Last night, michael and I saw the funniest music video I've seen in a long time. For every 25 rap videos featuring singers wearing jerseys and dripping in gold, there is one really really funny one, and this was it. The song is by Ali and Murphy from the St. Lunatics (Nelly's friends, basically), and it's called Boughetto, which appears to be a cross between the words "Bourgeois" (a word pronounced "Boo-jee" in the video) and "Ghetto", the definition of which can only be described in couplets such as "If you got an expensive weave, that's boughetto. Spend 600 on weed, that's boughetto." Suffice to say I am *not* boughetto.

The video features entries from the "Encyclopedia Ghettonica" and scenes from a high school science class. In class, there is fire shooting up from the gas jets found on the chemistry benches, a periodic table featuring the element Hair Weavium, and a skeleton wearing a hat which is inexplicably dancing with a number of females in the class (which is, of course, all African-American). The highlight of the encyclopedia is a picture of Albert "Ice" Stein discovering "Bling" in 1903. If you have Kazaa or one of those file download programs, download this video. You will not be disappointed.

Unfortunately, this song was not released without controversy. It seems there is already a patent on the strikingly similar word "bourghetto" by an outfit planning on starting an eZine about bourgeois culture with a hip-hop twist. Since the song was eventually released, we can safely assume the lawsuit was cleared up, luckily for those of us who enjoy the occasional dancing skeleton and augmented periodic table.