote his first rhyme at age 8 for a school talent show. "This song is going to open the door for everybody else."
Readers can sample the monstah hook while enjoying the USA Today article.
Some of us have been waiting for a new Leadbelly for the past several years. Chris Dooley might be that person. Or maybe a leggy local rhymer will ratchet out of the "A bay bay" mechanism.
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I ran across the video on Kent's blog a while back, http://louisianamovies.blogspot.com/2007/06/new-video-by-hurricane-chris-shot-in.html, that was shot around Shreveport.
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