Spring is just around the corner!

I like the spring. It’s like waking up from a long night, filled with loads of darkness, rain, snow and coldness. It’s like, well, a sunny spring morning, with the smell of dew and the songs of birds. Additionally, my own birthday is in March, so that’s another good thing about spring

Every year, I am filled with joy when walking to class, or work, on a bright and warm morning. And for some reason, my prime choice of music to listen to, falls to the very ‘unspringy’ genre of rap. For those who don’t know me very well, I am no fan of rap-music in particular. Sure there is the occasional song that I like, but mostly, I find it quite uninteresting to hear people talk (more so than actually singing) about their cars, their bling, their money, and the ho’s, or about how tough they are and how many people they’ve killed.

One rap group in particular that never seems to bore me, is Captain Dan and The Scurvy Crew. This, as the name suggests, is a group that makes novelty Pirate rap. And whether you like it or not, the life of a pirate is a perfect topic to rap about. It has the ubercool vehicles, the bling, the money, the roundthecorner Sallies and to be sailing the seven seas, you would have to be tough. The thing I find most puzzling however, is how, as I mentioned, do not particularly like the songs about the killing and the toughness, but additionally, I never really liked pirates either, but I do the songs by Captain Dan.

It is weird that the combination of two things I do not like, make something I do. Maybe, mathematics has gotten it wrong all along and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Whatever the reason, the time of year has come once more where I can bob along with the Yarr’s and Scurvy’s wearing a big grin on my way to work.