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Drug Propaganda Thursday

Radley Balko | 2.22.2007 3:16 PM

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The L.A. Lakers rap a very special anti-drug message.

Without checking stats, I'm guessing circa 1986.

Rambis rocks.

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  1. VM   18 years ago

    Wow. We found something worse than this...

    (Wait 'til next year)

  2. Grotius   18 years ago

    I had no idea that James Worthy has such a deep voice.

  3. TrickyVic   18 years ago

    I wonder how much of this was to satisfy their community service.

  4. joe   18 years ago

    Watching Curt Rambis go coast to coast could make a grown man wet himself.

    It was like a purple and gold apocalypse.

  5. Grotius   18 years ago

    VM,

    I wish I could find a video of Sammy Davis, jr. singing "Shaft."

  6. steveintheknow   18 years ago

    cheetos make me poop

  7. Troy   18 years ago

    White guys have no business rapping.

  8. Grotius   18 years ago

    VM,

    I did find this though:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0GAjK64VZg

  9. Jesse Walker   18 years ago

    You can tell which players are high because they're the ones wearing sunglasses.

    By the way, did I catch a glimpse of the young Radley Balko in that crowd of kids?

  10. VM   18 years ago

    My eyes! my eyes! my ears! my ears!

    AWESOME!

    Kapitan Kirk singt! il chante! mon dieu!

  11. c   18 years ago

    That video made me want to shoot heroin into my eye.

  12. Grotius   18 years ago

    Wow, Pat Riley rapping. Now that isn't something you see everday.

    VM,

    Are you a fan of Telly Savalas?:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J94-_w9ARX0

  13. VM   18 years ago

    Cool. What fun! Thanks, Gro!

  14. joe   18 years ago

    Speaking of the NBA circa 1986, Dennis Johnson died.

  15. MP   18 years ago

    Speaking of the NBA circa 1986, Dennis Johnson died.

    Holy crap! At 52!

    🙁

  16. estocastic   18 years ago

    TrickyVic: lol! I was thinking the same thing during the video.

  17. Matt J   18 years ago

    How high was Kareem when they shot this? I heard he could give The Chief and Damon Stoudamire a run for their money in an all NBA smoke off.

  18. Macy Hanson   18 years ago

    Drug Propaganda Thursday makes my life worth living.

  19. Mad Max   18 years ago

    I regret I couldn't bear to watch the whole video, but I think the message is "just say no," not "criminalize consensual adult conduct." Is "just say no" supposed to be philisophically unsound from the libertarian perspective? Is it a non-libertarian-related-but-still-funny thing?

  20. Timothy   18 years ago

    VM: The Superbowl Shuffle ain't got nothing on Bust a Bucket!

  21. andy   18 years ago

    "I wonder how much of this was to satisfy their community service."

    LOL

    "White guys have no business rapping."

    FOAD.

    "Is "just say no" supposed to be philisophically unsound from the libertarian perspective?"

    No, "just say no" is not incompatible with libertarianism, but that's not would one would be led to believe at this site.

  22. VM   18 years ago

    OMG. Timothy! Woah! You're right. But they had to go to drastic measures to cover all the paternity suits, apparently!

    I liked it when one of the players obviously didn't know the words, but was standing there, leaning into the mic. Kersey's part was actually good, when mixed up, that is 🙂

    Then it deteriorated into an old fashioned, out of the movie 9 to 5 "pot party".

    (Happy Friday)

  23. Joe Majsterski   18 years ago

    I lasted five seconds.

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