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the songs from ghetto big mac · by Rafi Kam
One of the most common questions asked in the comments on Ghetto Big Mac is what song plays in the background of the video.
The one that opens and closes the video is “Old Man” which is on the highly slept-on Masta Killa debut album No Said Date. It’s Masta Killa featuring RZA and O.D.B. and it’s built over the famous “Sanford and Son” theme.
Our director Cas was already set to start editing “Ghetto Big Mac” when he had the brilliant idea of using this song he had heard with Ol’ Dirty Bastard reciting the words of the old Big Mac jingle.
He ran it by Dallas and me of course we agreed.
Every so often I forget that “Old Man” also had a video:
The other song in the GBM video – used to show how the sandwich stacks up – is that old MTV b-roll favorite “Simon Says” by Pharoahe Monch. With its Godzilla theme sample it is the (almost too obvious) choice for showing an object of great enormity like the ghetto big mac or those who devour them.
Two memorable songs, each with their own non-memorable videos… until we corrected that last summer with their prominent roles in an historic YouTube event.
Excelsior!
Comments for "the songs from ghetto big mac"
Simon Says Ghetto Big Mac! Throw ya fries in the sky!
— DJ Flash Apr 11, 11:34 PM
i was so unaware of the odb track. respect!
— khal Apr 12, 02:25 AM
That Masta Killa record was so slept on and I appreciated the use of “Old Man” in GBM – oddly enough, that track was actually one of my lesser picks from that album.
— floodwatch Apr 12, 10:44 AM
Both of those videos were doper than I thought/remember.
— mothership Apr 12, 11:52 AM