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"Vest Friends" | Official Music Video | "Songs You Need To See The Video For"

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Watch on desktop - mobile might not work! Buy "Vest Friends": http://bit.ly/2d19454. Buy the mixtape: http://bit.ly/2c6teHo. Written by Zach Sherwin. Shot by Geoff Plitt, Marc Chester, Koltin Sullivan, Dominic Wendel, and Andrew Gerson. Edited by Alan Michnoff. Colored by Aaron Hayden. Featuring, in order of appearance: Casey Ley, Mo Welch, Emo Philips, Hayley Marie Norman, Fahim Anwar, Nina Daniels, Alice Wetterlund, Kristen Studard, Rachel Bloom, Open Mike Eagle, Erin Judge, Andrew Michaan, Faith Choyce, Ramin Nazer, Eliza Skinner, Jenny Zigrino, Erik Charles Nielsen, Baron Vaughn, Rick Overton, Jackie Kashian, Eric Zamorez, Taylor Williamson, Ahmed Bharoocha, Emily Heller, Jake Weisman, Ben Bizuneh, Jamie Flam, Shane Mauss, Andree Vermeullen, Drennon Davis, Hannah Crichton, Zach Reino, Ricky Carmona, Asif Ali, Dave Child, Lauren Flans, DC Pierson, Wayne Federman, Chris Garcia, Ross Bryant, Dan Mintz, Nate Fernald, Gaby Dunn, Sam Jay, Liz Forcier, Melissa Villaseñor, Ed Galvez, Al Jackson, Clare O'Kane, and Brent Weinbach. Special thanks: Ian Brownell, Liz Forcier. "VEST FRIENDS" Vest friends: everybody heard Jay-Z Guess who's as big a word nerd as me? Jay-Z. And if the slickest rapper ever to spit it can make a joke this corny I really feel like he's kicking the door open for me To dork out to my heart's content. Jay's got me covered so it won't concern me If you groan when I tell you That I'm opening a cremation service And calling it “Burnt and Urn-y” If you're OK with “vest friends" Then I think that you have to accept that equally And it's not just puns - This applies to all varieties of linguistic geekery Like Jay has this song called “Threats” Where he says that his critics can “duck sick” If you switch the beginnings of those last two words He's saying that his critics can suck dick. The letters that Jigga flipped Are my permission slip To hit you with this description Of what would happen when the late, great Dick Clark Turned off a light switch: “Click! Dark.” Now let's consider how Humpty Hump says, “Both how I'm living and my nose is large” In “Get Lucky,” Pharrell's like, “Let's raise the bar and a glass to the stars.” And MF DOOM says he “Holds the mike And your attention like two swords” Hearing these emcees double those meanings up Gave me confidence to move forwards And see if you'd be tickled if I said That last night I got a little dehydrated So I drank a bunch of water and went straight to sleep Which is how I wet my whistle and bed. Now let's talk Eminem An emcee who I truly do respect But with all due respect, Spelling words backwards Is a skill that he still needs to perfect. I have a few selected examples to go through First up: “Love is evil, spell it backwards, I'll show you” But not exactly, it's off a bit And the same for, “Cock backwards is still cock, you pricks” These are errors that he ought to fix! Or “Y'all are Eminem backwards – mini-me.” I mean, he's a rap divinity! Reversing words is a weakness, though But it's more fun to join him than beat him so I wrote “Spartacus.” It's a battle rap verse And it spells “Suc at raps” if you spell it backwards. Kind of. Now let's switch gears fam Talk about the Jay and Kanye song “H.A.M.” “Hard As a Motherfucker” And another such jam is “C.R.E.A.M.” by the Wu-Tang Clan: “Cash Rules Everything Around Me” And “G.O.A.T.” is a rhyme by LL Cool J “Greatest Of All Time” And you only live once So I won't spend more Of your life telling you what “YOLO” stands for Well I have a song called “Flab Slab,” About a chubby kid who learned to box so that he Could stand up to his bullies and he reclaimed the name To mean, “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” Or this Lil' Wayne line: “Real G's move in silence like lasagna.” “G” stands for “gangster” Lasagna's “g” is silent. Fun! Well, I also have a noodle wordplay to lay on ya Think about the words “mac and cheese” “Mac” is spelled “M-A-C” Now what if that stood for “mac and cheese”? How crazy would that be? And what if THAT “mac” stood for mac and cheese, And it just keep stacking back, and back again, Like a nesting doll, or “Inception,” y'all With that macaroni acronym - or “macaronym.” And if you called THAT joke cheesy, It would bounce right off me, not distress or offend Cause I heard Jay say "vest friends" So I feel invincible like I'm wearing a bulletproof vest, Friends.