Happyslip puts her own spin on Rebecca Black’s Friday song. You may not like the original, but Happyslip has a little fun with it. She adds some Filipino flavors to the track and sheds some light on how a weekend spent with a Filipino family.
Filipino Fridays with Happyslip
Lyrics to Filipino Fridays with Happyslip
7am, waking up in the morning
Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs
Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal
Seein everything, the time is goin
Tickin on and on, everybodys rushin
Gotta go run, gotta go right now
Gotta catch my bus, ooh but I see my friends
Kickin in the front seat
Sittin in the back seat
Gotta make my mind up
Which seat can i take?
Its Friday, Friday
Gotta get down on Friday
Everybodys lookin forward to the weekend, weekend
Friday, Friday
Gettin down on Friday
Everybodys lookin forward to the weekend
Partyin, partyin (Yeah)
Partyin, partyin (Yeah)
Fun, fun, fun, fun
Lookin forward to the weekend
Line dancing, line dancing (Yeah)
Karoake, karoake (Yeah)
Fun, fun, fun, fun
You are looking at our weekend
say what?
Practicing piano (Yeah)
Practicing piano (Yeah)
Eat, eat, eat, eat
Always eating on the weekend
Ensaymada, Empenada
Mechado, Mongo or Nilaga
Mom says eat, Dad says eat
Lola says to eat eat eat
Lumpia, Kare Kare
Siopao, Adobo or Palabok
Just in case you don’t know
the days of the week
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday
Wednesday, then Thursday
Friday then Saturday
but our favorite day is
Friday, Friday
Gotta get down on Friday
Everybodys lookin forward to the weekend, weekend
Friday, Friday
Gettin down on Friday
Everybodys lookin forward to the weekend
This week’s release of Futurestates season 2 is “Remigration” featuring actor Rick Yune as agent Jonathan. The film explores a futuristic San Francisco that is entirely upper-class and its attempt to bring working-class families back to the city. Here’s a synopsis of the short:
Upon returning to their countryside cabin one day, Kaya, his wife Helen, and their daughter Naomi are confronted by two suited men: representatives of the San Francisco Remigration Program. The men explain that San Francisco is now occupied entirely by the wealthy class. But stoplights still burn out and trains occasionally jump their rails. Blue-collar labor isn’t obsolete, but it’s scarce. The city has created a program to “remigrate” long-gone working class families from their inland homes back to the city that once pushed them out. Kaya, Helen, and Naomi return to San Francisco and join a handful of other potential remigrants for a tour of what can be expected in their new lives. But can they learn to trust their old home once again?
Also see other shorts from Futurestates Season 2 including Beholder.
Remigration with Rick Yune
behind the scenes of Remigration
More about Rick Yune
Rick Yune is an actor, screenwriter, producer, and martial artist. The former stock trader’s training at the Actors Studio and early work in modeling and television led to his first feature role in Snow Falling on Cedars. He is also known for his roles in The Fast and the Furious and Die Another Day. His early love of tae kwon do also found the future actor qualifying for the Olympics at the age of 19. While pursuing a career in business at Philadelphia’s Wharton School, he was discovered by an agent while on his way to a job interview, which led to his becoming the first Asian model to work for Versace and Polo Sports.
“Wu is Dead” is a sequel of sorts to Empire Corner, but seen from a slightly different perspective. (Be sure to watch Empire Corner first.) Wu is dead, and his sister is pissed. Sun Mei can’t get over her brother’s death, so she decides to seek out revenge against the wrongdoers. Director Richard Wong uses the same characters in this 2010 short film featuring Jo Mei, Tyrien Obahnjoko, Aaron Moten, Corey Antonio Hawkins, Teyonah Parris, and Alexis Camins. This short was produced by J.P. Chan and Richard Wong.
Asian Canadian rapper Drega continues the onslaught with the fourth release off his upcoming EP Man of the Year. The song which features sparse synths and thunderous brass, is made complete with bars upon bars of well thought out verses. Simply put if you’ve wondered what keeps Drega going, Overcome will give you a guided tour through his innner workings. “I loved how on Mood Musik, Joe Budden would just do a 100 bar verses that actually meant something with no filler. I wanted to try something similar, hopefully I accomplished that”.
The Toronto rapper has developed a sound that combines Toronto’s emphasis on lyricism, Harlem’s flashiness and Atlanta’s independent spirit. “As an artist I’ve always felt like I have such a great story to tell from being born in India to growing up in Toronto and having friends of every race and religion, I feel lucky to learn from all these cultures. Coming into this album, I felt this is finally my year and hence…Man of the Year” Drega explains. Set for a May 29, 2011 release date through Drega’s own label Colonial Records, Drega’s title just may prove prophetic.
