'Dre and Pesh's Rap Group: Dalmations
Dre announces his Ukrainian-tinged musical group on the day he fronts the game program.
The D.C. metro area sportswriters club has never been accused of particular hipness. Still, I'm proud to report that at least one scribe thought Dre Blatche's upcoming Vlog, first discussed last night, would be titled "When Keepin it Real Goes On."
It was that kind of night in Wiz land. More on that later, but first, watch this. And you must watch till the end to see Big Oily Pecherov sing Russian ditties.
So you see, Andray Blatche fancies himself a rapper. He says he's starting a musical group. Here were some of his freshest pre-game lyrics:
"My name is AB, I rocks the mic, chilling in the alley, in my black and white."
"That's terrible," Roger Mason pointed out.
"My name is AB, I'm thirty-two, I'm about to go out here, and...."
Sadly, he couldn't think of what to say next. It was a promising start, though. But then he found Oleksiy Pecherov and convinced Pesh to sing in Russian, and later, Dre couldn't stop talking about the group, and how their singing had foretold his breakout game.
"Oh, you didn't hear my rap?" he asked some media folks. "You want to hear my rap, go to YouTube, type in Andray Blatche, and you're gonna hear me singing my song, me and Pesh. We kind of predicted this. He sung and I rapped."
Some brave soul asked Dre for more rapping.
"No, I can't give it to you all the time," Dre said. "If I give it to you for free, everybody's gonna be asking me for some bars. I can't give you all my bars."
I asked about Pesh's song.
"He was singing in his language," Dre said.
"I was heard zis song like two hours before on the radio, so it's just some Russian song about love," Pesh said, when I found him by the elevator.
I asked what it was called. "I don't remember," he said. "But it's just like nice and quiet song, Russian song, about love." He also said Dre sometimes tries to sing with him, in Russian.
"I sing zis music when I valk, you know, and he listens zis so he try and catch up," Pesh said. "It's funny, you know?"
"I be trying some times, but it's hard," Dre confirmed. I asked him what the duo's group would be called.
"We haven't come up with it yet," Dre said. "It's gonna be me and Pesh. We're gonna pick Dominic [McGuire] up; it's gonna be a group. Dominic's gonna be in it too."
Singing? McGuire?
"He's gonna rap," Dre said. "He's a hard-core rapper."
Really?
"Ganster rapping," McGuire agreed. I asked for more details. "I don't even know what they're talking about right now," McGuire said. "I just went along with my boy because that's my right-hand man. I have no idea what he's talking about, but he put my name in it, so I'm gonna ride it out with him."
Nick Young appeared, and he wanted in.
"I'm gonna be on the dance squad," he decided. "I'm doing the crank dance, because they need a back-up dancer. We're gonna get it cranking."
I asked Young about the singing thing. "Pesh is good, Pesh is actually better than Dre," Nick said. "But you can hardly understand what he's talking about."
Nick said the group would be called Dalmations, after the duo from Queen Latifah's "Brown Sugar."
"I told you, listen, he don't know nothing about my group," Dre protested. I asked for a full list of the group members; "I told you, right now we've only got me, Dominic and Pesh," Dre said. "I don't know if Brendan's gonna sing or not."
"Sing what?" Brendan Haywood asked.
"I'm starting a musical group," Dre told him. "So far me and Pesh is in it."
"Oh my God," Brendan said.
"Go to YouTube," Dre said.
"Oh my God," Brendan said. "What's gonna be the name of the group?"
"I'm leaning toward Dalmations," Dre confirmed.
"It's a metaphor," Nick Young explained.
A metaphor. Right.
"I'm not talking about that," DeShawn Stevenson said, when I asked him about Dalmations. "Dre is a maniac."
Finally, here's what Pesh said when I asked if he was really starting a musical group with Dre.
"Ve vill see," Pesh said. "If he invite me. It's nice, it's nice. I have no voice, but I like to sing, so I vill be happy sing vith him."
Pesh said he likes both Russian and American music. This could be good.
By Dan Steinberg |
November 21, 2007; 7:49 AM ET
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Posted by: ScottVanPeltStyle.com | November 21, 2007 9:01 AM
This isn't entirely dissimilar to most of the parties I have. But it's funny then (at least to me), and it's funny here.
Posted by: Lindemann | November 21, 2007 9:20 AM
Dan, have you checked out all the nonsense over at fanhouse and profootballtalk about the Shawne Merriman pictures. Since Merriman is a MD graduate, maybe you could "report" on this issue. PFT first reported that pictures between 2005 and 2007 clearly show that Merriman has gotten smaller (after he stopped taking steriods), which proves that he did take steriods. Now, it turns out the pictures were doctored. But PFT, instead of apologizing, is now spinning the story as if its a story about the Chargers doctoring the pictures, and they are still standing by their original argument, even if it was based on flawed information.
Its sensational sites like PFT and fanhouse that give good blogs like this one a bad reputation.
Posted by: Ted | November 21, 2007 9:25 AM
He did take steroids. The photos were doctored -- by the Chargers. Looks like they've got the non-story covered.
Posted by: prophet | November 21, 2007 10:35 AM
They can be the Halftime show at the Next Wiz Game. It's the only way Pecherov is going to get on the court anytime soon.
Posted by: G20 Fdacowboys | November 21, 2007 10:43 AM
Pesh > Gil
Posted by: J.E. Skeets | November 21, 2007 11:09 AM
prophet, first of all the fact that he failed the drug test proves that he took steriods. The point is that PFT used the pictures to try to prove that his performance drop was because he stopped using them, which is a flawed argument because it was based on flawed data.
How do you know the Chargers doctored the pictures, cause PFT has a sentence followed by a "?" ?
If I write prophet has no idea what he is talking about?
Does that mean you don't have a clue, which might be true.
Posted by: Ted | November 21, 2007 12:09 PM
Bad analogy. You make only a statement with no argument to back up why you think so -- though there is no shortage of ammo floating around. PFT made an argument that makes sense logically, including the very same photo from the Chargers media guide, NFL.com profile, and news articles confirming Merriman's not attending off-season workouts.
Since they probably don't use GIS to find pictures of their own players for the guide and NFL.com, and Merriman was unavailable to them, it's logical to conclude that they (or the NFL) had a hand in doctoring the photo.
The speculation about why his production has dropped off is a by product of testing positive.
Posted by: prophet | November 21, 2007 2:20 PM
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