Our peoples have been blasting announcements about our new single to the press, who today may be logging onto here for the first time expecting to see a rap site and instead seeing The Little Mermaid.  But fuuuuuuuck ittttt. I can post mermaids and still be a thug…sheeeeeeit.  Over the past two months we were going insane trying to find songs that are reminiscent of how we wanted “Gentleman’s Kool-Aid” to sound so the engineer could get a sense of how to mix it.  But of course, it wasn’t until tonight–two days after we released the track–that I realize that the answer is and always was in SEBASTIAN!!  Damn that crafty racistly-charming rasta crab!

“Under the Sea” captures all the orchestrated chaos, diversity in voices, excessive festive horns, and satirical writing that we sought to conjure in “Kool-Aid.” And like Disney songs, we hope we can shift our audience to a place where songs need no rules…where a raw 16-bar verse can co-exist with a giant swordfish singing background vocals.  If you’ve heard our song you know what I’m talking about.  If you haven’t heard our song, WTF???????

Dammit, I really wish I had thought of all of this 2 weeks ago.  Oh well, we just sent the engineer a bunch of Jeezy instead, which basically accomplishes the same thing.

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