Ghostriding the whip
There's apparently a new fad among the kids called "ghostriding the whip". It seems to involve playing some dopey song, putting your car in drive, and then riding somewhere on the exterior of it. I don't know what the "whip" part is all about, so if you can explain it to me, I'd appreciate it.
These videos just show how far ahead of my time I was back in high school. Somewhere there's a video of my friend Moises and I doing this exact same thing with my Plymouth Horizon, except back when we did it, we were blaring the Cramps from the car stereo (at least from the one speaker that worked), and we were wearing rollerskates (we stole them from the skating rink) so that we could grab on to the bumper of the car and have it tow us up the street.
That's as far as we'd planned. Neither of us being strong skaters, we were unable to gracefully re-enter the vehicle. Fortunately, it veered sideways and crashed in to a fire hydrant. There was no damage, and we lived to see another day.
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Kinda reminds me of high school, rolling around in my friend Bill's '76 Plymouth Volare (metallic puke green). In the wintertime, we'd have the heater, headlights and stereo on. Whenever the turn signal was on, every click would result in the dashboard lights dimming and the volume on the stereo dropping by about half.
If only we'd had lifts.
E40 r00lz
BTW, "Whip" is hip-hop slang for Car.
Like Luda saying:
Southern-style, get wild, old skools comin’ down in a different color whip (whip, whip)
Picture perfect, you might wanna take a flick flick flick flick flick
Call up Jazze tell him pop up the bottles cuz we got another hit (hit, hit)
Wanna go platinum? Im who you should get get get get get
Ludacris on tha track, get back trick, switch on tha ‘Lac, Im flexin still
Same price every time, hot song, jumped on cuz Ciara got sex appeal
And I keep the meanest, cleanest, baddest, spinnin on stainless wheels
Could care less about your genus, I bump ya status, I keep the stainless steel
Ahem. Just had to keep it real for you, being black and all..
a "whip" is a CAR, you honkey (according to urbandictionary, although i've known it since its use in Missy Elliot's "Work it" confused the hell out of me).
but, here's my story about the term "ghost riding the whip"...
of course, i've been going nuts over that E-40 song, and my girl asks me what it means. without missing a beat, i tell her it's like a gangsta lean, but SOOO very low, that you can't see the driver at all. i used a little tool called common sense, one which has apparently depreciated in this modern world of rap.
fast-forward a few weeks, and we're at a party, and i'm talking to a cool dude who i find out is a cop in oakland, who was on the set of a new e-40 video at the old train station in west oakland that you can see from the 880.
anyway, this *cop* winds up telling us what 'scraper/scraping' means, and also corrects me that 'ghost riding the whip' is apparently what you describe.
my street cred quotient with my girlfriend plummetted.
OOooooohhhh! FACED by a cop! Weak.
So what's the correct definition of "scraper/scraping'?
back in the olde days, my friend gabe had a 72 plymouth fury and we'd take it out on gravel roads and go real fast just because there was nothing else to do.
at least once per trip, jason would climb out of the passenger side window, make his way over the hood and up to the antenna, unscrew the antenna, crawl back into the car, hit us all with the antenna, crawl back out, and screw it back on. gabe wouldn't slow down at all, and i usually had 3 or 4 cigarettes burning at at time. oh, and we were not sober.
how we managed to survive that summer is beyond me.
a 'scraper' is an old box chevy with the ass dropped down so that when you go around a corner ('scraping'), sparks fly. what was once the ultimate in ghetto, oak-town peeps are now doing on purpose.
Like an "hooptie"?
definately what were trying to emulate. although i bet that aside from the draggin ass, e-40, mister F.A.B, and keak tha sneak's 'scrapers' are probably quite pimped out.