Overcome by Drega
Lyrics to Overcome by Drega
Verse 1
I am killing em on all grounds all purpose warfare/
I am from a place called go there/
And I’d love for your stupid ass to just go there/
I’m bringing it/
Fuck flight school boy I’m winging it/
The most beautiful women be jigalin/
Around me lingering/
No more tinkering/
Its a numbers game and I am figuring/
Irrespective of what anyone has done/
I’ve always felt like I am the one/ fix
I made a promise to my mama/
That I’m a work harder/
So I treat my city like I’m living in sparta/ fix
And everything I’m not I wear it like its armour/
So even if you diss me it just really make me stronger/
So say what you will/
I aint gonna chill/
And I aint gonna kill ya but your first single will/
And even if you make it that far I am on the hill/ fix
With a sniper rifel and its aimed for your grill/
I am talking metaphors/
What I got in store/
This my grand opening, ribbons at the door/
And I am going to cut it, red light whore/
E s p n flow I settle every score/
In the club I get a section/ fix
Just for affection/
No need for protection/ fix
my dick spit out perfection/ fix
I walk into a room and its like an intervention/ fix
Only for the reason I’m the center of attention/
This is my ascension/
Bombay hospital/
Aubrey was probable, I’m the impossible/
Imagine if I do it though/
Oh my god the accolades/
More important is the discussion I want to activate/
The comments I can handle/
In fact I hope its ample/
Cause I’ve heard it all before, I could play the sample/
You say you’ve got your own lane, well mines made out of gravel
Hook:
Yeah That’s why I do it till its over done
I’m everything cause of the things that I’ve over come/
Had 99 problems but I just got over one/
neo would you tell these rappers that its over son
Yeah That’s why I do it till its over done/
I’m everything cause of the things that I’ve over come/
All the things that I’ve overcome/
Just some things that overcome/
Verse 2
Yeah this is what you call devotion/
Me in my new car is poetry in motion/
And even though I wish I don’t got the roof open/
But I got open bottles right where the cups go in/
Haha cant I have a little fun/
I’ve never tried to be everything to everyone/
I want to tell my dad I aint been much of a son/
And I want him to reply I aint much to anyone/
But hey what can I say thatll probably never happen/
When someones out your life, it is hard to let them back in/
its funny how we all go from crying to laughing/
And it happens all over a bottle of captains/
Damn, it was all good just a week ago/
I was in new york fucking all the puerto rican hoes/
And I know it may sound bad, did a speaker blow?/
But this is my Atlantic ocean/
Deeper flow/
I mean I did it/
The game change cause I’m in it/
Just be glad my momma got us plane tickets/ fix
And to the girls who imagine how I hit it/
I got this brown girls thinking that I play cricket/
Who would have thought this is how I turned up/
Between the covers of your sisters Word up/
And I know that it makes you hurl up/
But I’m bout play every country, world cup/
I’m doing concerts first/
I’m listing the major cities, sean john shirts/
So you can do whatever works/
I know they feel me cause I do whatever hurts/
Yeah I’m just tryna get my town right/
And be more than niche rapper caught up in the brown hype/
Cause I remember when I didn’t even really sound right/
Now ive over come it all,
And this is what it sounds like/
Hook:
Yeah That’s why I do it till its over done
I’m everything cause of the things that I’ve over come/
Had 99 problems but I just got over one/
neo would you tell these rappers that its over son
Yeah That’s why I do it till its over done/
I’m everything cause of the things that I’ve over come/
All the things that I’ve overcome/
Just some things that overcome/
Models Bebe Pham and Jaymee Ong star in the upcoming film “Deep Gold”. Here’s synopsis of the film:
Shortly after free diver Amy Sanchez (Bebe Pham) breaks an important freediving record, her boyfriend – Air Force Pilot Tony – mysteriously vanishes together with a flight that was bringing millions of dollars worth of gold to the Central Bank.
Determined to discover the truth, Amy goes off with her sister Jezz Sanchez (Jaymee Ong) to find out.
Is Tony actually dead? Or if not, is the man she loved really part of the plot to steal the gold? But she has no idea that she is about to discover the unexpected, and entangles herself in a web of lies and deceit before she finds out that somebody used her for what turns out to become a much larger conspiracy.
The film has a heavy focus on getting tourism to the Philippines in the Cebu region.
In this short “Where the Magic Happen”, Danny Pudi shows you his powers of prestidigitation. The bedroom is often where the magic happens. but sometimes real magic can be found also. Danny mesmerizes you with his skills and his potent powers. What’s he got up his sleeve?
